Art Sonnet Poems

Cadence lowers its tenebrous tempo
Dulcet to a morose Memento Mori-bund
Lachrymose ribbon garnet fountain
Ruby rivulets in wine glass Chardonnay
Bubble floats to pop
Silence yet I sway

Miasma tang...

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Shall I reside in shadows of past years
like a silhouette where light appears dimmed
as life’s entangled path cuts deep like spears
of perforating thorns overly brimmed?
Shall...

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Today, my teacher asked why poems ceased,
I said, "My studies claimed my time and mind."
She smiled and spoke, "Let not your worries feast,
For in your...

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Oh ad astra I have gazed from afar 
for some semblance of who I used to be;
All that remains is disheveled debris;
Somehow I left my...

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"Hercule and the Broken Birds de Bergerac"

lute wherefore art thou?
soft stroked like chords of velvet
wrapped around thee thou be art always 
in the bursting rose...

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Beneath the moonlight, by the water's edge.
I harken to the songs splashing frogs sing 
and of the whippoorwill, an echoed pledge:
"Be still. Listen. My hand...

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The centurion, like kings and knights, possessed all powers.
He felt, as though, in front of Jesus, his might was mere mist.
Doesn't this mist, though tentative,...

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Materialised out of t’ foggy whorl.
Most people have speculated without fail 
from whence shores or dimension you have hail’d.
They agreed upon: You’re out of this...

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The Qin Shi Huang Empire built the marvelous China Wall.
The Flavian kings built the elegant Colosseum.
Just as the earth, an edifice needs to be safe...

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When silence speaks there is no human word
or mouthing from an uncontented tongue.
Yet voiceless cries from hungry eyes are heard,
to those awaiting caring for someone.

The...

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Joy of pleasure, a child of poor parents,
Bliss alone founts from a perpetual spring,
Joy fancies scores of fond uncles and aunts, 
Never lasts long the...

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

Love, where travels thou diminishing shade?
This...

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A sly inflection shifts the paradigm.
Rambling renaissance men without a clue.
Notable declensions; mismanaged time.
Skewing the truth and balance of value.

When paying mind to another's success.
Visibly...

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No one nor you, me love, be free from flaws, 
A flaw endears more than it ever irks, 
It sounds strange, dimple a dire flaw...

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake and darling buds of May and summer's lease...

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