Writers of sonnets often experiment with sonnet forms by changing the metrical or rhyme scheme to fit their needs. There are also a host of other sonnet forms uncommonly seen here!
sharing late night thoughts by Parsat, literature
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sharing late night thoughts
it's late at night, the spring of inspiration, and yet, instead of putting pens on papers we stay up late revealing hidden hearts— a guided tour through all the secret parts of young mistakes and misguided capers, and find in this a curious elation. I didn't think that it would be so soon, that I would bare the feelings I had spilled two months ago. but you were just so kind and lovely that I could not help but find a courage birthed from brimming overfilled with love dripped down from moon to moon to moon... our conversation done, it was too easy to write of buoyant joy so light and breezy.
I shall not forget the roads we walked before,
The seas we crossed, the mountains that we hurdled,
Heartbreaks and heartaches that reached down to the core,
Reunions set up that I boldly circled
On the calendar, whose pages fly
A flurry—month by month, and year by year.
The passing time has brought still more unknowns,
And with it opportunities to fear.
I miss you right down to my very bones,
Even the parts of you I couldn’t stand,
Even your harebrained ideas, since doubting you
And trusting you have always come hand in hand.
The safest comfort would not be as kind
As taking risks of faith with you in mind.
Too often have I named my muses far too soon
With spurts of slowly fading energy.
Though I resist, the tug I feel is like a moon
Which pulls yet harder at its perigee,
And while it orbits, still it waxes and it wanes,
Sometimes illuminated, shining bright,
And other times without a face. That darkness pains
Me, chills me with its lack of guiding light.
Sometimes I wish it would not shine again, because
When it grows full again its features change;
But lonely hearts cannot for too long take a pause
From feelings both familiar yet strange.
For me who needs a glow to be inspired,
Perhaps it's time I build myself a fire.
Fair mistress of the skies, demurely,
Oh how she hides her face from those
Who want no more than light, and truly,
A sweet release from dark. She goes
So thoughtless to the bereaved children
Of the light, and will not hear them,
She hides away in bitter gray,
Too long at night, so short a day.
Thus stolen by the southern weather;
We the northern pilgrims wait
And pray she will not tarry late,
For who in his right mind would rather
Choose to live without her light?
Now swift the morning, long the night.
RAIN GARDEN: double sonnet by Jade-Pandora, literature
Literature
RAIN GARDEN: double sonnet
The petals of her flowers blooming red
To show the depth of her undying gift.
As flowing silver rivulets ascend,
The ringlets of her tresses, breezes shift.
These flowers that are rare and seldom picked
Will bloom when each full moon is in its phase.
Its waxing dappled light among them mixed
That gives to them their eerie, ghostly haze.
Then waves of rushing showers' piercing flight
As clouds surround to summon thunder's clap.
Till once again returning comes the night
To hide away its plunder's seep and pap.
Embracing everything that rain adorns
Brings scent to stir a love she's always worn.
She runs her fingers thr
Like waking up, I wrote again—
Too dormant for too long, the ache
Was nothing new, still hard to take,
Still straining underneath the pen
To come awake to worlds of words,
Away from life and dreams and thought.
Those have no form, and I forgot
Their stranglehold through unseen cords.
Today, I set upon a quest
To find the muses I confessed
And inspirations that I left
Concealed within the cleft
Of mountains lying to the west,
Where last the weary sun had slept.
And here I stand on cliff's edge one last time.
Perhaps I leap; and yet perhaps I climb.
There's no more to be said for where I stand,
In solitude and guarded all around.
The very cosmos may well fill my hands
As I, the two-fold creature on the ground
Look up and see my choices through the storm
Not unaware that nature thrills my soul
As soul and matter touch, lovely and warm
Like trees aflame with God, remaining whole.
You cannot say the soul is all alone
And matter nothing; nor the other way.
For we with both must see and love the known,
Until in light of glory, we decay.
Annette {Soaring Sonnet} by LegolasPanther, literature
Literature
Annette {Soaring Sonnet}
Annette
(Soaring Sonnet)
Those iridescent blue eyes gleam
Opposing every surreal glare;
Her lean boughs reaching for my heart,
Yet distance seems we're lost in dreams.
And for how this grows, we're aware;
That only knowledge knows this start.
She is dark, wily entity
Who'll see beyond all your reasoning.
With all her wit, surreal; tempting
Accent, wrapping me in slowly.
To completely be weakening
My resolve. My own heart steady....
Yet weak I became, her presence,
To speak to her with acceptance...
Perhaps if you were distant from my heart—
A name, a face, a picture fixed in time—
I would not grant your words the precious part
They occupy within this mind of rhyme.
Like tendrils gently pushing through the ground,
Their tender kinks and their organic sprawl,
They would not stand beneath the wrath and sound
The critics of my art would scream and squall.
How strange that I am not the shelter but
The sheltered one; there's refuge in your word
And beating inspiration whole, uncut,
And made for me.
Perhaps your lines stand not to scrutiny,
But they are sweet and good to me indeed.
Unjust results for a great man by DonShugar, journal
Unjust results for a great man
Very few men of honor rise from bloodshed,
And even fewer who revere their foes.
Casting aside those who have been tainted,
Unworthy to look a man in the eye.
To praise his gaze and acknowledge his fear.
To see that all he desired was a chance.
A chance to grasp what is a right to all.
Face to face he stood with all that he willed.
Face to Face he stood with his salvation.
He knew not that he caused agony.
Tearing a distraught soul between two bonds,
And by agony's hand his time ended.
All in all it was but a tragedy.
Hatred consumed them and two fathers fell.
Tribute to William Cutting from Gangs of New York. (First blank ver