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What Is A Sonnet?\ title=68

What Is A Sonnet?

by Inspirepub

published 4 years ago

Dreaded by English public schoolboys, mooned over by love-struck nineteenth-century debutantes, scratched in garrets by starving bohemians across a span of centuries, no poetic form has been more...

5 comments    poetry literature poem
Knight In Electronic Armour\ title=50

Knight In Electronic Armour

by Inspirepub

published 4 years ago

A sonnet about a modern-day knight, clothed in very unshining electronic armour ...

0 comments    poetry poem sms
I Court The Sea\ title=52

I Court The Sea

by Inspirepub

published 4 years ago

The sea, like my soul-dreaming holds Hidden currents, curves and folds. From high, a smooth companion seems, Nestling the shore, swept clean by dreams. Down low, of course, the sea is...

1 comment    poetry poem 2006
Don't Ask Why (Lisa B)\ title=58

Don't Ask Why (Lisa B)

by Inspirepub

published 4 years ago

While there's life, there's hope, they say; for Lisa B

6 comments    poetry poem suicide
Poetic License\ title=60

Poetic License

by Inspirepub

published 4 years ago

How do you write a perfectly formed sonnet which, when read aloud, doesn't sound like a sonnet at all?

2 comments    poetry poem sonnet
Alive\ title=62

Alive

by Inspirepub

published 4 years ago

It is not life, to sit, chat-chit, All elbows in and knees together. It is not love, to pretend, without end, All sickly sweet and smiles forever. Life is raw and tears the flesh from you, Rich with blood and steam, and fresh from you Draws a howling wail;

0 comments    poetry poem alive
What is Haiku?\ title=64

What is Haiku?

by Inspirepub

published 4 years ago

Photo: slack12 There seems to be broadly-based agreement that a haiku poem written in English consists of three lines, seventeen syllables, arranged in the order 5-7-5. Then there is not-so broad agreement...

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