Variegated Feeling

Does love come in varying colour shades And do these colours shine vibrant and proud Or gently humble in pastel cascades...

Men of the Docks

The collars turned against the icy chill A huddle of dockers stand the long wait In hopes of work, a day’s wage pays a bill,,,

Fragmented Nightmare

How does love speak within the silent soul That lies shattered beneath a broken dream Where no human words can reach to cajole...

Raven’s Rovi Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jez FarmerStructure: Two septetsMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: abacdcd (abcde)ee The Rovi 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. As Ivor set …

Truth of Darkness

There is no beginning without an end A flower can’t bloom unless winter dies And the seed awakens from dreamy sighs And tendrils of life through the cold earth wend....

Morya’s Double Lock Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Two quatrains plus two tercetsMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: abba baab cdc dcd Example Truth of Darkness by Jez Farmer There is no beginning without an endA flower can’t bloom unless winter diesAnd the seed awakens from dreamy sighsAnd tendrils of life through the cold earth wendFor deep in …

Ways to Say It

In what ways can a lover truly speak Without uttering the words ‘I love you’ Is it the faint flush that blushes the cheek...

Crimson Cloud

He stands alone in Europe’s field As clouds of poppies summon dreams. The days of war a human shield, He stands alone in Europe’s field. Alone in trenches men concealed, So few remain who knew war’s schemes...

Mulling On It

Some cover the things that we cannot speak Expressions the pen is unable to find For blanks on a page have no mystique...

Venice

Echoes of love reflect in stillness Where else but here, this place of art and love And memories still dance in their shrillness As lilies float by holding my dreams of You and I, and all that we should have been That sweet joy of love, of you and of me Here in Venice I said give me your pain....

Pushkin’s Sonnet Notes

Pushkin's Sonnet NotesCreated by: Alexander PushkinStructure: Two quatrains and a sestetMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: abab ccdd effegg Example Hedonistic Psyche by Jez Farmer Take hold my hand and let me lead the wayAnd whisper in my ear of all you desireAs if my kiss can tell you what to sayWhen lips linger longer to …

Celtic Warrior

My soul stands as a Celtic warrior king Defending my world, my kin, with my life And with his spirit my strength will bring As to my saddened heart he shows my worth...

Pope John XXXIII Sonnet Notes

Structure: aaaa bbbb cc ddddMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: Two quatrains, a couplet, and a quatrain Example Beloved by Jez Farmer The love you gave me like golden sunshine;You kept me safe and taught me ways divine,My rock when only darkness felt like mineI pray my hand is still held within thine.Those days, beloved, when …

Discovery

There is no beauty in a looking glass Where vanity rules the dreams of the mind Just an image without beauty or class...

Polynesian Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M ReyesStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: aaxa bbxb ccxc dd Example Divine Horses by Jez Farmer Where wild horses thunder she can be foundBestowing to our kings the royal ground,Their oath as solemn as any marriage vowIn ancient rites by which they are still bound.If flowing …

In Red, White, and Pink

As symbol of love dressed in vibrant red Of passion fuelled by an intimate lust Expressed in the words that the poets said...

Pastures Green

Grass cavorts with the breeze across the field In serene surrender to nature’s wield...

Love In the Ink

Tattooist leave your mark beneath my skin In ink, you trail your art of love to me. Deep colours echo affection within Hypnotic gun is buzzing like a bee...

In Love’s Consummation

How are we divided since we have kissed Are we not now two souls united as one Is there some deed or word love I have missed? And like paper cats shredded and undone...

Innuendo

The open sea and the long sandy shore That lie beneath the moon’s silvery glow As gentle waves ripple to find their roar...

Little Gift

His eyes cast along the well-trodden road But always she was there within his gaze As into his camera her eyes glowed...

It’s Our Fault

Only the ancient ones recall clear skies And the fluffy white clouds that drift Slowly on breezy sighs....

Because the Night

I yearn for the long shadows of twilight While the summer sun rages up on high For the cool of night waited for through heat On the horizon dusk comes into sight...

November Frost

The rusty gold oak leaves litter the trail With autumn’s hues rustling beneath our feet As we walk again through the woodland vale...

Wind and Rain

The sweet shelter found on a stormy night While pondering the road so far ahead Beside the blazing fire of warmth and light...

