Author's Notes: They say the word sonnet, meaning "little song" originated in the early 13th century in the Sicilian court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a patterned rhyme scheme.
Generally, there are two types of sonnets: Italian (Petrarchan) and English (Shakespearean). The English or Shakespearean sonnet traditionally consists of three quatrains and a couplet, which takes the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.
Sonnets are usually written in the meter, iambic pentameter, with allowance for some variance to break from the monotony. Iambic pentameter means each line has five feet. Each foot has two syllables, the first is unstressed while the second is stressed.
The poem below is Shakespearean in style with the abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme. Please understand, my understanding of iambic pentameter is still growing; therefore, it is not perfect.]
Although darkened storms temper True and Good, Sacred and pure are His seeds spread to sprout, No, the weather does not remain its best, Springtime blossoms signal the momentous,
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You are welcome to print and circulate all articles published on Clearharmony and their content, but please quote the source. The Great Gardener Has Many Flowers
Grows these flowers inside a field of weeds.
A righteous man secures his livelihood,
Speaking of the facts and doing good deeds.
Humbly now do they follow the Great Way.
His nurturing will end this ancient drought,
As they inch tall, tolerating the day.
And the human mind does shift immoral.
To make a kind man into the oppressed,
Silly to do when he has no quarrel.
Golden wheel turns this season so precious!
Poem: The Great Gardener Has Many Flowers
2006-09-24
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