Sonnet Poems | Sonnet Examples

Elusive, quick, a wisp of spectral smoke, you, as a twinge that flickers in the eye, haunt the corners of sight; you mystify perception—such the awe you so evoke. Arcane, abstruse, veiled in a phantom cloak, you, as a fleeting shadow passing by, confuse the intellect; you do defy detection—all instincts you ill provoke. In those moments, when(briefly)you appear as a...

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How fortunate that I, correctly versed, knew hand-grenades are passive. At their worst, they maim and kill. But this is interspersed with usefulness: defenders have no thirst for carnage. Since the enemy had first used violence, they had to be dispersed. It fell to me. How often I’d rehearsed in nightmares what came next, how often nursed this killer in my hands. Like...

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The sparring mind requires a venue fit for wide ambition’s pointed blade—the craze of poignant poetry’s unbridled wit.— Masked)by the wily writer’s wire-meshed gaze, the soul unleashes on the stage of writ a flurry of pen strokes, a wanton blaze of mangled meanings, aiming now to split— —to split the atmosphere in half…for praise! Ah—perhaps, in this contest of our wills, I...

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Divorced from our true self, we wandered lost, oblivious to truth of our being, looming head-heart divide yet to be crossed, with whispers of conscience disagreeing. Trapped thus in a web of desire and fear, joy in permanence soul sought was denied, since ego let not love and light draw near, deeming our waywardness as justified. God, the dweller of our heart was...

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"Faith and Fireworks: Cinco’s Call to Remember" (A Linking Pin Sonnet in Spence Format – Celebratory & Historical) Remember the cry, the cause, the stand, Stand for the faith that defended the land. Land once trembling rose firm and proud, Proud were the voices chanting aloud. Aloud rang truth through valley and hill, Hill of defiance, God’s sovereign will. Will of the people,...

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She, who had seemed my sun some bygone time, feels now much icier than even far forsaken pluto’s sunless hemisphere. Please! reckless Universe! enable rhyme to unriddle unreason’s paradigm! —The frozen side of the sun!—What bizarre world bears such contradiction? Bringing near fire and frost? both deform eachother’s frame! And so: she never was my flame—nor now my glacial...

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You, strong sun that soars, crumbles down tonight, A stormy day arrives at your bright face, The sunny rays are nowhere in my sight, A gust of silent air consumes the space. No light shines in this room. Forever drain, The world cools when the sun is blocked by guise, Your clouds cry and pour and...

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Divided, sundered, separated, we Inhabit some place south of “what a shame”. Vicariously, vodka got the blame; Opinionated arrogance? Scot free! Recalcitrant? On that we can agree. ‘Comportment unbecoming’ means the same; Establishing the language aids the game, And if we are in perpetuity Beholden to each other (and we are!), Suppose we both ignore the papers signed. Ostensibly, you’re free to use the...

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Crick, Crack,Pop!,—“Ow!”, ach… won’t my joints of ache never relent? The tension—every move— with each attempt to loose—a rigid groove— my muscles,—all efforts to simply break the pressure,—ayayaye,so,taut—,to shake free my body, to feel the strain improve, I’ve tried to stretch myself so to remove the overwhelming cramps and pangs, which rake my shambling corpse.—But ill I...

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I chose you on that quiet, fateful day, A decision that would forever change my life. We stuck together through every feeling of dismay, Creating a bond, founded through shared strife. You knew my moves before I gave the call, We carved our path until every badge was won. And though new challenges came, and the team grew tall, You stayed the...

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grazed by spirit, our form is magnetised we vividly sense our aura expand the stillness point within is realised soundless thunder mind cannot understand bliss rises from a centreless fulcrum each node the epicentre of this storm rapture renews gong of the cosmic drum our pristine presence chooses to conform a disc of light above our crown rotates the staff of power within...

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A slivered moon is looming peacefully above the pristine glow of golden dusk, bathing in a navy sky,—me?, I bask in her gush of seraphic majesty. A careful look, cast in serenity, reveals the silent shadow of her disk; the sunless face wears a dark veil. Her mask gazes upon me,—in return, I see the full splendor of her...

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Graced to Serve Graced by Your light, I rise to humbly praise, Placed in Your care, my heart begins to sing, Faced with Your love, my soul forever stays, Embraced by grace, new strength You daily bring. Chased from despair, Your mercy lights my way, Based on Your truth, my path...

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Separation Day: From Ashes to Unity Upon this day, the third day of May, hills recall their pain, When flames and fury swept across the land, Yet through the smoke, our prayers did remain - A hope for peace that violence could not brand. The morning’s grief, the silence of the fields, ...

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That age brings wisdom, mainly aged say, And yet, there comes a calm as passion dies; And as a poet said another day, The old, as good for nothing else, be wise. What would I wish a younger me had known? An honesty of purpose, without fear; The time is short, before from life we're thrown; Seek then a steady star, and...

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