"il sonneto" -- "the little song"

Sonnets (a type of poetry whose name is a diminutive form of the Italian word for "song") were already an "old" style of poetry when Shakespeare started writing them. Shakespeare's popularity may be one influence for why poets still write in this form today, but there is also something to be said about the timeless romanticism of writing a poem using challenging rhyme scheme and meter to impress a loved one.

Check out these two examples from juniors Amelia French and Savannah Hanson:

Amelia French

Mr. Windham

Creative Writing – 3rd period

17 March 2022

Sonnet Challenge

A love so captivating I can’t breathe

I wish it would have gone another way

I was left with no choice I had to leave

The good times were good with you I would lay

It was pure without harm no wrong no sin

But there was no trust and I had no space

A plastic bag that suffocates me in

Glance in the halls your intimate new face

Take some time for ourselves we can start fine

What’s meant to be will be I promise that

We had a future; you would be all mine

I told you I would wait so here I sat

“Hate” is not the word, “reminisce” will do

How else do I say this, I still love you.

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Savannah Hanson

Mr. Windham

Creative Writing -- 3

17 March 2022

Don’t Discard Gold

A love, we want to snip and to discard

Dilute, not all can be, for you, conserved.

True love is like a plate of gold, so hard

Enduring all, the worth is still preserved.

The throwing, sadly, pieces out abrupt

Admire the trueness perfect love displays.

Reserved, we wish for love to be corrupt

And yet we pray above when love betrays.

Perhaps, we should maintain the first intent:

To Love with all and have no great regret.

Recall, the love elite is heaven sent.

We should not act as love is to forget.

For love completes, renews the broken heart.

Because of this, be brave, and bold and start