Summer Sonnet Poems

Love has been described as a battlefield as it can leave us with scars that can be seen and unseen by others. 
Especially when the...

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Four seasons fill a year’s colours of time
  and fills the core of human shell and gourd -
in that fullness of youth’s Spring balm...

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as we danced every step was discovery, the creaking patio hardwood
rhythmic and soulful. the light was wet, it’d just rained. under the melting
evening sky time...

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I will miss you so, dear August of mine!			

When September winds blow and the days shift	
Into evening silhouettes of birds,			
Listlessly observing from trees that lift			
Long...

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The leaves, long gone, each golden child carried
on autumn draft to reach a season's death,
portends bitter squalls will blow the harried
vines with long, cruel winter's...

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“Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into their individual containers, so will your marriage be." Unknown
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Do birds sow or reap? Do they gather wealth?
Does the sun or shower cause birds’ ill health?
A few worms and a few grains suffice them.
Do...

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J. Smythe with Sylvia Plath

Amongst the trees he walked, a distant form,
She, like the leaves, danced in the summer breeze.
The plan, he'd hoped, would keep...

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shorts,white socks
sandals and panama-
winter-white legs

no wind,blue skies
dozing in a deckchair-
my afternoon tea stews

hottest day of summer
flying ants on high-
a swallows' drive by

summer-days ever-lasting
memories so tender-tasting...

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I love the winter, the way it whirls my breath
Away; reminds me I am alive, there's hope.
I love the ferns bejeweled in snow, the heath
As...

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For one who was my first most precious love,
who drifted into my life like fresh snow,
he’s still the guy that my impressions of
remain like snow...

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Dear flock of mine, how far you’ve strayed from me.
I find you here above this tranquil shore
where sunlight glitters down upon the sea.
How unconcerned you...

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PETRARCH TRANSLATIONS

Sonnet XIV
by Petrarch
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Lust, gluttony and idleness conspire
to banish every virtue from mankind, 
replaced by evil in his treacherous mind, 
thus...

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The springtime of our distant youth was when
 we made sweet love beneath a silver moon.
 The whole of life stretched out before us then....

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