Looking in the mirror I see nothing special, a face puckered by age and a body carrying wear and tear...
Wisdom Highlights
Category: Poetry
Let Me Believe
whatever it takes no sacrifice is to great a silent promise I made...
Duality
At dawn the first rays of sun light, That chase the shadows of the night To keep the joyful spirits bright...
Clouded #writephoto
Background: Every Thursday Sue Vincent hosts the #writephoto prompt. This week’s prompt ...
Natural Instinct
The turning points of life pretty much suck, don’t they? I knew they were coming as the moments built up over years, even decades...
The Hunger of Souls
Each breath inhaling infusions of leathery musk and floral high notes that carries no name but it is so familiar...
Strip Tease
Wrap around chrome, gyrating slow moving sensuality, intimate glances torment sighs...
Living with Demons
My mind was haunted. So hideous evil, dark, and cruel the word monster is insufficient...
Gender Repetition
Answering the same old questions and I watch him ticking the same old boxes another shrink scanning my mind...
Invitation
Black lace kissing thigh high silk painted nails enticing my sighs...
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Plath was a poet, short-story writer, and novelist. Best-known for advancing the genre of confessional poetry through her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1982. Plath married the poet Ted Hughes in 1956 and they lived firstly in America then moved to England. The couple had two children before separating in 1962...
Sailing to Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was a poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A stoic pillar of the Irish literary establishment he helped found the Abbey Theatre and served as a Senator of the Irish Free State...
Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe
Poe was a writer, editor, and critic, best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre through poetry and short stories. He was a central figure of Romanticism in the USA and one of the earliest practitioners of the short story. He was the first well-known American writer to earn a living from writing alone, leading to a financially difficult life and career....
English Quintain Notes
The popular English Quintain has no set meter with a rhyme schemexbxbbxdxdd… etc.orababbcdcdd… etc. Example The Boatman by Sean Curtis Do not call the boatman earlyWe must all wait out our time,He will not come if it's untimelyHe'll leave you waiting out of lineAnd the future will not be fine If he comes and takes … Continue reading English Quintain Notes
Chained Sonnet Notes
More of an effect than a set sonnet form the chained sonnet can be used with any sonnet variant the poet chooses. Each line begins with the last word of the preceding line. For a cyclic chained sonnet the last word of the last line should be the first word of the first line. Structure: … Continue reading Chained Sonnet Notes
Hymn to the Gods
Forces of nature, hail to Thee, From here on bended knee. The Earth Mother graces us with life...
Two Sleeps
Wednesday, some call it Hump Day and bloggers go wordless sometimes but in my diary, it reads two sleeps...
Ballad to the Goddess
She sings to me in silver tones She calls the merry tune The maidens dance before the crones...
And Ravens Fly
Old buildings have secrets so some would say Whispering between the walls Old souls watching o’er the living tonight...
Hallucinations
Anguished winds driving through my dreams Like hurricanes and thunderstorms In flashing, surrealistic screams...
Washing Line Sails
freshness pegged on line hoisted high sails billow to travel the seas...
From Time Gone By
In old tales of Wales, we see Bards through the Mabinogi Myth and magic come to be...
I Suppose
A gentleman and his wife pose In sadness, a thought comes to me On a lap a baby should be...
Chant-Pagan by Rudyard Kipling
Kipling was a journalist, poet, short-story writer, and novelist. Kipling ws born in India which inspired much of his work, including The Jungle Book and Kim...
A Moments Indulgence by Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore was a polymath, poet, musician, and artist. He is credited with reshaping Bengali literature and Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1913 he was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature...
Who’s Who by Benjamin Zephania
Born and raised in the Handsworth district of Birmingham, UK, Zephaniah is a writer, dub poet and Rastafarian. He is dyslexic and attended an approved school but left at 13 years old unable to read or write. He was included in The Times list of Britain’s Top 50 post-war writers in 2008...
Tonight
Tonight, I want to close my eyes and sleep and in the morning, wake up with you I want to see your hair disheveled...
Journey to the Land of Neverwas
Poor Mr. Easter Bunny, so full of woe. No chocolate, oh gosh, it so is not funny! Head in hands he sits, what to do?
Takes Two to Tango
Dance with me, baby let me hold you close for a lifetime forever and a day...
