Showing posts with label sonnets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sonnets. Show all posts

Friday, October 12, 2018

OctPoWriMo 2018: Day 12: Affliction


Why did you have to afflict yourself on me?
Why did you invade my dreams and haunt my days?
Excruciating need, I could not get free

Like a psychotic demon child who plays
Bringing torment to his victim's mind and soul
Agonizing want for one who never stays

Heart afflicted with the pain you live to dole
Is there no-one to appease, to bring me aid?
Where do I find comfort and regain control?

Someone heal, soothe, and relieve me, I have prayed
Free me from a man who just wants to get laid

~Pepper~

Note:
This piece is created in the voice of Team Netherworld's OC, Pepper Baiij, for our WIP, Fetch. The poem "honors" one Kris Rooiakker, a living person who took advantage astrally of the sensitive and troubled medium for many years before she finally found the strength to break free.


Monday, October 31, 2016

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 31: Eternal



Eternal
(The song of Serab and Ondina)

Serab:
The songbirds flying through the sky
Are singing to you of my love
For so long I was alone
Heaven sent your heart to beat with mine
You are like an angel from above
You give me more than I have ever known

Ondina:
I used to envy the birds in the air
I used to be without song in my heart
Everything seemed lonely and cold to me
You taught me how to care
I never want us to be apart
I want your love for eternity

Both:
Our love is eternal, it will last for all time
For us to be parted would be the worst crime

Form:
(variation)
 

Friday, October 28, 2016

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 28: Sea Shells



Serab:
We walked on the seashore lives ago
You were the most wonderful thing I knew
You sent me away, you say to save me
At that moment, I lost not only life
But all the hope that you had given me
To know that I would not see you again
Was worse than the most terrifying death
At times I wished that we had never met

Ondina:
I lost my world and worse, I lost my love
But you knew not what could be done to you
I love you more than the stars in the sky
More than all the seashells on every shore
I love you and miss you eternally

Form:
Blank verse/free form sonnet
http://thepoetsgarret.com/2016Challenge/form09.html




Wednesday, October 26, 2016

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 26: Abandonment



Abandonment

He feels like an abandoned place
Something given no concern
Gone to not return
The tears flow down his face
His spirit in disgrace
Like a lover spurned
Like a lesson left unlearned
The loser in life's race
Not unloved as he believes
It is he who can't recall
Memories his mind can no longer chase
Not remembering what he achieved
Nor the reason the tears fall
Running cold down his lost face

Subject: Gerry Clifford
Author: Cie
Form: Beymorlin sonnet, Petrarchan form
http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/sonnet/beymorlin.html


Dedicated to Malcolm Young
Dementia destroys beautiful minds

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 25: The Red Curtain

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The Red Curtain

What lies behind the red curtain, Pepper dear?
Is it the lost dreams of your wasted youth?
Is it everything that you have come to fear?
Is it the ugly, unforgiving truth?
You are everything that your young self despised
Perhaps it is she who will confront you now
Perhaps you'll see your wretched life eulogized
But who would wish to remember you anyhow?
Do you think that anyone could ever love you?
Do you think that your precious ghost will want to stay?
Why would anyone stay when they don't have to?
At first chance, he'll surely run away
You'll be alone forever in the end
No one even wants to be your friend

Yadira Root
to 
Pepper Baiij

form:
Beymorlin sonnet
(Shakespearian form)
http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/sonnet/beymorlin.html


Thursday, October 20, 2016

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 20: Pure Soul



Pure Soul

Your soul pure white like a heavenly dove
With a spot of red upon its breast
It seems you have been cursed, not blessed
Your life a hopeless search for love
I invited you to come to me
You were like a bird with a broken wing
You thought you'd forgotten how to sing
I wanted to try to help you see
While your voice in this world is gone
The song from your soul cannot be so
Shut your eyes and sing soft and low
With me you can always belong
  Let your wings carry you to the Heavens up high
Where there will never be any more reason to cry

Pepper Baiij
for
Gerry Clifford

Form: 

https://poetsonthepage.blogspot.com/





Dedicated to Malcolm Young
from
Team Netherworld 
 

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 18: Senseless




The world continues on senselessly
Oblivious to the tragedy
Of lives that can no longer be
Of souls not allowed to be set free
Like zombies in the streets they roam
Home to work and work to home
Hearts as hard and cold as stone
Not seeing the things that they are shown
Their souls have long since died within
Like machines beneath the skin
Playing a game that they can never win
The sorrow of others feeds their need
They laugh as sufferers lie and bleed
Insatiable hunger, hateful greed

The thoughts of Pepper Baiij

Form:
Arabian Sonnet
http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/sonnet/arabian.html



Monday, October 17, 2016

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 17: Savory Love



 One fool has fallen for another
He is piquantly pleasant to her mind
She thinks he is so very kind
And so she takes him for a lover
Anyone with sense would find him unappealing
But she believes he sets her spirit free
She finds him morally exemplary
His ugliness she cannot see
Because she is floating on the ceiling
Has she yet tasted his kiss
Does she find it pleasing to her lips
Has she felt his hands upon her hips
She carries out her duties with a skip
A woman with sense would surely give him a miss

King Qweh
Regent, West Zecor
Regarding his sister, the Princess Ondina
and her bodyguard, Serab

Form:
American Sonnet
http://thepoetsgarret.com/2016Challenge/form20.html