Showing posts with label sonnets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sonnets. Show all posts
Monday, February 2, 2026

You're like Music Playing in My Head

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  A love poem describing the experience of new love:   You're like music playing in my head Everywhere I go from day to day. I try a d...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Movement Comes Most Often Without Motion

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  A psychological poem about unconscious change:   Movement comes most often without motion. Incremental thaws can peel a rock. Years wash...
Monday, August 18, 2025

There Is a Joy that Banishes All Reason

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  A poem about the difficulty of freeing oneself from an addiction:   There is a joy that banishes all reason, An ecstasy so vast it ha...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Mai Is Well Aware She Is the Future

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  A psychological poem for Mai about how her identity is shaped by her generation:   Mai is well aware she is the future And much depends up...
Monday, February 10, 2025

Vast the Possibilities of Fortune

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  A Valentine’s Day poem comparing love to a garden:   Vast the possibilities of fortune, And one the reckoning of choice and chance. Love’s...
Monday, April 29, 2024

I Cannot Tell You How Much I Have Loved You

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  A poem from a parent to an adult child about the beauty of parental love: I cannot tell you how much I have loved you, Nor give you an a...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

I Pray for You and Wish I Could Do More

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May 21, 2021 Dear Subscriber: Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is health. I welcome...
Friday, May 14, 2021

Little Do You Know How Much You Love Me

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May 14, 2021 Dear Subscriber: Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is religion. I welco...
Saturday, May 8, 2021

Although Consumed by Fury, You Still Loved Us

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May 8, 2021 Dear Subscriber: Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day. I we...
Monday, April 19, 2021

One Wishes the Earth Were Not So Decimated

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April 19, 2021 Dear Subscriber: Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Earth Day, which...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

We've Been Dating Now More than a Year

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April 10, 2021 Dear Subscriber: Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is troubled loves. ...
Friday, April 9, 2021

This Will Not Work if You Don't Want to Try

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April 9, 2021 Dear Subscriber: Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is troubled loves. ...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

Passover Seders Are like the Night Sky

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March 28, 2021 Dear Subscriber: Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Passover, which ...
Sunday, March 21, 2021

Sing of Ireland, That Salad Bowl

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March 21, 2021 Dear Subscriber: Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is St. Patrick’s Da...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

So Let It Go, That Mythic Ireland

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March 17, 2021 Dear Subscriber: Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is St. Patrick’s Da...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

What Might Make a Person Want to Lead

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February 16, 2021 Dear Subscriber: Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in h...
Monday, February 15, 2021

President's Day? Presidents' Day? Or Presidents Day?

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February 15, 2021 Dear Subscriber: Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in h...
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Be with Us in the Circle of Our Love

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February 10, 2021 Dear Subscriber: Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s D...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Fools Desire Flesh; the Wise Love Souls

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February 3, 2021 Dear Subscriber: Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is love. I welco...
Friday, January 15, 2021

There Is No Threnody for Utter Darkness

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January 15, 2021 Dear Subscriber: Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is song. I welco...