Form: Free Verse His want to tease her with lingering touches while denying her lips
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Torment of Lust
Category: Poetry
Fashion Parade
Form: Beginning of the Line Rhymed Sonnet Smiles are infectious, a beautiful pox Styles may change but a smile will never fail To set a mark in the high fashion stakes
Bed Linen
Form: Free Verse In hushed voices pillows-talk in the middle of the night
Silent Conversation
Form: Free Verse Words of love left unsaid as fear embraced
Fairy Land 1 by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was a poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. His works consist of 39 plays. 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and other verses. His work has been translated into every major language and his plays are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Bardic Sonnet Notes
Bardic Sonnet Notes Created by: William Kenneth Keller Structure: 3 quatrains and a couplet
Sapphorically Speaking
Form: Sapphic Ode Sonnet Now what am I to write today? I have to get my coursework in, my lovely girls can splash and play
Art and Poetry
Form: Epistle My love My words seem too slow as the distance torments me
Halloween Children
Form: Ballad Stanzas In October they come to play Yet they are never seen On autumn days in the playground
Sensual Salutation
Form: Free Verse Your lips quiver in a pressing motion as my tongue lingers
A Reflective Glance
Form: Free Verse I caught a glance in the shop window my eyes saw her and reeled away in disgust
Porthor
Form: Raven's Rovi Sonnet 25 The ocean’s kisses ripple on the shore Setting the rhythm for my love to dance And my heart is lost in the silent awe
One More Time
Form: Free Verse Guide my hand to feed your flame grasp it tight
I Walk Alone
Form: Free Verse Once more Lilith has turned me away my time for death is at her command not mine
Bewitched
You cast your spell on me as I sipped the potion from your lips a gentle brew on a witch’s rune
Unwanted Heart
The Creative Space Prompt: The Unrequited love poem: How do you feel when you love someone who does not love you back?
The Erotes: Himeros
Form: Ivorian Sonnet 23 Himeros – the god of sexual desire and unrequited love I asked to dance in the grace of your heart And so I danced, and you pulled us apart This, the want of a god I could not hide
University of Life
Form: Free Verse Mistakes, the syllabus from which we learn.
The Phoenix by Heinrich Heine
Poet: Heinrich Heine Born: 13 December 1797, Dusseldorf, Germany Germany Died: 17 February 1856, Paris, France Christian Johann Heinrich Heine poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
The Erotes: Eros
Form: Ivorian Sonnet 22 The Erotes: Eros – the god of love and fertility Amid chaos the love of gods began A love that echoes in the hearts of Man
Birdsong
Form: Epistle My Heart, for my heart pulsates with your name Hearing you speak is the music of my soul like birdsong in the pale light of a spring morning
Silent Mask
Form: Ballad Stanzas Prompt: Taste the rainbow My confused mind hidden by fear With questions never asked Never daring to say the words
Divinity and Love
Form: Raven's Rovi Sonnet 24 Tonight it feels the distance is so far But still I feel your heart beating with mine Yet I am alone searching for one star
Raven’s Wings
Form: Hir a Thoddaid The snow falls softly on this winter night As the magical dreams begin their flight In the darkness the world of inner sight
Tower of Song by Leonard Cohen
Poet: Leonard Cohen Born: 21 September 1934, Westmount, Canada Canadian Died: 7 November 2016, California, USA Leonard Norman Cohen was a singer, songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored the subjects of religion, politics, isolation, romantic relationships and sexuality.
Arabian Onegin Sonnet Notes
Arabian Onegin Sonnet Notes Created by Jose Rizal M. Reyes Meter: Decasyllabic or pentameter Structure: 2 quatrains and 2 triplets
My Poet Guide
Form: English Sonnet Dedicated to the Greenian Poet, Jeff Green of the Cricket I have a guide in poetry, I do! A poet guide who sees me right and true. No spirit he, so real. A friend in word,
Forest Clan
Form: Ballad Stanzas They ask me why I can believe The gods exist today While I count blessings, I receive
Aubade Poetry Notes
Aubade Poetry Notes An Aubade is a song or poem of any chosen form that celebrates the new day
That Kiss
Form: Free Verse This morning I woke your kiss still lingering on my lips as delicate as a butterfly
Art Deco Recalls
Form: Balanced Sonnet Memories held in the scent of old wax Of lost conversations from years ago And the cotton apron covered your slacks
Brief Walk in the Garden
Form: Free Verse Peonies boogie and roses waltz in the breeze the garden is finding its summer rhythm
Summer Solstice
Form: Epistle Oh my sweet, as the sun lingers in stillness on this longest day I am sat quietly in this in-between time. On one side the magic of love
Illusionary Skies
Form: English Sonnet The stars glisten between billowing clouds, Flirting with the mists of my silent dream. Floating in the illusion of mystic shrouds
Thoughts in Insomnia
Form: Free Verse In the darkness I feel him move in his sleep and I hear his breath
Love Musing with Nature
Form: Raven's Rovi Sonnet 23 Bring your heart to the place of waterfalls And sit with me amid the forest trees Let our souls speak freely when the bird calls
American Libre Sonnet Notes
American Libre Sonnet Created by Jose Rizal M. Reyes Meter: Decasyllabic or pentameter Structure: 3 quatrains and a couplet Rhyme Scheme: abab bbcc cdcd ee
Sensual Oblivion
Form: Free Verse As we make love I am falling apart a deep breath regaining self-control
Ethereal Attraction
Form: Quatrains Another night alone in our bedroom, memories of you lying ev’rywhere Eyes red with tears, my senses in the gloom
Shadows of Light
Form: Free Verse Stepping back from the bright lights of city life releasing the chains of denial
Monday Night
Form: Epistle My love, every night while I lie in my bed, I write a letter in mind to you. The silly things, the everyday things and the wittering of my heart. A thought of you revealed in a song on the radio, my passion that soared in my poetry and the thought of you laughing at my forgetful nature.
Timing
Form: Raven’s Rovi Sonnet 22 I cannot resent those who have loved you Be it one or a hundred or even more For you deserve the best of love so true
Haiku
Haiku Prompt: Decline Image: Cherry Blossom
Esprit de l’Escalier
Form: Free Verse When my words leave you reeling as if run over by a double-decker bus and you feel an instinct
Abstractions of Desire
Form: Ivorian Sonnet 21 Deep within her eyes I see desire’s spark As her finger trails over the red arc Of the crescent moons on my chest; I cuss
The Erotes: Anteros
Form: Ivorian Sonnet 20 The Erotes: Anteros, god of requited love A tumult of emotions around me And I prayed love was something you’d see Like revealed cards my hand was out on show
Arabian Sonnet Notes
Arabian Sonnet Created by: Jose Rizal M. Reyes Meter: Decasyllabic or pentameter Structure: 2 quatrains and two triplets Rhyme Scheme: aaaa bbbb ccc ddd
Exam Hell
Form: Couplets Months of work coming to a final test, three-hour papers in hot rooms, it’s no jest. Classics, linguistics, fine art, all for me,
Adieu
Form: Ballad Once it was you who ruled my pen And like a child I obeyed you The words at play within my dreams
Restoration
Form: Gwawdodyn hir Like tears it comes to ease guilt and pain And wash away the last teary stain So exhausted I can sleep again
