Sonnet Shape 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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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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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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WILLIAM DRUMOND 'Sonnet of Sleepe'

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P Neruda 100 love sonnets xvii

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                               XVIII...

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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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The old rusty gate                                         ...

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Why I am me,                                           ...

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Across the skies, suns trek on proven trails,
designed, without an option to switch modes.
From cold to warmer seas, cross humpback whales,
unable to replace their lifetime...

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What hurt filled words did you convey,                              What in the world...

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I tried composing a
sonnet about the
meaning of 
life 
but found
no suitable rhyme
for chocolate chip cookies
...

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I waited my whole life to find my man
I thought it would never be however
It happened one day like any other
Freaks of nature without a...

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This poem is written in the sonnet form,
And yet I have my doubts about its shape
Though nearly to that structure it conforms
There may be holes...

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Shapes in my dreams
They follow where I go
I come apart at the seams
Running and screaming, “no”
No place to hide
Sweat stuck to my sheets
A bad carnival...

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The blue turned grey turned to blankets of white,
Midwinter’s shroud that mantled field and town,
A breath of north resounds across the night,
To leave a frosty...

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