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  1. 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

  2. New (long) post: Commiserating With Mary

    How fair Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, came to be the subject of some of my sonnets. It’s not the story you’ve heard. Plus: Tom Howard’s gruesome 1572 execution warrant, transcribed by yours truly.

    edevere17.com/2025/04/12/commi

    #Shakespeare #ShakespeareAuthorship
    #Sonnets #VeroNihilVerius

  3. New (long) post: Commiserating With Mary

    How fair Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, came to be the subject of some of my sonnets. It’s not the story you’ve heard. Plus: Tom Howard’s gruesome 1572 execution warrant, transcribed by yours truly.

    edevere17.com/2025/04/12/commi

    #Shakespeare #ShakespeareAuthorship
    #Sonnets #VeroNihilVerius

  4. New (long) post: Commiserating With Mary

    How fair Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, came to be the subject of some of my sonnets. It’s not the story you’ve heard. Plus: Tom Howard’s gruesome 1572 execution warrant, transcribed by yours truly.

    edevere17.com/2025/04/12/commi

    #Shakespeare #ShakespeareAuthorship
    #Sonnets #VeroNihilVerius

  5. 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?

    #email #rss #feed #sonnets #poetry

  6. 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: bsky.app/profile/sonnets.bots.

    Mastodon: 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.)

    #introduction #Shakespeare #sonnets #ShakespeareSunday

  7. 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 )

    #bot #shakespeare #sonnets

  8. 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: bsky.app/profile/sonnets.bots.

    Mastodon: 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.)

    #introduction

  9. 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.

    @bookstodon
    #books
    #fiction
    #poetry
    #sonnets
    #Michelangelo

  10. Luís de Camões
    Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition

    The 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.

    @bookstodon
    #books
    #fiction
    #poetry
    #sonnets
    #Portuguese

  11. today's ekphrastic hiroshige #sonnet draft, just written at blazing speed & probably containing embarrassing typos etc. #poetry #poem #poems #sonnets

  12. today's #sonnet draft. the poem is mostly about the bucket of fish in the bottom right, apparently a sign of summer (the previous 42 prints were all "spring"). #poetry #poem #poems #sonnets

  13. my new double unrhymed ekphrastic sonnet about this matte painting from "raiders of the lost ark". #poem #poems #poetry #sonnet #sonnets

  14. i invite you to attempt to enjoy the latest in my ekphrastic series on hiroshige's "100 famous views of edo"! #sonnet #sonnets #poem #poems #poetry

  15. this morning's fresh #sonnet draft... if you like this, please see alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com for my ebook of hiroshige ekphrasis #poem #poems #poetry #sonnets

  16. here we go again - just started another #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnet sequence based on the ukiyo-e prints of #hiroshige. (if you like this sort of thing, i recently released a whole ebook - alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com) #poem #poems #poetry #sonnets

  17. here we go again - just started another #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnet sequence based on the ukiyo-e prints of #hiroshige. (if you like this sort of thing, i recently released a whole ebook - alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com) #poem #poems #poetry #sonnets

  18. here we go again - just started another #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnet sequence based on the ukiyo-e prints of #hiroshige. (if you like this sort of thing, i recently released a whole ebook - alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com) #poem #poems #poetry #sonnets

  19. here we go again - just started another #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnet sequence based on the ukiyo-e prints of #hiroshige. (if you like this sort of thing, i recently released a whole ebook - alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com) #poem #poems #poetry #sonnets

  20. = well incensed =

    Watching the voters crush old roads in new
    expressions of metal and ceramic
    ego, I realise why the social
    always fails. The idea to pull the few
    from their plump beds of greed, oil, and plastic
    simply breaks when the many choose woeful

    self aggrandisement over common sense ... (more: clover.serveblog.net/w0dz/well)

    #poetry #smallPoems #sonnet #climate #suv
    #climateCrisis #degrowth #cars
    #sonnets @sonnets @sonnet
    #wrdz

  21. i figure - if i can write a sonnet about the INVENTION OF THE HOE, then i know i can write a #sonnet about anything! #poem #poems #poetry #sonnets #obstinacy @sonnets @sonnet @poetry

  22. my sequence on #hiroshige's #tokaido is OUT NOW! edo-period #japan meets 55 #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnets. purchase / info links via alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com to etsy (best place to buy from), amazon, & apple books. DM about review copies! #poetry #poems #poem #japan #ukiyo-e #sonnet #sonnets

  23. my sequence on #hiroshige's #tokaido is OUT NOW! edo-period #japan meets 55 #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnets. purchase / info links via alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com to etsy (best place to buy from), amazon, & apple books. DM about review copies! #poetry #poems #poem #japan #ukiyo-e #sonnet #sonnets

  24. friends! friends of the #sonnet! just checking final PDF & EPUB versions of my sequence on #hiroshige's #tokaido. edo-period #japan meets 55 #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnets! coming in a few days via alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com to etsy, amazon, & apple books. DM about review copies! #poem #poems #poetry

  25. friends! friends of the #sonnet! just checking final PDF & EPUB versions of my sequence on #hiroshige's #tokaido. edo-period #japan meets 55 #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnets! coming in a few days via alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com to etsy, amazon, & apple books. DM about review copies! #poem #poems #poetry

  26. today's #sonnet draft, on the invention of barbed fishing spears. (apparently they found one recently from way earlier than 90,000 years ago, but of course the list i'm going from is certain to be affected by future discoveries.)

    #poem #poems #poetry #sonnets #mypoem #prehistory @poetry @sonnet @sonnets

  27. new #sonnet for #VerseThursday #poetsonthursday - i cracked myself up with the idea (only arrived at 3/4 through writing, which is why i love writing these!) that the very first cave-dweller was deeply upset because they didn't care for modern architecture #poem #poems #poetry #sonnets @poetry @sonnet @sonnets