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NOTES The two sonnets in this sequence are basically in Shakesperean form but are actually written in iambic heptameter rather than iambic pentameter. Additionally, rather than the 'standard' division of three quatrains and a couplet this is written as quatrain + octave (composed of two quatrains) +...

Hi all. I've been unable to post for some time but at the moment a little time to spare... There's a Sonnet in my Bonnet There's a sonnet in my bonnet and it will not go away. I thought I'd write this morning, just a simple bardic lay. I've tried until I'm weary and my eyes are getting bleary So cle...

May I also add my congratulations? I'm a relative newcomer to PP but Bags you have been a source of encouragement for which I thank you. It's always a little traumatic to burst into verse but you made the initiation (almost) painless. Unfortunately occupational commitments keep me away from PP more ...

Reflections. My day is ended, work is done And wearied I return to rest And passing her studio door, I glance within She sits, engrossed, humming an ancient tune of Gods and mortals And calls into being life from her canvas with deft touches of her brushes. Those hands - I remember another time and ...

Very true mate, they always do. Some last a longer time than others, but in the end.....

Truly, and as most such valiant efforts were, yet in the end Rome fell. A termite cannot fell a tree but a nest of the hungry little bu**ers can certainly do a good job. The 'Bringer of Victory?' - from the old word Boudeg, with the same meaning, a title rather than a name. 'Breaca' probably didn't ...

Indeed so, but it becomes to poet to laud heroic failure as much as to scatter petals before the victor's feet.

Being something of a career failure I'm quite happy about this.

An attempt not made cannot be successful.

As we say here 'Gotta be in it ter win it mate!'

Interesting imagery. Very well done!

Fascinating. You write with the soul of a Historian. You have not yielded to the temptation to allude to Tacitus' precis of Scapula's disarming of the eastern tribes. This shows an understanding of the questionable reliability of the sources. Your profile shows little (as does mine) but I shall foll...

Ta mate. Have to do something about raisin' yer kulcheral valews tho mate!
For a start yer gotta lern ter talk proper, like wot I do!

I saw a bloke in town today He don't like me one little tad. He said he missed me yesterday And now he's very very sad. I don't like him and he hates me I stood and wondered for a bit Whatever could the problem be I stopped and pondered, then it hit! I see him here, I see him there But I'm not worri...

Entirely my pleasure. Best wishes from Australia.

Bags, that's really good mate. I like to see a job well done - which this is!

Beautiful.

Liked it mate. Particularly the last two lines.