Sonnets and Scribbles

By Ken Allan Dronsfield

You don't even have to be a fan of any one genre of writing with this writer's style as anything he writes is sure to guarantee images flashing through your cerebral as if you've just put on specially select goggles to enhance a reading; it's a theatre of the mind of which this writer offers us and it is a gift that a reader should never deny themselves a chance to partake.

                     ~ Leslie DeLuca

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scarlet Leaf Publishing House
• Release date: Feb 14, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393523260

Ken Allan Dronsfield

Ken Allan Dronsfield is a disabled veteran, prize winning poet and author from New Hampshire, now residing in Oklahoma. A proud member of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire, he has three poetry collections to date; 'The Cellaring', 'A Taint of Pity', and  'Zephyr's Whisper'. Ken does not have an MFA or Creative Writing Degree but, he once road a dirt bike on woodland trails from southern New Hampshire north into Canada. He's been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and six times for the Best of the Net. He was First Prize Winner for 2018 and 2019 in the Realistic Poetry Internationals Nature Poetry Contests. Ken loves writing, hiking, thunderstorms, and spending time with his cats Willa and Yumpy.

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​Sonnets

And

Scribbles

Verse from the Ages

By Prize Winning Poet

Ken Allan Dronsfield

Sonnet: a poem of fourteen lines typically having ten syllables per line. Some have a rhyme scheme, others do not. Haiku: is a very short form of Japanese poetry in three sentences going in the order 5-7-5 syllables. Cinquains: Is an unrhymed poem consisting of five lines of syllables 2, 3, 6, 8, 2.  In this collection of fine poetry, you will find sonnets, standard poetry, haiku and cinquains. Please enjoy!

ALL artwork and covers were crafted by the author.

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Poetic Content​

Foreword, 4

Sonnets and Standard Poetry, 5

Sonnet 2, Adieu, Sonnet to the Rain, 6

Sonnet 1, Where Tall Trees Dance, 7

Poem, Death of Whydah Sibyl, 8

Sonnet 10, The Deer Crossing, 9

Poem, Proclivity for Harlequin Hues, 10

Sonnet 11, Songs of the Garden Chime, 11

Poem, Eight Stone Three, 12

Sonnet 22a, The Old Hound, 13

Sonnet 99, The Ebb and Flow, 14

Sonnet 17, Quiet Time, 15

Poem, Into the Whipsaw, 16

Sonnet 105, Feathers on the Water, 17

Sonnet 9, Tear in a Winters Moon, 18

Sonnet 5, Awaken a Reddish Haze, 19

Poem, Absence of Presence, 20

Sonnet 18, Lucidity of Life, 21