The Sonnet Board http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/directory en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:37:24 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/directory Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ The Gods of Bounds and Buses, Have They Fled? ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7259/t/The-Gods-of-Bounds-and-Buses-Have-They-Fled-.html The Gods of Bounds and Buses, Have They Fled? 1.

The penis is inflatable. Life sucks
at balanced acts. With dull abhorred shears
dumb fate rolled over Jack, all of three years.
His terminus? A Coachman Super Lux.
Sir Mick, aged 64, of eight chateaus
and 14,000 mistresses (last count),
surveyed the tiny form in fresh repose
laid-out, unsexed,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (normball) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7259 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:37:24 GMT <![CDATA[ Mob Mobius ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7257/t/Mob-Mobius.html They cast the families now. Today's made men
are half-made-up to mock a way-back-when
no one can hold a camera to. One leg
outside the frame, another trying to peg
Pacino's backslide in Carlito's Way.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (normball) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7257 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:53:18 GMT <![CDATA[ ...given for a cover... ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7256/t/-given-for-a-cover-.html ...given for a cover...

I watch each hairpin fall
and think, she needs no other.
I wish she'd dress herself
in hair and let it flow
around her - all her wealth
cascading freely down.
I love the subtle slide
past skin, the brush of sound,
the weightless swirl through air -
the glint of gold in brown,
"I love your hair," I say,
but she just smiles and braids
it tight and pins it up
against the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Celimlodyn) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7256 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:45:10 GMT <![CDATA[ Sonnetocracy ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7255/t/Sonnetocracy.html One man, one note. Let meter be thy guide.
The times require no less. Treat formal style
as antidote. Rank freedom must subside
or else the rabble's babble will defile
deliberative craft. All spoken streams,
crude-fashioned from the streets, are best put down
to ignorance. Although the beggar dreams... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (normball) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7255 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:42:06 GMT <![CDATA[ American Literature Assignment ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7254/t/American-Literature-Assignment.html
The Deer Hunt

Oh great creature in the woods,
I dedicate this ode on your behalf.
I know that you among the hunters... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (mattf) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7254 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:18:33 GMT <![CDATA[ Juliet ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7253/t/Juliet.html

Juliet (Revised)

You question love, and so inspire, that I

http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7253 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:59:26 GMT <![CDATA[ Edge of the World ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7252/t/Edge-of-the-World.html At times the world revolves on an abyss
so compassing, old sailors dab their brows
and curse the interregnum through the mist.
Safe passage earns a keep where captains house
the spoils. Their galleons brim with Aztec gold
feeds@yuku.com (normball) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7252 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:58:53 GMT <![CDATA[ Challenge: Set the Table ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7251/t/Challenge-Set-the-Table.html Guests are coming, the invited, the uninvited... What's for dinner?

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mike Alexander) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7251 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:45:57 GMT <![CDATA[ Oh No! A Sonnet About Sonnets! ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7250/t/Oh-No-A-Sonnet-About-Sonnets-.html A metaphor? Try angel in the stone.
(For movie buffs, think Crash meets Home Alone.)
This blockhead, paper, primed for chiseled face,
regards me back: "Hey Bub, best to deface
with Dry-erase. I've seen your crumpled work."
[White-out] My angel either flits away... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (normball) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7250 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:57:50 GMT <![CDATA[ Lines for an Old Man ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7249/t/Lines-for-an-Old-Man.html

Lines for an Old Man

by TS Eliot

The tiger in the tiger-pit
Is not more irritable than I.
The whipping tail is not more still
Than when I smell the enemy
Writhing in the essential blood
Or dangling from the friendly tree.
When I lay bare the tooth of wit
The hissing over the arched tongue
Is more affectionate than hate,
More bitter than the love of youth,
And inaccessible by... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rob Godfrey) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7249 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:31:13 GMT <![CDATA[ Boy in the Restaurant ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7248/t/Boy-in-the-Restaurant.html Boy in the Restaurant

His face ground like a winding clock,
a timing chain his clicking teeth.
His stare lay heavy as a rock
and things turned slowly underneath.

