Not Sonnets Archive 2 http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/forums/16 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:15:10 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/forums/16 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[ Circle of Glory ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5789/t/Circle-of-Glory.html feeds@yuku.com (Katina B) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5789 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:19:57 GMT <![CDATA[ The Room ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5788/t/The-Room.html
]]> feeds@yuku.com (Katina B) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5788 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:24:23 GMT <![CDATA[ La vraie vie ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5791/t/La-vraie-vie.html La vraie vie est absente,
The real life is dead & gone,
or perhaps the penitent
by this sad confession
had really only meant
her former life was done,
or maybe her misgiving
lay in not truly living.

The foolish virgin wept
of the infernal groom
who'd evidently swept
her off. Regrets consume
her. Had she only kept
cloistered inside her room
her heart would not be truant,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mike Alexander) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5791 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:31:39 GMT <![CDATA[ My favourite verses ))) ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5797/t/My-favourite-verses-.html
And listen to me while I lay my problem out:

My love affair is on the rocks<a href=http://www.cheapcigarettes4all.com>,</a> Barbie and I had a spout.



Barbie quarreled about Labatts<a href=http://www.discountcard-shop.com>,</a> we fought about Bud lite;

She says the brew makes of me such an... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5797 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:36:23 GMT <![CDATA[ BEAUTY AND THE BEAST ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5793/t/BEAUTY-AND-THE-BEAST.html
What made you think I'd marry such a nerd?
I can't believe the way the rumor spread.
It must have been some fairy tale you heard.

He never shaved. I swear, the guy looked furred.
His hair stuck out real funny from his head.
What made you think I'd marry such a nerd?

He often growled at me and sometimes purred
almost as if he were a quadriped.
Was it some fairy tale, or have you heard

that story from a little cuckoo... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5793 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:57:41 GMT <![CDATA[ Some double-dactyls ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5796/t/Some-double-dactyls.html Oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa,
Who wrote "Die Fledermaus"?
Johann Somebody-or-
Other, it was.

Bach composed liturgies,
Brahms composed rhapsodies.
Musta been Strauss who wrote
Those oom-pa-pas.

(2)
Hippity hoppity,
Little Sue Daugherty,
Off to see Grandmama,
Meets you-know-who.

Lands a karate chop,
Watches his body droip.
Little Red Riding Hood
Isn't for Sue.

(3)
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Three hundred... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5796 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:54:30 GMT <![CDATA[ THE CHEERFUL EXECUTIONER ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5799/t/THE-CHEERFUL-EXECUTIONER.html

THE CHEERFUL EXECUTIONER

The cheerful executioner
performs without a fee.
His cold cut slicer, as it were,
he wields with grisly glee.

He keeps his blade in good repair
and stores it in a shed,
and when he parts somebody's hair
he gets to keep the head.

He's democratic, first and last,
and decent to the max.
He doesn't bow to class or caste
but gives them all the axe.

He's been... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5799 Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:56:10 GMT <![CDATA[ Each Night I'm Closer ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5801/t/Each-Night-I-m-Closer.html








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]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jankiewicz) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5801 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:43:30 GMT <![CDATA[ The Loneliest Man (final) ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5798/t/The-Loneliest-Man-final-.html

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]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jankiewicz) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5798 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:40:59 GMT <![CDATA[ Limerick ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5805/t/Limerick.html Poured LSD over his hominy.
His tombstone is pretty--
The best in the city--
And they even spelled out Anno Domini.

Margaret ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5805 Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:32:56 GMT <![CDATA[ Two villanelles ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5804/t/Two-villanelles.html
A SNEEZE UNSNEEZED

A sneeze unsneezed refuses to retreat
to its uneasy origin with east.
It will not leave its mission incomplete.

