Poetic Form 59: Sonnet

 

When I listen to the morning sunlight

slowly burn away night’s heavy covers,

I hear the soft voice of song birds in flight

singing in celebration to discover

all the ways to spend the minutes today.

Opportunities leading down the aisle

to our seat next to love, this life’s mainstay.

Moments, both joyful and heartbreaking, play

across our soul’s screen. Memories made when

we decide to walk through the front door to

sing with the birds, feel sunlight on our skin.

The day is new, let your goals follow through.

When I lay my head down as night falls,

I know tomorrow will start with dawn’s call.

Poetic Form #59: Sonnet

There are a few different types of sonnets that have evolved over time, but most sonnet

forms share these characteristics:

• Fourteen lines separated into four sections called quatrains.
• A strict rhyme scheme: As an example, a Shakespearean sonnet
• is ABAB / CDCD / EFEF / GG
• Written in iambic pentameter (but this is also an area that is changing -
• I tried, but my poem is not perfect).

Poetry Challenge Day 9: Ekphrastic

*The prompt today was to write an ekphrastic poem. Which is a poem inspired by a work of art: a painting, a sculpture, a photograph. Writer's Digest had five photographs we could use as inspiration for our poem. I decided to not have a visual connected to my post today to see if the poem would be enough for you to see the prompt in your mind.

Ekphrastic #5

I feel the darkness of doubt

Heavy on my shoulders

The bars keep the light of life

From my hands

My ambitions left in my pockets

Reduced to a few coins

Some lint and a candy wrapper

But I keep patting them hoping for more

Each day filled with regret

Of not finding a way out of this room

Of course I know that there is a door

I just can't see it (nor do I try)

Instead I watch the birds fly

From this simple square

Cut into the walls 

Of a room I built for myself