Best Sonneteer Poems

One’s poetry not always will unfold
beneath its author’s pen as some suppose.
And poetry one is to yet behold
might slowly bloom before one plucks that rose.

At...

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I had wanted to celebrate Andrea Dietrich’s special birthday with a tribute poem. She celebrated reaching that age of retirement many long for. At the...

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I wonder. . . can you take me to a world 
where ladies fair with ringlets in their hair,
with graceful shoulders bared and necks bepearled
wear...

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Here’s to Margaret - the Linton lassie.
She hails from the lovely land down under.
She’s a sweetie, and I bet she’s classy,
since she pens her poems...

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How Poetry Began, such plots you tell!
A Tale Of Fire And Ice you wrote so well
Poor Peter Pumpkin bid a sad adieu
Pink Cherry Blossoms was...

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*Dedicated to Andrea Dietrich, Caleb Smith, Isaiah Zerbst, Anne Currin, and Eileen Ghali

I'll start with illustrious Andrea,
our talented sonneteer.
She peppers our poems with kindness, 
with...

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If this is my last poem, a masterpiece it will not be,
nor a poem of sorrow written deep into the night.
No self-recriminations or guilt. That...

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The eye refracts the light and then is born
An image, and ideas are likewise shown
When Poet tilts each ray of thought to form
Reflections set to...

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With pen in hand I begin another new day
My destination unknown facing come what may
Might this be the day I write the poem that inspires?
The...

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The muse inspires her inmost poet:
when moved by divine breath she composes
sonnets of three quatrains and one couplet
with such grace that we send her red...

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Truth, Falsehood, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : Verdad, Mentira

Note: I've tried in vain to upload, since November 2, 2013, the following poem: "Words uttered...

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I'm not in the military
Nor do I fight mystic fairy's
I have a heart.
I love to impart... 
I humbly ask myself am I a... bard

literary words
Love...

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Joseph Trumbull Stickney,
Harvard 'Pessimist' ,reckoned to be.
First American docteur de lettre
sonneteer, superbe, peut-tetre?...

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Sonneteer Petrarch, with
      Shakespeare, set the standards:
   so little space - fourteen
      ...

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Deliberation about courting death rooted
throughout mine psyche fueling sinister chortle
at least since bout with anorexia nervosa,
but... maybe ginned blood,
sans umbilical cord transfused in utero aortal,

though...

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