Categories
Random Posts
- Winding Down: diminishing verseOh, that brave actions would outstrip my idle thoughts on this strange trip and rend this silence, letting rip against those fears none understand; and …
- Addled Essence“The problem,” he said, “with making life so easy, particularly for the young adult, is two-fold. First, a life of leisure without significant responsibility or …
- FamilySometimes, it’s hard to exactly define the difference in density of blood and water; often, it is a blurred line that wends its way through …
- Winding Down: diminishing verse
Recent Comments
- Irene on Some ancient affirmations
- Rekha on No More Sad Weepings of Regret
- Novena on Wake Up: sonetto rispetto
- John on On the Veranda: serenade
Subscribe
Join 298 other subscribersMeta
Tag Archives: redemption
Not So Simple: heroic sonnet
How simple it seems to be born again: to never reach the stage of an adult, but each time that you feel a growing pain, to plead no contest and avoid the fault, accepting being only just a child with … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged #BookofForms, adulthood, childhood, heroic sonnet, heroic stanza, poetic forms, redemption, responsibility, Sicilian octave, Sicilian quatrain
Leave a comment
Iambs and Trochees
IAMBICS: Until the world returns to sane, I will not fail to write. These words, though just small things, can burst through walls; there must be words of peace. Inside my head the world is pure, and thoughts, like rain … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged conviction, exercises, iambs, meter, poetics, poetry, redemption, trochaic, war, writing
Leave a comment