sonnet
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Post-Valentine’s Day Sonnet (with audio recording)
I think I’m letting go of the unsettling past with every tick and tock of the old clock, with each sweet, precious moment spent with you. I’m holding fast to rhythms, patterns, and things I’d deemed out of reach; songs, sequences, and echoes promising much more than dying haunts — the yellowing grass and spoilt… Continue reading
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Shall I compare you to a winter’s night?
Shall I compare you to a winter’s night? You are so prudish and troublingly cold. Your fiery scorn asphyxiates the light And damn, I can’t take it! I’m getting old! The blazing depths of hell gaze up at me, And my complexion is dulled and dimmed. Please stop! Leave me alone! Just let me… Continue reading
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After the rapture
When all the world was ice and fire,and what they prophesied in spitehappened, leaving us in a paludal mire,sinking and losing the will to fight, I looked for you though holy mist had taken youto empyrean realms where prophets glowedlike Moses and Elijah, transfigured and made new.Your faith had taken you to a celestial abode.… Continue reading
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A sonnet of hope
Place me in an age where the skies blushand epochs of forgiveness scent the airwith their sweet smell making the fields lushwhile the lilies dance to answered prayer Solomon’s perception on the throneand stilling our forever-warring hearts,defeating hate and holding back the stone,announcing halcyon days and fresh starts The sky and stars eternally transformedand nature’s… Continue reading
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