by 16 members The English sonnet has the simplest and most flexiblepattern of all sonnets, consisting of 3 quatrains of alternating rhyme and a couplet:
a b a b
c d c d
e f e f
g g
No degrees, no pedigree, no special honors. Greek-German-American part-time scribbler and over-thinker. Co-creator of the largest repository of Villanelle poems on planet Earth: http://TheVillanelle.blogspot.com
67/F/Vancouver
..a Canadian writer and published poet for many years; my poetry sometimes says much with just a few words. On the internet I have been …
Virginia, USA
18 y/o college freshman. Archaeology, Ancient Greek, and Classics major. Latin and Women's Studies minor. Communist. My heart's set on a house in England with …
Jurassic Park, FL
Remember me through poetry: These words and those I wrote before. Remember not the man, for he's Much less, and certainly no more. "Always the …
M/New Mexico, USA
"The myth of fulfillment makes us miss the most beautiful aspect of our human souls: our emptiness, our incompleteness, our radical yearning for love." Gerald …
M/Everywhere
Sky above, earth below, flame upon water within me. Depending on moment, I range between 13,000 years old and 5 years old. (Cover image credit: …
Colorado
the mischief from her eyes and fold her mouth the new flower with thy unimaginable wings,where dwells the breath of all persisting stars (e.e.cummings)
59/M/Chicago & Kalamazoo
A bio... As my then-16-year-old daughter wrote in her bio for an Art Fair, I think my few poems here should speak for themselves. I …