I get up early while you’re still asleep; avoiding the cats, I creep down the stairs, try not to wake you with my leaden feet, stumble over work boots and into chairs. The bathroom floor’s cold, and the toilet seat, the sink is laced with toothpaste and stray hairs. The cat litter smells and they […]
Tag: Sonnets
Caspian – a sonnet
It has the cadence of a wind’s caress, Conjuring up a far-flung landlocked sea, Inhabited by turtles, gulls and terns, Its salty waters lapping endlessly On fragments of ancient Persian tribes. An echo of childhood stories, for me, A wardrobe door to a magical world, A princely name from Lewis’ fantasy. Music echoing with ambient […]
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 […]
Being not far from the sea…
… I wrote the following sonnet. A Seaside Sonnet I dig my toes in shifting grains of sand, Eroded rock, disintegrated shell, Let shingle drift away from palm of hand To land in foaming lace of ocean’s swell. By increments surrounded by the tide, That ebbs and flows and rises to my thigh, I am […]
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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