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Stephen Pickering

Category: Sonnets

  • Two New Iambic Dimeter Poems

    The neurons fire
    In love tonight
    The singing choir
    relieves my fright
    sleep with the Rose
    submerge the sea
    The bower knows
    what’s inside me
    She’ll come again
    another door
    her song the wind
    ears to the floor.
    Don’t say a word.
    Love’s almost born.

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    Let conscious breathe
    you won’t I know
    but can’t we dream
    away we go?
    September morn
    blues Christ can play
    The bells adorn
    The nightly day
    The purring moon
    she finds her tide
    we’re in a swoon
    away we ride.
    Her romance seeds
    The worlds best deeds.

     

  • A New Poem in Iambic Trimeter: Visiting Isis’ Sister

    I know it wasn’t fair
    to those who dance below:
    Between our creaky stair
    Descends our nightly ghost.
    I’ve come to see my girl
    Her sister plays alone.
    Here in her deathly world
    Her grievance sings her song.
    What does she want from me?
    A willingness to die?
    Like Jesus on the tree,
    A needle through the eye?
    I sacrifice my bliss
    For you my little sis.

  • 2 New Iambic Poems

    This first one is in iambic tetrameter with the structure of an English Sonnet:

    I lost you to Arabian nights:
    The god Apollo’s basketball.
    You had that day Queen Isis eyes..
    Unfolding reddened fall leaves song.
    It does mean something here in snow.
    The M&#257rga flames the Firebird’s beak.
    Somehow it made me let you go,
    So silent beings now can speak.
    I reach across the earth for you.
    Across the universe I fly.
    You’re under spellbound mountain dew.
    Asleep by mirrors’ watchful eye.
    Then something shakes the arch’s gate.
    The colors open again Finn’s wake.

    ©2013 Stephen K. Pickering

     

    This second one is a straight English Sonnet, having the structure and the 5 iambic feet per line, iambic pentameter:

    It’s thought itself that’s separating us.
    My little molecules are calling you.
    So Jesus told the mountain, “Part to dust!”
    And said let go, that you could do it too.
    Transparent eyes that cover Western skies.
    I hook the trailer hilt that pulls the sun.
    I search for you each night on moonlight drives:
    Some feeling in the heart that you’re the one.
    You pulled me out of the beach’s seahorse sand.
    And ponied up the soul for Daphne’s bed.
    With wildest sleep we wake this magic land
    Sing witches stirring lives from worlds we’ve banned.
    The tea room veils the river’s bride in frost.
    All calling for the princess who’s been lost.

    ©2013 Stephen K. Pickering

     

  • A New Sonnet: Cape Arrow

    “Cape Arrow”

    One thing I do remember is the dance.
    Your river hair was flowing the magic nights.
    Steps guided by the heart’s inner lance.
    Our motion flew above the city lights.
    Remember fall among the yellow leaves?
    Our eyes reflected colors of the soul.
    Before we even knew we had the keys,
    Our fountain’s dream we danced around could flow.
    I wonder what you thought about our song?
    It echoes still, they say, that empty hall.
    It tries to resurrect what seems long gone
    A memory my heart will always call.
    I sometimes think when walking down this street,
    I’ll turn and somehow there again we’ll meet.

     

  • A New Sonnet: Cross of Lorraine

    Cross of Lorraine

    I wanted down the cotton pine below.
    It seemed the dream was calling from their root.
    I had escaped the cocktail party show:
    The empty voices blocking nature’s tune.

    The recent summons in the field of time:
    Our river’s bridge was rotting but still there.
    Perhaps it was just merely warmth from wine,
    I melted down that rickety old stair.

    I wondered would your eyes still have that glow
    If I could somehow reach across our lives;
    And swim the river down our muddy soul
    Where love forever dances in the night?

    Our little eyes that swim the river’s floor:
    Their secret depths open new love’s door.

    © 2013 Stephen Pickering

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    I swim the river wide
    Hoping to find you inside
    This new life.

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  • Sonnet #9 in Iambic Tetrameter –

    I think I’m wrong about the song.
    I didn’t feel that you would come.
    Please tell the notes that don’t belong
    That winter’s bone remains unsung.

    I feel it on the inside grow.
    So, could a man become a god?
    Don’t let this meditation go.
    Just follow it no matter what.

    This isn’t where I want to be.
    My heart is feeling very sore.
    You know the site I want to see?
    Three graces dancing at my door.

    What is it that I’m running from?
    Those angels say to let it come.