Challenged, it... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5804 Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:44:49 GMT <![CDATA[ Enemies (revised) ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5792/t/Enemies-revised-.html
Some days, between the paper and the news
That blares from televisions every night,
The color codes and charts, the shows of might
In thirty-second sound-bites, you could swear
That youd done something violent to abuse
Somebody you dont know. In fetid air
Pervading mildewed tunnels, figures meet
With lined, exotic faces, and they scheme
Against the nations smug, suburban dream
For shady reasons spat in a foreign tongue.
The rumors rise... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Quincy R Lehr) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5792 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:07:31 GMT <![CDATA[ Portrait of an Artist as a Young Revolutionary ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5803/t/Portrait-of-an-Artist-as-a-Young-Revolutionary.html Portrait of an Artist as a Young Revolutionary

He's Che Guevara
underneath his red beret,
he's Leon Trotsky
with his belly full of bagels,

this man, this very
sensitive man, so finely bred
on Marx and Marcuse,
who sits over cups of steaming

cappuccino,
butt-hole tight from doing... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Jankiewicz) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5803 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:43:57 GMT <![CDATA[ THE RUSSIAN WITH THE CELLO ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5807/t/THE-RUSSIAN-WITH-THE-CELLO.html
The concertmaster rises on the stage
and tucks his violin beneath his chin.
He sounds an A: the instruments engage,
and then the suave conductor saunters in.
He lifts his slim baton, and they begin
a Dvork overture, I think: Othello.
My husband whispers that the reeds sound thin.
Im staring at the Russian with the cello.

Its taken nearly half our weekly wage
to get some halfway decent seats, but then
my husband says... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5807 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:42:55 GMT <![CDATA[ In Praise of Golddiggers ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5800/t/In-Praise-of-Golddiggers.html For Margaret

The years will strip away the qualities
that women look for when youre pitching woo:
The confidence to put a girl at ease,
your jawline and ability to chew
the fat -- your teeth becoming far and few.
But why accept the truths of growing old,
when youth is something that you can renew?
The pretty girls will dig you for your gold.

Why be content with cooling memories
of romance? Spend... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Stephen C Scaer) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5800 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:16:03 GMT <![CDATA[ LEST WE FORGET OUR GRIEF ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5808/t/LEST-WE-FORGET-OUR-GRIEF.html
I wrote this in 1999. I have never done anything with it. I will appreciate any suggestions or comments:

LEST WE FORGET OUR GRIEF

Death works its blackmail on those yet to die.
We are ashamed of living, hanging on
to that milieu from which a light has gone.
Life is a liability, a lie
that must loom visible with each new schism.
Quickly we... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5808 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:22:25 GMT <![CDATA[ BALLADE OF LOST BOYS ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5802/t/BALLADE-OF-LOST-BOYS.html
Where are you now, lost boys of yesterday?
Where are you, Charles and Timothy and Paul?
Where are you, dearest Jonathan and Ray--
you who were young and beautiful and tall
when I was young and delicate and small?
Oh, sweet warriors, what bold deeds were done of you!
Now, looking back, I see that, overall,
I was your mother, every mother's son of you.

Now that the Wendy bird has flown away,
where is that fresh-faced crew, so... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5802 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:22:56 GMT <![CDATA[ To the Virgins ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5809/t/To-the-Virgins.html
REVISED VERSION (REVISED VIRGIN) - Thanks for your suggestions!

TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH MONEY
With a Nod to Robert Herrick, Who Was Probably a Dirty Old Man Himself

Gather ye rosebuds while there's time
Is fine advice, but won't begin
To keep you when you're past your prime
And what's to warm your cockles then?
I say sell roses, sell your skin
Before you... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5809 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:12:30 GMT <![CDATA[ poemdoku ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5795/t/poemdoku.html
- reads on both lines and the zigzag
- iambic pentameter on the zigzag

example:
    men   fear     change   not     love  all   who    think      can   solve
]]> feeds@yuku.com (StephenEvans) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5795 Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:02:33 GMT <![CDATA[ trainyard blues ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5806/t/trainyard-blues.html whose wheels cut the midnight hour, whose knives
lament the miles already run in vain.

Cabooses weep in the disconsolate rain.
The syncopated engine shucks & jives.
The trainyard hears a brokenhearted train

confess into the night its homeless pain.
Unquiet couplings of boxcar drives
lament the miles already run in vain,

miles of asphalt & unriven grain,
storage bins that buzz like alien... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mike Alexander) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/5806 Sun, 10 Sep 2006 05:50:31 GMT