He locked his eyes and took me in,
mechanical and unimpressed.
The contours of his clacking grin
and disengagement coalesced

to etch a Buddha in the rain,
the quintessential human being.
He held the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rick Mullin) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7248 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:23:07 GMT <![CDATA[ Poery boards: on-the-fly revision ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7247/t/Poery-boards-on-the-fly-revision.html
Having come back, to dip my toe in the water, there are a number of observations I could make. However, I'll stick to just one rant for now:

It's this idiotic thing, which now seems to permeate many boards, that you have to immediately revise your pome, there in the thread, as some kind of admittance that you're workshopping a poem; to give everyone the feel-good factor.

Many times these... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rob Godfrey) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7247 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:56:40 GMT <![CDATA[ Thomas Newton's Magnum Opus: Intelligent Design ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7246/t/Thomas-Newton-39-s-Magnum-Opus-Intelligent-Design.html
INTELLIGENT DESIGN

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.--GEN 1:1

Nature, bright effluence of the One Supreme! / O how connected is thy wondrous frame!
--Henry Brook (1706-1783), Universal Beauty, Book II lines 261and 262

Now that we know that every key relationship in the universe is based on six numbers...and that there would be no life and no universe as we know it if any one of these six numbers was... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Thomas Newton) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7246 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:52:12 GMT <![CDATA[ Gleaning ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7245/t/Gleaning.html New L9 again:

Gleaning

A mob of surly crows surveys a field
where bristled stalks flush amber with the sundown.
Because the land has given up its yield,

scoured of all but scattered orts and burrs,
the crows aren't worth the time or shot to gun down.

Beyond the slowing creek that twines through... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (NAF) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7245 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:42:10 GMT <![CDATA[ MODERN METRICS PRESS HAS BECOME EXOT BOOKS ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7244/t/MODERN-METRICS-PRESS-HAS-BECOME-EXOT-BOOKS.html I am pleased to announce that the transmutation of MODERN METRICS PRESS press into EXOT BOOKS is complete.

All Modern Metrics titles will continue to be distributed by EXOT BOOKS, including our latest release WE INTERNET IN DIFFERENT VOICES by Mike Alexander. Beginning in 2010, with new chapbooks... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (R Nemo Hill) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7244 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:58:07 GMT <![CDATA[ My first sonnet - "work in progress" ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7243/t/My-first-sonnet-quot-work-in-progress-quot-.html Sonnet 1 - work in progress

We fill our little daily lives with jobs

and lists of lists of mindless tasks

feeds@yuku.com (mrstephen) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7243 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:40:04 GMT <![CDATA[ Calling a spud a spud. ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7242/t/Calling-a-spud-a-spud-.html feeds@yuku.com (Mike Alexander) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7242 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:08:03 GMT <![CDATA[ Sand Castles ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7241/t/Sand-Castles.html Sand Castles

Wet sand, it sticks between cold toes
where mounds display so many flags.
Their shells are slippery and rank
in paradise there is no smell,
just masks without expression.

I'll make a castle to keep out the waves
a lovely home for the crabs and mermaids

We lay foundations over death,
our hopes are built on fertile land.
The sea is rich beneath the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rob Godfrey) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7241 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:28:21 GMT <![CDATA[ IV ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7240/t/IV.html
Could you help me with this sonnet? I know that it has problems with rhythm, line 8 is too long, and the images are trite. But I think I owe it to a very dear friend to keep working at it and see if I can make something out of it.

Thanks!




I've shed my tears, my dear, and wiped my eyes
And I've no doubt that more will come in time.
Yet days like these belie those heavy sighs,
And echo the lightness that once was mine.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Harriet) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7240 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:06:57 GMT