Not Sonnets http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/forums/4 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:30:35 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/4 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[ Aubade: A Pastoral ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6938/t/Aubade-A-Pastoral.html Aubade: A Pastoral

And when the solemn time comes to admit

The weariness that detuned violining brings,

And notes no longer whir in joyful fits,

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (NAF) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6938 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:44:25 GMT <![CDATA[ Shape poetry ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6936/t/Shape-poetry.html

Magic reading

http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6936 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:42:24 GMT <![CDATA[ ANOTHER SESTINA ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6931/t/ANOTHER-SESTINA.html
MOLLY

Molly, some people said, was always wild,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6931 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:55:10 GMT <![CDATA[ NEED TITLE, CRITICISM, SUGGESTIONS ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6929/t/NEED-TITLE-CRITICISM-SUGGESTIONS.html suggestions for changes and improvements. Or if it isn't worth saving at all, please say so. Edit in, with an attempt to outsmart the formatting problems:
Only the last three lines are changed here. And I forgot to save the original ones. Sorry. Oops! Not only is the spacing still badly screwed up, I screwed up
the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6929 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:28:03 GMT <![CDATA[ I'M OFF TO SEE THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6916/t/I-39-M-OFF-TO-SEE-THE-EMPEROR-39-S-NEW-CLOTHES.html



Sorry, the formatting isn't working, despite Peter's help, so I'm just going to retype the whole damned thing. ]]> feeds@yuku.com (sonnet622) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6916 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:56:18 GMT <![CDATA[ Blood Pressure ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6913/t/Blood-Pressure.html Time Management

The year that Martin Luther spent
as Junker Joerg in Warburg's towers,
he wrote a Deutsch New Testament
from Greek to pass the stagnant hours.

As city gates before him closed,
Erasmus wrote his Tour de Force.
While chasing patrons he composed
"In... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Stephen C Scaer) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6913 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:44:54 GMT <![CDATA[ A response to critique ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6912/t/A-response-to-critique.html

[Is this worth any work, or is the audience too limited?]




"It's throttled. In a noose.


Cut loose!


Why so much heavy lifting?


Drifting


is the key. As Taoists say,


wu wei:


do without doing. Play


out line. Go knotless.... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (maryanncorbett) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6912 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:12:31 GMT <![CDATA[ The Magic Wand ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6911/t/The-Magic-Wand.html The Magic Wand


An amethyst crane skims
a satin sheen, an elliptical pool
fills its frail silhouette.

Timber red & chestnut braids bow
a primrose sash; a bouquetier
scents of juniper and lilac sprig.

A cherry boule chevet
tea table & a mango chai
greet a raspberry sutured
morning sky.

]]> feeds@yuku.com (Crazybored) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6911 Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:57:36 GMT <![CDATA[ In Retrospect ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6905/t/In-Retrospect.html What Really Happened

http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6905 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:59:11 GMT <![CDATA[ Star gazing - Haute Corse ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6904/t/Star-gazing-Haute-Corse.html Revision

Beneath the dark, glittering sky
I watch a meteor flare, then die.
Just one chaotic squib of light
perturbs the firmament tonight

and cosmic sums go all awry.
Star-gazing poets don't ask 'why?'
or deal in fact;... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Alan Wickes) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6904 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:42:40 GMT <![CDATA[ Hummingbird ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6903/t/Hummingbird.html glistening like sugarcane
how could I not see
you, aerial paparazzi? ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mike Alexander) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6903 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:11:58 GMT <![CDATA[ Terza Rima ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6901/t/Terza-Rima.html
Terza Rima , while use by French troubadours,is an Italian open chain rhyme poem format... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ljrwrite) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6901 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:39:19 GMT <![CDATA[ Das Mädchen ohne Hände ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6900/t/Das-M-dchen-ohne-H-nde.html The angels interfere too much.
They think to meddle is divine;
they whittle at the great design,
to tinker with it notch by notch.

They see a pretty young fraulein
who lost her arms in some debauch.
Without her arms she cannot clutch
the fruit that dangles on the vine.

Without her arms she cannot touch
the part that makes of man a swine.
But O these angels of the Rhine,
they do not offer... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mike Alexander) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6900 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:03:18 GMT <![CDATA[ Chances Are ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6894/t/Chances-Are.html flashes and bits of before the after,
sad that it ends not with laughter.
the light in the end, a little darker,
one or another, I am still the master.

at none, it was one,
illuminated wise, a lot to be done.
empty grasp and simple shy,
in stranger air, not a lie.

in the shadows of fraud and deceit,
I stand before with my virgin steed.
in avid to step the new beneath my feet
where the corners welcome the frown... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (paradise) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6894 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:48:22 GMT <![CDATA[ Enablement ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6871/t/Enablement.html I lean into my song of self reproach,
each verse assigned its spread of deadly sins.
I spew the reveries of my commute
and chant a checklist of the ersatz pins
I stick in mental voodoo dolls. I shoot
the messenger, in fact, prepared to broach

the subject of adultery (that's asked
and answered, though-a minor dalliance
some ten years back). Of course I call myself
endearing names like... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rick Mullin) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6871 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:47:07 GMT <![CDATA[ Where to go next with this one? ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6865/t/Where-to-go-next-with-this-one-.html
Folie a Deux

Let flow the admixed humour from these wrists,
our sanguine tributary to the Styx.

Let Cerberus beg while we take our fill
of pomegranate seeds and asphodel! ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Owl) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6865 Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:30:11 GMT <![CDATA[ The Dali Gallery of Formal Malice ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6864/t/The-Dali-Gallery-of-Formal-Malice.html The Dali Gallery of Formal Malice

"This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man."

feeds@yuku.com (James Feichthaler) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6864 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:19:09 GMT <![CDATA[ Election Cycle ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6856/t/Election-Cycle.html Election Cycle

I promised that I wouldn't watch the news
or call the Essex County Democrats
to volunteer. No rerun of '04
for me, I said. I can't afford to lose
the sleep or hours Googling the stats
on Florida. No going door to door

http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6856 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:49:36 GMT <![CDATA[ Seleucia-on-Tigris (revised) ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6855/t/Seleucia-on-Tigris-revised-.html The Heirs of Alexander

"US forces built a helicopter pad on the ancient ruins [of Babylon] and filled their sandbags with archaeological material in the months following the 2003 invasion."

-BBC report




I: Babylon

Sing me songs in foreign tongues
until the tongues become my own.
Make known to me the hunts, the clash
of many spears, the lions mute,
as... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Quincy R Lehr) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6855 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:31:16 GMT <![CDATA[ Witchfinder General ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6849/t/Witchfinder-General.html whether you are a bona fide witch
or merely in thrall to a spell,
without any loophole or glitch.

It is no longer legal to pitch
the unlucky accused down a well,
but we'll prick all the places that twitch;
we have authorized methods to tell.

It is lawful for us to compel
the surrender of every last stitch
you possess in the pit where you dwell.
Whether you are a bona fide witch...
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mike Alexander) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/6849 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:03:01 GMT