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11 deviations
Send a Sonnet September Stamp

DFC Paraphenalia - Stamps

15 deviations

Epic Love Sonnet Challenge

4 deviations
Literature

Winter Refrain

Winter will clog up my streets, and van- ish upon the light reflections, ris- ing with the new day. And when light ran down the sky into my arms, my eyes flickered and shut hiding inside my shell of earth, weak-boned, acidic. I,     flickered and shut     flickered and shut will descend each night and know that I will be as a ghost, hidden with each winter, fading and returning. And the false snow fades out; will I beseech the wind to send my season to sand that a child would gather and build up, charging into structure. Now your cup,     that a child would,     that a child would, fill with spring, yet the frost is your

FFF February Form Fiesta 2012

18 deviations
Literature

Woodlot

In the holy season of December To the suburbs to buy a Christmas tree. The sky was steel-gray, a covered ember Waiting to flare up and shake itself free. A day like that brings out the life in me. I grinned, hands in my pockets, and looked hard At every tree that leaned up in that yard. I tapped one on the shoulder as a friend; A pagan tree to bring back home to hearth, A fellow traveler in this strange land, A fragment of the holy barren earth Naked in the time of death and rebirth. Not quite majestic, but a Christmas tree - Weedy suburban wood, a thing like me.

February Form Fiesta 2015

20 deviations
Literature

a painted landscape

Brush strokes of fire                burn the page, a storm of blue                quells the blaze. Sea foam green drowns                  black and white, deep gold sun glows                in a haze.

February Form Fiesta 2016

21 deviations
Literature

Peace Haiku

Don’t obey leaders Be a good person on earth Spread peace together Не подчиняйтесь лидерам Будьте хорошим человеком на земле Распространяйте мир вместе 不要服從領導 做一個地球上的好人 共同傳播和平 لا تطيع القادة كن شخصا صالحا على الأرض انشر السلام معا No obedezcas a los líderes Sé una buena persona en la tierra Difundir la paz juntos N’obéissez pas aux dirigeants Soyez une bonne personne sur terre Répandre la paix ensemble Não obedeças aos líderes Se uma boa pessoa na terra Difundir a paz juntos

FFF February Form Fiesta 2017

35 deviations
Literature

elemental enchantment

she stands among the rocks where the trees part for water softly babbling, it sparkles in places under the dappled sun spots shedding her spirit scattering herself like dandelion petals wafting across the glen the magic of earth and water radiates in a pulse vanishes in the shallows pools- the rays of light penetrating the deep sage and emerald canopy

FFF February Form Fiesta 2018

9 deviations
Literature

The Owl's Advice

The owl spins its head around. He’s read the ground, ocean, and air. Yes, this wise fowl has seen it all, Preening with prideful, peering eyes. He hoots at prey while perched above, “Hoo-hoo”-ing to besmirch the food. Winged justice screeches to below, Calling woodland pests to confess And screeches also at the hawk. The owl’s speeches will be shared Whether they asked for it or not. Owl feathers hold their range of sight. The creatures beg for their release. They say, “preacher, we are dying.” The owl said, “Just look around, Behind and ahead, then flee death.” He cried with a tail in h

February Form Fiesta 2019

26 deviations
Literature

Sandman Slim

The monster who kills monsters is free, thirteen doors he could conjure, the key- vengeance calling. L.A. is different but the same still flawed, Sub Rosa lingers in lame, geek squad, menace calling. Sandman Slim's maledictions, black blade, revenge based convictions and a Jade, kill to survive. Always thinking of Alice, in shame, guilt turning to malice in flame, new truth alive

February Form Fiesta 2020

8 deviations
Literature

Endure and Prevail

Parting was an awakening then a curse, but I knew, evermore, that Winterfell would stand. Fantasies replaced by realities and war but I knew, faithfully, that Winterfell would stand. Blackened and broken, pieces have fallen, then I woke, from being naive, could it always stand? The night was dark and full of great beasts creatures of legend reborn, taking their own stand. The dead, they rise and walk throughout the night and as the daylight wanes, does Winterfell still stand? The wolf and the dragon, their armies unite taking charge together, for us all they take a stand. Fire and blood is not enough, nor is his sacrifice, he will do h

