Elizabethan Sonnet

Recent adventures in spring cleaning produced my old high school composition book from part of 9th & 10th grades. I used to keep journals and a few composition books so I could write fairly often. Some of my writing ended up as poetry. I'm going to post the poems I found here on this blogspot as a place to hold them online. Some are pretty decent and some aren't :-) Then, sometime after I've posted the few from the HS years, I'll share my silly poems written in recent years.
I'll start with an Elizabethan sonnet. My mother, Mary W. Carson, the real writer (award-winning poetry and prose) helped me with the assignment. I think this help is why it won some award and I ended up reading it at a Piccolo Spoleto event.....long ago and far away.

Sonnet

When summer storms come rolling in to shore

Their darkened clouds send people dashing home,

While those within prepare for what's in store

And watch the wild birds wheel above the foam.

The hearth is cleared and driftwood set alight

And hot drinks served to warm away the chill

Of those who witness all of Nature's might

As lightning flashes just beyond the sill.

Outside, the trees are bowed before the wind,

The rain, in sheets, comes slanting in the squall.

Its fury slackens right before the end

As clouds break up and night begins to fall.

The moonlight shows the bleached white sands as day

And all the signs of storm have gone away.