It is amazing to me how some objects get associated with memories. In this case, whenever I see a plate on a wall for decoration, it reminds me of my grandmother. She died when I was 10 years old. I have vivid memories of her funeral, because her death really devastated me. I missed her loving ways, when we would visit her. She always had smiles, hugs, kisses, candy, and homemade pie. This plate is actually in my brother's house, but it reminds me of her every time I see it.

This poem is an English Sonnet.
When English Sonnets were introduced by Thomas Wyatt in the early 16th century, his sonnets and those of his contemporary, Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey were chiefly translations from the Italian of Petrarch. While Wyatt introduced the sonnet into English, it was Surrey who gave it a rhyming meter, and a structural division into quatrains of a kind that now characterizes the typical English sonnet. The form consists of fourteen lines structured as 3 quatrains and a couplet. The third quatrain generally introduces an unexpected sharp thematic or imagistic "turn", the volta. In Shakespeare's sonnets, however, the volta usually comes in the couplet, and usually summarizes the theme of the poem or introduces a fresh new look at the theme. With only a rare exception, the meter is iambic pentameter, although there is some accepted metrical flexibility (e.g., lines ending with an extra-syllable feminine rhyme, or a trochaic foot rather than an iamb, particularly at the beginning of a line). The usual rhyme scheme is end-rhymed as:
a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g.

For this poem I did employ a trochaic pentameter in line 1 and 3, as well as a feminine line in line 5.

This picture was taken by the author himself on May 29, 2011.

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