Sonnets Here, In-House

At last, the Sonneteer strikes again
--with a new sonnet, for AMDD97!!


A Navy daughter, known as Annemarie:
This rings with hauntingly familiar tones!
My Annemarie went with her Mom and me
Through Navy moves to five successive homes.

Like you, young Annemarie, my daughter bore
Mistreatment from schoolkids who had no brains.
But as a mother like her Mom before,
She seems to be no worse for all those pains.

If we are not destroyed, we are made strong:
So goes the saying--may you find it true!
Refine your talents as time plods along,
And hopefully there'll be a niche for you.

Right now, relax and watch a baseball game,
While I say, "Cool, she's got my daughter's name!"
 
For Lila

A thrift-store volunteer at age sixteen,
Who's been to Disney World and been amused,
Came recently into a darker scene,
By learning of someone who'd been abused.

The former victim was another lass,
Close to herself in age--but different
In life-experience; for in the past,
Before a merciful adoption lent

Safe haven, this girl whom our young friend met
Had suffered cruelty. So it became
The task of Lila to help her forget
The horrors, and to light a hopeful flame.

God bless you, Lila, in activities
Which bring God's mercy to "the least of these."
 
Copperfox, that was so beautiful!! I feel so honored to have been written about by one of TDL's most talented authors :) And I am so appreciative of your inclusion of my new friend!
 
I haven't been on this thread for a while, but I enjoyed the latest sonnets. I liked Mercia's poem in French, and especially loved the beginning line (the English translation was equally good):

Quelque part loin de ces terres

Poésie merveilleuse!
 
I need a new sonnet on here. So I'll cheat a little. There is a woman from the Renaissance Festival who pretends to be a savage tribeswoman, but who in real life is--a highschool English teacher! I wrote the following sonnet in her honor. No, she is not a romantic target for me, I simply wrote this to cheer her up.....


For The Barbarian English Teacher


Surrounded with machismo that's assumed
For fun, and only fun, by rugged friends,
You might forget awhile that you are doomed
Once more to see the realm of modern trends.

But into highschool dungeons you must go,
Where geeky boys pretend they're oversexed,
And kids who don't know Shakespeare or Thoreau
Know cool abbreviations when they text.

I wonder what approach, what spell or trick,
You use to kindle a desire to read?
You must have methods, be they dry or slick,
So young barbarians will see their need

For something loftier than hormones' tide;
I wish you all success as their true guide.
 
To A Young Lady, Since Her
Boyfriend Broke Up With Her


"Seek first God's Kingdom, and His righteousness"--
These words, I know, sound hollow at the peak
Of disappointment, when the sweet caress
We hoped for is removed; what then to seek?

The Savior does not literally touch
You with a lover's arms of flesh and bone;
His words thus may not seem to count for much
When you're abandoned, cast adrift, alone.

But it was He who made you capable
Of love in the first place; please trust Him here.
That boyfriend's worth may be debatable,
But I know Christ is perfectly sincere.

Your hands cannot yet touch the King of Kings,
But He will lead you into better things.
 
Thank you, Daughter. Have you ever attempted writing in the exact sonnet form? If so, or if you feel like trying it now for the first time, I invite you to use this thread.
 
A poem either is or isn't a sonnet; there's no such thing as "sort of" being a sonnet. It's fourteen lines in iambic pentameter. But I wouldn't mind if you wanted to write ANY kind of poem on my thread; other non-sonnets have "guested" here before this. Or, now that you have the seniority to create new topics, there's nothing to prevent you from starting your very own poetry thread. (I do not recommend a separate thread for each separate poem you write; keep them together, accessible for the growing readership you will collect with time.)
 
Poems and sonnets are pretty much completely different. Poems can be short, long, rhyming, non-rhyming, etc. I don't usually write sonnets, I more often write poems, because they seem easier for me. I can write them better than I can sonnets.
 
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