Poetry Anthology

1. Poetry Anthology -Gwenn Barrett

2. My Haikus’ In the scorching heat We will fly over the jumps Never breaking pace. Standing tall and round Were friends only a season Then you will melt away. Climb to the treetops Swinging from the high branches Full and green with leaves.

3. My Limerick The Coarse Horse There once was a big brown horse, Whose voice was extremely coarse. He choked on some hay, So he ran to the bay. Where he coughed with incredible force.

4. My Quatrain • My horse isn’t very great, • always jumping over the gate. • He’s a very clever horse you see, • and very much wishes to be free.

5. My Ballad • Loves eternal balance glows, shimmers. • Sweet like an effervescent lantern should. • When red lips spoke, one great knight felt this glimmer. • A forbidden love misunderstood. • When red lips spoke he knew that he mustn’t be caught. • In nights cloak travelling to the beauties town, • Whisking her away from a family who knew not. • Sandy beaches, crystal water of the crown. • A sweet love was not to be for a knight, • His darling red lipped lady wept, • As strong arms carried her away from the light. • As her one true loves soul departed with steel, • As tears fell upon tears her red eyes grew weary. • To her dark room she kept no hope or joy to feel, • As she thought of her knight, eerie.

18. Gothic Ballad 2   I walk carelessly down the dark roadMy heavy black boots constantly clickingClicking on the cold cementMy long black and velvet Trench coat Billowing in the slight breezeMy Chest slightly rising under my tight corsetMy chains on my pants jingling togetherAs I walk down this Moon lit roadStaring up at the midnight moonThis is the balladThe ballad of the lostOf the silent warriorsOf the people you pass by and call freaksOf the peopleWho will save your soulFor our souls are pureOur souls sing this balladThe ballad of the nightThe ballad of the pure hearts

19. Ballad 3 - The Gorge • Peace -- of the quiet and stillness of space --Rests on the hills; and the fading day diesAnd the dusk comes up from the gorge and liesLike a mist, purple; and the river's faceIs green. Peace -- It spreads with infinite grace,Rising on the night as a bird that fliesUp out of the dead day with muted criesTo spread its velvet wings on this wild place. • On the high crags above the world they stand,One with the moon and with these pale green streamsThat rell their ageless way on wheels of sand --Alone, and yet as one with all the dreamsThat life has drawn from out the moon's white beams --Silent we stand, your hand warm in my hand. • -- E. E. Nichols

20. Analyzing the Italian SonnetA Game Of Chess – Gwen Harwood • “Nightfall: the towns chromatic nocturne wakes dark brilliance on the river” Night is coming the sky is a ‘chromatic nocturne’ meaning a colorful dark, a beautiful night. • “Colors drift and tremble as enormous shadows lift Orion to his place” Day is turning to night, its getting dark. The ‘enormous shadow’ being the night sky and ‘lift Orion to his place’ means the stars are coming out. • “The heart remarks that peace torn in the blaze of the day.” People talking about their day and their problems ‘peace torn’ infers a problem. • “Inside your room are music, warmth, and wine, the board with chessmen set for play.” Though it’s a beautiful night the group is going to spend their time together inside, warm with drinks and chess” • “The harpsichord begins a fugue; delight is multiplied.” The harp begins a soft tune; everyone's in a good mood. • “A game: the hearts impossible ideal to choose among a host of paths” There are many games to choose from that you are welcome to pick. • “And know that if the kingdom crumbles one can yield and have the choice again.” If you lose its okay, you can just start again or try something else, it doesn’t matter cause its just a game. • “Abstract and real joined in their trance of thought, two players show the calm of gods above a troubled field.” The game example here is chess, the board being the ‘troubled field or battlefield and the players being the ‘Gods’ controlling their army (being the chess pieces) from above.

21. Analyzing English SonnetShall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day? - William Shakespeare • Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Compliment to her beauty from a man. • Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Your more than the beauty of summer to me. • Rough winds do not shake the darling buds of May Their love will last through all the rough times that are inevitable, like May it will always come. • And summers lease hath all too short a date Love goes by too quickly by death, could have 100 years and its still to short a time to ever be separated. • Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines Sometimes their love is too strong, too passionate, too similar, too much in general. • And often his gold complexion dimm’d; He's unhappy when they fight, he's a different person. • And every fair from fair sometime declines. Every beauty eventually loses her beauty, everyone grows old. • By chance or natures changing course untrimm’d Loses beauty by accident like sickness or by the natural way of aging, always been that way. • But thy eternal summer shall not fade Their love will not fade even as they grow old. • Nor lose possession of that fair thou oust He's not going to forget her beauty even as it ‘fades’ • Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, Death’s not going to be happy when he meets her. • When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st • So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long loves this, and this gives life to thee. Loves going to exist as long as men are around and can see with their eyes women so beautiful that they can be compared to summer. When it says ‘This gives life to thee’ means life's happy when your in love, it gives you hope and happiness.