Poems by Rob Cook

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Poems by Rob Cook

Poems by Rob CookPoems by Rob CookPoems by Rob Cook
Home
Poems
  • 3 Degrees
  • autumn
  • Bam!
  • dates
  • Elevators
  • Grace
  • I Was Here
  • Lapse
  • Leap
  • Messengers
  • Mocha Wars
  • reminders
  • Santa
  • Sit
  • The Other Boy
  • What Darkness Taught Me
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  • Home
  • Poems
    • 3 Degrees
    • autumn
    • Bam!
    • dates
    • Elevators
    • Grace
    • I Was Here
    • Lapse
    • Leap
    • Messengers
    • Mocha Wars
    • reminders
    • Santa
    • Sit
    • The Other Boy
    • What Darkness Taught Me
  • About / Contact
  • Home
  • Poems
    • 3 Degrees
    • autumn
    • Bam!
    • dates
    • Elevators
    • Grace
    • I Was Here
    • Lapse
    • Leap
    • Messengers
    • Mocha Wars
    • reminders
    • Santa
    • Sit
    • The Other Boy
    • What Darkness Taught Me
  • About / Contact

POEMS

3 Degrees

autumn

Bam!

dates

Elevators

Grace

I Was Here

Lapse

Leap

Messengers

Mocha Wars

reminders

Santa

Sit

The Other Boy

What Darkness Taught Me

Featured Poem

About this poem

This is a Shakespearean sonnet, a traditional form for romantic poetry with 3 quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter and the rhyme scheme ababcdcdefefgg. The challenge was to conform to these restrictions but make it feel fresh and natural while retaining the musicality of a sonnet. To that end, I combined strict iambic pentameter with some extreme enjambment and used a mix of slant and perfect rhymes. I also bookended the story with a fantastical metaphor to set the tone and provide perspective. The poem began in a Writer's Studio class and drew inspiration from Julie Kane's wonderful poem As If.

Featured reading :"Bam!" at counterpulse in San Francisco

Thank you to the journals where these poems first appeared:

Better Than Starbucks

Brushfire

Cider Street Press

El Portal

Evening Street Review

Jelly Bucket

Nonconformist Magazine

Pennsylvania English

Soundings East

Steam Ticket

Talking River Review

Thin Slice of Anxiety

Visitant

Whistling Shade


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