Curtal Sonnet Notes
Originally created by Gerard Manly Hopkins using his devised meter Sprung Rhythm sonnet purists would argue the Curtal Sonnet is not a true sonnet, nevertheless I shall include it in my notes as a valid sonnet form. The Curtal is a shortened, or curtailed sonnet, specifically referring to a sonnet composed of a sestet and … Continue reading Curtal Sonnet Notes
Countess Grief Sonnet Notes
Created by Jose Rizal M. ReyesMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterStructure: 3 quatrains and a coupletRhyme Scheme: abba cddc eefg gf Example: Necrosis by Jez Farmer The shimmery haze like buckets of mistReflect the heat against the dying grassAnd old man time must surely breathe his lastThere is no way out; no mystery twistUnheard warnings left all … Continue reading Countess Grief Sonnet Notes
Clare’s Sonnet Notes
Structure: Quatorzain of coupletsMeter: AnySchema: aabbccddeeffgg Example: Line by Line by Jez Farmer The soft touch of her lover’s lipsOn her skin his tongue slowly skipsHis hunger, her passion as oneDefining love’s erotic funWithout words, with a metered beatTheir verse inscribed in sexual feetA dance, a song, a poem foundShe drags her nails in the … Continue reading Clare’s Sonnet Notes
Wear and Tear #writephoto
Background: Once again Sue has given a wonderful word and image prompt at https://scvincent.com/2020/07/30/thursday-photo-prompt-worn-writephoto/ Thursday photo prompt: Worn #writephoto I’m am using both word and photo this week with the form Abbreviated Haiku II of 2/3/2 stanza. Yeahp, I like making work for myself...
Avalon Calls
I gazed in awe upon the azure skies And watched the worlds above align for me The spirits wove on Earth where darkness lies...
Addressing Depression
I want to say the words I need to say Addressing the sadness deep inside me Not that it listens to me anyway...
First Song
Mary, Mary was quite contrary With a garden, all prim and proper. No slugs or snails invaded...
Haiku
Form: Haiku old stony glancesmake us some magic, sweetiestuff and nonsense here ©JGFarmer2020
Sweet Heart of Toxicity
‘Your heart is made of steel’ Yet I know I can feel Targeted words bring pain...
The Music Giggled
The cuffs hold her gently to hanging rings As melodies of love violins sing out. A lonesome flute joy to her senses brings...
Pride and Joy
Inside the walls, I want my place of peace Where stress departs and tensions simply cease When my long day’s done, and come to an end...
Essence
Black velvet taking my vision fascinating my senses with bouquets of roses and scents of spice...
A Hand in the Bird by Roald Dahl
Dahl was a novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, poet, and wartime fighter pilot. He was born in wales to Norwegian parents and served in the Royal Airforce during WW2 as a fighter pilot and intelligence officer. He rose to prominence as a writer in the 1940s...
Tam O’Shanter by Robert Burns
Robert Burns, better known as Rabbie Burns, is was a poet and lyricist. Regarded as the national poet of Scotland, he is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language. A pioneer of the Romantic Movement Burns was a source of inspiration to the founders of both socialism and liberalism...
Pen and Ink
If only I had more time to just think Another day flies by and gone too fast Tomorrow the same, not hard to forecast...
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare was a poet, playwright, and actor. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language. Referred to as ‘the Bard’ his works include 39 plays, 154 sonnets, narrative poems, and other verses. His plays have been translated into all major languages...
English Ode Notes
Historically the ode form was brought to England at about the same time as the sonnet and was used by many poets. The English Ode uses a rhyme schema of four-line Sicilian stanza and an Italian sestet.ababcdecde fgfghijhij… and so on Example Ode to Future Past by Divena Collins Oh warm South wind come blow … Continue reading English Ode Notes
Cross Sonnet Notes
Created by Victoria Sutton. The first four syllable of line #1, becomes the last four syllables of Line #4 in each of the quatrains. Cross Sonnet 1 Structure: 3 quatrains and a coupletMeter: Octosyllabic or tetrameterSchema: aabb ccdd eeff gg Example Silent Words by Jez Farmer Her eyes that speak of love’s desireEcho the music … Continue reading Cross Sonnet Notes
Drinking Water
Flowers fading into July the garden a bowl of potpourri scent kissed with Eastern promise...
Divino Sonetto Notes
Created by Divena Collins, the Divino Sonetto has two variants. Sonetto 1 Structure: Octet and sestetMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: aabbcddc eefeff Example: A Closed Door by Jez Farmer The silent tears that nobody saw cryAs deep within a soul just wished to dieUnspoken the words that voiced so much painOf a heart broken again and … Continue reading Divino Sonetto Notes
Cottage Melody
The house of song we called it She sat playing her old guitar Singing of sun, moon, and star...
