Awaken!
Sonnets For The Modern Person
Published on 14. February 2024
278 pages
978-1-63784-415-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents a contemporary take on a traditional poetic form. This approach brings modern issues into close focus, while maintaining the spirit of those who have used it before. The structure of the sonnet allows for a myriad of expressions, just as the sonata has evoked some of the most exquisite music ever written. Herein you will find topics touching on love, heart, harmony, personal growth, care of the self and others, nature, spirit, social progress, life's journey, and others. The mood ranges from ecstatic to serious, falling back on whimsical.
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Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- For my family, friends, and loved ones. I thank you all for supporting me during the sometimes painful, sometimes blissful, lifelong expansion of my awareness. May these humble lines serve to encourage others on their own path toward self-growth.
- Sunday Sonnet
- Without Hope of Love
- Beauty Brought to Terms
- Time's Cruel Advance
- I Am Your Heart
- From Solitude
- The Moment Began
- No More, My Heart
- To Elevate Love
- Mutual Love
- We Are Poised
- We Cannot Fail
- Time Will Tell
- When At Last
- It Is A Calm Morning
- A Father's Pride
- Armed with Grace
- I Saw Her Come
- Lo! We Are the Stuff
- There Are Two Men
- I Hope to Step Away
- One's Very Life
- Let Me Pour
- May We Forward Walk
- Visions Come To Me
- Love That Endures
- I Have Lost My Best Prospect
- What is the Value of Me
- As Humans We Are
- It Is Quite Clear
- Something Tells Me
- A Simple Day
- I Stand As Proxy
- Let Us Attend
- 'Tis A Lovely Spring Day
- We Find At Times
- Ah, Beauty!
- In the Erstwhile Guise
- To Contend With Wounds
- I Gave My Heart
- I Had No Expectation
- Life: There Are No Promises
- Worthy of Love
- Come, Love
- You Tell Me
- Greetings My Friend
- My Furry Friend
- The Storm This Morning
- What A Year
- My Cat
- Concerted Daily Effort
- Oh, I That Am
- Raise Then A Glass
- A Task Accomplished
- Response to Comments upon Reading One of My Sonnets
- Those Places in Need of Our Most Profound Love and Compassion
- The Morning Cup
- When At Last
- Though a Man of Heart
- The Hollow Invitation
- The Goddess Appears
- The Expense of Spirit
- For Edna St. Vincent Millay
- My Doggerel Lines, or Pizza & Beer
- The Wet Basement
- On Edna St. Vincent Millay's Poetry
- Time in Poet's Reverie
- Tangible On Ineffable Depends
- The Morning Ride
- Treasure These Last Few Days
- Hath She Held Him in All Too High Esteem?
- When I Shall Have Landed
- First Day Back After Five Weeks Furlough
- I Love These Cool Evenings
- Another Evening At Home
- Many Diverse Media
- Call It Grace
- Fortune Favors Fools
- Hard Times Indeed
- Our HR Manager - for Leah
- Community Is Not Merely a Group
- I Shan't Answer
- In A Pinch
- The Glorious Music of Bach
- The Inner Landscape
- Frost-white Frozen Man
- You Sent Your Heart
- Time's Not Love's Fool
- All's Well That Ends Well
- Do Not Go Down
- My Day's Highest Pleasure
- Not Take Away
- Thoughts On Friendship
- Harken Well to the Wren
- Measured Against the Flow of Time
- I'm A Heavenly Mess
- The Engineer Assembles
- This Moment Holds
- Peaceful People Protest
- To Please the Piper
- All That I Am
- Let Me Circle Back
- A Screaming Panic
- Joy of Working
- Failure's A Risk
- I Open Myself
- Graphis scripta
- How Would That Appear
- With Spirit Imbued
- My Vertigo
- Whether or Not
- Love is so Vital
- It's None of My Concern
- You Are A Portal
- He Who Quips Well
- These Poems I Have Fashioned
- I Am Vulnerable
- The Salmon of Knowledge
- Ipse Dixit
- I Speak My Heart's Message
- I Saw the Goddess Once Again
- With Selfless Acts
- Does Setting Always Promote
- It May Well Be
- Have I Done Well By Thee
- To Honor Deep Love
- Let the Tide of Life
- Time, It Seems
- How Is It Grace and Sorrow Coexist?
