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One Cause Alone: envelope sonnet
One cause alone cannot sustain our reason. Quite surely in one lifetime are enough good reasons to press on; that is the stuff of all our myths and legends, in their season. Besides, one grows and passes out of childhood; … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, causes, envelope sonnet, justification, poetic forms, sonnet, stamina, sustainability
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Causes Worth Fighting: Petrarchan sonnet
We each must choose the causes worth our fighting from a great myriad of pointless quests designed to breed confusion in our breasts and keep the fuse inside us from igniting. The frivolous is made to seem exciting; it titillates … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, belonging, choices, illusion, life, Petrarchan sonnet, poetic forms, sonnet
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Both Kinds of Good
It should be said (at least one time in jest) that in the world exist two kinds of good to separate what matters from the rest, for use by some discerning soul who could in keening the true nature of … Continue reading
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Tagged balance, blame, daily poems, evil, good, hidden essence, nature, sonnet
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Cannon Fodder
When all else fails (and at some point it will), so all that’s left to us is simply talk, the victors will be those with basic skills for making idle words seem like a walk through all the rhetoric and … Continue reading
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Tagged attention, daily poems, fatalism, history, nonsense, poetic forms, rhetoric, sonnet
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The Owl (Cailleach-Odiche)
Late at night, strange cries break through the vale, And in that echo, the soft beat of wings; A messenger from far beyond the pale, His lesson in the warning that he brings. With glowing eyes he peers through our … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Worthington, Druid Animal Oracle, Druid Animal Sonnets, owl, Phillip Carr-Gomm, sonnet
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Natural Blues: a blues sonnet
Every fire begins with just a spark. Yes, every fire it starts with just a spark; comes out of nothing, somewhere in the dark. Every morning starts before the dawn. Each morning has its start long before dawn; it stops its sleeping, has to ramble on. Continue reading
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Tagged blues, blues sonnet, nature, poetic forms, sonnet, storms, tornados
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