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A sonnet is a form of lyric poem made popular by poets such as William Shakespeare. Sonnets consist of 14 lines that usually have one or more conventional rhyme schemes, but there is more to a sonnet. What is sonnet in poetry (complete definition)?
The PhariseesWhen some men of faith brought a paralytic to be healed,
Opening the roof when they placed his bed before Jesus
When the forgiving grace of the almighty was revealed
The fault-finders placed before him, their malicious thesis
Could...
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jesus,
Form: Sonnet
The Healed LeperA contagious illness regarded as being caused by sin
Like a rag soiled by sewage filth, meant only to be thrown
The sick suffered each moment like a fish without a fin.
He did not have, even in...
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jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Washing The FeetStewards washed the feet of their masters to make them relaxed.
Master, dignity-filled, bestow blessings on these small ones.
Did Jesus, as a master, make his disciples feel taxed?
His love for them made them feel like they...
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Categories:
jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Communion CommunesThe memory of an agape lasts. communion communes.
Was this why he desired to dine with his dear disciples?
It's not a meal for a meal or a tune for other tunes.
It's a psychosomatic soul beyond birth-death...
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Categories:
jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Gethsemane ExperienceLike a pearl falling into the Pacific, he felt lost.
His human nature shrank and shattered like an autumn leaf.
Blood poured into sweat. Into his core, he was tempest-tossed.
Was he weak yet? Did he feel shaken...
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Categories:
jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Jesus Carries The Good NewsA land of squeaky-clean beauty, green-carpet trails-reaches,
Natural fountains, streams, rivers, seas, and freshwater lakes
Chinnereth, land of the gentiles, and the way of beaches
Pristine gem stones like rocky, hilly, and mountainous flakes
"How beautiful are the feet...
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Categories:
jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Almighty God’s SonHe visited Simon's mother-in-law, who had a fever.
Did he do so because she was kin of his disciple?
The elderly needed care. He knew this as a healer.
Wasn't their psyche more than their physique what made...
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Categories:
jesus,
Form: Sonnet
The ParalyticParalysis in the body makes the mind dead as well.
Doesn't existence drag, like an engine-less machine?
Though a hundred stewards assist, isn't life more than hell?
bed, like servants who never heed, remains deadly serene.
Tension and depression...
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Categories:
jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Jesus And The DemonsAs thorns exist with the rose, or redness subsists with blood
The evil that dwells in hearts has its traits in the physique.
Though humans try to nip all negativism in the bud,
Expressions of the powers of...
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Categories:
jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Jesus HealsThose who were blind, deaf, dumb, and held by the evil powers
Like chicks from the eagle-hold or deer from the tiger-hold
They felt freedom dawning and mercies flowing like showers.
Forgetting all their fears, they were turning...
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Categories:
jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Surfing the voidWaking up at morn, before thoughts arise,
when dawn drifts into enchanted meadows,
our soul delights in God’s offered surprise,
as lotus of pure love, within heart grows.
Presence both immanent and transcendent,
bilocating between form and vast space,
is head...
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Categories:
inspiration, joy, muse, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Metaphors
Metaphors penned with psychedelic ink
most times present as imagery, forthright.
But, if they're scanned again- readers may think
a nuance has come forth in a new light.
To say one thing- and mean another brings
a hidden...
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Categories:
appreciation, metaphor, poems, sea,
Form: Sonnet
Tangerine Sunset
Written: Apri 26, 2024 For Joseph May Contest
2. Tangerine sunsets composing chrysanthemum hymns
...
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Categories:
analogy, appreciation, sunset,
Form: Sonnet
Icarus, RevisitedIn a house, half-mad, with mother and dad,
And a labyrinth he couldn’t escape -
He trudged the maze, with a string ball, so sad.
The sky’s warm, gay orb, too, was round in shape. ...
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Categories:
father, flying, humor, love,
Form: Sonnet
Divine Bliss
Written: April 26, 2024
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Awakening, my soul...
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Categories:
analogy, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: Sonnet
Specific Types of Sonnet Poems
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art, animals, christmas, death, dog, family, flowers, food, friendship, funny, halloween, kids, life, love, music, nature, nursery, parents, school, spring, sports, war, winter
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