~ to belong / as we hurtle ~

Poetry.

Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man; the last 28 to a woman. The sonnets are almost all constructed from three quatrains, which are four-line stanzas, and a final couplet composed in iambic pentameter. This is also the meter used extensively in Shakespeare's plays. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. Sonnets using this scheme are known as Shakespearean sonnets. Often, the beginning of the third quatrain marks the volta ("turn"), or the line in which the mood of the poem shifts, and the poet expresses a revelation or epiphany.

I am moving many of my singly published poems into collections, and in this collection will reside all my sonnets I have written, and will write in the future--I hope you enjoy. Love, peace, and freedom, Olan L. Smith aka Cotton Jones. (Cover credit, Olan L. Smith; c. 2012. The number 14 symbolizes the number lines used in a sonnet.)

amidst the turmoil of the world silent poets are munching words

Ever wonder what it's all about? I need to try and work it out. I'll just begin with the deer. This is about what and who and where strength comes from.

Exploring pathways of the creative journey.

à la surface de la vie sur la vitre glacée la buée de ta bouche fait fondre les gouttes de soleil tu doutes émerveillée et il te prend la main et il te fait entrer

What is on the outside of a person does not necessarily relate to what is inside.

Poems looking at everything and anything not in my other collections. Here you'll find life and time, wild oceans and lonely coast paths, busy streets and empty hotel rooms, wild concerts and late night writing. All just fragments and reflections, like a scrapbook of poetry.