I love sonnets!!

Just got back from a two hour poetry workshop that involved studying famous sonnets, writing our own and then discussing them as a class and my blood feels electric, I am so excited to write more of them. Aside from Shakespeare, I'd never really read any sonnets, or at least not known that the poetry I was reading was in sonnet form. Either way, I am in love with them, I wish I could wrap myself up in them and drown in a world of artistry.

During the second half of the workshop, we were given 25 minutes to write our very own 14 line sonnet, in English or Italian form, about anything that we wished. I've been reading a lot of religious poetry as of late: it's something I never used to be interested in as I thought it was all much the same and it didn't interest me but lately it's been helping me a lot and so I figured that I owed it to myself to have a go at writing my own religious sonnet.  As per usual for me, it bordered on being slightly emo as I guess we all have our own habits that we slip into and my past emotional states are mine. What can I say, my emotions have been crazy over the past two years or so and if you ask me, going insane is as good an excuse as any to write poetry.

Anyway, here it is. It's incredibly personal and usually I wouldn't put something like this online/let anyone at all see it but part of what we're being taught is that we have to show our work and not be apologetic about it. So here we go.

Back here again, this empty room
My loyal friend returns.
This can't be real, it's all too soon
My skin, it screams, it burns

& where are You, in all of this
When Your presence really matters?
My faith was but a stolen kiss
My trust in You is shattered

I cry for You to stop me falling
My prayers, it seems, in vain
& then Your spirit hears my calling
& hope bleeds through my pain

So now it seems my battle's won
I thank You God, You & Your Son.