Sonnet

  In the Days of the Green Comet (February, 2023) A green-tailed comet’s in the sky tonight; Neanderthals and cats...

  Like a Book He reads me like a book, the One Who wrote Me; knows, it seems, each page...

  Persona Assume a work identity, conform And hide behind an urban harlequin, Conceal the tattoo beneath a uniform, Desert...

  Angel I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set free. —Michelangelo (attributed) One wonders what...

Unjust Trade   I. An endless wet: Earth’s gathered sea-salt tears Wept-swept before a rising, darkening gale, As dim horizon...

. A Sonnet upon a Most Ungrateful Gnat Upon my back a spiteful gnat did sting, I cried aloud, and...

. Hope By no means has my hope turned to despair. I’ve not the wakeful nights, the woeful gaze Up...

. Band of Brothers A picture of two soldiers in their prime. A scribbled note in cursive on the back....

. Autism Sonnet The lights are much too light and sounds too loud; And thoughts are only thought in black...

. A Sonnet for My One True Love Forever let the night go on and on, My body to your...

. Sonnet XIII On days you do not need my sound embrace, When tenderness and warmth envelop you And Fortune...

. The Comedy of Rosalind ---As You Like It I show more mirth than I am mistress of. This forest...

. On Shen Yun . I. The land of China. Deep in history That like a river flows with people...

. How Many Homes? ---January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires Twelve thousand lost, from stricken memories more Schools, churches, meeting places,...

. . Sonnet 1 I felt like trying something new today, And so I put my pen upon a page...

. Snow Sonnet Where silent flakes of whiteness fill the air And cutting winds of winter come to rule The...

. Dim and Not He carries one white candle in the space Beneath cathedral vaults. He has to hold His...

. Imitating Shakespeare’s Sonnet 107 . Sonnet 107 __by William Shakespeare Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of...

. Just Doin' Our Job As if they didn’t have enough to do already---harvesting the light to make food for...

. Diners For single men alone, what impulse spurs us To find them everywhere? –the burned-out lights, the squat brick...

. https://youtu.be/B9aMXFVpFEk . . Andrew Benson Brown's epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, chronicles the major events of the American Revolution. He...

. O Lord, Let Me Not Fall O Lord, let me not fall today, I pray, Not in some vague...

. Horse Figurine —one inch by one point nine inch, 32,000 to 35,000 years before Giacometti's famous horse   A hallowed...

. Elisha's Bones II Kings 4:32–37, 13:20–21 Elisha died, the prophet doubly strong In spirit, and his sepulcher was grand,...

. Sonnet 83 A thankless task. You churn them singly out. They’re ordered chronologic’ly. And when someone asks idly what...

. The Force of Dreams I dreamed of you last night.  I dreamed and dreamed, Yet more, as if there...

. The Meaning of Pearl Necklaces Most pearls are prized because the luster of Their loveliness lies held in shapely...

. The Prestige of the Puppet-Master To be deceived must bring some satisfaction, For all are well aware of the...

. A Heroic Crown of Sonnets in Honor of the Ever Virgin . ---1st Mystery: The Prophecy of Isaiah ....

. A Sonnet for My Son on Father’s Day You coo her name in buoyant notes of joy Then watch...

. A Sonnet ---for my father, an avid gardener and feeder of wildlife, who recently underwent hip surgery No one...

. Leopold and Loeb Or, the Consequences of Ideas A Frenchman’s thought-experiments Argued by Englishmen until A German stripped pure...

. Love and Vipers for Harrison Butker, the football player criticized for supporting traditional views of women in a commencement...

. Unopened Letters Unopened letters strewn across the floor Addressed to me with your name on the back. Left where...

. Epic poet and poetry video maker Andrew Benson Brown created a bit of excitement with his invented sonnet-haiku or...

Edmund Spenser by Margaret Coats Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) wrote 121 sonnets of rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee, including 87...

by Lew Icarus Bede "A sonnet is a coin: its face reveals The soul—its converse, to what Power 'tis due:...

Updated January 9, 2020 A Quick Sonnet Guide.  A traditional sonnet should have... 14 lines. X Rhyming. The most common...