Month: October 2021

‘Born Fighter Love’ is one of the more pro-love sonnets in my personification series. It began with a simple thought; Love has all the attributes of a fighter. Love can inflict pain using skill, insight and experience. Logic concludes that Love is a fierce combatant. We’ve all experienced its ire. We’ve felt the pain of… Continue reading Personification 9: Born Fighter Love

‘Love is a Whore’ comes (if you’ll excuse the pun) next in the Personification series after last week’s ‘Love is the Nurse’. From care to caress in just seven days. A series of poems should play like a symphony: light and shade, calm before a storm, “there should be sunshine after rain” (‘Why Worry’, Dire… Continue reading Personification 8: Love is a Whore

Having written a few sonnets for this collection that are, at least in part, somewhat critical of love, a more celebratory one seemed appropriate. So this sonnet celebrates nurturing love. And the person that best represents nurturing love is… the nurse. The nurturing nurse. If we’re lucky, during our lives of “seven ages”, we will… Continue reading Personification 7: Love is the Nurse

Although this sonnet forms one of my personification series, it is arguably zoomorphism – giving things animal, rather than human, qualities. In defence, the animal I use has the name and qualities of a famous fictional human… Benjamin Button. I therefore feel its inclusion is vindicated. The inspiration for this poem is that form of… Continue reading Personification 6: Love is a Benjy Button Butterfly

When writing a personification sonnet, I first think of a form of love I want to feature then I try to work out what type of person matches that form of love. For this sonnet I wanted to explore hidden love, love that is intentionally buried deep within us. A miner seemed a suitable human… Continue reading Personification 5: Love is a Miner