How long can nature bear a world that sinned
As oceans rise to swallow up the shore?
Our business greeds are scattered by the wind,
While maddened skies demand we build no more.
The dying forests gasp for cleaner breath,
The rivers scream against their concrete chains,
We dance a blind, collective march to death,
Ignoring patterns in the monsoon rains.
And yet, hope stays put in the soil and seed,
If human hearts untangle pride from power,
To take from Earth no more than what we need,
Before we reach the final, fateful hour.
The cycle heals, erasing every fear,
Though man has lived behind a fenced frontier.
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Happenings | 20.09.2026 | Earth, nature, ocean, rain, river, world, crown of sonnets
Be they the moving air or frozen seas
That need a passport, visa, nor frontier,
Unmapped that flow all free, untamed with ease,
Like winds that fiercely sweep sans human fear.
No mountain bows to architect’s false pride,
No forest stands as guard to stolen wood,
And rivers dammed, turn to a stormy tide—
The sign, now red, ere warning amber stood.
The poets turn to birds and blooming flowers
To find the truth and track the tolling bell,
While nature warns of these dynamic powers,
It’s strange, man still hesitates in his hell.
But wisdom wafts upon a shifting wind:
How long can nature bear a world that sinned?
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Happenings | 19.09.2026 | atmosphere, forest, ocean, river, wisdom, crown of sonnets
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Written By: D. Collins 3/8/26
It was the word used when Spain killed the Aztecs.
Is it now America's agenda if Cuba is next?
Venezuela and Iran were the first on the list.
Hopes to reign in Canada was abruptly dismissed.
Are Mexico and Brazil within obtainable sites?
Since they don't have nukes or our military might.
The conquest may extend to Argentina and Peru.
Our bullying tactics are what all bullies do.
Iran is the exception that has gotten us drawn in.
Israel finally found a bloke to fight the war for them.
The conquest is moving forward with ferver and passion.
What we once called wars are labeled kinetic actions.
Our central vein is like a band of steel
As such, how may we speak of chakra points
Upon ego death we begin to heal
In a oneness field where God’s touch anoints
Embodying the light within we see
Boundaries drawn were merely thought constructs
Our pristine consciousness is always free
Known clearly when lower mind self-destructs
Manifestation is a wisp of smoke
Dancing as just do, puppets on a string
When fires of desire we cease to stoke
In the void of silence, we alone sing
Chakras was what we were talking about ~
That in truth nothing exists, have no doubt
That in truth nothing exists, have no doubt
Yet in life’s lucid dream of we but pause
Stuporous mind stilled and our heart devout
Clear light dawns as our identity thaws
In early days chakras were in focus
Representing realms we needed to cross
But ambling gently along love’s locus
Prayer on our lips, we discard the gross
In time nodes entwine, with God’s will align
That with map of our consciousness redrawn
We become the flame that carries His sign
As transcendental light that ushers dawn
On ceasing thinking we begin to feel ~
Our central vein is like a band of steel
Written By: D. Collins 1/31/26
I predict a hockey hat trick is coming soon.
Where another poor soul will meet their doom.
There's a saying that death always comes in threes.
And the Grim Reaper doesn't like to be teased.
There'll be countless abductions before the hat trick.
Then the shock and awe of another government hit.
The hat trick chooses not to be ignored.
And has one foot firmly wedged in the door.
The last breaths of freedom is surely on the way.
It is right in front of us each and everyday.
A hat trick is coming. It is knocking at the door.
When will we decide we're not taking anymore?
Written By: D. Collins 1/28/26
Killing someone on their knees, then shot in the back?
It takes a touched individual to do something like that.
A license to kill has been quietly set loose.
Never worry if justice is ever coming for you.
Pardons are already written, just in case.
There's ever a trial for spraying gas in your face.
Kicking in doors with a memo from the agency head.
Where nothing's going to happen if you end up dead.
These are some "F'd Up" times we're now living in.
Where the cabinet members were former best of friends.
A government whose mastered the art of telling lies.
And getaway murder is the sign of the times.
Written By: D. Collins 1/21/26
All that Gangsta talk was hot air in the wind.
He is wearing the kneepads at the very end.
The "framework" has a tenure that is "infinite"..
