Sonnets and formal poems

God bless America!   A sonnet taking the piss out of American self-righteousness

Christianity and Islam   This sonnet is about how ordinary, decent people of any religion get along. Also several other sonnets.

I'd love to Change myself, a sonnet

Sonnet about people who lie

Come, stranger! - imagining the soul walking off with death

In this the passion of our embrace - sonnet about making love

Twin Towers   A formal poem about 9/11 and how there was a great surging desire to go to war, directed and inflamed by politicians - and how it's all going to end in tears.

The workaholic - sonnet about frantic workaholics

No hour can call itself itself alone - we make our own fate

Some hours we sing and must make merry there - sonnet about living life at your own speed and in your own way

Why, temptation, must I give in to thee? - sonnet about giving in to temptation

Beauty has the coldest heart   Sonnet about spiteful women

Although I cry   Hurting other people only hurts myself

I am   A sonnet about identity