Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet variant 9 When you bring your light to my universe Like the rose blooming on a winter’s day
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Light of the Universe
Author: Raven
I am a freelance writer and poet and started writing after raising my two boys as a way of discovering just who Jez is. That is still very much an on-going project but the journey so far has introduced me to many wonderful friends and fellow writers through an ever growing love of poetry.
A Valentine Sonnet
Form: Alfred Dorn Sonnet Author’s Note: Prompt: Your Valentine’s Day feelings, well, the world knows what I think of that but okay a sonnet to say it – delightfully assisted by Rod Stewart.
State of Independence
Free Writing Prompt: What are your best traits?
One and the Same
Form; Free Verse I am a poet and words are my tools
The Poet’s Curse
Form: Alfred Dorn Sonnet And so begins another writing day A pen in hand beside a coffee cup
Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney
The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley... No kitchens on the run, no striking camp... We moved quick and sudden in our own country. The priest lay behind ditches with the tramp. A people hardly marching... on the hike... We found new tactics happening each day: We'd cut through reins and rider with the … Continue reading Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney
The Poet Girl
Form: English Sonnet I really can't believe I have know this wonderful lady and poet for 11 years - where did that time go?
Incandescence
Form: Alternating Sonnet The spark that’s seen in glances between eyes Ignites the flames we feed with kissing sighs
Case Closed
Flash Fiction 350: Crime Two weeks ago, Tess White had been found dead in her parents’ apartment. She had come in late from a party complaining of feeling unwell. Her parents had assumed it was a result of too much alcohol.
An Exploration of Love
Form: Free Verse Inquisitive thoughts in the dreams of men
Half Measure
Poetic Notes: Half Measure
Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was a composition teacher, composer, writer and conductor.
Afternoon by Dorothy Parker
When I am old, and comforted And done with this desire With Memory to share my bed And Peace to share my fire I'll comb my hair in scalloped bands Beneath my laundered cap And watch my cool and fragile hands Lie light upon my lap And I will have a sprigged gown With lace … Continue reading Afternoon by Dorothy Parker
In the Name of Love
Form: Raven's Rovi Sonnet 8 Form creation and experimentation The sober mind intoxicated by A kiss; the soft wetness of lips that meet
The Collar
Form: Free Verse Circle of silver what do you mean
Almost Kiss
Form: Free Verse Within her embrace my hands hold her close
Haiku
Haiku Prompt: Sand
Nana Story Nana
Form: English Sonnet Written 2008 "Nana tell me story now, Nana please" For me you made magic with words and rhyme
The Middle Shoe
Flash Fiction 350 word limit Genre: Sci-fi It had been some years since they had started living among us. I was just a child when they first arrived and don’t really remember the transition of Earth being a human planet to a home to beings from many worlds. To me that was normal. In fact I loved the diversity.
Facets of Blue
Form: Ivorian Sonnet variant 8 It sparkles as sunlight catches the stone Encased in silver, glimmers of love shown
The Challenge of April
Form: Byr a thoddaid The challenge a poem per day Each year NaPoMo comes to stay
Dear Chains by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Rose-maiden, no, I do not quarrel With these dear chains, they don't demean. The nightingale embushed in laurel, The sylvan singers' feathered queen, Does she not bear the same sweet plight? Near the proud rose's beauty dwelling, And with her tender anthems thrilling The dusk of a voluptuous night Poet: Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin Romantic Era … Continue reading Dear Chains by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
Limp Bizkit: My Way
Rock Limp Bizkit My Way
Screw Cupid
Form: Acrostic Poetry Seeking love in all the wrong places Clasping a shattered heart
Divino Sonetto
Poetic Notes - Divino Sonetto
Shirty
Form: Acrostic Sarcasm is my first language because High level intelligence attracts me whilst
A Sensual Stillness
Raven's Rovi Sonnet My desire burns when your body is still Your mind absent as if you are not there Your senses await the touch of my will
Life Changer
Free-write Prompt: If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?
Island Lady
English Sonnet A lady pen, wrote of love in meter, from on the Grecian isle and ancient time. For womankind, was honey ever sweeter?
