Sonnet Home Poems

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love." Sophocles, Greek Poet 

How is the tender word love...

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We were getting old, our minds still quite sound
Just one more move before we’re glory bound
We made the decision to look around
For a unique place...

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There's wood for chopping stacked up near the door
to fuel warm fires in the kitchen stove
which Papa proudly bought when I was four,
long time before...

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Our home is a place of unswerving love.
A sweet abode of peace we long to have.
Here our commitments, we often avow,
And dreams colorful, we skillfully...

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Did you know that it is dinner, my dear?
You forever in your room thee door shut.
You needeth join us, lend a willing ear? 
Thee father...

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I am now "away from the noise,"  
my fruit gum I am chewing.  
Sitting here wondering what the boys,  
could be doing.  

 
 
Now all unpacked,  
a book I...

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We wait for news of the sale of our house,
our home. Weeks pass. Unsettled. Unable 
to focus on anything else. All seems
temporary; provisional or not...

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Out my window, scenery is the best.
The valley is spread out all before me.
I can see for miles and miles north, east and west
while close...

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The Old Farmer Rests Warm In His Snug House

Within green grass in fields in Minnesota
an early Fall, a flaming sword to swing
no horses galloping in...

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No matter what, there is no place like home;
   wherever it may be, it is the best.
Be it nearby, or distant lands we...

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My many many thoughts linger, 
in the dusting of the springtime, 
I turn pages with my finger, 
I love to read each loving rhyme. 

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In me, the first day of school is relentless
I wake with old dreads lodged in my chest
My home moves endlessly, it’s countless
Now every moment is...

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I never thought I would die in a wreck
Bam! Slam! Crash! It happened smashingly fast 
and when I looked down  I yelled “What the...

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My darling, please come quickly home to me.
I feel such longing when you are away.
I miss how you embrace me tenderly.
How sweet your kisses and...

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Spring is the time to venture out and play
the pretty flowers are wearing the bees
maybe it is bright and sunny all day
early morning may come...

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