While seeking pleasure beyond the mundane To rise above this, mortality’s plane...
Rising Up
Category: Sonnets
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 … Continue reading Melenesian Sonnet Notes
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...
Another Balls-Up
A question briefly crossed my mind today The question no-one ever seems to ask And if they did then what is there to say...
Kiss Cross Sonnet Notes
Created by Jez Farmer. Kiss Cross Sonnet 1 Structure: 3 quatrains and a coupletMeter: Octosyllabic or tetrameterSchema: aabb ccdd eeff ggExtra parameter: Part of each first line of each quatrain is mirrored in the fourth line of each quatrain Example Loneliness In Love by Jez Farmer Loneliness appeared from nowhereMy heart lost, love a distant … Continue reading Kiss Cross Sonnet Notes
Love in Balance
There is no avoiding the mortal pain Of captivation within chains of love This life of you and I, there’s all to gain...
Sacred Love
Escape, there is never one to be found When love holds the heart captive in its grasp And, beloved, I make no protest nor sound....
Lazy Day Love
A cautious heart treads the path of love slow With doubts floating freely on the air flow And trust a distant hope far out of reach Scepticism a rough and pebbled beach...
La Germania Notes
Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: abba acca cddc dd Example Synchronicity by Jez Farmer Transcendental pleasure is ours to takeBeyond routine we seek our own desireAs our senses burn hot in passion’s fireNo loveless gratification to fakeIntense eyes darken as they feel desireExploring the wonder of … Continue reading La Germania Notes
Where Love Hides
A love I feel more than my words can bare This truth of my heart stays unseen by you My love you think not worth the time to share...
Synchronicity
Transcendental pleasure is ours to take Beyond routine we seek our own desire As our senses burn hot in passion’s fire No loveless gratification to fake Intense eyes darken as they feel desire...
Malayan Fireburst Notes
Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: aaba bbcb ccdc ddAdditional parameters: 3rd line in each quatrain must be feminine rhyme Example Remedial Action by Larry Eberhart Removed from urban crush his cabin sitsabove where finally the sagebrush quits.His land abuts a park that’s mostly forest.A stealthy … Continue reading Malayan Fireburst Notes
Loneliness In Love
Loneliness appeared from nowhere My heart lost, love a distant care I can’t sense your hand touching mine Feelings can’t weaken love divine...
Malayan Sonnet Notes
Structure: aaba bbcb ccdc ddMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: Three quatrains and a couplet Example Shamanic Rhythm by Jez Farmer Delicate feet dancing on the parched landWishful prayers summoned with opening handWith a soulful voice calling out for rainAs the summer burns the green grass to sand.Shamanic rite written in rhythmic strainCalling the divine to … Continue reading Malayan Sonnet Notes
One Loving Grace
Some hope for the joy of financial wealth But their money dreams do nothing for me It brings no pleasure nor does it bring health...
Heaven’s Stardust
I doubt you will begin to understand Just how much our love, your love, means to me And how much I need you at my right-hand...
Luzvimninda’s Sonnet Notes
Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Three quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: aaaa bbbb cccc dd Example My Lady by Jez Farmer She wanders through the living to find oneTo journey on beyond the worldly sunThe one whose mortal time has had its runAnd we fear her hand in the shades of … Continue reading Luzvimninda’s Sonnet Notes
Malayan Sonnet (Caudated) Notes
Malayan Sonnet (Caudated) NotesStructure: Five QuatrainsMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme scheme: aaba bbcb ccdc ddde eeff Example Clouds of Twilight by Jez Farmer The clouds of twilight reflect the sweet faceOf love; the smile that drives a heart with graceFor that smile is mine and it’s mine aloneAnd it reminds me of that sweet embrace.Dark passions … Continue reading Malayan Sonnet (Caudated) Notes
Wine Glasses
We’re sharing some wine in the late afternoon On the longest day while waiting for the moon The fruity grape as decadent as mid-June....
Tomorrow is Another Day
As daylight fades into the setting sun The sky shimmers and glows in vibrant hue A view of colours when the day is done...
My Radiant Queen
How I have loved her sweet moments of grace Her inherent beauty moon-kissed by love As her eyes mirror where the night stars trace...
Zafu Reflections
Igniting candles of reflection’s flame As scented curls of incense call my name...
