TNT Is Meant To Be

February 13th, 2024
For Valentine's Day

Every good love story needs a good sonnet. 
This one is for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce:
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They found each other somewhere in the light
A metaphor that knows just where to look
To see beyond the limits of plain sight
A simple story in love’s storybook 

She sings her songs of love with dulcet voice
A song becomes much more than what she sings
The words of love become a lyric choice 
Like songbirds know the tune of precious things

He must have known true love will know it’s true
It overcomes uncertainty and more
It seems to know precisely what to do
To show the love beyond love’s metaphor 

And now together they are TNT
An acronym for what was meant to be.

New Sonnets

February 5th, 2024
This project composes a sonnet from one line each of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets.
(whichever line speaks to me upon reading the sonnet)

Sonnet Number (line number in that sonnet”text”)

New Sonnet 1 (line 7 “Making a famine where abundance lies, “)

To make a famine where abundance lies
We need to disregard the way we live
If no one ever starves then no one dies
If no one asks, does anybody give?

Abundant lies exist where people seem
To be enamored by abundant words
Where poetry is more than just a dream
Where poets flit about like little birds

They peck the ground where seeded words are spilt
The poets think that they must peck to fly
And so they peck and eat in abject guilt
And then regurgitate before they die

The metaphor of words as seeds proclaims
That poets too are known by other names.

Jesus

January 27th, 2024

Pandæmonium

January 14th, 2024
They say that Pandæmonium’s design
Was drawn by heaven’s architect as well
A place that was approved by One Divine
The place they call the capital of Hell

From heaven cast, the demons found a place
Where all created demons always dwell
Then suddenly there seemed to be a race
To what they call the capital of Hell

If Pandæmonium begets blank time
Or time becomes a god like me or you
We see the Word become a goddamned Rhyme
As if it all depends on order too

Is all we need from life, a simple song?
The place where Pandæmoniums belong. 

Davy’s Goblin 30

December 19th, 2023

Around the Yule Log

November 16th, 2023

The Adoption of Caliban

October 7th, 2023
What father leaves his child with a witch?
By Setebos I curse the wretch to hell
The wretch will from humanity unhitch
The wretch becomes a story I must tell

By Setebos we live before we die
To live or die is often quite the same
Each life is but the telling of a lie
A lie which knows that truth is just a game

Play on, play on, we’ll die in wretched time
What father leaves his child with a witch?
By Setebos you recognize the crime
The players come and go; with you they switch

With Sycorax the witch you had your fun
Your Caliban exists in everyone.

Just a Sonneteer

September 24th, 2023

A parody of “Just a Gigolo”

I’m just a sonneteer and everything I hear
Little songs are words you’re buying
Paid for every rhyme, sometimes just a dime
Ooh, look at me cry

There may come a time when words no longer rhyme
What will they say about me?
The last couplet you hear
Makes me just a sonneteer
Fourteen lines define me

I’m just a sonneteer and everything I hear
Make sonnettics songs for buying
Paid for every rhyme, sometimes just a dime
Ooh, iambic cry

There may come a time when words no longer rhyme
What will they say about me?
The last couplet you hear
Makes me just a sonneteer
Fourteen lines define me. ‘cause

I ain’t got no free verse
No free verse poetry, no free verse
No free verse poetry
Iambs get so lonely
Lonely iambs, lonely iambs
Won’t some sweet quatrain come and take a chance or three?
‘Cause meter ain’t bad

Madam Figs Gala

September 8th, 2023

Witch

September 7th, 2023