sonnet

My Sonnet for Poetry Month

Apr 10, 2022

national poetry month, poetry

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Bright cold sun of April, the northwest winds whipping your cheeks red and spreading the first of the season’s pollen. Shock of yellow Daffodils holding on through sleet and snow cover reminders of the coming warmth. You pick handfuls of stems and spread them on the concrete leaving trails of green against the composite like…
Poetry Month: Sonnet

Apr 4, 2022

national poetry month, poetry, Prompts

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The elusive sonnet. Shakespearean, Petrarchan, traditional or modern, love them or hate them. There’s so much scholarship out there about sonnets, but my favorite is definitely Stephen Fry’s section on sonnets from The Ode Less Travelled. Learning about ancient metered poetic forms from a comedian really does it for me! Here’s an excerpt: So for…