Modern Sonnets I
...MODERN SONNETS I
I prefer the original definition of the sonnet as a “little song” of indeterminate form and length. These modern sonnets vary from more-or-less traditional to free verse.
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Categories:
unenticing, art, freedom, romantic, romantic
Form: Sonnet
Sonnets Xxv-Xxxii
...Sonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eye...
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Categories:
unenticing, bereavement, body, cancer, change,
Form: Sonnet
Rip
...R.I.P.
by Michael R. Burch
When I am lain to rest
and my soul is no longer intact,
but dissolving, like a sunset
diminishing to the west...
and when at last
before His throne my past
is ...
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Categories:
unenticing, death, dream, funeral, grave,
Form: Verse
Ebb Tide
...Massive, gray, these leaden waves
bear their unchanging burden—
the sameness of each day to day
while the wind seems to struggle to say
something half-submerged planks at the mouth of the bay
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Categories:
unenticing, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Revolution
...I am no revolutionary
For mine is not an ideal
A noble statement
I ain’t gonna give a speech
No riling up crowds, riots
This ain’t no cause
No movement for you to join
All that it is
A cry t...
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Categories:
unenticing, destiny, slavery,
Form: I do not know?