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Stephen Pickering

Category: Sonnets

  • A New Poem: Sonnet #2 “Sunfather”

    Sunfather

    Red Wave Petunias shower over clay,
    All things can open up and show their light.
    A life becomes transparent in warm May.
    Transparent to transcendence born from night.

    Their eyes the leaves foam into greening smiles
    to Father Sun and Mother Sea of dream.
    They feel the music, sibling Wind breathes miles
    through body, bread and crown beneath the stream.

    It is the night of meeting ringing gold
    that dance and sing in drippings of the womb.
    A rushing waterfall that drapes us cold.
    Our salmon hearts dive in the unseen room.

    We sprang out from the sea by silent sounds,
    And fire ringed God’s swung open spirits’ clouds.

    © 2007/2009 Stephen Pickering

    (there still will be a bunch of iteration to do on this one. I finished it, not hurriedly, but in one sitting because of the importance of composition.)

  • Sonnet #1

    "Untitled" by Ruza Bagaric
    "Untitled" by Ruza Bagaric

    (*I figured if Shakespeare can write a hundred than I can too.)

    Sonnet #1

    I loved the girl who lived next door to me.
    Her eyes were blue and clear and sang with joy.
    She was the sun, the grass, the trees, and stream.
    Her hair was blond and bobbed just like a boy.
    Then something happened or was it just fate?
    The summer ended and the snow began to fall.
    The Garden froze and ice locked up her gate.
    Kid’s icy jeers piled up the labyrinth’s wall.
    The schools and churches crammed our time of play.
    We boys formed clubs; girls spoke in secret codes.
    The flowers froze; exuberant dancing went away,
    And natural feelings morphed to vaudeville shows.

    The dragon stole the treasures of our life.
    Until you lift her veil, her love will die.

    © 2008 Stephen Pickering