Form Sonnet
Turn the page and write again today
Make something come out of an eager mind
Make something in a new and different way
In something both of earthy and refined
For when I strive it seems that I can find
What I am looking for in forms like this
In stricture and in structure there in kind
Thus in the freedom that free form can miss
For freedom in most freedom is remiss
In finding beauty in this poetry
In building such some scoffers might dismiss:
But such is perfect perfection to me.
And in this challenge offer what I know
In demonstrating where this form can go.
Spenserian Sonnet
Another form of poetry for me
Poetic forms concrete, sublime, refined
Another type of sonnet flowing free
The product of a careful, studied mind
In joyous new discovery I find
The puzzle-solving different mental way
Creative energy will flow in kind
In all that I can do and write and say
If only every word would thus obey
The many thoughts that full within me spring
Then I could make a miracle today
And I would birth again a brand-new thing.
O could I create worthiness in this:
That not a word would here appear amiss.
Theresa Rodriguez is the author of Jesus and Eros: Sonnets, Poems and Songs. She is a classically-trained singer and voice teacher who has written for Classical Singer magazine.
It was a pleasure to read your sonnets. The sonnet is also one of my favorite forms.
Thanks very much, I truly appreciate it!
SUPERB sonnets!! Janice
Thanks very much Janice, I appreciate it very much!
Very good work. Nicely done.
Thanks very much David, I truly appreciate it!
These are both fine sonnets. Not only are they well written, but they speak well to the beauty of formal poetry.
Father Richard, I thank you very much, I truly appreciate it!
Not bad at all Theresa, but you might want to polish up these poems a bit. Let “The many thoughts that full within me spring” be rendered more exact, and therefore truer ring.
Thank you very much for your constructive criticism C.B., but I am afraid I will be leaving these sonnets as written.