A Rainbow, A Promise, A GiftA promise from God, his sign in the sky,
Never again will all unjust men die.
A rainbow appears as His sign to man,
Water will not cover all of the earth’s land.
He’ll not with water, wash all life from earth,
Because of our sins or our lack of worth.
He offers His gift of eternal life,
And gives us the...
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Categories:
giving, god, jesus, love,
Form: Sonnet
What Comes Again
after “Sonnet 73,” by William Shakespeare
That time of thaw thou mayst in me perceive,
When brittle ice lets go the buried root,
And greening buds, too shy to disbelieve,
Begin again in silence, soft and mute.
I am not fire consumed by fading coals,
Nor yellowed boughs that rattle in retreat—
But breath returning gently to the roles
Of things once paused...
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Categories:
seasons,
Form: Sonnet
The Master BuilderI don’t believe ideal love is real…
Can castles in the sky be built to last
eternities? Or rather burn, as fast
as marriage papers (and melt the holy seal)?
Besides, I hate to think I’m meant to steal
the blueprint to a fortress from my past
to use to plan my future, to forecast
the whim of winds who caren’t...
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Categories:
sonnet, fate, humanity, love, marriage,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Who am I“One being freed from the grip of Ahamkara attains his unmanifest state like the spotless moon becoming full after eclipse.” ~ quote from the Adhyatma Upanishad
thoughts seem to arise without volition
but mindful eye traces heart as the source
wherefrom vibrations emoted in morse
seek from mind as symbols, their rendition
desires of heart cause intent’s emission
but is...
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Categories:
sonnet, self, spiritual,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Back to the BeginningWhat is the meaning of it all?
If I told you, you’d surely bawl.
Cry like a baby, yes you would,
If all of truth you understood.
Truth can be so enlightening,
Also, can be quite frightening.
For from the start, we’ve known it all.
Our greatest challenge is recall.
When recalled the truth is real,
All empty spaces it will fill.
We all were...
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Categories:
birth, creation, death, remember,
Form: Sonnet
Gates of His Hell“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson
He can’t help feeling like he lives behind
the gates of hell – a godforsaken place
where ghostly thoughts inhabit his sad mind.
Groaning, he envisions her smiling face.
The specter of her will not go away.
Grief-stricken since her passing, still he grieves.
So difficult it’s been for...
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Categories:
loneliness, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
The World is BleedingThe world is bleeding, from the inside out,
with a punctured heart ready to burst.
Call Universal O- blood donors.
They may be able to save the most first.
A rain of tears cleanses streets from the red-
stained, dripping sheet-shrouds oozing children's blood.
While flesh is shredded from human bone by-
natural forces of wind, earth, and flood.
The world lies,...
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Categories:
humanity, planet, pollution, storm,
Form: Sonnet
My Destiny - 1394New Sonnet for Brian's contest. 1/7/25
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Still glowing brightly, is the colored moon,
Wonderful perfumes drifting so sprightly,
Excitement of surprises coming soon,
Day's sun shining, still shimmering slightly.
To know I am the answer. Feel what’s mine.
In the pages of the almighty script,
Threads of destiny weaved in every line,
To feel all my desires so tightly gripped.
Every bright...
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Categories:
destiny,
Form: Sonnet
The sourceGod, the Absolute is unknown to mind,
yet since He alone is, the all there is,
in staid silence, leaving concepts behind,
feel the joy in our heart, as His bliss fizz.
God is the all, so He must be within,
so with thoughts rested, let’s shift to the heart,
prayerfully merging, melding therein,
led by love, sensing bliss ignition start.
We see...
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Categories:
self, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
What is completionBecoming the screen upon which forms dance,
eternal vibration of God’s heartbeat,
realm or domain any, erect our stance,
fully enabled, sitting at God’s feet.
The seeker who once sought has vaporised,
in the cave of the heart, as a bliss flame,
where living light of Self is realised;
fabulous but yet not our final aim.
We always were, are and will be...
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Categories:
spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Life's Beautiful DeathLost in chartered times, thrown upon lifes stage,
Replete loves still heart, while graves stand empty,
Listless days bring nought, reams of void pages
Nothing of times worth, though dreams were plenty.
Night skies cloaked in death, Passion's love now flown,
Flames snuffed in Life, candles lit soothe woes,
Anguish Dawn's first breath, comfort, not thought alone,
Feeding time for...
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Categories:
death, dream, life, lost,
Form: Sonnet
RecognitionEach body cell is a part of our form
and has no independent existence,
enlivened by heart wherefrom flows blood warm,
health ensured if there be no resistance.
The universe is the body of God
and all that’s manifest, is breathed by Him,
wherein simply by giving love our nod,
rapture rises as our soul sings a hymn.
We are the drop and...
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Categories:
spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
DreamDream is always new be you young or old
There is no limitations to your own
So far you can stand to its hindrance bold
Through countless days and nights in trouble Zone
There is no much risk living for many
But living up to one is always great
Too useless when not dying for any
A dream of league is marathon...
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Categories:
adventure, blessing, destiny, dream,
Form: Sonnet
Musings on dreams“Self observes waking, dreaming and deep sleep ~
In stillness taking a consciousness leap”
~ quote by poet
Relying on instincts in the dream state,
there remains neither logic nor free will,
as we accept therein, our ordained fate,
with no knowledge of our inherent skill.
Perhaps the waking state...
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Categories:
dream, self, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
The gate opens inwardGhostly fear forms, a dark gossamer web,
caged my consciousness once cradled by bliss
but try as I might, my pain did not ebb,
hurtling me down a bottomless abyss.
Feeling grief-stricken, situation grave,
my weary, groaning soul godforsaken,
searched for heaven’s gate, so that God may save
me from dark despair that left mind shaken.
Trauma bonding with fear no more, I...
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Categories:
depression, fear, god, grief,
Form: Sonnet
Specific Types of Sonnet Poems
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