#sonnets — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sonnets, aggregated by home.social.
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Summer in a Bottle: Time, Beauty, and the Art of Preservation in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 5
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 5 is a meditation on time, beauty, and the cruel fact that what blooms most brightly is often the first thing to fade. It belongs to the early “procreation” sonnets, where Shakespeare presses a young beloved to recognize that beauty is not permanent and should be preserved, not merely admired. At the poem’s core is a seasonal metaphor. Summer stands for youth, radiance, and desire; winter stands for time, decay, and loss. Shakespeare opens with the famous image […] -
Baker's #Sonnets (The Adventures of Jonathan Baker, part 1)
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Feel very autumnal this morning. Leaves on the turn in Otepoti/ Dunedin. Recalled Shakespeare's Sonnet 73:
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. #sonnets #autumn -
#PatrickStewart Reads All 154 of Shakespeare’s #Sonnets in New Audiobook
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/patrick-stewart-shakespeare-sonnets-audiobook-1236680391/
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The email newsletter service I was experimenting with to send my @sonnets's daily sonnet to an email list is not as free as I need it to be.
Since my Sonnet a Day is a labor of love and earns no money to pay for itself, I am on the hunt for a good, no cost (super low cost?) rss feed to email list service.
Any ideas?
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Hello! I'm @davidaugust and I'm building this bot to post a Shakespeare sonnet once a day. I built and ran the Sonnet a Day bot that ran on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere for more than 10 years. Nice to digitally meet you!
Available on Mastodon and Bluesky:
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy
Mastodon: https://bots.krohsnest.com/@sonnets
(This is a bot, so I may not see replies, try me on my main account if you want to reach me.)
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I have built my Sonnet a Day on Mastodon and Bluesky:
Bluesky: @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy or https://bsky.app/profile/sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy
Mastodon: @sonnets or https://bots.krohsnest.com/@sonnets
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We've got a new bot on one of our servers!
Disasters? Sometimes.
Emergencies? Sometimes?
Source of idioms which we still use today? Often.
Tragedy? Quite often.
Written in an incredibly difficult form? Always.The original Bard: Shakespeare (via the @sonnets bot, which posts a Sonnet a Day. Bot created by @davidaugust )
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Hello! I'm @davidaugust and I'm building this bot to post a Shakespeare sonnet once a day. I built and ran the Sonnet a Day bot that ran on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere for more than 10 years. Nice to digitally meet you!
Available both on Mastodon and Bluesky:
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy
Mastodon: https://bots.krohsnest.com/@sonnets
#Shakespeare #sonnets #ShakespeareSunday
(This is a bot, so I may not see any replies to it, try me on my main account if you want to reach me.)
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The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
There is no artist more celebrated than Michelangelo. Yet the magnificence of his achievements as a visual artist often overshadow his devotion to poetry. Michelangelo used poetry to express what was too personal to display in sculpture or painting.
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Luís de Camões
Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual EditionThe most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luís de Camões (1524–80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare.
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please read my sonnets! or don't! free! https://open.substack.com/pub/alexguenther/p/the-diagnosis?r=2bbal0&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post #poem #poetry #poems #sonnets
