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Best Petrarchan Sonnet Poems

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A Smile To Blush, Petrarchan Sonnet
To see you flash a smile to blush
Small twinkle in your eyes of green
I look and want for that scene
Watching from my hidden brush
I think...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, feelings,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Your Look of Precious Love
Your Look of Precious Love

Whilst I gaze so warmly in your eyes my dearest, 
I see deeply your pure angelic soul of love 
Reflecting like...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, allegory, beauty, emotions, feelings,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member The Tides of Our Passion
The Tides of Our Passion

The tides of our passion cry out my love, 
As we seek to define who we are now.
To live this special...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, allegory, beauty, emotions, feelings,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Mona Lisa's Paramour
A period of youthful vim ferments
as coruscating golden flecks in eyes 
that mesmerise and tantalise, give rise
to secrets in my breast to stir, foment.
The xanthous...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, art, love, valentines day,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Santa's Favorite - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Santa Claus has travel worries at the North Pole,
With terrible winter storms brewing there afoot,
He knows Christmas is so close and so he must put
His...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, allegory, appreciation, celebration, christmas,
Form: Italian Sonnet



Premium Member The Magic of Christmas Divine
The Magic of Christmas Divine

Christmas cometh only once in each year, 
Infusing us with moments so divine,
Giving us God’s love in His cosmic rhyme,
As mankind...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, allegory, beauty, emotions, feelings,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Blistered
This is my first Petrarchan sonnet...

Grey days of loss and loneliness are here
Sad nights as long as shadows in the deep
No joy, no hope, no...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, betrayal, grief, loss, passion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Springtime, Camped Between the Mountain Valleys
Springtime, camped between the mountain valleys.
Air filled with tickled laughter ventured through
canopy of leaves bathed a golden hue; 
labyrinth fields sun's freedom to rally.
An owl...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, mountains, nature, night, spring,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Love's That Magical Wonder
Love’s that Magical Wonder

My passion for your love is beyond any measure,
And as I reflect on your angelic wonder my love,
I know that God blesses...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, allegory, beauty, emotions, feelings,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Caring Hands
Caring hands massage both body and soul,
rejuvenating hope with their touch,
for like an angel, she helps me so much.
And every day when we go for...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, angel, care, caregiving, devotion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member God's Christmas Angel
God’s Christmas Angel

God’s Christmas Angel is full of His love; 
A Guardian to those lost to His light.
Restore them to God’s path of divine right,
This...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, angel, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Rose For All Seasons
Spring

As He looked down from the heavens above,
He created spring and prepared the earth.
He decided Eden needed more love
and made this the season for a...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, love, seasons, time, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Fiona In the Night
For Fiona Meyrick, poet and musician; a Petrarchan sonnet

Fiona, in the silence of the night
Sings songs of sorrow soft in minor key
That sigh above all...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, muse, music, mystery, night,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Decisions
Recall the straight and well-planned path of youth
mapped out so clear to lead us through life’s maze?
Though times I wandered off in prankish craze,
the road...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, growing up, wisdom,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sofonisba - Young and Old
I’m Virgo, playing music tranquilly
in this self-portrait. The clavichord I chose.
It denotes fine education; the black clothes
I'm wearing prove I value chastity.
Dark as a shadow,...

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Categories: petrarchan sonnet, art, woman,
Form: Italian Sonnet

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