I guess Greenland wasn't having Trump owning it.
He seems to have had a taste of humble pie.
Macron winking at him with that infected eye.
Served up on the "menu" like filet mignon.
No one is in fear of our bombs and guns.
I love the way Canada's PM bit back.
No sacrificial lamb laid out on a rack.
After a year, I'd thought I never see this.
Where Richey Rich finally got dissed.
Written By: D. Collins 1/21/26
The slow certain death has already taken hold.
In the wheat and soy bean that cannot be sold.
A bailout to farmers is but a temporary fix.
Next year will America be duplicating this?
Will cattle farmers have to streamline their stock?
In not knowing if they'll be able to sell it, or not?
It appears our problems have only just begun.
Because we won't be trading with anyone.
A self-inflicted hold will eventually choke us out.
And China will welcome our friends, without a doubt.
The Roman Empire fell because of too many fronts.
We'll see our demise by trying to take what we want.
Written By: D. Collins 1/16/26
I question those who think that it is perfectly fine.
To support a man who ducked and dodged 5 times.
Now Canada and China are teaming up in the west.
Like Greenland, Canada may feel that it could be next.
Slapping tariffs on countries who object to the overthrow.
The rest of the world now sees just how low he can go.
Putting soldiers on the streets in Minneapolis?
Yet, praising the perpetrators of January 6th.
His foot is on the gas heading straight to the abyss.
The direction we are headed is so incredibly ludacris.
Why would Iranians even think he even cares about them?
Lest, they have forgotten how he truly feels about Muslims.
Written By: D. Collins 1/7/26
Project 2025 is staring us right in the face.
Kick everybody out except the Arion race.
Just take over countries like Hitler did.
And shoot down women in Minneapolis.
It sure feels like a welcome to the very end.
In hurry-up mood and expedited fashion.
Similarities can be drawn in parallel lines.
Jews aren't the victims at this point in time.
Written By: D. Collins 1/3/26
Will we now go after those we do not like?
By labeling them under a "Terrorist" guise.
Will China use something similar to take Taiwan?
And Zelenski go down as a Russian pawn?
Iran has been given the "Locked and Loaded" threat.
Will their current leadership soon be next?
Will the U.S. be "Greeted With Open Arms"?
Or, put Americans in the way of harm?
Will Latin America regress to "Colonial Rule"?
And regime change becomes normal and cool?
The global temperature is about to get boiling hot.
By us opening the lid of Pandora's Box.
Will Peng sit by and allow us to dictate the new regime?
Or call it a direct threat to their national security?
This is nowhere near over. It has only just begun.
And we won't be the only country who is dropping bombs.
Written By: D. Collins 12/19/25
He'd say "do good in school" and he'd do everything else.
"That's your only job" and he would handle the rest.
He'd do my hair with pretty berets all around.
Dress me up as the flyist little girl in town.
At cheering competitions he was the loudest in the crowd.
At my college graduation there was no parent more proud.
He made sure I was prepped for the complications of life.
And, passed on the lack of drama found in his genotype.
I wouldn't change a thing, even if I could.
Compared to some folks, I had it pretty good.
If I had to do it, I would do it all over again.
And ask God to please make more men like him.
Written By: D. Collins 12/13/25
Both houses of Congress show us Amoeba Men.
The shape-shifting, bowing down of Republicans.
Lacking a spine that is found in all humans.
Deceitfully calling themselves devout Christians.
At Christmas dinner what do they say to their daughters?
When asked if they consider themselves a man or father?
What level of respect do they actually think they deserve?
When women in Congress have more conviction and nerve.
They were silent when Nords/Swedes were invited to come live.
And some daughters seated at the table have bi-racial kids.
Total disgust and disrespect is wholeheartedly deserved.
By neglecting the many of people they were elected to serve.
Written By: D. Collins 12/9/25
The world has become inedible meat.
So, fowl even vultures refuse to eat.
Resevoirs of toxic streams and lakes.
Filled not by rain but words of hate.
With air that is full of unsavory scents.
Targeting those who possess melanin.
It's a putrid world in which we now live.
Lacking of love from any perspective.
The entire globe has turned rancid.
Dipped into a barrel of sulfuric acid.
