Sonnetsphere

By Tom Cintula

The following poetry book written by Tom Cintula is a series of sonnets that have been written to express his inner most emotions and personal feelings. They discuss his personal demons that he has gone through over the course of his life. He relates to those who have experienced dealing with mental health issues in order to come to past with his own problems in order to find some clarity that can help him become able to rectify these issues little by little. The first-time independent author shares his past troubles, going face to face with them through writing 152 sonnet form poems that help him reconnect with his trials and tribulations before starting over to continue his life with a stronger command of his identity and overall mental state while rebuilding his life for the better.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669816911

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Copyright © 2022 by Tom Cintula.

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Rev. date: 03/25/2022

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CONTENTS

Giving More Than We Take

Glutton Is Punishment

Closure From A Lustful Nightmare

Love For The Game That Is Life

On The Front Lines Of Existence

Rejection

Diamonds In The Rough

You Vs. You

Slave To The System

Souls Of Granite

Soldiers From The Frozen Pond

A Perfect Day For A Riot

Jumped In The Street

Dreams Of The Afterlife

Sleepwalking Into The Night

Salt Of The Earth

Soilwork From The Ground Up

Came And Went

Where The Lights Shine The Brightest

Passion Vs. Principle

Gut Check

I Know Now What I Didn’t Know Before

Help Is On The Way

Leave No Man Untested

Void For Love

The Wandering Mind

The Hunter

Civil War 2020

Love Begins Within

Hope And Faith Die

21St Century Animation

A Walk In The Desert

Justice Mends A Broken Heart

The Worm

Writhing From Rejection

46 & Single

To Believe Or Not To Believe?

Battle Royale

I Decided To Love You

Sonnet 41

Starving

Switchblade In The Night

A Call To Arms Against The Elite

The Searing Look Inside

United We Stand And Fall Live The 99%

Panic Attack

The Struggle Is Real

The End Of Humanity

Shameless Self-Promoter

The Weight Of The World

Man On A Mission

For The Intestinally Inclined

The Essentials

Class Action Battle

Idle Hands Are The Devil’s Play Child

Fighting In The Wilderness

To Work Is Merely To Survive

The Trials Of The Proletariat

An Adversary Called Anger

Stuck In Mortality

Preparing To Die

The Goat, But At Whose Expense?

Big Bad John

Burnt By Injustice

This Hole In My Stomach

Unleash The Fury

Years Of Rage

Love Conquers All…Even Judgement

Sonnet 70

A Debt To Our Youth

The Feminist

Shaken, Shattered, Even, But Not Stirred

Freaky Dream

Crossing The Atlantic

Hurting With Wrath

Pleading For Peace, Succumbing To War

Knowledge Of The Self

Carpe Diem…With Recklessness

From A Broken Heart To A Bloody Mess

Trading Up

Wonders Of The Future

Roll The Dice

Constant Feelings Of Recklessness

Planet Earth – Our Grandest Stage

Air And Opportunity

Navigating The Free World

The Hard Way

The Heat

Untamed Lion

Purge ‘N Surge

Baggage

House Of Fire

Little To Give

Anger – Cathartic Or Self Destructive?

X-Factor

Blue Skies, Bad Health

The Working-Class Wrecking Crew

Reaching Out

Street Samurai

Stranded In Battle Against The Killer Whale

Medals Of Honor

Fateful Dread

One Man Show

Calm Before The Firing Storm

Showdown In The Schoolyard

Into The Light

Rogue Bravery

Protect & Defend

Carnage In The Neighborhood

Temper, Temper

My Rip Roarin’ Heart

War For Happiness

Surf And Die

Seahawk

Anxiety

A Figment Of My Infatuation

Homer

Death Through Living

Rise And Shine Before The Hourglass Runs Out

Nerves Of Steel

Intestinal Drama

Reminiscence Of Chaos

War Against The Warless

Staying The Course

Life Of Bleak Proportions

Ghouls Of The Night On Sunday

Liquid Mountain

The Polar Bear Brigade

A Life Of Horror

Stuck In Darkness

The Reckoning

Journey Of Homelessness

Surfing For Pride

Riding In The Waters

Sonnet 136

Spinning And Racing

Unseen Wound

Knots In My Stomach

Big Brother Wolf

Rompin’ & Stompin’ From Righteousness

The Sea Monster

Voices In My Head

Sounding Board

Sonnet 145

Sonnet 146

Sonnet 147

Daddy’s Dark Mission

Sonnet 149

Looking Into The Mirror

The Death Of Chub Chub

Tragedy In The Batter’s Box

Tom Cintula is an independent author and writer who was born, raised

and currently resides in Staten Island, New York. He is a graduate of

The College of Staten Island with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology

and Anthropology. His previous writing credits include contributions

for The Borgen Project, Tribune Sports, and All Access MMA.

The following literary effort is dedicated to those who have experienced deep

trauma, personal and professional setbacks, along with overall identity struggles.

This includes those who have found a way to cope regularly with their issues and

those who have succumbed to them. Whoever you are, this piece goes out to those

who have been through it…whatever…it may be. This also goes to those who have

helped me go through it, too. But only a certain part of it, since I’ve been through

some things alone. Those, in which, I had to find out on my own. Otherwise, in

times where help is needed, you either have to go it alone or build a legion of allies

to guide you. That’s something that we all discover at some point in our lives. 

I would also like to thank my family for their unwavering support in my successes

and failures.  At times, where I needed it, when I didn’t need it, when I didn’t ask

for it, but needed it, and when I asked for it, but having them tell me to find out

on my own. That’s still, in some way, a level of support. Low, but shows that they

know you can do it without them, which will give you the power to do anything.

The point is, though…we’re not always alone. 

GIVING MORE THAN WE

TAKE

We struggle with grit