Poetry by Rowan Evans

Wrath ignites like wildfire. This sonnet captures the consuming power of anger and the destructive blaze of vengeance.

7 Deadly Sonnets
Wrath

A tempest rages deep within my veins,
A fury fierce, unyielding, set alight;
Each heartbeat hammers, bound by blood-stained chains,
With vengeance locked behind my teeth tonight.

I am the storm, the howl, the broken flame,
The lightning bolt that strikes without regret,
And scorches all who dare to speak my name,
As wrath consumes my heart with deadly debt.

The taste of anger, bitter and so raw,
A poison coiled and ready for release,
But vengeance only feeds what hatred saw,
A fire that neither soothes nor brings me peace.

In wrath, I am consumed, a beast unchained,
By fire’s touch, my soul’s forever stained.

The 7 Deadly Sonnets

I. Lust
My pulse quickens at each whispered breath, desires draping the air like silken chains. ‘Lust,’ the first of the 7 Deadly Sonnets, explores the fevered, consuming hunger that blurs the lines between passion and peril.

II. Gluttony
‘Gluttony’ devours more than food—it consumes the soul. The second of the 7 Deadly Sonnets explores endless craving, the hunger for excess, and the void it leaves behind.

III. Greed
‘Greed’ reveals the hunger that is never sated—the clutching hands, the endless thirst for more, and the hollowness left behind. The third of the 7 Deadly Sonnets.

IV. Sloth
‘Sloth’ captures the quiet paralysis of apathy, the weight of inaction, and the suffocating stillness that can consume the soul. The fourth of the 7 Deadly Sonnets.