Long Sestet Poems
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Proud Earth when prided in a solar meet:
Look I'm alive; none of you as I view,
Ye all are frozen, scorching else, unfit,
Nature has blest me with a rare virtue—
An asset O for eons to cherish,
Destiny’s experiment, you’ll perish.
Sun, ever benign, smiling said sans ire:
I burn my flesh and my very being,
You know not, I get singed in sacred fire
That thy womb warms, my child, autumn to spring.
Feel blessed, and never be such an ingrate,
O pompous wretch, proud to get put-on cheers,
Is this what ye teach to life you create?
For years in right place, go thank all your peers.
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Sonnet | 01.11.2007, revised Jan 2024|
Poet’s note: An odd sonnet which starts with a sestet, followed by an octave. Smug atop the pyramid of life, Earth once felt proud of having created intelligent life. The sun then chided her and advised her to set a good example to her brood, the so-called intelligent life out to destroy her. Beware, as this sonnet says to earth: Grey shall turn thy Green Pride.
Be frank; tell me if ye feel lost, alone,
I shall be thy moving shadow for life,
I'll bathe and groom thee and soothe thy tired bone,
Let me pick lice from thy hair, hirsute rife,
A shepherd prayed, feelings flowing from heart,
That, Moses felt profane in no mean part.
No need, Moses, proper prayer to preach,
I've sent thee, God said, to meet devotees,
Build bridges that easy to me they reach,
Mere words make no worship, nor build bridges;
Turn not my followers unto machines,
Nor prayers to pontiffs' pompous routines,
A prayer that flows not from feeling heart
To ritual turns, a hollow piece of art.
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An unlettered shepherd, a simpleton, knew no proper prayer. He would use absurd words as if talking to God, and often profane. Moses who was passing by heard him while he was praying, and scolded him for using such sacrilegious words for God, and taught him a proper prayer. The shepherd then on prayed mechanically hardly understanding the meaning, the prayer a mere motion of lips devoid of emotions. It was then Moses' turn to get scolded by God for robbing His true devotee of love and emotion whilst praying.
Sonnets | 01.11.10 |
Poet’s note: Here is a sonnet whose Octave is a sestet, and Sestet, an octave.
The Tides of Our Passion
The tides of our passion cry out my love,
As we seek to define who we are now.
To live this special life gives us that how,
And when and why we must seek God above!
Our souls blend one perfect constant of love,
As we prize God’s cosmic eternal vow.
Our passion defines our life and us now;
Our love basks in Heaven’s own light above!
Our passion’s rapture is love replete,
With brilliant emotions forever bright,
As we kiss softly under God’s moonlight!
Love’s magical force makes our life complete,
As we seek happiness here on God’s Earth,
Knowing love shall transcend our mortal birth!
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,
July 28, 2015 (Petrarchan Sonnet)
Author’s Notes:
Meter: Iambic Pentameter
Octave: abbaabba | Sestet: cddcee
SUMMER SUNSHINE - "Sonnetina Rispetto"
Thank you Lord for this golden day,
This sweet sunshine that smiles my way,
This warm wind wafting through the grass,
That makes my heart dance in delight;
Thank you Lord for this summer light,
That bids bulrushes burn as brass;
Thank you Lord for this golden day,
This sweet sunshine that smiles my way;
Thank you Lord for these birds that sing
A lovely welcome this morning,
This warm wind wafting through the grass,
That bids bulrushes burn as brass;
Thank you Lord for this golden day,
This sweet sunshine that smiles my way.
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14th May, 2016 (posted on 15th May)
{Dedicated to Anne-Lise - the Sunshine Smile of Poetry soup and one of my first friends here}
{Thank you Dorian for your lovely poetry form}
{Thank you Peter Duggan - your poem "How wonderful it is" inspired me to try out this new form}
(The "Sonnetina Rispetto" is a new poetry form
created by Dorian Petersen Potter
on September 8,2009.
This form has 14 lines with 8 syllables each.
It can be written in 3 quatrain stanzas and a couplet or
with an Octave(8) and a Sestet(6) lines.
The rhyme scheme is as follows: A1,A2,B1,c,c,B2,A1,A2,d,d,B1,B2,A1,A2.
The capitals A1,A2,B1 and B2...stands for the refrain lines in the poem.
Any subject)
(This is my first poem that won POTD and I was so touched. I felt honoured. This will always be a special one for me)
Sow seeds before green garden ye savour,
Eat fruits of toil and sweat only thy own,
Quote no quotes often chewed, void of flavour,
No garden goes green, not by hard toil grown.
Be it an insight, brainwave as never,
One’s own muse is most inspiring maid known.
For long man, who’s forbidden fruits desired,
Goes on a wander lust such fruits to fish,
Why the Garden of Eden is admired,
Why things proscribed go for greater relish.
It is no sin to get by greats inspired
If you add your own, cook not someone’s dish.
World is the sole piece of creative art,
The rest is inspired, all of it or part.
