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A sonnet is a form of lyric poem made popular by poets such as William Shakespeare. Sonnets consist of 14 lines that usually have one or more conventional rhyme schemes, but there is more to a sonnet. What is sonnet in poetry (complete definition)?
You are the musicYou'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.
Surely this feeling I...
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Categories:
love, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
The First and Last, and the All in Between
The first and last, and the all in between;
the ever-lasting infinite in space
and time, the one light that has always been
(from race to race...
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Categories:
allusion, god, hope, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Mystery And Mystique M
When oppression overwhelms our senses,
we become numb to reality's sting.
And yet, hope breaches all our defenses
encouraging our spirits to take wing.
It is not within us to quit trying;
the impossible is made possible.
And when we no...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Sonnet
Sonnet to ConnieDear Connie, your departing grieves me much.
Your many praising comments were my muse.
On days I deemed a pen to never touch,
you made me feel my verse was of some use.
You always were a person to...
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Categories:
character, death of a
Form: Sonnet
Lily Rose on ClayLife has ne'er? been soft to my sensations
Intensely kind was none in relations
Looking buses for suicide on stations
Yearning heart wanting someone's temptations
Remembering my past burns me in fire
Only a loving girl wasn't my desire
Still moments,...
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Categories:
anti bullying, dedication, deep,
Form: Sonnet
HEARTS FROM HEAVEN“I carry your heart with me(I carry it in my heart)I am never without it"
...
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Categories:
grief, heart,
Form: Sonnet
Prison of freedomThe world, a place dreamt perfect, orderly and friendly
Graced and paced, hospitable to both brave and cowardly
The timid forced turgid, the brave at times feeble and shake
At the forces from the four poles, leaving their...
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Categories:
deep, planet,
Form: Sonnet
Such Sorrowed Grief"I carry your heart with me
(I carry it in my heart)
I am never without it.” - E. E. Cummings
A growing sense of expectation...
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Categories:
grief,
Form: Sonnet
Without Goodbye"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it"
E.E.Cummings
Friends I have lost as years rush by--
so many souls I have called friend.
lost to heaven without goodbye
If I...
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Categories:
absence, age, appreciation, childhood,
Form: Sonnet
Etched
"I carry your heart with me (I carry it In my heart) I am never without you"
...
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Categories:
grandmother, sad,
Form: Sonnet
Does It Reach My Eyes
Although I’m smiling does it reach my eyes?
Inside’s a constant, never-ending storm
I can’t keep pretending; tired of the lies
My inner forecast isn’t warm or the norm
There is a tsunami brewing nonstop
I’m looking forward to a...
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Categories:
how i feel,
Form: Sonnet
the commanderthe commander
Going on board my ship, a balmy night in Gibraltar
I noticed four old warships (hunter class) tied up
together on a deserted pier as waiting for the final
verdict, to be turned into nails or sunk.
Having...
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Categories:
angst, best friend, history,
Form: Sonnet
And silence said it allTwo pairs of eyes could see more than most can,
It was as if future nor past did matter,
What mattered was present served in a platter,
And warm lips froze as if in blissful zen.
Talking...
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Categories:
betrayal, marriage,
Form: Sonnet
Privilege Exposes SelfT’was “a day that will live in infamy”
January sixth twenty twenty-one
“The Other America” waved its flag
Her darker brothers witness the privilege
On a daily basis throughout their lives
When they see Black skin, they see chattel
People around...
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Categories:
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sonnet
Rosemary for RemembranceBody fades into water with the weight
Of drunken gowns that drown in curtains of
Moss and lily pads, eternally pondering is my fate
To die in their arms or stay here above.
I invite their invasion, but my...
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Categories:
sad love, suicide,
Form: Sonnet
Specific Types of Sonnet Poems
Read wonderful sonnet poetry on the following sub-topics:
art, animals, christmas, death, dog, family, flowers, food, friendship, funny, halloween, kids, life, love, music, nature, nursery, parents, school, spring, sports, war, winter
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