The Encyclopedia Sonnetica

Words without Song: a Sonnet

Words without Song:  a Sonnet Is love a spate of rhyming in the veins? Or is it even less, a bit of plot (inside a thousand paperbacks) like stains across their pages?  Is it merely hot concessions to the urgent skin of lust? Are fornication and adultery love’s...

An Affair with Sonnets; Matched and Coded Sonnets

An Affair with Sonnets       . . . For Eternity “Eternity in an Hour” ~ William Blake If kisses were less mortal and could last As long as death, your lips would lead to realms Inhabited by gods—and even past Nirvanas since your hot mouth overwhelms Awed...

Daytona Paradiso

   Daytona Paradiso The neon signs of Florida are matched By empty sunlight in her days.  The worst, Perhaps, is how the local roads have hatched Those crummy little businesses accursed With would be clever, come on names that churn Your sunburned gut.  Or maybe even...