The Random Ramblings Of My Mind, That Make Way Into THE WILD HEART. Do Give It A Read. I'm Sure You Won't Regret. ;)

Dark Night of the Soul is a classic piece of Christian literature. It discusses an experience that seems to come to all of us sooner or later. I wrote two response poems, and so I have posted the original, by St. John of the Cross, and the two responses.

Poems that are meant to make us all feel better

Those stick-figure characters on the backs of cars... The caricatures of moms, dads, kids, pets, jedi, Darth Vaders, zombies, and whatever else. That strange trend that it's just hard to put a finger on what's wrong about it or what's right about it. That stuff is what each of these stories is about.

This started out as a Sonnet, then a trilogy of sonnets, then a 4-parter, and now there are 6 sonnets in the series. I think I've got it all out of my system for a while now. Thanks for your patience everyone. A Sonnet Trilogy in Four--NO, Six! Parts. It was a trilogy, but it was missing something so I added another bit. Thanks @cottonjones for the article you sent on sonnets. I tried to apply the principles hwere, and it was challenging.

This book contains a couple of sonnets of mine. One is meta - a sonnet about sonnets. The other is an example that I will show through eight drafts of how it was composed. This illustrates my method for writing poetry. There are lots of other methods, but here you get to see one of my pieces through various iterations until I get to what I think is "finished". Maybe this will help you in your writing, or maybe it will be purely for our amusement. Either way, feel free to comment on what you see in the process.