The Encyclopedia Sonnetica

In so Modest a Setting

  In so Modest a Setting Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem  A giant diamond on a slender ring Of chrome is what he was.  He showed the flash, Flash, flash of bevels, many, not like cheapo bling, But...

ORPHEUS: Invisible Ivory Music

ORPHEUS: Invisible Ivory Music Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. ~ John Keats Herus Pamphilius claimed that Orpheus’s drifting soul, destined to be incarnated anew in some other physical form after he had died, elected to be born a swan so that...

INSPIRATION OF POETRY: Readiness

That poem is a new world on your tongue. It as if Jehovah spoke a sigh From somewhere in between your heart and lung, Or more like Aphrodite spread one thigh And opened up divinity for men, Or maybe inspiration rose up through your mind From guts and bones as heated...