The Friday Fling Sonnetizes Summer Romance!
Friday Fling #185 June 22nd 2012
As we move officially into summer one of the first things which comes to mind is – summer romance!
Well maybe not necessarily. But it’s an attractive topic, and even if romance is not our thing at the moment, we all have memories about it.
What and who does the phrase “summer romance” bring to your mind and heart? How about expressing that in a Love Sonnet!
Love Sonnets are usually directed to a lover or about a lover, the qualities for which they are loved, etc. Shadow Poetry notes that:
A Sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines (iambic pentameter) with a particular rhyming scheme:
Examples of a rhyming scheme:
#1) abab cdcd efef gg
#2) abba cddc effe gg
#3) abba abba cdcd cd
A Shakespearean (English) sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet, and rhymes abab cdcd efef gg.
Usually, English and Italian Sonnets have 10 syllables per line.
If this format seems a bit intimidating, just think how proud you will be to have written one!
What would make your love sonnet extra fun would be if you use Shakespearean language in it! We’ll leave it up to you to add whatever you think of as Shakespearean.
This week the Friday Fling celebrates summer romance by going all hoity-toity high-falutin’ with Shakespearean-style Love Sonnets!
Be sure to save time to read and comment lovingly on your fellow Pals’ Shakespearean sonnetizations. Then go forth ye merry maids and whatchacallems and romance the first weekend of summer!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for June 15th
Congratulations Dee!
Welcome everyone to our CPC Friday Fling Summer Romance Love Sonnetwise! Pull up an iambic pentameter and try your muse at one of the most famous classic poetry forms ever, the Shakespearean style English Sonnet!
Here’s mine. It includes an extra introductory stanza because – well because I miscounted and wrote one too many stanzas!
ANTECEDENTS
While pondering what signs come from above
to represent importances in life,
methinks the rose resembles lady love
signifying she who would be my wife.
MY LOVE IS LIKE A ROSE
Up from a seedling watered in sunlight
grows foliage and stems with thorns to warn:
this floral specimen no one should slight
or thy might wish to never have been born.
From out the thorny bush there grows a bud,
which being tightly packed shows hopeful shine.
It reassures against the chance of dud,
when blossoming brings color, fragrance fine.
And sure enough, great promise is fulfilled!
when blooming out reveals such interlace
of petals delicate as could be willed.
Naught but divinity could mold that face!
My fingers lightly rub each petal’s red,
while mind and heart to lovers’ joy are wed.
Copyright June 20th 2012 RGD
SIMPLE A ROSE
As far as the eye kin see
A rose is just that a rose to be
Yet the fragrance of
Makes more sense to touch
And ever more to smell
A rose is more
A rose is life pleasure
It had means that one never though to be
Speaks without a word being said
A rose is a rose is a rose
A rose in its own way
Will bring smiles to the simple frown
Put the sense of love in the air
And make rainy days fair
Cool nights just a breeze to feel
A rose as far as the eye can see
Is but a rose yet more
To the heart that feels its way
Makes cloudy day clear
And puts frown where smiles should be
Written By: Bettie Davis ———————– © June 21 , 2o12
Congratulations Dee on The Fickle Finger of Fate Award … Hugs :love: :love:
Bob is out of town as I guess all know wit family .. He IM me that Michelle may be late but will be here soon .. So its just me for the now .. Please joint us and try you hand at the Friday Fling Summer Romance Love Sonnetwise .. Hugs Now … :love: :love:
Hello everyone. I got the message that Bob is out of town and spending time with family tonight but will be back tomorrow. Bare with me for a moment. I had to fire up my desktop since my laptop is shot now. LOL and this old clunker is running very slow now! :love:
THE ROSE
Roses
Count the ways
That I love you
One for each way
That I love you
Rose petals
To cover
The bed where you lay
So sweet the fragrant
That fills the air
That you breath so free
I will paint you a
Rose garden to see
To last long after me
That is how deep
My love grows
The thee
Written By: Bettie Davis ————————– © June 21 , 2o12
A Dream Come True
Wanting him and waiting so, long for my true love
To walk into my life without thinking twice
He walked as I looked up saw a dove
A chill from head to toes as winning dice
He seemed to be the man I saw before in my dreams
His warm smile inviting’ kiss igniting
As lifting me up time was not as it seems
A night we knew wasn`t ending being exciting
Tilting head back spinning my heart was sinking
Strength felt as he took hold his muscles shining
My brain stopped along with my heart no thinking
Viewing him lost my appetite no dining
It was he that I wanted within flighting’
Each want as our love had special lighting
This is by Sonnet Diva… thanks so much for your contribution, Lori! :love:
I’m having problems with the use of photobucket or trying to copy and past on this computer so I couldn’t get the pic-n-poem on here and it is beautifully done in a pic and poem. So sorry, Lori… yikes 🙄
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Shall I compare thee to an Autumn day?
Herein doth your beauty will ne’er to fade
Gazing upon thee resting in the shade
The smile upon thy lips is lovely stay
Making merriment where ever you go
Thine eyes a bounteous ocean of blue
Small thornless rosebud lips with a smile so true
Thy face does shine with heavenly glow
Me thinks your beauty like a ship doth sail
Soft blonde tresses enlivened with sunlight
Your voice doth a nightingale delight
It’s glorious wonder will never fail
My tongue trippeth over the words to say
I’m more enamored of thee, day by day
Sonnet Diva All Rights reserved
Here is one by me without the pic-n-poem since I have an old fart computer that I’m using now… lol
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A Hot Sizzling Summer Affair
On a midsummer day she found her heart
A time in her life she’ll never forget
Together at last living miles apart
Remembering the spark when they first met
He whispered in her ear sweet notes of love
Poetry of romance from his warm soul
While their bodies caressed like a snug glove
Passion fired up as she lost control
While gliding his tongue across her soft skin
Arousing her as his tongue would explore
Tingling and making her shake within
As she burst in tears wanting more and more
Then sealing love so felt with a long kiss
A midsummer day of romantic bliss
Michelle R. King
6-21-12
Havent heard this in along time. FOrgot how beautiful it is
Love is like a rose
with gentle tender parts
slowly it unfolds
and develops in your heart
It’s beauty can’t be tamed
It’s as wild as the wind
words can never explain
the feelings held within
you could be cut by a thorn
and your heart would tend to bleed
sometimes it will be torn
But inside is always a new seed
There will always be a change
and yet it grows and grows
although it may seem strange
love is like rose.
Beautiful blog, theme, images, challenge, and pieces posted. Congratulations to Dee and Happy Summer!
Sonnets are worth playing hooky for a few hours, right? 😆 Thanks, CPC crew, for always being here for us!
So sorry all for being so late to return to this party! As you may know I was responsible for the Share and the Sunday this week as well plus being out of town till Saturday with very limited internet access since my 84-year old stepmother in Rochester knows naught of computers LOL
This week despite the heavier than usual challenge of the English Love Sonnet format, we had several really good posts to choose a Finger winner from! Thanks to everyone who participated and helped make this such a successful challenge!