Sonnets & So Forth

During February 2013 I am taking part in a sonnet-writing project with three other poets: 28 Sonnets Later

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The Prevention of Literature

Sonnet after an essay by George Orwell

'On the art of writing'

And the ink flowed like tears...
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Bandersnatch

Beware the usurer my girl...
Poem of the week

The Day That Love Was Banned

All watched over by machines of less-than-loving grace
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The Leaving of Harar

The outlaw death of Arthur Rimbaud
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One-Eyed Witness

Marie Colvin 1956 – 2012. There are two sides to every story...
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Sonnet for Mia

When i first heard Mia Zapata rhyme...
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Pissing up the walls of dollar hell

She's spitting out some screwed-up villanelle...
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Uisge Beatha

It's a Fib...

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

All stables swallow up these earthly tales...
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Solstice

The sun stands still within uncertain skies
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I want you. I need you.

You dreamed the dreams...

Time is a Trickster

...tears are fruitless...

Thesis. Antithesis. Synthesis.

I see the hero deep in all of us...