Love and Time
Now time has turned my hair to silver grey And napping by the fire is being cool I’ll choose a book over the pub any day....
One Simple Thing
She is the beauty that brightens my soul Enchanting my heart with a gracious smile For she is the one that has made me whole...
The River
I watched the river in its drifty flow In its waters I saw the goddess go...
The Power Within
Where lies the power to conquer the dark When stars do not shine, the moon has no light And the thoughts of the mind are cold and stark In a lost world where is the hidden truth...
Sonnet to Grief
As time stands silent at the forest’s verge Alone where mysteries of love converge From the trees see melancholy emerge Its sweet song of love now a dismal dirge...
Call Me
What was that sound as you entered my life And oh how it echoed across that room As it cut the atmosphere like a knife...
The Place
The place to find that perfect sense of peace And too, it is the place to find pure joy Where loneliness and pain must truly cease...
Karma Kicks Ass
So sweet the harshness left on kiss-bruised lips Salivating the tongue with a desire Raising the draperies to passion’s fire...
Universal Language
I heard the music of love on that night As her pretty red lips brushed against mine And stories of desire came into sight...
The Last Love Song?
Like puddles of love the ink blots the page Among the poetic lines of word sounds The rovi sonnet ends to come of age...
Starting Over
To say good bye is hard to do When emptiness is all that waits The letting go to greet the new The unknown path entwined with fate...
Declarations of Night
In the cool silver light of lunar beams My thoughts wandering behind my closed eyes As the lady moon gently brings my dreams...
#Writephoto – Time for a Drink
She’s watching the gate with her eyes of brown Her patience absorbed in chewing of the cud But she is waiting this time no back down For freedom is flowing within her blood...
Ancient Lore
Our love’s stronger than those who loved before We are born of love older than we are Generations of love through us now roar...
Illini Sonnet Notes
Created by Nel ModglinStructure: QuatorzainMeter: Decasyllabic/Octsayllabic or pentameter/tetrameterSchema: abcabcdbcdecee.Additionally,L1,L4,L5,L8,L9 and L12 are tetrameter and L2,L3,L6,L7,L10,L11,L13 and L14 are pentameter. Example Bloody Admin by Jez Farmer The desk is lonely as dawn breaksAnd outside morning chorus how it singsIn the lazy rays of an early sunIn the kitchen coffee pot shakesIt’s that aroma of all thingsThat … Continue reading Illini Sonnet Notes
Kiwi Pause Notes
Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: QuatorzainMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: abbaccddeffegg Example Meter Matter by Lawrence Eberhart Constrained by form a sonnet forces rhymeAnd rhyme without some meter is bad verseLike Paul and Mary lacking Peter – worseDiscord will sometimes shout to me, ‘Watch out!’My deafness frequently obscures that shoutAnd bumps appear that other readers … Continue reading Kiwi Pause Notes
Freedom of Love
No angels wait in god’s heaven for me Nor do demons wait in a devil’s hell From that unholy torture I am free....
On Italian Shore
In clouds of topaz see the native girl She walks barefoot over the amber sands. Soft tendrils of auburn hair twist and curl...
Korean Sonnet Notes
Created by: Jose Rizal M. ReyesStructure: Sestet and OctaveMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: aaaaaa bbbbbbbb Example Azure Blue by Jez Farmer Cast the soul adrift upon the oceanAnd let it feel the waves of emotionAdrift but safe in a lover’s devotionWhere just one kiss can cause a commotionOr as calming as a soothing lotionFor each wave … Continue reading Korean Sonnet Notes
Breeze Whispers
She gave me a reason down by the sea So long ago like a whispering breeze I can hardly hear what she said to me...
Bloody Admin
The desk is lonely as dawn breaks And outside morning chorus how it sings In the lazy rays of an early sun....
La Cheminée
In summer sun the grate lies cold No embers left to warm the night Yet summer blooms beauty behold....
Crushing Love
I once fell in love when I was a child Unrequited love, she never saw me I was just a kid, spirited and wild...
Abertawe
So many years have gone on by the by Since we watched the ships going out to sea And I watch them now, a tear in my eye...
Daily Bread
A grain to grace the farmer’s field An ocean of green on a breeze It waves gently between the weald...
The Tuna Fish
Recalling old days, the Sunday market You and me strolling the stalls, hand in hand Picking up Sunday lunch, should we forget.
