The Encyclopedia Sonnetica

A Nun’s Wisdom

        A Nun’s Wisdom A calmness comes when resignation spays Desire. Tranquillity becomes the truth The soul requires.  Your heart can slow and laze Around as when an angel in her youth Finds slumbers in the arms of God. But this Serenity requires surrender of The...

A Plea from Sodom and Gomorrah

A Plea from Sodom and Gomorrah Please return to pain and bruising, not scars With numbness in the tissue.  Trauma gives A certainty at least.  Those dense armoires Of pale cicatrice commemoratives Might be, you think, better than current harms That sting, then ache,...

Naturally

   φυσικά  (Naturally) “Homosexuality in its highest sense is founded on intellectualism. It represents fundamentally an aesthetic conception of love. . .” ~ Wallace Fowlie, 1946 As rarefied as nearly empty space, The void between the planets and the stars, The...