http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/forums/7 en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Sun, 05 Aug 2001 16:22:26 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/forums/7 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 Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2314/t/To-a-Young-Poet.html
Youre dreaming there before your desktop screen,
Your head up in the clouds of Neverland,
As though youve got the world at your command,
The shining star of some imagined scene.

Youre thinking of what lifes supposed to mean,
Your every verse some kind of special blend:
As though we really were to understand
Each line and what is written in between.

But please, write on as though youll never see
That fateful, final day the scales shall... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Dutch Crispin) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2314 Fri, 03 Aug 2001 12:38:33 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2312/t/The-Abandoned-Taxi-Cab.html
The Abandoned Taxi Cab



The decent spares were all gone years before,
when allotments were things of civic pride;
Now dandelions grow through the chassis floor
and below the dashboard sweet-peas abide
with rusty bed springs blooming in the air-
The old taxi was perfect for a game.
The engine block was far beyond repair,
and tattered leather hung about the frame
as the skin of some freshly slaughtered deer,
hunted there by time and killed... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (david condell) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2312 Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:04:43 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2096/t/No-Time-For-Magazines.html
Shy


No Time For Magazines

It's not too often that I find the time,
to casually read the magazines
that feature hotties and ( is this a... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ShyLady) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2096 Tue, 31 Jul 2001 06:38:36 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2095/t/The-Way-of-the-World-revised-.html and breathe the same polluted air.
The clod of clay that was men's birth
lives on between each toe and hair.

And be it from the Rhine or Nile,
we need clean water or we'll die.
We all need to be versatile
in tending rice and wheat and rye.

We have an eye for any weed
that may consume the crop we need.

The world is run by our God.
Another one, at best, is odd.

Around our city is a wall.
We do not like the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Remco van der Zwaag) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2095 Tue, 31 Jul 2001 03:55:53 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2306/t/Inside-a-Temple-A-Pagan-Hymn-For-Mike-Alexander-Revised-.html
Inside a temple this most holy rite
Is solemnly performed. The priestess goes
About on dancers naked feet; she knows
Her stuff as well as any acolyte.

All of her careful moves provide delight;
It is like watching kittens on their toes.
Her eyes mean business now; shes getting close
To full perfection of the dignified.

She keeps the secrets of the sacred flame;
She lifts the vessel with the purest fluid,
And pours its content into... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Dutch Crispin) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2306 Sun, 29 Jul 2001 12:45:16 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2305/t/Inside-a-Circle.html Inside a Circle

Two candles on an altartop, incense,
a brimming chalice & a silver blade
are set to celebrate our innocence.
Hypocrisy & hatred, get thee hence.

The Goddess sees what offerings weve made.
We thank her for the future in advance
We sing until the stars begin to fade.
We share a harvest over which weve prayed.

The Goddess hears us summon with our chants,
Isis Astart... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Mike Alexander) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2305 Fri, 27 Jul 2001 20:58:27 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2304/t/Lost-In-Cyberspace-Revised-.html
Where are those superfriends you only get
In cyberspace, enthusiasts for just
One single day, who make you feel their pet,
Before theyre taken with some odd disgust?

Where are those utterances of support
And sheer delight, the funny silly faces
Suggestive of some intimate rapport
Defiant of the different times and places?

One day, those superfriends recede into
The darkest night and make you feel as though
You made some horrible... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Dutch Crispin) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2304 Fri, 27 Jul 2001 03:47:49 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2308/t/Richard-Vallance-Whatever-s-Holy-Grail-about-America.html


Whatever's Holy, Grail



Which nausea coils its tentacles, and ails,

America, your Mind? Which poisons in your heart,

from an Ebola-lichened strain, when bitter blood prevails,

cuts to ribbons blacks and whites, and rips apart

The Founders' fabrics, raising flags, and makes

such laughingstock of nations, dare they not espouse

your "hard won" Rights, emblazoned on witch stakes

your Civil Wars had... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2308 Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:22:46 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2302/t/A-Lesson-From-a-Crepe-MyrtleRevised.html Revised Version

The heat waves shimmer in July;
the leaves and grass are brown and sere,
but my crepe myrtle will not die,
or have its blossoms disappear.

Without hope of relief in sight,
the glaring sun brings drought and doom.
Stillpanicles of pink and white
these tissue-paper flowers bloom.

They teach me much of beauty's grace,
of deep, strong roots, and of the chance
to bloom in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (lap0530) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2302 Sun, 15 Jul 2001 11:12:47 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2300/t/Expressions-revised-.html of women captured, parasols in hand.
Perhaps a bluish garden with a bee,
or maybe magpies at a paper stand.
It flowers cherry blossoms in bouquet,
with lilac sprigs and long green baby's breath.
It's ginseng on a Geisha's serving tray,
and jealousy in Desdemona's death.
The echoes in our childrens fervent glee,
remembrance of the laughter in their eyes,
a silhouette that captions memory--
expression is excitement in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ShyLady) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2300 Sun, 15 Jul 2001 09:30:45 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2295/t/Unappeased.html It whiffs across our thinning fog of sleep
in weightless flow, yet wired to a taut
awareness; hovering, while trolling deep
within our latent pools of melded thought.

