Sonnet Poems | Sonnet Examples

It was a late night of the lively day, When I returned from the dance theater, ...

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Attached to outcomes, ego opaques light, radiance of our true Self, veiled by mind, demons of darkness, shrouding heart’s delight, thought tentacles gripping us in their bind. As both tormentor and the tormented, being both the subject and the object, we inhaled fragrance of love, bliss scented, causing boundless rapture to rise unchecked. Waking up in the dream by slowing thought, with ego exhumed,...

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The darkest hour comes with pain that's insane, Excruciating, unrelenting pain. The sobbing and gasping are so abrupt. The heart is broken; the body gives up. The darkest hour tries to take control, Searching through the suffering for the soul. Disillusioning evil tells a lie. “Death will set you free, so let yourself die.” Numbness begins to smother the feeling. The chaos of your...

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I was thinking this morning about spirit and inspiration. I think that they both reside inside, put there in our creation. One meaning of to inspire is to pass one’s spirit from within. It can then be passed on to another and doesn’t have an end. We cannot see the spirit or where the power lies, but it seems...

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The gunas three represent our soul’s modes, being darkness, desire and tranquil peace, each taking us along different roads, wherein the right choice secures soul’s release. It is not denied that we’ll oscillate but by making steady our heart’s resolve, ego spawned desires then no longer bait and holding God’s hand we slowly evolve. Whatever comes and goes is unreal, so sagacious souls...

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Beneath the GODFORSAKEN gate, the wind is low, It hums through iron teeth, a GROANING chord. The past returns in whispers cold and slow— A GHOSTLY dirge no mortal could afford. Its hinges hold the weight of GRAVE goodbyes, Where time forgets to heal the GRIEF-STRICKEN soul. Through GOSSAMER regrets, the daylight dies, And shadows learn to make the broken whole. No lock...

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A promise from God, his sign in the sky, Never again will all unjust men die. A rainbow appears as His sign to man, Water will not cover all of the earth’s land. He’ll not with water, wash all life from earth, Because of our sins or our lack of worth. He offers His gift of eternal life, And gives us the...

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after “Sonnet 73,” by William Shakespeare That time of thaw thou mayst in me perceive, When brittle ice lets go the buried root, And greening buds, too shy to disbelieve, Begin again in silence, soft and mute. I am not fire consumed by fading coals, Nor yellowed boughs that rattle in retreat— But breath returning gently to the roles Of things once paused...

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I don’t believe ideal love is real… Can castles in the sky be built to last eternities? Or rather burn, as fast as marriage papers (and melt the holy seal)? Besides, I hate to think I’m meant to steal the blueprint to a fortress from my past to use to plan my future, to forecast the whim of winds who caren’t...

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“One being freed from the grip of Ahamkara attains his unmanifest state like the spotless moon becoming full after eclipse.” ~ quote from the Adhyatma Upanishad thoughts seem to arise without volition but mindful eye traces heart as the source wherefrom vibrations emoted in morse seek from mind as symbols, their rendition desires of heart cause intent’s emission but is...

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What is the meaning of it all? If I told you, you’d surely bawl. Cry like a baby, yes you would, If all of truth you understood. Truth can be so enlightening, Also, can be quite frightening. For from the start, we’ve known it all. Our greatest challenge is recall. When recalled the truth is real, All empty spaces it will fill. We all were...

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“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson He can’t help feeling like he lives behind the gates of hell – a godforsaken place where ghostly thoughts inhabit his sad mind. Groaning, he envisions her smiling face. The specter of her will not go away. Grief-stricken since her passing, still he grieves. So difficult it’s been for...

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The world is bleeding, from the inside out, with a punctured heart ready to burst. Call Universal O- blood donors. They may be able to save the most first. A rain of tears cleanses streets from the red- stained, dripping sheet-shrouds oozing children's blood. While flesh is shredded from human bone by- natural forces of wind, earth, and flood. The world lies,...

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New Sonnet for Brian's contest. 1/7/25 ___________________________________ Still glowing brightly, is the colored moon, Wonderful perfumes drifting so sprightly, Excitement of surprises coming soon, Day's sun shining, still shimmering slightly. To know I am the answer. Feel what’s mine. In the pages of the almighty script, Threads of destiny weaved in every line, To feel all my desires so tightly gripped. Every bright...

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God, the Absolute is unknown to mind, yet since He alone is, the all there is, in staid silence, leaving concepts behind, feel the joy in our heart, as His bliss fizz. God is the all, so He must be within, so with thoughts rested, let’s shift to the heart, prayerfully merging, melding therein, led by love, sensing bliss ignition start. We see...

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