More of an effect than a set sonnet form the chained sonnet can be used with any sonnet variant the poet chooses. Each line begins with the last word of the preceding line. For a cyclic chained sonnet the last word of the last line should be the first word of the first line. Structure: … Continue reading Chained Sonnet Notes
Category: Sonnets
Hallucinations
Anguished winds driving through my dreams Like hurricanes and thunderstorms In flashing, surrealistic screams...
Curtal Sonnet Notes
Originally created by Gerard Manly Hopkins using his devised meter Sprung Rhythm sonnet purists would argue the Curtal Sonnet is not a true sonnet, nevertheless I shall include it in my notes as a valid sonnet form. The Curtal is a shortened, or curtailed sonnet, specifically referring to a sonnet composed of a sestet and … Continue reading Curtal Sonnet Notes
Countess Grief Sonnet Notes
Created by Jose Rizal M. ReyesMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterStructure: 3 quatrains and a coupletRhyme Scheme: abba cddc eefg gf Example: Necrosis by Jez Farmer The shimmery haze like buckets of mistReflect the heat against the dying grassAnd old man time must surely breathe his lastThere is no way out; no mystery twistUnheard warnings left all … Continue reading Countess Grief Sonnet Notes
Clare’s Sonnet Notes
Structure: Quatorzain of coupletsMeter: AnySchema: aabbccddeeffgg Example: Line by Line by Jez Farmer The soft touch of her lover’s lipsOn her skin his tongue slowly skipsHis hunger, her passion as oneDefining love’s erotic funWithout words, with a metered beatTheir verse inscribed in sexual feetA dance, a song, a poem foundShe drags her nails in the … Continue reading Clare’s Sonnet Notes
Avalon Calls
I gazed in awe upon the azure skies And watched the worlds above align for me The spirits wove on Earth where darkness lies...
Addressing Depression
I want to say the words I need to say Addressing the sadness deep inside me Not that it listens to me anyway...
Sweet Heart of Toxicity
‘Your heart is made of steel’ Yet I know I can feel Targeted words bring pain...
The Music Giggled
The cuffs hold her gently to hanging rings As melodies of love violins sing out. A lonesome flute joy to her senses brings...
Pride and Joy
Inside the walls, I want my place of peace Where stress departs and tensions simply cease When my long day’s done, and come to an end...
Pen and Ink
If only I had more time to just think Another day flies by and gone too fast Tomorrow the same, not hard to forecast...
Cross Sonnet Notes
Created by Victoria Sutton. The first four syllable of line #1, becomes the last four syllables of Line #4 in each of the quatrains. Cross Sonnet 1 Structure: 3 quatrains and a coupletMeter: Octosyllabic or tetrameterSchema: aabb ccdd eeff gg Example Silent Words by Jez Farmer Her eyes that speak of love’s desireEcho the music … Continue reading Cross Sonnet Notes
Just a Boy
Stood beneath the station clock I wait, Make-up fixed as my nerves start to tremble. Apprehension inside growing as I watch the gate...
Floating Words
I whisper my words on the rising breeze So they may float softly down to your ear Like delicate waves upon the calm seas...
Cornish Sonnet Notes
Historically, travellers were influencing the courts of Europe and introducing sonnet poetry to England, France, and Spain. At the same time in the south west of England traders were also introducing hybrid poetry influenced by Arab traders who plied their trade along the Mediterranean and the shores of Cornwall resulting in a fusion of the … Continue reading Cornish Sonnet Notes
Chivalric Sonnet Notes
Structure: 3 quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: xaxa xbxb xcxc dd Example: Down by the Stream by Jez Farmer Each night I walk past the tree-lined stream,And see the seasons flowing quickly by,The silver shards that moonlight leaves behind,Entwined with rusty gold of autumn's sigh.I sit and stare as if I'm lost in … Continue reading Chivalric Sonnet Notes
Tears to Cry
No one heard me when I whispered hold me Or how my body ached and throbbed with pain No brightly coloured blooms to comfort me...
Creative Healing
In those years, I kept my heart my heart cold No secrets shared and no love to behold With pain ripping my mind and soul in two...
Whispering Kisses
This modern life is a living in hell Automatic words no feelings dwell When love has no place left to simply be...
More or Less
The times that you and I are close and near Enough to feel the other’s heart mark time Our love fed and watered, trampled in grime...
Whistling Tracks
On those summer days, we used to sit there The old embankment by the railway line You and me absorbing the warm sunshine...
Captivation
Love, when you hold me my feelings run free Freely expressing what you mean to me Me and you entwined in that warm embrace...
