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Spring Rebirth Sonnet

Quiet please dulcet winter’s wind clatter Let sun shine, snows melt to lace, crocus be. No howls, blinding blizzards, hail shatter, Let land seep water and lake birds see. I want a chiffon of lemon grass buds and to shed sweaters and slippers and vests. Cleanse the soot from walks with soapy suds. Breathe fresh air warm with sun without tests. I have given my prayers for hunger and peace thanked my gifts, set out new starts. I have measured my corn to fatten geese. The barn is dank and gloomy with stale farts. Restart year. Seed the babies, feed the living. Now's time of resurrection and giving.

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Janice Canerdy

Date: 1/24/2020 9:29:00 PM

Lively, vividly descriptive sonnet, Sheri! Janice

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 12/24/2019 6:22:00 PM

hi, Sheri, thanks for coming by the other day to read my poetry. I wish you a merry Christmas.

Probir Gupta

Date: 11/17/2019 5:49:00 PM

I breathe the fresh pleasure from reading this sonnet. Beautiful.

Constance La France

Date: 10/24/2019 11:33:00 AM

Sheri, your poem is beautifully written and quite lovely !

James Edward Lee Sr.

Date: 10/5/2019 12:17:00 PM

Splendid write James

Anisha Dutta

Date: 8/19/2019 1:20:00 AM

Cute and Compact. Excellent Sonnet. All the best. Love.

Kurt Ravidas

Date: 7/28/2019 3:47:00 PM

Dulcet lace chiffon resurrection. Perfect sonnet, Sheri. J'aime.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 5/2/2019 8:06:00 PM

I am reading yours again and wondering what happened to the contest. Did it ever get judged?? I can't even remember what i wrote for it now!!!

Carolyn Devonshire

Date: 3/16/2019 11:02:00 AM

You surely capture spring's "rebirth and giving" in your sonnet, Sheri. It won't be long before everyone will be shedding winter clothes. Hope spring is arriving early for you. Best wishes in the contest, Sheri. Hugs, Carolyn

Sheri Fresonke Harper
Date: 3/19/2019 8:02:00 PM

Thanks Carolyn

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 3/16/2019 2:15:00 AM

A gorgeous sonnet; loved the "barn is dank and gloomy with stale farts". Ha! If you do not live in the country, I will eat my rooster.

Sheri Fresonke Harper
Date: 3/19/2019 8:03:00 PM

not now, but I visited the country often as a kid, thanks Caren

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 3/15/2019 7:42:00 PM

Nice seeing you do the spring sonnet for Hamilton's contest. I could notice some of the words he gave us. You used them well. Good luck in the contest.