Notches on the Wall
Flash Fiction I have lost count of the days that I have been here. They are just notch marks on the branches that make the walls of the hut I built. And I built that a fair few notches ago. The only life I have seen in all that time has been seagulls and fish and they don’t say much.
Cape Breton by Elizabeth Bishop
Out on the high "bird islands," Ciboux and Hertford, the razorbill auks and the silly-looking puffins all stand with their backs to the mainland in solemn, uneven lines along the cliff's brown grass-frayed edge, while the few sheep pastured there go "Baaa, baaa." (Sometimes, frightened by aeroplanes, they stampede and fall over into the sea … Continue reading Cape Breton by Elizabeth Bishop
Spirit of the Night by John Atkinson Grimshaw
Title: Spirit of the Night Date: 1879 Movement: Symbolism Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw English 1836 – 1893
Surrender the Moment
Raven's Rovi Sonnet 6 There in the moment she lays before me My world of beauty, her surrendered soul Is mine; and I gaze upon her and see
The Crossing – Farewell Arina
Flash Fiction Serial During the second winter, Arina’s health began to fail. It was shortly after my graduation from school when she collapsed that first time. Even the doctors put it down to the excitement of the day.
Shopping Trip
Free Verse Prompt: Shopping
Choka
Poetic Notes Oriental Form - Choka
I Can’t Close My Eyes
Echo Sonnet written 2008 As I lie restless, I hear your soft breath, I see you smile in dreams of love spring. My surrender to watch you, a living death,
Reflections of Helena
Romantic Flash Fiction Helena, she was my perfection. From girl to woman I had watched her grow, always showing her the natural clarity of her beauty.
T Rex: 20th Century Boy
Released in 1973, 20th Century Boy and reached number 3 in the UK Singles Charts. It was also a bonus track on the reissue of the 1973 album Tanx.
Moving On
Each day I looked to universal light And wished I could hear you whisper my name Then heard only silence throughout the night
The Crossing – Searching for Answers
I got home to a letter from my pen pal, Lynne, in England. Inside were photographs and postcards from her holiday, each numbered on the back, so I could follow the descriptive within her letter.
Chorus from Hellas by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn: Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. A brighter Hellas rears its mountains From waves serener far; A new Peneus rolls his fountains Against the morning star. Where … Continue reading Chorus from Hellas by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Stag Night
The nights are long, and the days are short now While winter winds echo across the land Tonight the king will return as is planned
Grease Is the Word
My first summer of love on that beach, First handheld, first kiss, to the sounds of 'Grease'. 'Summer Lovin'' high in the chart did reach,
When Eyes Meet
Across the crowded dance floor, I saw her. Her soft blonde hair cascading in loose curls over her shoulders. Her sparkling eyes staring into the darkness of the room. Her lips curling softly under the ruby gloss.
America, A Prophecy by William Blake
The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc, When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode: His food she brought in iron baskets, his drink in cups of iron: Crown'd with a helmet and dark hair the nameless female stood; A quiver with its burning stores, a bow like that of night, … Continue reading America, A Prophecy by William Blake
Blank Verse
Blank Verse is constructed lines of iambic pentameter without a rhyme scheme. For longer poems, it can be divided into stanzas of varying length or stanzas of equal length.
Gustav Holst: The Planets – Venus
Gustavos Theodore von Holst was an English composer, arranger and teacher. There had been professional musicians on the Holst family and it was noted when he was a young boy he would follow the same calling. Apart from the Planet Suite and a few other pieces his music was largely ignored until the 1980s.
A Motherless Soft Lambkin by Christina Georgina Rossetti
A motherless soft lambkin Along upon a hill; No mother's fleece to shelter him And wrap him from the cold: - I'll run to him and comfort him, I'll fetch him, that I will; I'll care for him and feed him Until he's strong and bold Date: 1872 Poet: Christina Georgina Rossetti English 1830 - … Continue reading A Motherless Soft Lambkin by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Twilight Hunter
I long to see the sparkle in your eyes Silent and yearning a prowling desire Unsated want hidden in empty sighs And like the hunter stalking the streets
