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Form: Free Verse I have no wish to return to the days of youth when my eyes were blind to truth when innocence lacked the wisdom to understand and virtue kindled the lies of self and love I wish I had known then the reality of me and that loving you would open my eyes … Continue reading Of Self and Love
Form: Free Verse There was a time a time that is now so long ago when I gave you my heart
Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 16 We stand together as we watch love’s death Once lovers, it’s only pain that we feel Still we stand as what was takes its last breath
Form: Free Verse A gift that resides deep inside me only shared at my choosing and never freely
Dedicated with love to my best friend, the best friend a guy can have Love you, Nella xx Form: Free Verse Sat on those old lockers where we used to chat before we grew up
Haiku Prompt: Fly
Form: Ivorian Sonnet 15 The warmth of sunshine nurturing the earth With gentle caress the rays bring forth mirth That lies hidden in the forest of trees
Form: Free Verse Prompt: Old Spice I remember that last time so clearly it could be yesterday and not the closing days of a millennium
Form: Ivorian Sonnet 14 In the silent dark shadows of my mind I see her, a pale figure undefined But my soul knows without doubt it is you
Form: Aubade A disgruntled duvet lies on the floor in a heap of crumpled rejection as she lies naked
Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 15 They ask a poet to define love in The words of verse; and it is simply done If we allow for such love to begin
This sonnet was created by the Philippine poet Jose Rizal M. Reyes. It uses an English structure of 3 quatrains and a couplet with a Spanish rhyme scheme. This gives the following rhyme meter aaba bbcb ccdc dd Example: Flying High by Jez Farmer My love, we're flying high above the night and through unguarded … Continue reading Malaysian Sonnet
Form: Cyhydedd Naw Ban It is in the stillness of the noon Without wind there sings a gentle rune The god of the Sun calling his moon
Form: Aubade The greatest show of nature upon the frosty stage as the Sun King wakens
Form: American Libre Sonnet Was it a just dream that you called me here And do you still call me to be your guy In this dark place where all I feel is fear
Form: Free Verse In those quiet moments when the gentlest touch disturbs the wispy cloud
Form: Free Verse With molten heat he explores the iron cast in flame
Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 14 I want to love you, but I don’t know how These complex feelings that make little sense Confuse my simple heart with then and now
Cornish Sonnet 3 Meter: Decasyllabic or pentameter Structure: 2 sestets and a couplet Rhyme Scheme: Abacbc dedfeF AF
Form: Free Verse A casual fling that went too far but still we say no strings attached we are just friends with a bonus
Form: Free Verse One winter’s day they looked at me and said
Cornish Sonnet 2 Meter: Decasyllabic or pentameter Structure: 2 sestets and a couplet Rhyme Scheme: abacbC dedfeF CF
Haiku 4 May 2019 Prompt: Late snow
Form: Ivorian Sonnet 13 You are my Achilles heel like sloe gin You burn me with the flames from deep within To leave my senses exposed to the pain
Form: Free Verse The gentle kiss to say wake up now and my eyelids barely stir
Meter: Decasyllabic or pentameterStructure: 2 sestets and a coupletRhyme Scheme: Abacbc Dedfef AD Example: Lost Chances by Jez Farmer While walking rough roads my feet sore and bare, And dreams were far beyond my outstretched hands, Within the realms where no angels will dare, You turned away each time I reached for you, You wanted … Continue reading Cornish Sonnet 1
Form: Ivorian Sonnet 12 If I ask you to show me all, reveal Your beauty with nothing left to conceal Would you let me see the woman inside?
Form: Arabian Sonnet 3 (tetrameter) Your love was never meant for me And now my words must make me see
Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 13 My love is not the hearts and flowers kind That empty promise wrapped in chocolate
Form: Cyhydedd Hir On an evening breeze that brings us its ease to summer’s hot frieze So ends the day
Form: Arabian Sonnet I wish I could see more within your eyes Beyond the sparkle to where the truth sighs What is hidden beneath the sweet disguise?
Form: American Sonnet Prompt: Remember Me Dedicated in loving memory to my Rose xxx bis um...
Form: Free Verse Appointments for this and then that a coffee with Fred in between
Rondeau The Rondeau is a challenging refraining stanza form. It consists of three stanzas, a quintet, a quatrain and a sestet. The first phrase of the first stanza sets the refrain, in fact the whole first line may be used if the poet so wishes.
Form: Free Verse The feelings are mine in a stroke of a brush a thousand words hidden in fine lines an image that says nothing in its stillness yet reveals everything in its silence where graphite marks paper there is only truth and my muse stands still whilst my hand follows my eye from his … Continue reading The Artist
Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 12 When I look in your eyes, I see your soul Nothing hidden you’re naked in my sight
Form: Free Verse I can’t take the power it is not mine to take yet it is my desire to possess it when you choose to give it
Form: Free Verse The questioning eyes as red lips ask ‘are you sure?’
Half-measured Sonnet Meter: 6 syllables or trimeter Structure: Three Quatrains and a couplet Rhyme Scheme: abab cded fgfg ce
Haiku Prompt: Sense of balance Season: Spring
Form: Curtal Sonnet The three black cats that live by my Nan Gang up at dusk and strut about looking tough
Form: Ivorian Sonnet 11 It’s through my heart he shot his arrow In the sensual movement of bolero
This sonnet was inspired by Ivor Hogg’s Ivorian sonnet form. As I like balance I have divided the sonnet into two septets the first being formed of a triplet and a quatrain, the second a quintain and a couplet.
Form: Ivorian Sonnet 10 As we kiss, I say release all your pain Ease your heart resting in my arms again
Form: American Sonnet Once more sifting through the debris of time When the mind is confused by the heart’s strife
Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 11 I do not seek the sparkle in your eye Nor the sensual rising of your breasts
Form: Cyhydedd fer They called you Ra so long ago Reborn each day in cosmic glow
Countess Grief Sonnet 1 Created by Jose Rizal M. Reyes Meter: Decasyllabic or pentameter Structure: 3 quatrains and a couplet Rhyme Scheme: abba cddc eefg gf
Form: American Sonnet As we make love, I look in to your eyes Just once let me see them say you love me
Form: English Sonnet From Canadian shore to English lime, The Maple leaf, your pride in homeland true.
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