I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.
Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.
I have always used a great variety of verse forms, especially in my poetry for children. I believe that poetry begins in childhood and that a poet who can remember his own childhood exactly can, and should, communicate to children.
Many varieties of sonnet, of course, have been written over the ages.
My beloved husband goes through radiation, and a book of sonnets is my passionate response. And then after he dies, I write another book of poems as a farewell. The two keywords here are passion and joy. I simply have a passion for writing, and I do it with joy.
The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.