The Encyclopedia Sonnetica

Burdens of Light

          Burdens of Light The silences of country life are more Like shades than sounds.  So quiet that they seem Like pastel tints in watercolors or The light beneath acanthus leaves we dream. Those silences are more like mist at dawn Above a pond than like a lack...

Resolution of Daydreams

     Resolution of Daydreams This year I must resolve to disregard To Do lists and the Devil.  I’ll make peace With them.  They’ve both tattooed me or have scarred My saffron meadows.  They both blockade Greece And blue struck sunlight from a templed isle. They hate...

Broadmindness Touching Electric Fences

Broadmindness Touching          Electric Fences He thought himself a mystic, though I don’t Believe he knew strict meanings for that word. He had these fuzzy notions:  he was wont To stretch and blend.  His holiness was blurred. B’hai was far too cut and dried for...