red, white, rosebuds grow satin petals open out blossoms flower bright
The Rose Garden
Category: Poetry
Blues Sonnet Notes
Meter: Decasyllabic or pentameterStructure: Four triplets and a coupletRhyme Scheme: AAa BBb CCc DDd ee Example: Esbat Sonnet by Jez Farmer My Lady shines between the land and sea,Her lunar light that shimmers on the sea,In her fullness I see my destiny.Her guiding hand to lead the ebb and flow,Her gentle touch that brings natural … Continue reading Blues Sonnet Notes
Seductive Power
The sweet words enticing the ear to love Handmaiden, goddess smiling from above In the persuasion of lyrical verse
Sweet Heat
To the one who makes my world beautiful a place I want to be a place I feel you beside me
Essence of Cinnamon
The first scent as my eyes open is you a spicy reminder of lust
Transitory Night
In these, the darkest hours, I feel so wrong Alone and longing to look in your eyes To find the answer of love, my heart’s song
A Reason for Silence
Words falling through space only landing on deaf ears words failing to be heard
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poet: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Born: 24 March 1919, New York, USA American
Love Lies Busted
I know it’s not fair to say that I’m done So breaking off the past and moving on Escaping the grasp of the lies of love
To Love Too Much
Looking back it seemed so obvious that my life was hidden in lies not the little white lies that told her
Ballade Notes
The Ballade as its name suggests is a French form and along with the Rondeau was one of the first forms to be standardised in the 14th century. Written in syllabic prosody of any one-line length, the original French forms were octosyllabic, but now decasyllable is more common, and iambic tetrameter etc; are just as … Continue reading Ballade Notes
The Kiss of the Sea
So calmly the night sea reflects the moon As in its fullness the tide laps the shore A companion to he who walks alone
Treasure in Silk
Undressing her slowly teasing her stripped flesh free from fabric trappings
Coming to Life
The mannequin dressed in what they want to see and dances to the music chosen before birth
Night Thoughts
My princess, my own beautiful princess Tonight I feel you so much as my hunger and desire for you surge through my body and I can’t call it being in love as that is to put a limit on my feelings
Day of Rest
My ideal as I rise early with the birds to most I suppose that is quite absurd. Coffee brewing, the aroma fills the room
Flirting Messages
What is wrong with you, what is wrong with me What is this thing that has us in its grasp Like captives in bondage, yet we are free
Blank Verse Notes
Strictly speaking, Blank Verse is a poem written in lines of iambic pentameter, however many poets relax this to decasyllabic lines, and why not, indeed. Blank verse poems can be in one stanza or broken into various stanzas of the line length the poet wishes. There is no rhyme scheme. Example: Riverside by Terry Clitheroe … Continue reading Blank Verse Notes
Haiku
lucid beauty growsin clusters of light pin pricksbut still the stars die © JG Farmer 2019
Checkmate
I saw you smile that day you first hit me Your eyes that filled with hate against the vow We made in sacred faith; the promise gone
Adar Llwch Gwin
As the falcon flies and the red kite soars Wise birds, it is said, can understand
Bacchus and Ariadne
A glass of ruby wine, a god in love His woman that they left alone to die Upon an island, abandoned by man
To a Poet’s Love
Do you recall that day the day a poet fell in love and you knew
Sonnet of Pan
He plays his flute where forest and glade meet Songs of love and they come on dancing feet From the rivers and from the distant seas
My Serenity in Purgatory
For the better half of me Yes, I mean you, my love the sanity to my insanity
Blank Verse Sonnet Notes
Blank Verse Sonnet NotesMeter: Decasyllabic or PentameterStructure: QuatorzainRhyme Scheme: None specified Example: Sleepless Night by Jez Farmer The night is waiting in silver moonlight,For lips to meet and share a lover's kiss,Between the hushened pleas and wanting sighs,As parting clouds reveal the moon is full,The night of sleepless dreaming has begun.The quiet stillness found in … Continue reading Blank Verse Sonnet Notes
Oh Aphrodite!!!
Her beauty captivates my heart in chains Of sweet lust rushing through my raptured veins My nemesis of illicit desire
Nightfall
As twilight shadows dissolve in the sand And echoes of day drift out to the sea Your lips flutter on the palm of my hand
Impatience
In the mindlessness of a margherita in the afternoon as aquaholic reflections dance
From a Crazy-Assed Poet
My gift to you that your eyes cannot see To lift your heart so I may kiss your soul With love pronounced by delicate decree
Spiralling Dreams
Images colliding, twisting, turning. Mentality
The Fence
A fence runs down the garden keeping friends as strangers but I see him standing there
Anniversary Hymn by Katharine Lee Bates
Poet: Katharine Lee Bates Born: 12 April 1859, Massachusetts, USA American Died: 28 March 1929, Massachusetts, USA
Love Knows No Gender
The words of this love may never be said but they can be felt and my heart will never be offended
Interruptions
To the love that touches my soul Alone in the shadows of creative wanderings again my imaginings have brought me to you
Dinner Date
Just like the warm embers love glows within It’s waiting like we do for the weekend And time to rekindle flames, skin on skin
A Beach Walk
Love, don’t let your soul drift so far from me Not even for a day, that is too long Yet I will wait ‘til you desire to be
Wasteground
And how empty is this world without you There’s no breath of air and no sound of joy Just lonely darkness, alone without a clue
Dilemma of Lust
I crave you right now I crave the taste of your mouth hunger for the scent of your hair
Journey to a Moon
In ink he drew the map a pathway of blue lines on my skin the pathway to you and me
Ballad Stanza Notes
The basic ballad stanza is made up of four lines. It has an alternating couplet at lines two and four. The lines also alternate between tetrameter and trimeter. This gives the following structure xxxxxxxaxxxxxbxxxxxxxcxxxxxb Example: The Little Boy Lost by William Blake "Father, father where are you going?Oh do not walk so fast!Speak, father, speak … Continue reading Ballad Stanza Notes
Resilient
Knock me down, I will get up again. Destroy me with words, I am still here. Deny me, blank my existence, if you can
Country Life
Her nest is snug, perfect for a small mouse A place to sleep and store the nuts and seeds Her face twitches as she looks at her house
Beymorlin Sonnet Notes
Meter: Iambic pentameter or decasyllabic lines Structure: Either the Petrachan octet and sestet or the English three quatrains and a couplet
In Departing Light by Robert Gray
Poet: Robert Gray Born: 23 February 1945, Port Macquarie, Australia Australian
Bran
The king stands tall To save his child A maiden mild
My Girl and Me
I watch as she warms the pot at quarter to three, a tray for two laid perfect in the conservatory. Ready for that oh, so English speciality,
Haiku
Prompt: life cycle
Ballad Notes
The long measure ballad is a variant of common measure. It consists of four-line stanzas, each line ideally being iambic tetrameter or eight-syllables in length.
Temptations
Ms Lilly, my dear, give me your hand, let me take you to a sensual promised land. Soft tendrils of evocative silk stroking your face