Middle Eastern March

41 deviations

AAA Amazing Alphabetic April

61 deviations
Literature

no happiness in misery

no happiness in misery (OR: My best friend died and I don't know what to do so I wrote a cento about it with Fall Out Boy lyrics) so, progress report: i am missing you to death, my best friend, dead and gone, and i want these words to make things right but i must confess, now that you’re gone, i try to picture me without you but i can’t, so now i’m just numb, bulletproof loneliness, wearing vintage misery, like i’ll never be the same, and i don’t want to forget how your voice sounds, (just off the key of sunshine riptide) and i need to keep you like this in my mind, wishing on every star, a cherry blossom about to bloom, the eighth wonder. and i could scream forever, as desperation takes hold, ‘cause i don’t know where you’re going, and i keep telling myself i'd trade all my tomorrows for just one yesterday, and i’m so sorry how talking's just a waste of breath. it’s kinda funny, that everything i wish for will never come true. so i lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum. we

May Mixup Madness

49 deviations
Literature

Haiku

Brezza dall’alba Mattina di quiete L’erba sospira Breeze from the sunrise Peaceful break of the day And the grass whispers

Jubilant Japanese June JJJ

120 deviations
Literature

Because it rains

Because it rains, there are no friends to come around. Because it rains, don't go out: you risk a cold! What to do now? Don't feel bound, just sit down and listen the sound. Because it rains.

Rondeaus in juillet

38 deviations
Literature

Value of a Mechanism

Value of a Mechanism Machines may abolish altruism: [Will we still get bread? Will we have the cred?] How much value in a mechanism? Machines may unplug us: Matrix-like dead; Our wires unwrapped [CAT5 thread, gear-clocks]. [Will we still get bread? Will we have the cred?] Meters, coaxials, [Mind a black box]: Our displays will darken quickly, quickly... Our wires unwrapped [CAT5 thread, gear-clocks]. These machines do feed us: sickly, sickly. How long will they feed us? [Like us, Love us] Our displays will darken -- quickly, quickly... These machines calculate code on us: Plus, [Plus their algorithms] [Plus their virals]. How long will

Another Refrain August ARA

35 deviations

Send A Sonnet September SASS

32 deviations
Literature

Leanan Sidhe

As dappled light draws from my dreary room and silence stitches in between the seams of what is real within the nimbused gloom, unfurling darkness curls with dying beams. The leanan sidhe comes, silent as the tomb of madmen's muttered hymns to hollow dreams. To slake her thirst on stolen words she slips Her tongue into my ear with lover's lips.

Octacula

73 deviations

Nonsensical November

61 deviations
Literature

The Metamorphosis Affair

The gardens rioted with weeds of glass, Now and then a moisture deadened the glands; I saw the world through gray water, no grass. The floor-boards buckled, warped their weightless hands, Thoughts held down by a sickness, viscous, slow; I did not resist, scraped again by gray sands. The muscles taut to plant new seeds to grow, Just one night's sleep and suffering would rust; I meddled in medicine long ago.. ..but now cannot begin, unless from dust.

DFC 2012

343 deviations
Literature

Empyrean

Momma said to never marry an astronaut, they will always prefer the twinkling starlight to the light in your eyes. They'll only end up in ships that float aimlessly in zero gravity and you will not be there. Momma said to never marry an astronaut. You will stand firmly on the earth, clutching the ground and knowing they will always prefer the twinkling starlight. Planets will fracture and stars will collapse long before he recognizes he can travel to the light in your eyes.

DFC 2013

244 deviations
Literature

A Calculating Heart

A Calculating Heart A metered obsession, this heart: Soul passions beaker'd -- a la carte; Therefore I think (smart discourses), Beat. Beat, beat... geometry forces; blood & art. How do you weigh this blood organ? A calculus -- dark vorborgen; Red-like gorgon und Übermensch -- Beat. Beat, beat... flimsy-firm this wrench; pumps von sorgen. Oh, stucture-prentice of magicks: Bleak arts & black musics -- classics; Thou compose broomsticks, not chopsticks Your power I seek, your spastics -- Oh, fix -- transfix. Your analytics: swirled nightscapes; crow-wheats counted, still life -- sour grapes; An ear on floor, madness at door, Your self-

DFC 2014

193 deviations
Literature

inertia

hours unravel like hazy veils to mask the chasmic black holes within; dread fills the silence.

DFC 2015

368 deviations
Literature

Tears To Call Home

Please I beg thee, spare me! Take what coin I have and Leave! For I have naught but Wishes, tears to call home.

DFC 2016

234 deviations
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1 deviation