Tag: sonnet
member name: Mike Ellwood
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February 01, 2008 07:33 AM EST --
Hopper Visits a Diner
Her hands for warmth enfold the coffee cup.
Remembering her pale translucent skin,
The veins that bear the cool blue blood . . .
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February 09, 2008 03:21 AM EST --
Trawling
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The sun has set, and, now the tide has turned,
The fleet of trawlers sails out from the port;
While from the beach the tourists have adjourned
For lobster . . .
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April 25, 2008 11:28 AM EDT --
The Scaffold
Superficial? The fragile scaffolding
Leant lightly on the tower's rising flanks -
A web of tubing, spigots, wooden planks,
Cross-braces, . . .
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May 16, 2008 04:39 AM EDT --
The Third Hole
Plink! (like hammer tapping a bottle of coke)
The sweet-spot of the titanium wood
Propels the ball further than you thought it could.
You strike . . .
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December 14, 2009 03:21 PM EST --
The Lioness
We flock and try to catch another’s eye
But eyes are everywhere and never dwell
For long enough to break the edgy spell
That ties our herd. . . .
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January 07, 2008 01:22 PM EST --
Purgatory
The ocean of guilt, deep and turbulent . . .
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January 26, 2008 04:11 AM EST --
Hell
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While mourners stand and weep upon the Earth
Before Almighty God your soul is weighed.
His agents have been watching since your birth
And judgement . . .
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January 27, 2008 02:59 PM EST --
In the Supermarket
Is he a footman or a charioteer?
A few yards down the aisle his busy wife
Selects the treats and staples for their life,
The trolley . . .
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May 21, 2008 03:55 AM EDT --
A few years ago I visited Omaha Beach and the immaculately maintained American cemetry at Coleville-sur-Mer. It was a deeply moving experience, prompting these thoughts:
Meditation . . .
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August 18, 2008 03:26 PM EDT --
A sonnet for my students.......
The World is Waiting
The world is waiting, but not just for you.
That audience is never satisfied,
Grasping voraciously for something . . .
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October 23, 2008 03:51 AM EDT --
Eagle
As when the tuning fork and string vibrate
As one, or eyes meet when first lovers realise
They are in love and cry in shared surprise,
Behold a harmony . . .
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November 27, 2008 05:13 AM EST --
Self-Portrait
I meet the mirrored man's appraising gaze
And focus on the pupils. In return
They peer as if attempting to discern
The nature of . . .
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July 25, 2009 04:09 AM EDT --
The Bird-Watcher
The wild and unselfconscious birds take feed
From hanging trays. The sparrows reject more
Than they will ever eat or take to store.
I watch them choose . . .
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February 06, 2008 03:55 AM EST --
Lent
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Through Ramadan the Muslim keeps his Fast,
Enduring and enjoying unity
With co-religionists, until at last
Euphoria replaces piety.
While Christian . . .
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August 04, 2008 02:42 PM EDT --
Family Business
Gulls'eyes watch as the brothers prepare to ship their last order.
Heads, spines and guts for offal, they slit, slit and slit the flesh and . . .
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November 17, 2008 04:31 PM EST --
Devotion
Sometimes the closest friend can ask too much
While roses bloom and promises are made
That are not kept because you are afraid,
And then . . .
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December 06, 2008 09:33 AM EST --
In the Hole!
Perhaps fatigue or stress had cramped my style
But I was wilting, flaccid, losing nerve,
Frustrated with myself as all the while
My eager partner rued my lack of verve.
Try as . . .
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December 20, 2008 12:15 PM EST --
Settlement
The bubble in the level's glass behaves
As if moon-drawn and plaster-cracks, like veins,
Bleed dust. The creaking fabrication strains
Against . . .
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January 13, 2009 10:08 AM EST --
Paris, December, 2008
D espite the winter chill the Champs Elysees
Was thronged with Christmas shoppers (dressed in black
Parading like louche priests or nuns, the lack
Of color . . .
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April 12, 2009 04:33 PM EDT --
The Fault
The globe contracts. Now feel the wrinkled flesh
Fissure and shift. Perhaps you sense some pain
As crunching rock gives way like crumbling bone . . .
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