The Coot
The rod leans on the slow afternoon light With its sparkling lure catching the sunshine And I drift in dreams waiting for a bite...
A Simple Touch
Awakening senses as fingers frolic Caressing the strands of your hair The awareness of love, of us as a pair...
Madame de Pompadour
Her needle moves in a motion of fine art A bourgeoisie lady in Versailles’ halls Stitches of colour passing the time...
Eyes of the Heart
The sun is moving in to shades of dusk My metered gaze seeks the universe in your eyes; the Spring turns to summery musk...
Capped Sonnet Notes
Structure: QuatorzainMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: xxxxxxxxxxxxaa Example Riding the Waves by Jez Farmer Cruelly torn from love’s tantalizing kissThe rage of passion burns beneath my skinIt feeds on pleasure gasping from your lipsAs my tongue flickers softly on your fleshI watch you writhing possessed by desireHow slow the touch comes when it’s all you needA … Continue reading Capped Sonnet Notes
Choi’s Sonnet Notes
Structure: 3 quatrains and a coupletMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: abab bbcc cdcd dd Example: Heat of the Moment by Jez Farmer I need to take you in my arms tonight,To hold you close and taste your lips on mine,And feel your sighs entwine with my delight,As passion wraps us up in honeyed wine.In this embrace … Continue reading Choi’s Sonnet Notes
An Empty Deck
On the dark stairs that lead to my despair Each step another broken love affair Now all I see is false promises made...
No Walkin’ On the Grass
The sign was clear, 'Do not walk on the grass,' still on that meadow of green we did play. You and me in moonlight having a gas...
An Open Book
There are no secrets between me and you My heart, body and soul open and true An open book, I have nothing to hide...
Canadian Sonnet (Italian) Notes
Structure: 2 quatrains and a sestetMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: abba cddc effegg Example: Phantasm by Jez Farmer The garden has lost its beautiful roseAnd so the sky has lost its brightest starAs this emptiness echoes near and farMy life without you; fear the worst of foesEchoes that speak only in evil dreamsTo open the weary … Continue reading Canadian Sonnet (Italian) Notes
Stretching Sand
A maiden’s eyes gaze out upon the sea Her wistful thoughts wander across the waves As her tawny hair curls on the night breeze...
Kiss of Peace
Through golden sunlight moves the humble slave To pluck the finest blooms from the garden Bright colours for the master’s bleak enclave...
Canadian Sonnet (English) Notes
Structure: 2 quatrains and 2 tripletsMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterSchema: abba bccb efg efg Example: Champagne Flute by Jez Farmer Two bubbles within the glass flute appearBoth born of wine to rise in time as oneFor destiny will never be outdoneAs streams of condensation swiftly clearIn icy cold sweetness we celebrateA joining the mystic eyes could … Continue reading Canadian Sonnet (English) Notes
A Battle with Bipolar
Silent, my heart alone in the realm of the dead; yet my fiery spirit still burns in its desire and pleasure of pure love...
After Lockdown
You ask me what is the first thing I want After lockdown when there is no saying can’t When the world is our oyster to explore...
Flames of Mourning
The sun light wraps mortal dreams to the ground And pale flames of mourning standing alone Alone in the dawn light where the moon drowned...
Reflections in Lockdown
My thoughts of love may seem in vein right now My empty bed holds no sense of that wow We share between the sheets as we drift to sleep...
Between Lives
Ancient soul echoes from a living world Where once my feet danced with the new born stars A child of the elements and the earth was new...
Firestarter
As we fight we both say things we regret, the words that cut in deep to each other. Our voices raised; suddenly we forget...
Trembling Thought
The cerements choke ideas within mind's spark As stifled thoughts conflict with ethics and truth A fight for freedom leaves emotions stark...
In the Heat of the Moment
While I hold on to your flesh my heart sighs And half the world disappears from my view But I see the universe in your eyes...
Break the Silence
Unspoken truth remains hidden and lost behind the locked door To drift and float deep within your heart and mind...
Great Falls
In the days of Jack and Jill when Humpty Dumpty had a fall All the king‘s horses tried and so did his men...
Everything Stops for Tea
The knife cuts through the segmented yellow Thin slices of citric drops weep on ice While floating on aromatic mellow...
The Wisdom of the Page
The page is where my words spill out my heart The love and pain of life falling apart Within the silence of my deepest thoughts...
Bygone Days
I want to be the one holding your hand While strolling along the summer night strand Just like they did then in those bygone days...
Tamed
I am aware of her eyes, they are watching, Why is she observing and why choose me? At her bidding, I am played and catching...
Each Day as It Comes
I don’t do pretty behind a fake mask No labels dictating the this and that The fakery deals now too much to ask...
