We seek a Saviour in these troubled times
to lead us to some fabled promised land
we bind our hearts, wrap up our dreams as rhymes
are scattered like so many grains of sand
upon the windy beach, where yet we wait
for spring tides swell and rise to ease our pain
and search the far horizon, always late
to reach the sun-stretch on the broad sea plain.
Here, optimistically I gather stones,
cast out these pebbles to the tumbling tide
in hope that their small ripples stir the bones
of all the dead, that life may yet abide
upon a planet, heartsick to its core:
still blind to what the ocean has in store.
© Experimentsinfiction 2021, All Rights Reserved
Take part in Easter Sonnet Sunday!
Hello and welcome to another Sonnet Sunday. This time it’s the Easter edition, and I have opened the proceedings with a sonnet I wrote on the theme of salvation. I am linking this to Earthweal’s open link weekend.
To take part, link up a sonnet on the theme of ‘Easter’ in the comments below, and be sure to read and comment on other contributors’ compositions. Alternatively just sit back, relax and enjoy the poetry. I will be posting sonnets at regular intervals throughout the day.
Happy Easter to all who celebrate, and Happy Sonnet Sunday to everyone!
Happy Easter Ingrid.
Happy Sonnet day.💐💐
Thank you Lokesh and Happy Easter to you! 🌷
A very poignant poem Ingrid, with a grand finale…
https://youtu.be/LnHoqHscTKE
Thanks Ivor: we need to start thinking about the consequences of our actions 🌏 🌊❤️
We.. the modern society have so much to answer for … and it’s time we started to channaelling the marvels of technology into repairing and saving the planet …
If only!
Our job is to keep up at the awearness factor..
This is a fine sonnet, Ingrid, well done! I may have a try at my own Easter sonnet, but I’m not sure …
If you do, please link it up here, that would be lovely! Thank you Carolyn 🙏
It will have to wait until tomorrow, if it even happens …
That’s fine of course 😊
This is a hymnal sonnet, Ingrid, a prayer for salvation. I love the image of wrapping up our ‘dreams as rhymes / are scattered like so many grains of sand / upon the windy beach’. I look forward to gathering stones and casting out ‘pebbles to the tumbling tide’ – great use of alliteration there, I could hear the stone click and plopping.
Here’s a sonnet for you on sonnet Sunday:
https://writinginnorthnorfolk.com/2020/07/26/poetichor/
Thank you for your kind words and especially for sharing yours! I have shared this on Twitter before disappearing into the mountains for a few hours, hopefully to pick up the scent of a poem or two…
Happy Easter, Ingrid! Have you had an Easter egg hunt with you children yet? I’m hoping to hear from Ellen and Lucas sometime today.
We are planning a walk and then an egg hunt! I hope you have a lovely 😊
This is absolutely beautul Ingrid. I would love to join in but cant find it lol. I found that I can comment on your blog on my old iPad, for which I am glad. I am so glad that I read this beautiful sonnet for Easter. Thankyou.
Thank you Lorraine and Happy Easter to you! 🙏❤️🐣
Happy Easter to you too Ingrid. Hearts. Xx
Lovely, Ingrid, and well said. Happy Easter to you and your family!
I’m going to try to write a sonnet today. (It’s still before sunrise here.) 😀
Thank you Merril, I hope you have a lovely day 😊
😀
I knew at once that this was yours. The enjambment
of the lines, the follow-ons creating lots of little waves,
the nuances of time and tide, the pebbles and the wishes cast;
your signature. So lovely, Ingrid.
Crafted with care and skill, as always x
Thank you Nick that’s praise indeed. You’re on at 4pm your time 😊
Is it a formal affair?
Black tie!
A beautiful prayer. You use this form so well. (K)
Thank you Kerfe, I do enjoy writing sonnets 🙏
happy Easter to you too…
Thank you 🙏
A lovely poem Ingrid. It has a religious feel to it but without the distracting dogma which often encumbers the spiritual!
“In hope that their small ripples stir the bones…..” Beautiful.
Thank you Sherry. There’s always hope 🙏
Love this.
Thank you 😊
What is the resurrection that will save this planet? Will it be a virus or a wave? I loved the earnest enquiry here by the sea, the bones out there which might know and could sing for us … I held off responding earlier because I thought I might try an Easter sonnet, but I couldn’t get that darned bonnet onto the morning’s vowel movement.
It can be uncomfortable to try and force it!
Hi Ingrid,
Here is my Easter sonnet, a little bit of memory, and also reminder of unwanted results …
Easter Consumption
The time has come, I wonder what it holds,
Will Easter eggs, sweet chocolate suffice?
What treasure may be wrapped in alfoil folds?
This basket I have here, it sure looks nice!
These bright colours, remind me of a time
We children hunted garden for such joys
The chocolatey reward always sublime
So transient, but still surpassing toys!
An adult now, and knowing all too well
What excess brings to parts I want to trim
The calories add up, and bum will swell –
Easter’s not the time to make one slim!
This is lovely Caroly! And best of all, it made me smile 😊 thank you for sharing, and a Happy Easter to you 🙏
Oh, that’s great, I love to make people smile!
So sincere. Keep that optimism. A lot of things have come to light in the past year. Hopefully we keep these lessons with us as we look to move forward. Hopefully pushing to make things better🙏
I hope so: it almost feels as though our collective conscience is starting to wake up…
I agree 🙏
Beautiful sonnet on Easter Ingrid. Love the casting of pebbles in the tide as symbolism of letting go and change. I can imagaine you and your boys at the waters edge.🌷🌷🌷🌷
Thanks Cindy ❤️ 🌊