Sonnet #24 I like to walk on grass and boulevards Avoid the sidewalk, play outside the lines I like to look in people’s downturned eyes to hunt remains of gentleness turned hard I find my hope in primordial shards Remains of ancient liturgies of life with not a drop but just the stains of wine … More Sonnet #24
Sonnet #23: On the hunt for the muse #2 Rhyme Scheme: starts and ends with the same simple rhyme, but through the sonnet is transformed by other types of rhyming until it is unrecognizable from the first word, but eventually returns to the first rhyme. Basic Concept: as much as I seek transformation from my muse, … More Sonnet #23: The hunt for the muse part 2
Sonnet #22 On the illusive hunt for the muse, she appears romantically, and as poets we often create a world of deeper pain, tragedy, joy, and victory than really exists. We are all Walter Mittys chasing some Platonic ideal we believe to be more real than reality itself. O raven-haired with pouty smiling eyes I … More Sonnet #22 – on the illusive and often self indulgent hunt for the muse
Sonnet #21 O, I am trapped between the fool and monk and though I jump and laugh and reel, I am conservative though none would understand Instead like Christ, accused of being drunk Perhaps ’tis true that I am just a skunk Or could this reek of Death be a fragrance? the best of Aaron’s … More Sonnet #21: trapped between the fool and monk
Sonnet #20 O, I am caught between the monk and fool Am haunted by the clunk of lock and chain when holidays become privacy’s bane with ghosts in drag like Ebenezer’s ghouls the partied past does now seem faint and cruel Bedraggled mem’ries reread fade to grains of sand where gold light shines from trusted … More Sonnet #20: caught between the monk and fool
Sonnet #18: special thanks to Joy and Paul Burwell I once declared that God was funny and found evidence in large and distant lands I once declared that God was faithful then saw proof in faces Joy-full and well sent In common wisdom and in Pauline wit and generosity to match it I would sit … More Sonnet (with your name on it) #19: Joy and Paul Burwell
It has been at least a month since I’ve posted the sonnets I am writing. So, now I am catching up and will posting a number of them. This is for someone I really respect, and it shows in my glowing opinion of him in lyric. Sonnet #17: a sonnet with your name on it … More Sonnet (with your name on it) #17: Paul Senn
Phil Wyman 