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Sonnet |03.03.2009, revised Feb 2025|
Note: This sonnet does not follow the Pythagorean divide between the octave and sestet commonly found in sonnets, but an equal one followed by a couplet resolving the premise.
You’re the reason why I write poetry.
Seeing beauty and promise in the mundane.
You are the music – reverberating gong.
When you smile, I have won the lottery.
I walk around grinning like the insane,
‘cause you put in my heart a lilting song.
That you favoured me, how could it be?
While the music lasts, love should not wane.
Surely this feeling I have can’t be wrong.
I wish for meteor colours to see
night long!
Poet's note:
Depicted here are the different colours of comet tails as they enter the earth's atmosphere.
Science now asserts that colour does not exist anywhere in the universe. It is only how our brains interpret the various wavelengths of light. The colour blue could not be 'seen' by many ancient peoples and, therefore, many languages do not have a word for the colour blue. Also, according to science, time does not exist.
Poetic form: Curtal sonnet
The curtal sonnet (obsolete word meaning curtailed or contracted) is a form invented by the Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889). He only wrote the three examples: ‘Pied Beauty’, ‘Peace’, and ‘Ash Boughs’. An eleven-line poem in two stanzas, in variable metre (he employed sprung rhyme to achieve desired effect of lesser syllables per line). Comprising of a sestet with a rhyme scheme of abcabc, and a quatrain rhyming dcbd or dbcd, that marks the pivotal point (a shifting or tilting of the main line of thought); with an additional 2 syllable verse, a spondee [//] rhyming ‘c’, which is presented indented.
References: Poetry Base/Poetry Gnosis; Poem Analysis; etc.
God created all before His face
Fish, cattle and birds on the Earth
Preparing a place for man
Jesus said "I go to prepare a place"
For all of the second birth
As it was promised in the original plan
The Evolution pollution
Has many creation theories
It is also a worldview
Full of contradictories, no solutions
So which of the queries
In obscurity do you choose
Evolution is a view of miscues
Relying on the all inclusive mutation
But mutations are a lack, they don't add information
So with the arbitrary excuse
Do your worse with your embolization
The impossibilities contrariness is our cessation
Addicted to romance, I’ve tried in vain
to resurrect the unrestrained delight
I felt so long ago one summer night -
excitement of the type no one can feign.
I had it once, and I could not abstain
from tasting it. It made my soul take flight.
Then back to earth I plummeted. I write
to bring it back because it has been slain.
Romance is destined not to be revived.
It’s slain by woes and all that’s commonplace.
Life’s demons stole it; now I feel deprived.
It’s drained from me! I miss its fond embrace.
And so with poetry I have contrived
to bring it back. Alas – a useless chase.
Aug. 26, 2019 for Emile Pinet's Eight Word Challenge Poetry Contest
The 8 words used in this Italian Sonnet in order of how they appear: addicted/ vain/ abstain/ slain/ destined/ woes/ demons/ drained
Note: I do not know why poetrysoup does not correctly identify the rhyme pattern of the second stanza of this poetry form. The first part is abbaabba. Here is what Google says for the finishing sestet: Some of the most common rhyme schemes for the sestet are cdecde, cdcdcd, cddcdd, and cddece. My preference is cdcdcd.
‘if it begins with me, then it seems -
you have become the middle and the end”
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whisper love, and taste each sweet sigh
touch my lips, never asking why
feel moments move, in sultry bliss
these emotions collide again . .
tease me, just hold me like the wind
i need to escape in your kiss
trace the flavor, playful and slow
breathe deep, let passion overflow
explore the melody of me
. . as i feel your excitement soar
my being begs for so much more
when sensual lips slide softly
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~ aching to explore, to feel love even more ~
Form of Poetry - Spanish Sestet or Sextilla
Six-line stanzas of eight-syllable lines
rhymed either aabccb or ababcc
~So Much To Be Thankful For~
(Sonnetina Rispetto)
Just when you think that things are right
You get blinded and lose your sight
Just when your world starts to crumble
God gives you much to live thank for
Many surprises waiting at your door
Blessings He gives us be humble
Just when you think that things are right
You get blinded and lose your sight
So when you think nothing is right
Keep hope focus on His light
Just when your world starts to crumble
Blessings He gives us be humble
Just when yo think that things are right
You get blinded and lose your sight.
Dorian Petersen Potter
Aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2009
September 10, 2009
The Sonnetina Rispetto is a new poetry form created by Dorian Petersen
Potter, on September 8, 2009.
This form Sonnetina Rispetto has 14 lines with 8 syllables in each line.
It can be written in 3 quatrain stanzas and a couplet or with an Octave(8)
and a Sestet(6) lines or the Sestet first and then the Octave. This the poet's choice.
The rhyme scheme is as follows:
A1,A2,B1,c,c,B2,A1,A2,d,d,B1,B2,A1,A2.
The capitals A1,A2,B1 and B2...stands for the refrain lines in the poem.
Any subject.