These are the entries for our Tweet Speak Sonnets in May. You can read the official rules of that game at GoodWordEditing.com (playfully dubbed “Exploding Ninja Poetry”).

If you are inclined, try your hand at a sonnet. Italian sonnets use the rhyme scheme ABBAABBACDECDE. Shakespearean sonnets use the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG. (Since we only had 5 rhyme words this round, Shakespearean sonnets will require you to add at least four lines of your own.)

If you write one, let us know!

Lines rhyming with WINE
@glynn_poet
Find a red grape, clinging ripe to a vine;
@glynn_poet
Crush a red grape, fermenting to wine;
@glynn_poet
Drink a red grape, in order to dine.
@jpoch
I like the ancient miracle of wine;
@mdgoodyear
poured on my head and shoulders and spine
@CherylRicker
Jesus, the new wine
@JavaNicky
I spit out my past like sour wine
@mdgoodyear
Gas me up with lead until my fuel lines
@llbarkat
edge of a wine
@llbarkat
I hear your fine
@llbarkat
asking me to spread butter or brine
@JavaNicky
Twisted and knarled, the vine
@thegyrovague
Don’t shout your voice, it is like fine merlot. I like it like a good wine.
@JavaNicky
I taste your laughter bursting forth with bright cherries, wine.
@mdgoodyear
All the crap goes away, eaten by mold and time,
@soupiset
long leaf pine
@soupiset
sanding and planing the staining of wine
@TchrEric
as evening sun reflects off glasses of wine
@denadyer
Omnicef as rose-petal wine

Lines rhyming with BREAD
@KathleenOverby
flour water salt the old book said
@KathleenOverby
the first time through I thought I’d misread
@KathleenOverby
but out of the oven popped hot crusty bread
@mdgoodyear
Even the best magic today turns gold into lead.
@mattpriour
Mourn for lost loves and beg “Who cooks for you” as though never fed
@CherylRicker
like bread
@JavaNicky
yet offer His creatures stale bread
@JavaNicky
entwined with greens and browns, dead
@JavaNicky
Whisper screams, undead
@TchrEric
air hung heavy with odors of fresh made bread
@papagoodyear
happy harbinger of life after life after death

Lines rhyming with HOPE
@jpoch
because this slightly dizzy thirst, this hope
@mattpriour
These doves, a melancholy lot, lament “No Hope!”
@mdgoodyear
this hope/ goes untested, accepted like olive oil soap
@mdgoodyear
Oak pollen too, like ashen seeds of toxic rope.
@JavaNicky
finished by bitter tannins and dashed hope.
@mdgoodyear
until bread and wine fill in the trope
@mattpriour
Then sermon about wrong hope
@TchrEric
we spend our hours discussing hope
@denadyer
I give feverish sons a cup of hope

Lines rhyming with WORK
@CherylRicker
pours hope. Faith in Him, works
@mdgoodyear
Orange cigarette butts, smashed cans by the curb
@mdgoodyear
we are talking about how we can make the beta tool work
@soupiset
a long day’s work
@denadyer
praying the offering will work

Lines rhyming with CAR
@togetherforgood
I found love, not by wishing on a star
@togetherforgood
No, love is here within me, never far.
@KathleenOverby
I love you all, but love the garden more.
@CherylRicker
high as cars
@mdgoodyear
blacken, tighten, chocking the hose with char
@JavaNicky
and I still nurture the grafting scar.
@mdgoodyear
On the phone with me, you shout at them, “Don’t go too far.”
@mdgoodyear
we are talking about how we can make the beta tool work
better for t. s. poetry
@JavaNicky
drown out shouts from crazed czars,
@JavaNicky
the sullen elect ask “how far?”
@mattpriour
Visiting preacher brought his guitar
@mattpriour
Said this was a prayer:Lord won’t you buy me a Mercedes-Benz car
@papagoodyear
the empty Coiste Bodhar