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Best Spenserian Sonnet Poems

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Her Smile - Spenserian Sonnet
Her smile is like a wondrous day in May
when morning's glow gilds sky with golden light.
And happy singing robins lead the way
for taking care of...

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Categories: spenserian sonnet, love,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Murder In Randolph County
(Spenserian Sonnet) 

A flagrant man is Robert Brown, a swine;
his eyes glow red like ember coals of fire.
Will fate be kind or bring him bitter...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spenserian sonnet, murder,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Saying Goodbye To Autumn
It seems we said hello, just yesterday
Do you recall the night you came to town?
You blew in silently, I hoped you'd stay
Time really flies when...

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Categories: spenserian sonnet, angst, autumn, goodbye,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member An Unwritten Fairytale
Inside an inkwell, lives a fairy tale
A classic, filled with love and misery
Where," Once upon a time" has long set sail
And "happy ever after's" yet...

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Categories: spenserian sonnet, fantasy, fun, imagination, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Choices
Three score and five and I am still alive
It's been a rocky road from there to here
For years my only goal was to survive
When each...

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Categories: spenserian sonnet, introspection,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member How Much For One Night
To kiss moist lips and taste their sweet desire
Then see the need, that want, through lust filled eyes
How quickly sparks ignite a night on fire
Flame...

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Categories: spenserian sonnet, kiss, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Edge of Night
On this last railroad journey, all’s ablaze
new stars pulse over veins of feathered trees,
and melt in their faint blinks of night's decrees
they flicker through me...

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Categories: spenserian sonnet, introspection, night,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Spending Time
How often do you think about the time?
For me, it's never very far from mind
Each hour I am reminded by a chime
And when I look,...

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Categories: spenserian sonnet, time,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Of Lust and Dissipation
A Spenserian Sonnet
(Mr. Snake falls in love with a garden hose)

Today I slithered up a grassy hill,
wet from the creek and eager to explore.
The urge...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: spenserian sonnet, animal, emotions, humorous, hyperbole,
Form: 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: spenserian sonnet, love, seasons, time, spring,
Form: Sonnet
The Eagle Cries
The night reveals the beauty of your love,
As senses fall, one by one, it’s you I see,
I am below and you – you are above,
A...

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Categories: spenserian sonnet, fantasy, love, , sweet
Form: Sonnet
Cherry Blossom
I see your face before my waiting eyes,
How does my pen such beauty thus convey?
The cherry blossom floating in blue skies,
Outdone, as smiles upon your...

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Categories: spenserian sonnet, love, kiss,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Man In the Middle
Our love had been built on a firm foundation
Trust, compassion and fidelity as well
I thought there’d be no cause for consternation
We thrived for a time...

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Categories: spenserian sonnet, love, sonson, son,
Form: Sonnet
River
RIVER


The river has a flowing power strong
By rocks and weeds it’s guided in its pace 
If you put in a foot that’s somehow wrong
The flow...

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Categories: spenserian sonnet, allegory, river,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Thank You Vincent Van Gogh
Look what you have left us, Vincent van Gogh
Found hiding under your tormented mind
A vision of your Starry Night in Rhone
The Night Cafe' was revenge...

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Categories: spenserian sonnet, appreciation, art, dedication,
Form: Sonnet

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