Next weekend marks the start of the May Day bank holiday in the UK, while in other parts of the world we celebrate International Workers’ Day or Labour Day. In honour of this, and in recognition of the emergency on planet earth, I will be holding a Sonnet Sunday on 2 May on the theme… Continue Reading →
You may recall that this Valentine’s Day, I hosted a Sonnet Sunday here on Experiments in Fiction. This was a celebration of love in sonnet form. I asked you to write a traditional, Shakespearian sonnet on the theme of love and share it with me. This was such a fun event that I have decided… Continue Reading →
I realise it’s been a while since I hosted a Sonnet Sunday as I have been very busy with dVerse, publishing a book, trying to finish my novel, etc. What better time to revive this poetry party than Halloween? Last year’s EIF Halloween Poetry Challenge was a spooky success, and I’m hoping to recapture some… Continue Reading →
In preparation for Halloween Sonnet Sunday, I did some internet searching, only to discover that the Halloween Sonnet is not really ‘a thing’… yet! This is great news, because it gives us a chance to be innovators with the form. I did, however, wish to provide some inspiration, so I’m happy I landed upon Pop… Continue Reading →
As Halloween Sonnet Sunday draws nearer, my email inbox is filling up with spooky sonnets… be sure to get yours in before it is too late! Last week, we took a closer look at the sonnet form, but how about content? As I’ve said before, it’s your sonnet, so the content is entirely up to… Continue Reading →
I have witnessed the transition from Spring into Summer in several different locations. In the UK, the saying goes, Ne’er cast a clout, till May is out. (‘Don’t take your (winter) clothes off until May is over.’) In Catalunya, it’s Pel maig cada dia un raig (‘In May, every day a ray’ – but the… Continue Reading →
It is the season of the heart’s delightlit by the winds of change in chambers darkand sinuous corridors wrapped up in night:somewhere within ignites that fevered spark. Why do we love? With what sense of restraint?What absoluteness and what tortured doubt?Conning the hero’s part, within we faintdisplaying not our inner fears without. No notion nor… Continue Reading →
We seek a Saviour in these troubled timesto lead us to some fabled promised landwe bind our hearts, wrap up our dreams as rhymesare scattered like so many grains of sand upon the windy beach, where yet we waitfor spring tides swell and rise to ease our painand search the far horizon, always lateto reach… Continue Reading →
Come, workers of the world, let us unitein questioning the purpose of our role:to build a future fair, and free, and brightor drudge towards some profit-driven goal? We may feel we are cogs within a wheelwithin another wheel relentlessly such wheels are turned until we barely feelour role within our planet’s destiny. Perhaps we are climbing… Continue Reading →
As summer leaves behind the springThe days grow ever longerThe leaves are green the birds do singThe sun shines ever stronger I walk along the sandy shoreAnd gaze out to the distant seaI feel the warmth and long for moreThe summer sun has set me free I then ascend a distant hillAnd contemplate a tranquil… Continue Reading →
