Sonnet Blank Verse Poems | Examples
These Sonnet Blank Verse poems are examples of Blank Verse poems about Sonnet. These are the best examples of Blank Verse Sonnet poems written by international poets.
Alas it is a chore to write Blank Verse
Unable to peruse my rhyme filled purse
In search for words not better but not worse
A sad lament of poetry’s last curse
To stab the darkness with an ill-used phrase
Twisting the reader’s mind into a maze
Of flaming thought a-dance within a blaze
Torching the rules by which a poet plays
Oh, Rhyme, cold torturer of frigid muse
Why must you heap upon him such abuse
Require him to use words so obuse
That they cannot uncover his shrewd ruse
The truth, perhaps they’ll stumble upon it
If it rhymed the damn thing’d be a Sonnet
It happens all the time when I'm with friends
especially within a group of gals-
the urge to gossip pops its ugly head;
a game to pick apart that missing one.
This surely is that something I am not;
no joy exists in tearing one apart
by pointing out defects, or what they've done-
behind their backs to entertain some friends.
A gossiper, I'll never choose to be;
my lips stay closed- my heart absorbs the pain
of what that person mocked would feel inside
if he or she were present for the game.
August 10, 2019
~10th Place~
Contest: Something I Am Not
Sponsor: Craig Cornish
Judge: 09/05/2019
I chose traditional Blank Verse
because it is my second favorite
form to use after the Sonnet.
Ascend to Shakespearean summer sky.
I loved Shakespeare as a girl
When a sonnet was like a melody
And I was not admitting
Impediments to true minds.
Our mark is fixed with the
Demise of one as the only force
Powerful enough to cast our
Corporal union null.
And separation will be Doom each for the other.
If I remain, the grief will raze me and my
Only consolation in not having to hurt you.
If it is I who die, I’ll be with the bluebirds.
©Kathryn McL. Collins
April 13, 2004