Not Sonnets http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/forums/4 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:58:08 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[ On Bloomfield [reordered quats] ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7278/t/On-Bloomfield-reordered-quats-.html On Bloomfield

Our beards are soft and gray as morning ash
endowed with parables and cigarettes.
Our coats, a vagary of petty cash,
describe the button holes in safety nets.
The news is immaterial. And wet.
The numbers coalesce in black incisions,
photographs dissolve, and you can bet
the unread words accrue to bad decisions.
Our given names are of no consequence
to the pedestrian or to the morning.
A casualty of the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rick Mullin) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7278 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:44:54 GMT <![CDATA[ Grave Levity ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7277/t/Grave-Levity.html The flies are heat-drugged underneath the tent.

The preacher has exhausted all his phrases.

The watermelon gut tells the guy who raises

Goats that he smells a lot like excrement.



They're laying to rest another of my kin.

Good rednecks all. Top drawer and all that.

See them in Wald Mart, K Mart, any mart,

but when they pull up and you hear "hop in,"



don't. Not that if you... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Lance Levens) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7277 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:31:27 GMT <![CDATA[ Life Support revised (ie chopped) ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7273/t/Life-Support-revised-ie-chopped-.html Life Support

There's an outlet by the bed.
Sometimes you sit and watch it, and pray
for storms. Hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards,
floods. For a minute, you imagine it:
great forgiving winds tearing
down power-poles. Snow that sifts beneath
the door as drifts pile higher and higher,
cool and quiet, blocking the drains
and shutting in the grey eternal
light. Water swirls in the gutters,
creeps through basement windows,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Celimlodyn) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7273 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:49:33 GMT <![CDATA[ Remembrance Day ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7262/t/Remembrance-Day.html Remembrance Day

http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7262 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:52:23 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[ 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[ 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[ 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[ Choice Virtues ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7223/t/Choice-Virtues.html Her voice revealed an A440 tone

that played upon the eardrum's finest bone;

she'd tune the truest fork.

When laughing, subtle lines beside her eyes

bespoke a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (NAF) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7223 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:14:30 GMT <![CDATA[ Old Tire Swing ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7214/t/Old-Tire-Swing.html Cold numbers typed onto a schedule,

foretell departure times, eventual

arrival times by standard route & fare --

but not the sudden sight that heralds Spring.

I see a girl suspended on her swing,

http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7214 Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:21:16 GMT <![CDATA[ The Calling ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7209/t/The-Calling.html The Calling


The angel of all orgasms

calls to her. The inside of the empty

Southern Comfort bottle, behind the label,

inside the glass, articulates

feeds@yuku.com (Mike Alexander) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7209 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 10:01:49 GMT <![CDATA[ What I Did on My Summer Holiday ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7208/t/What-I-Did-on-My-Summer-Holiday.html
Kitschy landscapes in cell-phone snaps.
The shots were great, but the view was crap,
obscured by television crews
trundling by in search of news.

Barack Obama had a beer,
waited until the coast was clear,
and seeing too many fires to douse,
he holed up in a big white house.
Life is hard, with no safe bets
except for booze and cigarettes.

TV shows in hotel rooms-
gold-suited preachers... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Quincy R Lehr) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7208 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:03:55 GMT <![CDATA[ The New Trimurti ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7203/t/The-New-Trimurti.html Last evening, as I sat outside, half-lotus,

a mystic sprinkle settled on my crown.

To purge my mind of all the thoughts that goad us

from enlightenment--and bearing down

on consciousness,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (NAF) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7203 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:19:17 GMT <![CDATA[ Pearl Diver - rv2a ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7191/t/Pearl-Diver-rv2a.html *changed L4 and 7

Climb up and balance, leap.
The ocean spends its ceaseless shifting
underneath the sun: an unforgiving
light that glitters hard and flat against your face.

The saib waits.
Climb up and balance. Leap
into the sea. It folds around you
like it will never open to air again.

Tie your knots and grease your skin. Breathe deep and look
for circling fins.
Climb up and balance. Leap
to cut your... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Celimlodyn) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7191 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:55:59 GMT <![CDATA[ rape of the southern witch/rewrite ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7178/t/rape-of-the-southern-witch-rewrite.html Thanks Mike; greatest vainglorious cause works well. Surrealist cause was perhaps a subliminal dadaism

Down east of Eden and south of old Oz
land of our greatest vainglorious cause
Three hags sat sewing our fates to a stitch
Singing the rape of our fair Southern Witch
(singing the rape of our fair... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (stephenwayne) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7178 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:17:32 GMT <![CDATA[ Busy ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7172/t/Busy.html second line changed from "just" to "simply"
Busy


This morning I heard a small man in a bus
say "It's not so important what we think of God,
it's simply that God doesn't know about us".

The man didn't look at all different or odd.
A mild little man with a nondescript face,
he uttered those words with a humorous nod;

such embarrassing... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Janet Kenny) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7172 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:30:10 GMT <![CDATA[ Pigskin ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7165/t/Pigskin.html 1

The first thought, that the bodily machine

needs fuel, an oiling of its moving parts,

feeds@yuku.com (Mike Alexander) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7165 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:49:30 GMT <![CDATA[ Landing in an Open Field ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7152/t/Landing-in-an-Open-Field.html Thanks all.
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edit 1: L2 read "early" instead of "nascent"

The penultimate line read "violent" instead of "vicious"

edit 2: changed "wrack" to "rack"

edit 3: penultimate line changed from "as vicious tremors rack the brakeman's body."

]]> feeds@yuku.com (NAF) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7152 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:50:24 GMT <![CDATA[ Ambivalence ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7147/t/Ambivalence.html Ambivalence

In the moans and the screams, neath the concrete and beams
lie the innocent victims of hate.
Where the girders are bent from a structure's descent
is insanity's violent spate.

Oh can you see the sorrow in your sleep,
in faces racked with wretched grief- despair?
Do livid cries for vengeance bid you weep,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Crazybored) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7147 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:51:31 GMT <![CDATA[ A Villanelle With Lines From Yeats ]]> http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7144/t/A-Villanelle-With-Lines-From-Yeats.html Added back in at the discretion of the [still somewhat disgruntled] poet.




A Villanelle with Lines from Yeats

feeds@yuku.com (NAF) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/7144 Tue, 26 May 2009 20:12:17 GMT