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A sonnet is a form of lyric poem made popular by poets such as William Shakespeare. Sonnets consist of 14 lines that usually have one or more conventional rhyme schemes, but there is more to a sonnet. What is sonnet in poetry (complete definition)?
Bath TimeWith dirt on their knees and sand in their hair
Inside they march with a song and a laugh,
Tub toys await but they must learn to share
The two little boys prepare for a bath.
A little shampoo,...
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Categories:
brother, childhood, dad,
Form: Sonnet
Upon My Head"So, he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. Then Elijah passed by him and threw...
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Categories:
in memoriam, poetess, spoken
Form: Sonnet
SonnetSonnet
From far, back I have come
To their surprise, I brought a dove,
Happy they were, everyone at home,
And a nest they weaved for her, what a love!
My brother, a smith, made her a...
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Categories:
12th grade,
Form: Sonnet
The RouteRight now I’ve still got all this fight in me,
even as I wage war with bulletproof;
I’m ready sucker punch for the knockout;
Enemies try but just fall short daily,
hardwired sarcasm explodes with a poof;
This was never...
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Categories:
sonnet, anger, emotions, feelings,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Dreams Within DreamsTo find dreams in dreams of the subconscious
where reverie in the mind finds changes
this sensory realm often feels spacious
in the fleeting illusions through its mazes
perhaps perception is more purposeful
when we wander through dreams unrecognized
searching for...
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Categories:
dream,
Form: Sonnet
My selfish GriefSo then, my grief, what do you want of me?
To give my self up to your black despair?
Or hide away from all those memories
that leap from every corner of this fair
but heartbroken home we...
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Categories:
death, family,
Form: Sonnet
A Sob For Truth
The world is dying, yet the quietness develops,
As shadows shroud the cries underneath the stone.
Where when we discussed harmony, presently nobody knows,
The reverberations suffocated by voices, lost and solitary.
Underneath the heaviness of despots' iron hands,
The...
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Categories:
cry, future, world,
Form: Sonnet
FishingOld man and young man, and a little boy,
Three generations in a small canoe.
One is really bored, one is filled with joy,
The third is somewhere in between the two.
Sunlight is flashing from rippled water.
Somewhere beneath,...
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Categories:
relationship,
Form: Sonnet
Familiar journeyMan strives so hard, for what precisely?
To live a good life, and die afterwards,
What an Irony.
Man wants to survive for what precisely
To hope that someday a dream would be valid
But today I understood...
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Categories:
age, change, death, destiny,
Form: Sonnet
a portrait of a family at a dinner tableFather is dressed in grim face and a white shirt,
His unfriendly face could win the heart of Hitler –
mother combed her hair this time
and her deep brown eyes carries heavy love for her family.
in the...
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Categories:
abuse, grief,
Form: Sonnet
a modern girl’s delay(a disastrous morning Sonnet)
I am the very model of a girl who’s late for morning meal,
my charger failed, the printer jammed, the morning’s start has been surreal
I lost a scrunchy and a shoe, I had...
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Categories:
angst, emotions, endurance, humor,
Form: Sonnet
Hawking HandsHuman hands and hawks have worked well together
Five thousand year record for falconry
An eternal bond of flesh and feather
Shows us how epic hawk hunting can be
As raptors light upon a gloved fist
Freed from handler's hoods...
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Categories:
animal, appreciation, bird, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Ways Of The WorldShadow black blood floods flow silently wailing in whirlpools
Volcanoes of endless enmity erupt with vengeance.
It's not humanness. Here, the mores of 'might is right' rules
Against routing quagmires, lotus buds fight for transcendence.
We shake hands like...
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Categories:
life, world,
Form: Sonnet
I breathe blissI breathe bliss, borne by divine magnetism
and as is with me, the same is with you
but due to head-heart chasm in body prism,
these sublime mists are felt by but a few.
I stand erect, as...
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Categories:
god, joy, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Eternal Love's CanvasWhen in your eyes my heart finds sacred fire,
Every beat, a love-etching that never tires.
Your laughter, music that my soul desires,
Melting fears, and soothing life's darkest fires.
Your touch, a flame that burns with endless might,
Midnight...
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Categories:
africa, desire, first love,
Form: Sonnet
Specific Types of Sonnet Poems
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