The approaching storm rages inside me,
pacing the widow's walk again tonight.
My endless cries like a wailing banshee,
as this aching heart is my destined plight.
This estate purchased two decades ago,
it was our dream house right on the ocean.
Now all alone as these evil winds blow,
the pain of loss, my only emotion.
Roaring the echoes deep down in my soul,
the lights remain burning for you my love.
Although knowing I'll ne'er again be whole,
my mem'ries of you I can be proud of.
Sea captain's wife; now a widow I am
and these crashing waves, a battering ram.
Joyce Le Lievre
(sunny day)
© Joyce A. Le Lievre, All Rights Reserved
January 16, 2008
Author notes
Contest picture credited to: Jesse Barnes
Sonnet
A Sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines, usually done in (iambic pentameter) it does have a particular rhyming scheme.
Examples of a rhyming scheme:
#1) abab cdcd efef gg
#2) abba cddc effe gg
#3) abba abba cdcd cd
A Shakespearean (English) sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet, and rhymes abab cdcd efef gg.
An Italian sonnet is composed of an octave, rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet, rhyming cdecde or cdcdcd, or in some variant pattern, but with no closing couplet.
Usually, English and Italian Sonnets have 10 syllables per line, but Italian Sonnets can also have 11 syllables per line. French sonnets follow in this same pattern, but normally have 12 syllables per line.
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A contest entry
- Picture Inspired 1 by jasminerose.
700 points, ended February 10, 2008, 11 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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A beautiful, yet heartwrenching inspiration your muse has written from the picture prompt! Your sonnet is simply wonderful and most stirring to my heartstrings!!
Thank you so much for entering!
Jasminerose
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Thank you for the applauses and your lovely words of praise for me here. The picture you chose was the inspiration and there are some very beautiful writes in this contest. I don't envy you for having to judge them. LOL I'm very happy that you enjoyed this. I was inspired by Amera on this, along with the picture. Love and God bless you always, in all ways. Joyce
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This is a powerful story of loss and carrying on. Wow. What I love about this is that the couplet is the exclamation mark at the end of the story. Very good!
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Allan, Thank you for the applauses and your lovely words of praise for me here. I had read Amera's entry in this contest and I was quite taken by the picture the host used for the inspiration. Amera is the sonnet queen and I hope I kept up with her on this one. I'm very happy that you enjoyed it so much. Your words did leave me humbled.
Love and God bless you my friend, Joyce
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this is something beautiful and you know i think you did a fantastic job on this, keep it flowing and good luck in the contest.
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Aaron, Thank you for the lovely words of praise you always give to me. The picture that we had to write for was filled with so much imagery and can tell many tales. I'm very happy that you enjoyed this one and thank you for the best wishes also. Love and God bless you my friend, Joyce
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This is beautiful my friend! I love the image and story you paint. The full fourth beat in this sonnet makes it flow like silk. I am so glad that you entered this contest and I see it with a gold trophy on it. I'm honored to compete with poets like you.
Love,
Amera♥
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Amera, Thank you for the applause and your lovely words of praise that have left me very humbled. It is good to compete with those who I know are better and yes an honor also. I don't know about a gold here when it's up against that beauty I saw from you. Let that ink keep flowing like the tides that are endless. Love you my friend, Joyce
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