For the eleventh time this year, one of my poems has been published on-line by Visual Verse. It’s on page 14 of this month’s edition, Vol 4, Chapter 02, which is full of fantastic poetry and prose, all based on one unusual image. You can go to visual verse.org and read all the prose and poetry, […]
Tag: Shakespeare
My Response to Sonnet 12
Read by an actor at Arachne Press’s Midsummer Night in the Garden:
Shakespeare’s Hands
A sonnet as my first, slightly whimsical, response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – Can You Give Me a Hand? The young man’s hands were slender, quick and strong, Composing sonnets to his unknown muse, Creating worlds in drama and in song To challenge the emotions and amuse. The busy writer’s hands were stained with […]
This really is the last post for today
I recently entered a Poetry Society competition in which we had to write a response to one (or more) of Shakespeare’s sonnets. I submitted a response to Sonnet 12 but I also attempted a response to Sonnet 108. I have included a copy of the original sonnet. Original Sonnet 108 What’s in the brain that […]
Thinking about Shakespeare’s sonnets
While browsing through WordPress posts today, I noticed that chyfrin seems to be going through a Shakespeare phase. I am a huge Shakespeare fan and loved teaching his plays and sonnets. While explaining the structure, metre and content of sonnets to a group of Year 10 students, I wrote the following. They also had a go and […]
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