Time for a Yarn!

Image: A Book Cover of the Bard's (here)

A         Ever tried to fix up an appointment
B         Not any appointments but among friends
B         Be forewarned for they have varied programs
A         And one is in for some disappointments

A         For fifty years our ties had gone on
B         We would prefer to have all to attend
B         Not many are involved just about ten
A         But still subject to some trying moments

C         Retirees have their own schedules done
D         Medical appointments set long before
E         Golf, tennis, the gym and religious meets

C         Weekly family gatherings and lunch
D         Many will have to be rescheduled for
E.        They are busy people one must admit

Note: This is a Petrarchan sonnet consisting of two quatrains and a
minor group of six lines (the sestet) at the end. The 10-syllable count
for each line is maintained but the iambic pentameter constraints
are disregarded

The rhyme pattern is: ABBA ABBA CDE CDE.

Written for Marian's challenge #3 of writing a sonnet at Real Toads and
shared with d'Verse's OpenLinkNight week 133