We can't digest what's being served.
Or a painful death is what we deserve.
Introduction
The most distinctive pleasure arrives at the seam: a line that seemed to finish one sonnet reappears carrying the weight of a beginning. In a strong crown, that return is not a clerical handoff but a change of light. Certainty can become a question, consolation can acquire irony, and an image can open a new chamber of the subject. Reading these linked shifts makes the sequence feel at once deliberate and alive, as if each sonnet remembers what came before while arguing for its own emotional weather.
As you read the community poems, compare how writers manage the tension between local intensity and a much larger design. One poet may build a narrative through successive scenes; another may circle an unresolved memory, examine a relationship from changing angles, or let a recurring image gather symbolic force. Voices may remain consistent or subtly evolve. Some sequences invite momentum, while others encourage pauses between sonnets so that the returning language can resonate. Differences in rhyme, diction, syntax, imagery, and tonal range reveal how much individuality can survive within an exacting architecture.
Browsing multiple examples also teaches what no isolated poem can show: the same structural pressure can produce radically different emotional effects. A returning line may feel fated in one crown, haunted in another, and playfully ingenious in a third. Read beyond the first example and notice where each poet creates surprise without breaking continuity. The collection becomes especially rewarding when approached comparatively, because every sequence offers its own answer to the central artistic challenge: how can language come back to us without merely staying the same?
Reading Guide
A crown asks readers to hold two scales of attention at once. Each sonnet should provide an immediate experience, yet its fullest meaning emerges through accumulation, transition, and return. Rather than rushing through the sequence as one uninterrupted block, pause at the boundaries. Notice what has been completed, what remains unsettled, and how familiar language changes when placed under new syntactic or emotional pressure. As you read the community poems, compare not only their subjects but also the methods by which they sustain attention across an extended design.
- Examine each hinge line in both settings. A line may close one movement with authority, then begin the next as a premise, question, memory, or contradiction. This double duty is central to the crown's expressive power. Ask: does the line deepen when encountered again, or does it merely repeat information?
- Track the sequence's emotional contour. Some crowns steadily intensify; others move through recoil, reconsideration, relief, and renewed pressure. The order of these movements determines whether the larger poem feels discovered or predetermined. Ask: what has changed emotionally by the end of each sonnet?
- Listen for sound beyond obvious rhyme. Repeated vowels, consonants, stresses, and sentence rhythms can carry continuity across separate sections. Abrupt sonic changes may also mark a turn in perspective. Ask: which sounds bind the crown together, and where does the poet deliberately disturb that music?
- Follow recurring images rather than counting appearances. An image gains power when its role changes: water may begin as landscape, become memory, and finally suggest release. Ask: does the poet develop the image, or simply bring it back unchanged?
- Compare independence with dependence. A satisfying section often has its own tension and turn while remaining necessary to the complete sequence. Ask: could this sonnet stand alone, and what essential meaning would be lost if it did?
- Attend to the final return. Circular closure can suggest fulfillment, entrapment, ritual, recurrence, or an altered understanding. Its effect depends on everything accumulated along the way. Ask: when the opening language comes back, does it sound inevitable, transformed, challenged, or hauntingly unresolved?
Compare several poets' approaches before deciding what the form can accomplish. The most revealing differences often appear at the seams, where craft turns recurrence into consequence.
Writing Tips
Begin by imagining a sequence that genuinely needs sustained return. A crown is rarely served by taking a short lyric idea and stretching it across multiple sonnets. Choose material with layers, stages, competing interpretations, or a pressure that cannot be released in one turn. Before drafting, identify what can change across the sequence: knowledge, tone, relationship, setting, imagery, or the speaker's degree of honesty. Structure should become a way of thinking through the subject, not an ornamental frame placed around conclusions already reached.
- Build an emotional map before polishing individual lines. Give each sonnet a distinct task, such as encounter, resistance, recollection, accusation, reversal, or acceptance. These labels are provisional, but they prevent several sections from making the same emotional gesture. The crown should accumulate experience rather than repeatedly announce its theme.
- Design hinge lines for productive ambiguity. A useful linking line can face backward and forward without sounding vague. Test whether its grammar, emphasis, or implied speaker can shift in the new setting. Lines that are too conclusive may obstruct the next sonnet; lines made artificially neutral often lack energy in both positions.
