Poetry Kitchen: Sonnet Side Up

[alpharaposa]

Welcome to the Poetry Kitchen! Today, I'm whipping up a batch of sonnets, and will make one just for you. Simply follow the rules below:

1) Give me ingredients! Give me a prompt – a sentence, a picture, or just a bunch of random words on your mind. Please keep prompts PG13.
2) The recipe is all sonnets today, but they might be Spenserian, Shakespearean, or Italian sonnets. I promise they will all have 14 lines and rhyme.
3) One per person. Spread the word if you know somebody who would like their own creation!
4) Please share! You can reprint or link to the poem, simply give me credit and link to my journal, please.

You may tip if you wish.

If I receive $50 in tips, I will finish up a short story about the humans in the world of this poem about Dragon Samurai, and post it for all to read.
If I receive $100 in tips, I will write a long poem (ode, ballad, epic, or similar). Anybody will be able to suggest topics, but only donors will get a say (via poll) in which one I tackle!

If I have one new commenter (whether they donate or not), I will record myself singing this poem. (I've had nine new commenters since I put up the challenge.)

Requests will stay open for a day! REQUESTS CLOSED!

Comments

Prompts

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I would enjoy a sonnet about historic fashions in Italy. Some of the fabrics and garments had beautiful, elegant names.

[aldersprig.livejournal.com]

Neat!

I'm feeling masky, so I give you this:
http://www.faqs.org/photo-dict/photofiles/list/454/828venetian_mask.jpg
as a prompt.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I'd like one about service.

[laffingkat.livejournal.com]

Poetry and food are two of my favorite things, so how about a sonnet on the topic of food or cooking? I'd love to hear about your favorite meal, or why you enjoy cooking and baking, or one of your culinary experiments.

[kyetsu.livejournal.com]

Picture prompt here (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4170652). =D

I love drawing these two characters, especially in loving pictures like this. And when you mentioned Dragon Samurai, it made me think of this art, and I think it could inspire a poem or so. ~_^

[ariestess]

What a lovely idea!

I would love a sonnet about Poseidon and harbor seals please.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

I'm headed out the door to pick up pizza for dinner. I wanted to offer my support and can't think of a single prompt. I guess that maybe pizza might work for poetry kitchen. What do you think?

[zeeth_kyrah]

While a meta-sonnet sounds clever, I'm not sure that's what I want for myself.

How about something themed on your favorite bit of countryside?

[nekomata.livejournal.com]

I like satyrs and fireflies and summer. Hope those are some useful prompts~!

[marina-bonomi.livejournal.com]

Here from Crowdfounding (and several friends' journals).

Let see, I'd love a sonnet on...

Lorenzo the Magnificent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_de%27_Medici

Poet, statesman, patron of the arts (I blame ysabetwordmith's prompt for the association ;-) )

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Impossible Things

[settecorvi.livejournal.com]

I may be too late to qualify for this, but if you're still open for prompts, could I get one about sphinxes (or manticores) and song?

[minor-architect.livejournal.com]

Why not a sonnet about opportunity? Perhaps a favorite, one that was missed, one that looked like real a opportunity but wasn't, or how to hunt them. :)