Long English sonnet Poems

~ Sonnet: The Last Plague ~
(New English Sonnet)


And the Lord said to Moses that day 
That He'd bring onto Egypt one more plague 
After this Pharaoh will let go, open cage 
He'll drive you out...

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This is a Crown of Sonnets I wrote about one of my favorite books and movies (the version in 1943 with Liz Taylor, who was only 11 had a small role, Joan Fontaine and Orson...

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Dear Budding Poet . . . 

   My view on modern poetry is that one must read the poets of old, to grasp
the concept of poetic form, word use, tone, imagery.  Then,...

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“Whoso List to Hunt” is a famous early English sonnet written by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) in the mid-16th century. 

Whoever Longs to Hunt
by Sir Thomas Wyatt
loose translation/interpretation/modernization by Michael R. Burch

Whoever longs to hunt,...

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This poem is a condensed version of my crown of sonnets

This style is called a compound English sonnet. it is written in couplets. The rhyme  is 
aabbaabbccddccddeeffeeffgggg. It can be read 3 ways.You can...

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They tell me to express myself with words so foreign that I question myself.

Verbatim. Diction. Syllabic expression.

Please explain to me, a kid from the projects, what the hell you talkin about?

Cuz where I'm from you...

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BETRAYED

You waited for an opportunity 
to leave me, my love could not make you stay,
You always loved not me, but vanity,
Pleasures of this world beckoned you away;

You broke my heart when you purposed to go,
I...

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Seeking Nature's Serenity
   (An Irish Sonnet)


Over the lush meadows graceful birds fly 
Songs echoing on back from forested trees 
Bright colors flashing from the bluest sky 
Like flying fish skimming the dancing seas...

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Wise Sage guides, learn to live in the present
moment is best way of living; should we
then pretend past has nothing more to say;
does mind not steer, impact life in some way?

Have we not felt comfortable...

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An eerie silence wrapped the bog,
I dared not move nor speak.
The chilling blanket of the fog
where evil beings creep,
conceals within tormented souls 
now stirring from their sleep,
and there with gruesome fate foretold
lie secrets they will...

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The Double Rhyme Sonnet is a sonnet that rhymes not only the end of the lines but also the front part (metrically)! Of course, I would be looking for imagery, good grammar, meter, etc.; however,...

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Old Sailor's Heartfelt Plea To Lost Love

Thou hast torn fine sails from anchored ship's mast
In harbor previously thought true safe.
Thy sudden change has left my heart aghast
now thy poison arrows, this body strafe.

With thy dark,...

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Their love simmered upon a gentle range
Fanned until it burst into fiery flame
Fueled with lively passion it sparked exchange
Year upon year it couldn't be quenched or tamed  

Renewed each spring like the gardenia's bloom
Sending...

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I love my Country                            English Sonnet  ...

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Don't make her cry; why you can't control greed;
Don't snatch natural uniqueness; try
to rein your desire, don't act like bad guy.
Let her stay in peace; don't force her to bleed.

Why do you need more; your...

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Brain-imaging study suggests, we feel
satisfaction when punishing other
for bad actions for which we had suffer;
Does scar in injured mind with action heal?

Someone seeking revenge is looking to
retaliate for wrong acts, but that thought grew
with rise...

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There was not in the sky one small patch painted blue
when the sun wrapped in clouds set unnoticed unseen. 
Eerie sounds; what they were, he did not have a clue
but in darkness it’s known that...

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'Let Him Who Is Without Sin Cast the First Stone.’

The Bible, John 8:7
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I have a great sadness deep within me,
there is a disappointment in my soul;
I am weeping with tears to fill a sea,
for a...

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In the gloom of the night came the screams from the scree
from the foot of the mountain, from inside the cave.
Are they human or animal… phantoms set free?
Will my heartbeat deliver a hero or knave?

So...

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( A Shakespearean Soonet - with 14 syllables- rhyming abab,cdcd,efef,gg)

My balcony was covered by a huge sycamore tree,    
My constant companion during the snowy Maple days, 
Memories come as insects around a...

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Some fell along the hard path in the field,
and so were left for birds to peck and eat.
Some fell on shallow soil; therefore, the yield
was sparse, for many withered in the heat.
And some were cast...

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It snowed and snowed the day that I was born,
and for that reason I love falling snow;
in dreams, I walk the frozen woods till morn,
and from my pen the words just drip...

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The sun is slowly fading and it’s almost twilight time.
The ocean’s strong vibration beckons me to rise from deep.
The ship announces its approach, its horn an ocean chime. 
Waking me from slumber in the ocean...

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Old Maid Hadder, Got Madder And Madder


Old maid Hadder, got madder and madder
wind blew her bonnet and wet upon it.
Soaking showers from a blackbird's bladder
taken aback, next she fell doggone it!

Did not matter, her day...

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 English sonnet

I'm way down here, once more ensnared in pits of my own choice
because I picked that shovel up, my shovel of revolt.
Lord, did you hear me thrash about, unmindful of Your voice,
when I...

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