- Draft transitions early. A common beginner mistake is to write separate sonnets first and force their connections afterward. Compose the end of one section and the opening movement of the next as a single workshop unit. This helps the returning language feel generative rather than mechanically attached.
- Let each sonnet alter the field of imagery. Establish a small set of motifs, then permit them to develop through context. A locked door might later become protection, exclusion, memory, or invitation. Avoid introducing so many unrelated symbols that the larger design loses its visual and emotional coherence.
- Vary pacing within the shared architecture. Long sentences can carry thought over turns, while short statements can create resistance or shock. Not every sonnet needs the same ratio of scene, reflection, and declaration. Strategic variation keeps formal consistency from producing a uniform reading experience.
- Protect the natural voice. If rhyme or linkage forces inverted syntax, filler, abstraction, or an uncharacteristic word, revise the surrounding passage rather than defending the awkward line. Formal compliance cannot compensate for speech that no longer feels psychologically credible.
- Use sound to support development. Read for stress, consonant clusters, vowel color, and the sonic weight of recurring words. A hinge line must survive two neighboring soundscapes. It may settle naturally into one sonnet yet clatter against the next, so listen on both sides of every boundary.
- Earn the circular ending. Do not rely on recognition alone to create closure. Prepare a changed context so that the returning language carries accumulated grief, irony, wonder, or knowledge. The reader should remember the beginning while also hearing something that could not have been heard there initially.
During revision, print or display the whole sequence and also review each sonnet separately. Mark repeated abstractions, redundant turns, tonal jumps, weak images, and places where the sequence explains what its pattern already demonstrates. Then read the entire crown aloud, pausing briefly at every seam before continuing. If anticipation fades, identify which section has stopped developing the subject. If a hinge sounds forced, revise both of its contexts. The final test is not whether the architecture is visible, but whether it makes the poem's emotional journey feel necessary.
Interesting Facts
- A linking line has two dramatic lives. Its words remain recognizable, but punctuation, syntax, tone, and surrounding imagery can alter how readers understand them. This makes recurrence an opportunity for reinterpretation rather than a simple echo.
- Extended form does not guarantee development. A crown may cover substantial space while remaining emotionally static if each sonnet reaches the same conclusion. Genuine scale comes from changes in perspective, pressure, or consequence, not from length alone.
- Circularity can produce opposite effects. Returning to the beginning may feel like reconciliation, imprisonment, ritual observance, seasonal renewal, or the persistence of trauma. The intervening sonnets determine which emotional meaning the return acquires.
- The seams can be more revealing than the centers. Readers often discover the poet's ingenuity where one movement becomes another. A graceful seam can conceal difficult construction, while a deliberately rough seam can signal rupture, reluctance, or a shift in voice.
- Variation helps readers perceive unity. Changes in sentence length, imagery, scene, or tonal temperature can make the recurring elements more audible. If every sonnet uses identical pacing and rhetorical moves, the structure may feel flatter rather than more coherent.
- Spacing affects the experience of recurrence. A visible pause between sonnets lets the closing use of a line settle before its return. In oral performance, the reader must choose whether to preserve that silence or emphasize forward momentum; either choice can change suspense and interpretation.
- Comparison exposes hidden possibilities. Browse the poems in this collection to see how different writers balance self-contained sonnets with cumulative meaning. Reading several approaches broadens understanding without requiring every poet to make identical choices about voice, pacing, rhyme, or closure.
Popular Themes
Subject matter and architecture are inseparable in a crown. The form particularly rewards material that can be revisited without being exhausted, because every return asks the subject to disclose another implication. The possibilities below are literary affinities, not measured popularity rankings within the collection.
- Grief and remembrance. Recurring language can imitate the mind's return to loss, while successive sonnets distinguish shock, recollection, anger, tenderness, and altered acceptance. The final return may register what mourning has changed without pretending that grief is finished.
- Love and changing relationships. A sequence can examine attraction, intimacy, conflict, separation, and reconciliation from connected but unequal moments. Repetition becomes especially charged when words first spoken sincerely acquire doubt, irony, or renewed trust.