Nightingale Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jez FarmerStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Nine syllable linesRhyme Scheme: axxb axcb xcxb ac Example Oracle by Jez Farmer The quest for answers lost over timeInquiries made in realms of darknessWaiting for the voice of wisdom to speakAnd solve the mysteries of the heart.She sleeps through the years biding her timeDark lady …

Malayan Wave Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: aaba bbcb ccdc dd Example On Travel Sickness by Jez Farmer The night before brings those feelings of dreadNightmares started before I go to bedIn queasy visions involving the carThey swirl in dizzy thoughts around my headNo matter how near, …

Waves of Tides

The marine world. A place beyond Man's eye When life was free from Man's destructive way. The waves of tides marked time with a soft sigh In peace as oceans smiled, a perfect day...

Stormy Landscape with Ruins

Alone except for the gathering cloud The moody sky darkening above me Buffeting winds roaring loud in their glee And I pull my coat tighter like a shroud...

When Eyes Meet

Once we were just strangers out on the streets Two lost souls seeking the promise of love You sipped wine, I drank beer to music’s beats...

Mathlish Sonnet Notes

Structure: Triplet, couplet, triplet, couplet and a quatrainMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: aaa bb ccc dd abab Example I Know You Are There by Jez Farmer The calm before the storm, I feel the fearThat presence drawing closer, drawing nearWith silent footsteps that I cannot seeI feel its icy breath move against meAlone in darkness …

Cymraeg Soned Notes

Created by Jez Farmer, the Cymraeg Soned reflects traditional Welsh poetry with the quatrains written as awdl gwydd and the couplet as a cyhydedd fer Adwdl Gwydd Each stanza is a quatrain of seven syllables. Lines two and four rhyme and lines one and three cross rhyme into either syllable two, three, four or five …

On Travel Sickness

The night before brings those feelings of dread Nightmares started before I go to bed In queasy visions involving the car They swirl in dizzy thoughts around my head...

Taking Chances

A doorway to where, a mystery to go A ready-made adventure and who’s to know What lies just beyond this, an unopened door I don’t know as I haven’t been there before...

Stolen by Time

If I could have one wish, just one, come true To relieve emptiness as I forget And to recall the day I first met you...

Not Quite Past It

Years go and sex becomes a passing thought Yet my heart skips when I feel your touch Are my senses acting in ways they ought....

Hell’s Kitchen

In the kitchens of hell the oven hid, Trembling with fear from the glowing furnace. Anger and rage were brewing under war's lid A storm stewing in the depths of darkness...

Good Without God

Does his soul still linger on the Beagle And does he still sail to far away isles Where scientific truth spoke on a finch’s beak As we look at religion with knowing smiles...

Miltonic Sonnet Notes

Created by: John MiltonStructure: QuatorzainMeter: decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: abbabbacdecde Example On His Blindness by John Milton When I consider how my light is spent,ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,And that one talent which is death to hideLodged with the useless, though my soul more bentto serve therewith my Maker, and …

Lust Undone

In the candlelit shadows of desire Our inhibitions cast into the fire...

Beneath the Tears

And you, my heart, do you still love me now Now I seem lost in depths of grief and pain And how the sad furrows across my brow...

Sailing Oceans

Remember how we fell in love, my dear, As sailing oceans to New York last year...

Love in Red and Gold

The honeymoon shine is faded in time And the dusky dawn hours of love have past This autumn of life we are in our prime...

Rising Up

While seeking pleasure beyond the mundane To rise above this, mortality’s plane...

Melenesian Sonnet Notes

Created by: Jose Rizal M ReyesStructure: Octave and sestetMeter: Decasyllabic LinesRhyme scheme: aabaaaba aababb Example A Simple Flash! By Larry Eberhart She thinks perhaps I dream of her at nightand miss her when she’s somewhere out of sight.She believes that somehow I deserve respectand am her thoughtful brave and charming knight.She thinks it’s fun to …

As You Lightly Go

As the autumn leaf that floats on past me Sacred waters must carry you away And there are no words left for me to say For now you must travel forever free...

Material Matters

A chaos flows in taffeta and silk The fabric cascading on chairs and floor In the sweetened hues of honey and milk...

Name of the Game

With counters chasing up the ladder stairs Only to stumble down to a snake’s tail Outside the rain falls with us unawares...

Marshalline Sonnet Notes

Created by: Marie MarshallStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Nine syllable linesRhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg Example Gatherings by Jez Farmer A musical march matches the gownBefore promises of wedded blissConfetti falls like a gentle downOn the embrace love’s first bridal kiss.New life held in arms given a nameInnocence before the joy of lifeNo …

Lazy Day Sonnet Notes

Created by: Rebecca KerrStructure: QuatorzainMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: aabbccdddeeeff Example Lazy Day Love by Jez Farmer A cautious heart treads the path of love slowWith doubts floating freely on the air flowAnd trust a distant hope far out of reachScepticism a rough and pebbled beachWithout the soft sand that so gently leadsThe soul away from …