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. Nostalgic / Love / Metrical

Homecoming

When night descends and chill is in the air I see the lighted windows from the train that takes me …

#Anne Turner #home #mother #sonnet #train #warmth #welcome

. Solemn / Loss / Metrical

A Distant Bugler

A Distant Bugler

Here in this quiet stretch of hallowed ground, the welcome sunrise warms me as I step past granite markers, kneeling …

#cemetery #loss #Mark Vincent #respect #sacrifice #sonnet #tribute #war

. Solemn / Metrical

Contrarian

The nymphs that sing at midnight? Just the breeze. The sprites within the water? Just the sun. The hand …

#answers #cynicism #irony #pragmatism #questions #sonnet #William Keller

. Restless / Metrical / Sentiment

Toxic Love

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, and you have scorned me. Now you have to pay for all …

#false heart #irony #Patricia Curtis #revenge #scorn #sonnet

. Contemplative / Metrical / Nature

Chotje’s Vision

Chotje’s Vision

Chotje’s Vision (Eyes of the Aloe) Did you watch a gibbous moon entangled in those starfish eyes of wise …

#Kokerboom #Namaqua #quivertree #sonnet #WW Schwim

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