- Umbels of White
- Many Are the Solar Orbits
- Ancient Tongues
- Eros is Relatedness
- Your Gentle Heart
- Brother, Speak Now!
- My Lobgesang35
- Hallowed Words - Hallowed Halls
- Tell Me That You Love Me
- Even If She Does Not Respond
- When Night Falls
- More Strength Means More to Offer
- The Union I Seek
- Nothing Is Lost
- Man-That-I-Am
- You Hold So Much Love
- My Heart's Clear Behest
- A Body's Animation
- Across The Ages
- Being A Poet
- Courage
- I Don't Have to Hold You
- I Grow A Little
- Our Tears Have Smiles
- Open Your Eyes
- A Poet's Separation
- The Tongues of Man
- A Whole Man
- Your Love of Family
- The Fisherman and the Nereid
- In the Black of Night
- Mutatio Mutationis Causa
- I'll Kiss Your Hand
- My Loveliest Art
- What Have You Found
- I Love You Exactly
- Autumn's Solidago
- Life is Accommodating
- Linnaeus' Joke
- Chambers of the Heart
- My Heartfelt Call
- My Father Laughed
- Play This One Out
- Wise Care of the Self
- Is Life Precious?
- As Each Day Turns
- The Adoration in His Eyes
- Got Angst?
- Leave It Lay
- My Heart's Love-Culmination
- If You Value Us
- To See Love and Beauty
- Held in the Witch's Grip
- Term Limits for Marriage
- Gravel to Your Sand
- Love Expressed in Chemical Engineering Terms
- No Sign of Strength
- Ego Laudo Te45
- Two Halves of Me
- Claire's Sonnet
- Ignominious Dreams
- The Amazing Wonder-Jill
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Stop Projecting!
- Seeing Is Believing, Holding Is Knowing
- Love Was No Misstep
- The Poet's Prayer
- Loneliness is a Poor Midwife
- These Extraordinary Times
- Social Forbearance
- The Dark Side
- Was Gibran Wrong?
- Folly's Careless Grinning Mask
- Steadfast, He Opens His Heart
- Open to Those in Need
- The Turning Stone Grinds
- When Hearts Beat the Same
- Justly Honor the Goddess
- Healing Has Its Own Momentum
- Love, Give Me Your Hand
- His Bountiful Heart
- Fall Birdwatching
- Return to Reverence / The Sonneteer
- The Grand Game Called Love
- Dreams Pose the Irrational
- No Spirit to Inspire or Ignite
- On Seeing Several Trump Campaign
- Friendship's Hidden Blessings
- Friendship's Truths
- Euterpe's Apotheosis
- Secrets of Good Craft
- Soft Now, My Friend
- Love is Stronger than Time
- A Love We All Might Pursue
- Mae, Where Are You Going?
- Enough of Egos
- A Clear Path
- Each Love You Carry
- Mankind's Endeavor
- No Great Plan
- The Rhythm of the Sea
- Cool Grey Introspective Days
- Adversity's Sweet Uses
- Sigils Are Portals
- Invitation to Friendship
- Chestnut
- Scrumptious Soul
- Come My Sweet Muse
- Amara Animum Aggravat Adversum Corpus60
- The Complex Heart (a + bi)
- Too Early to Celebrate, or Bad-President Blues
- The World Awaits
- Soft Are the Knells
- To Love's Advantage
- Though I Sit Alone
- Dance as Metaphor for Life
- Incredible Soul-Ally
- Show Some Spine
- The Healing Path
- Soul-Space
- Sweet vs. Erudite
- Index to First Lines
- About the Author
