The Coming of the Toads

A Notebook – Since 2007

Tag: Sonnet

  • Of an Old Style

    When you need to get close to each season,
    to know which direction our vast Earth spins,
    come sit under the apple tree and reason,
    pink blossoms now against winter winning.
    Life is not much of a competition;
    most creatures make the best of and endure.
    And then there’s this endless repetition
    of flowers come-hither with alarming
    allure. Such is the plan it would appear,
    since the same thing happens every year.


  • Sawn Knit

    Chairs off course know search ring a stiff lilly
    Cheers off corset nill touch ping a short rally
    Chilly fur coarse none such amongst the still
    Thesis natch nought loopy stock still hush
    Thus ditzy dippy bee causal dingus thrill
    Thoughtless remiss trunk full tree bananas
    There is rash such art as false tranquility
    Of pass age there is nothing prack test
    Charts no excerptions pair of phones snail
    Espresso café square corner tables
    Seats side walked there there now close
    Call this way where begins such still life
    Naturally there is no such thing as a still life
    Docile no stiff necked bowl of animus

  • Noir Street Choir

    Purple plaque plugs these rose drowsy lines
    Cowled slugs slow tunes wet needed nibbling speech
    Crawls to neck to nip & gnaw ear snack signs
    Where moons have placed your pierced panache.
    One day we’ll dance this sonnet for Monet
    Gather green garden bonnet bright flowers
    Moist morning your sweet toes curled sachet
    & place feathers in quick fallen embrace.
    Breathless word sighs don’t keep us paced spoil
    Rhyme misalign pillows cockeyed up side
    Down marigolds spill orange & yellow roil
    Lemon grass whispers timed noir ride:
    Crimson lisps smear across smoke screen gloss
    While robed within plush toilet rinse & floss.

    Grapes

  • Oblique Obligato

    1. Moon fresh ribbon
      smooth platen
      ball dust sea
    2. Fastened to fish
      risk bamboo
      water chills
    3. Homespun shark
      teeth reek bark
      oil tea tree
    4. Screeched scrounge scrawn
      crested pinch
      ear reach thrills
    5. Stringing brew broils
      cooking pot
      catch read bin
    6. Critical swarm
      goat bearded
      bee attack
    7. Smoked fuzz moss
      yucky hot
      sunder skin
    8. Feet faintly sweet
      & ditties
      sour retract
    9. Poised hipster red
      shower cap &
      surf sandals
    10. Now turns one last
      again then
      salt pearls
    11. Ask brack weed meme
      vandal cleaned
      type taste twirl
    12. Spring Selene not
      bald booby
      care fool horse
    13. Trifurcation
      from dear morph
      solo bliss
    14. Under deep stays
      curling waves
      allusiveOblique Moon

  • Not one but two needs relish sweet sorrow

    Not one but two needs relish sweet sorrow.
    Wooden shoe wish new saga song bonnet?
    Purple flower here now gone tomorrow.
    One knows not lief, and if hair be sonnet,
    Wold eat polka dotted cotton culotte.
    Back seats escape too simple bounded rules,
    Schemes where at smart turn deer quickly departs,
    Shirking away from linked coupling rope pulls.
    Gears thrown greased ball bearings plop soft thudded,
    Rustling rough yon fat fig leaf yellowed grass
    Into well palms of gleeful looped poet,
    Frogs Voila! in deep wide throated bass:
    Now twanged by gee sang plus web danced for thee,
    Not two but three may now exclaim in glee.

    Theory

  • Yes and No

    Two ChairsYes yes yo yes yah yes yep yoahza youp

    Yo yo yes no nope never over my

    Yes no yes no yes no yes no yes noup

    Not nape nip empty nix obnoxiously

    You not yes no not no yes but don’t say

    Buttresses yeses yeses yeses but

    No nepe no nupe no nipe no no no yea

    Yes yepe yes yupe yes yipe yes yes yes what

    Butting do note chairs yes accidental

    Dominoes goldeneyes moonglow eyes no

    This will never do we are losing ball

    Ants ants ants ants ants ants ants ants solo

    So long stays yes and yes gives no to this

    So long goes no and no takes yes amiss