The Encyclopedia Sonnetica

The Gemini

The Gemini Most loves are lost the moment they are born. Their DNA contains the genes to doom Devotion.  Bonded chromosomes are torn, Though only slightly.  They become love’s tomb As well, simultaneous the death and birth. Invisible, a corpse is there as twin Of baby...

Funeral Games

       Funeral Games Some people marry several times.  I tend To want not several weddings but instead To be the subject of various send Offs.  I’ll have respective funerals to wed Eternity and me in death.  I wish A sober one in black officiated By my brother, and a...

Feminine Beauty Just Ain’t Right

Feminine Beauty Just Ain’t Right “Hylas . . . is described in very un-heroic terms, with χαρίεντος (7) suggesting youth and beauty, and πλοκαμῖδα (7) emphasizing the boy’s ‘almost feminine prettiness’.” A hero can’t be pretty, beautiful, Or like a girl.,,  (Well,...