It scoffs at absolutes, unearths the spore
of wonder, tilts the bearing wall of proof.
It peels the skin of reason, finds a core
with myriad reflections of the truth.

Then Hunger feeds upon itself and grows
beyond the limitations of its grasp.
It multiplies the sum of all it... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (laryalee fraser) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2295 Sun, 15 Jul 2001 06:33:42 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2307/t/Of-Callowness.html
What longing's this that long has lingered here?
What license does it have to intersperse
My silent lucubration, sweet and dear,
With cares such as I might forever curse?
It's Art's immortal maidens I love best;
Their kisses fill me more than feasting could.
O Muses! Your caresses give me rest,
A greater rest than e'er a true girl would!
Yet I would trade my days for sleepless nights
Alone, and lulled by dreary, midnight sky,
Dreaming of the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aemilius7(d)) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2307 Sat, 14 Jul 2001 07:33:07 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2299/t/Help-on-try-2-.html so if there is anyone out there who can help me yet again I would really appreciate it. thank-you:} shanna





Beware of death, that within fate thy heart.
For sacred lie the schemes of bless ed pain.
Among the beauty time does always part,
In timeless awe. A careless voice does strain,
And loud it cries as nearer I do come.
The soul withdrawn and I am left to die.
The battle I have lost is ever done.
You made the... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (shannaclshannon(d)) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2299 Fri, 13 Jul 2001 04:18:29 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2296/t/Re-cycled-yarn.html
If a belief's convenient, I believe;
And, if it's inconvenient, I'm aloof.
Autonomy of Will, as I conceive,
Is Will that doesn't burden me with proof.
So, I choose from truth and lie and garble,
And choose to believe Michelangelo
Whose David, he said, was in the marble,
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (donives) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2296 Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:42:49 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2298/t/First-time-Help.html
To death beware, in fate thy heart.
For sacred lies the schemes of pain.
Among the beauty time do part,
In timeless awe. A voice do strain,
And loud it cries as near you come.
The soul withdrawn and left to die.
The battle lost and ever done.
You made the spot for which you lie.
Let strength be lost, but keep me strong.
We move ahead in fire or light.
Oh, hear the cries. Have I been wrong?
Be weary my destined heart of... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (shannaclshannon(d)) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2298 Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:04:27 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2301/t/Our-Polished-Cold.html The sinewed arm of modern life has coiled
around our throats. Our eyes hold mute appeal
for joys now tainted, purity now soiled
by septic greed in cubicles of steel.

We splice our dreams to sightless ether flows
and walk the swaying tightrope of distrust;
watch evil gorge itself on faceless rows
as wings of hope are writhing in the dust.

Before, we wrapped our softly rippled shawl
of gentleness around each other's pain.
We cherished faith, discerned... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (laryalee fraser) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2301 Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:48:44 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2313/t/Macanudo.html
The Macanudos gray- blue smoke ascends
and floats around a white fedoras brim.
A strummers lone guitar, unnoticed, sends
a sheet of Latin notes. The lights are dim

when double-shuttered doors swing slowly in
and introduce the midday summer light:
a mango painted dress glides in. Its then
the Macanudo man enlists his sight.

The lady orders Dewars with a notch
of lime to twist a tang into the day.
The smoke curls slowly toward the waiting... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (TonyLSmith) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2313 Wed, 11 Jul 2001 19:12:06 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2309/t/Richard-Vallance-Icon-.html


Icon



There's hushes in airs as this rain again falls down

onto eaves, and drips, or whisperers in green leaves

into my mind's well impressions drop as if to drown

out what's that? that fly-by hiss of traffic as it weaves

in and out of expressway lanes and hits aluminum sound

barriers, off velocities bounced, as cars, and echoes, pound

on eight-laned concrete, drummers at my every thought

under my... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (vallance2) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2309 Wed, 11 Jul 2001 05:24:17 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2294/t/The-Garden.html
An afternoon just to ourselves, a gift
So rare these frantic days - to languish
Beneath the drooping elms. In dark pools drift,
Through irises, gigantic golden fish.

Above the lake swoop aerobatic swifts.
As if depicted on a Chinese dish -
A tiny bridge, blue hills half glimpsed through mists.
Toss a coin from the parapet, and wish:

That burgeoning days are not deemed failures,
When precious moments are wilfully missed.
Should we have... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Alan Wickes) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2294 Mon, 09 Jul 2001 22:22:23 GMT http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2297/t/My-Virgin-Glade.html
A winsome rain touched soft my virgin glade
atop peony and blue hosta leaf,
where oaken arms caress carnations shade,
vermilion fleur-de-lis surpass belief.

A delphic auspice where my dahlias bloom,
a rune of lily where the bramble rest.
Oh rhododendron, there arrest my gloom
where folding dogwood hide the tit mouse nest.

Where hummingbirds espy my honeyed dew
the morning glories beckon hickory.
My daffodil with violet root... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (ShyLady) http://thesonnetboard.yuku.com/topic/2297 Sun, 08 Jul 2001 12:58:35 GMT