- Seasons and ecological cycles. Natural recurrence suits circular design, but the strongest treatment goes beyond simple seasonal description. Changing landscapes can measure human time, environmental damage, recovery, or the tension between apparent return and irreversible change.
- Journeys, exile, and homecoming. The crown can move geographically while questioning whether return restores what was left behind. Repeated imagery may connect distant places, and circular closure can expose the difference between arriving at an old location and recovering an old self.
- Obsession and inner conflict. Repeated lines can embody a thought the speaker cannot escape. To prevent monotony, each sonnet can change the thought's authority, revealing denial, rationalization, fear, resistance, or insight.
- Witness and ethical inquiry. A sustained sequence allows an event or moral problem to be approached through several perspectives without reducing it to one declaration. The structure can hold testimony, doubt, implication, and responsibility in productive tension.
- Faith, doubt, and philosophical questioning. Circular movement can dramatize inquiry that returns to its first question with deeper understanding rather than a simple answer. A hinge line may sound devotional in one setting and skeptical in the next.
As you read the community poems, notice how poets working with similar subjects make different choices about distance, imagery, voice, and closure. One writer may narrate events, another may meditate through symbols, and another may stage an argument within the speaker. Comparison reveals not a prescribed subject for the form, but many ways a subject can be transformed by recurrence.
Editorial Insights
The central artistic tension lies between recurrence and discovery. Readers know that language will return, yet they also need to feel that the poem is going somewhere. A technically recognizable crown may connect its parts accurately while leaving their order emotionally arbitrary. A memorable one makes each transition alter the stakes. What returns is not merely a familiar sentence; it is a sentence burdened with new knowledge. The design therefore creates anticipation at two levels: readers wonder both what comes next and what the next context will do to what they have already heard.
Structure feels necessary when it enacts the subject's way of behaving. In a poem about grief, return may resemble involuntary memory. In a poem about argument, the same words may be seized and reinterpreted by a changing voice. In a meditation on natural cycles, repetition may reveal that apparent sameness conceals loss or growth. Editors and attentive readers notice when sound, image, syntax, and sequence all support this underlying logic. They also notice when an image introduced early develops through consequence rather than serving as a decorative motif recalled only to prove continuity.
Common weaknesses often arise from obedience without transformation. A poet may strain syntax to preserve a hinge, rely on predictable rhymes, repeat an explanation after the structure has already made the point, or give every sonnet the same tonal and rhetorical arc. Mechanical patterning is especially visible in a long sequence because small habits accumulate. Another risk is insufficient development: the poem changes scenery or vocabulary while its insight remains fixed. Conversely, excessive novelty can make the sections feel unrelated. The strongest revision asks not only whether every part connects, but whether each connection creates pressure, surprise, or a newly precise understanding.
Individuality remains visible through decisions the shared architecture cannot make for the poet: who speaks, what is withheld, how quickly perception changes, which images recur, where silence falls, and whether closure consoles or unsettles. One writer may favor lucid narrative; another may use associative leaps, dramatic voices, or dense music. Comparing multiple community poems develops judgment because it separates essential structural identity from any single stylistic model. Read beyond the first example and ask which crowns make their returns feel inevitable yet newly alive. That paradox is often the clearest sign that craft and subject have become inseparable.
Read, Write & Share
Read several community poems before settling on an idea of what a crown can sound like. Compare how poets handle the seams, develop recurring images, vary the emotional pace, and prepare the final return. A thoughtful comment might identify a hinge that gained new meaning, a motif that evolved, or a moment when the larger design became especially clear.
Then try shaping a sequence of your own and publish it on PoetrySoup. Let the collection become part reading room and part workshop: a place where writers can study contrasting interpretations, respond with care, and discover how a shared architecture can carry distinctly personal language.
Collection Statistics
This collection contains 164 Crown of Sonnets poems, offering readers many opportunities to compare how an extended linked design can carry different subjects, voices, images, and emotional movements. As you browse, remember that individual poets may follow established conventions closely, adapt them to suit a particular artistic purpose, or challenge expectations while preserving a recognizable relationship to the form. Reading across the collection can reveal possibilities that no single example could represent.
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Definition | What is Crown Of Sonnets in Poetry?
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