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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)?
Riddle - Mar 29I’m as a dare—If just you’ll come along,
and give my noble providence a shot,
seeing what boundless bounty might be got,
you’ll sing me a river, cry me a song.
So if you trust that I can do...
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sonnet, allegory, art, metaphor, muse,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Cheating Man(Inspired by Stevie Wonder’s “Part-time Lover”)
The cheating man believes he is so clever.
He makes up lame excuses to go and see
his mistress, yet he does not want to sever
his marriage, for no decency has he.
He...
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Categories:
men,
Form: Sonnet
The Kiss's ConfessionIf a lip could weave its own refrain,
It would drape itself; longing for delight,
A fleet strumming; a pair, in soothing rain,
World's lightening kept alive in one stolen night
It would sing of passionate...
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Categories:
deep, for her, for
Form: Sonnet
An Invitation to the DanceWe’re in the Souk in somewhere like Baghdad,
but not so land-locked. Tripoli, more like.
“He stole an apple – catch the little tyke!”
The hue and cry goes up. They chase the lad,
whose crime is hunger: look...
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Categories:
integrity,
Form: Sonnet
If God Was Human, Would He Murder, StealIf God was human, would He murder, steal
like us? Or would He lie, harm, and deprave,
drug-dealing deadly, fentanyl pain pills
for middle-class America's drug rave?
Do...
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Categories:
america, drug, god, islamic,
Form: Sonnet
Let then the winter of life rageLike late eve of a slowly dying year,
Yellowing leaves await when falling down,
Soon to get trodden when dried to dull brown,
A few still hanging on, life lived in fear,
I too, on...
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Categories:
life, love, old, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Discovering our true SelfTo invoke God’s grace, we slow down life’s pace,
that we may cognise each offered surprise,
beholding in wonderment bliss beats rise
in the cave of our heart, soul’s dwelling place.
On recognising life is not a race,
we distance...
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Categories:
sonnet, god, light, self, spiritual,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Heavenly Body - Mar 18-24I’ve seen it, late those myriad afternoons—
A twilight blush, first waiting patiently
to welcome back your scintillating beauty,
next succumbing to your mild midnight swoons;
Your sapphire eyes then gleamed as glowing moons—
Though here facing me, near enough...
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Categories:
crush, heart, longing, love,
Form: Sonnet
vibrant emptinesswhat will it be dear, our mind or the heart
heart’s the seat of soul and mind the ego
with which instrument do we wish to start
out of these two, one we’ll need to let go
no...
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Categories:
spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
The Great Gig in the SkyThe recent, decent, authorised remaster -
now deeper, fuller, meaningfully vaster,
it’s done its fifty years – this one’s a laster!
I don’t care if you’re reggaeton or Rasta,
you worship Satan, Seti, Zoroaster -
just play this baby for...
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Categories:
music,
Form: Sonnet
A prayer in the dusk
Rapt in thought she sits on the porch alone.
Tomorrow’s grey clouds occupy her mind.
She cannot shake the fear of the unknown,
as shadows lengthen, her heart feels confined.
A trill of a thrush echoed from the brush.
A...
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Categories:
hope, prayer,
Form: Sonnet
MOTHERS DAY CARDMorning starts early, before it gets light
Opening cupboards, to see what’s in store
Teachable moments, with wrong versus right
Hope grabs the car keys, then heads through the door
Early bird children, are making their way
Ready to take...
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Categories:
10th grade, children, morning,
Form: Sonnet
Feel the Merchant's Wrath
‘If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?
...
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Categories:
humor,
Form: Sonnet
My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun Sonnet 130My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.
Her skin's mahogany, not regal white.
She slaps on paints and fillers by the ton,
and has the dress sense of an anchorite.
Fastidious? Only in her...
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Categories:
how i feel,
Form: Sonnet
Prince of PeaceWhat I know of Jesus, I've only heard,
first, in childhood, when I was sent to church
where we were taught the Bible and the Word,
but that was not the source of my life's search.
A man of...
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Categories:
love, peace,
Form: Sonnet
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