Month: August 2020

Sonnet 387

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Love’s greatest merit lies in constancy,
That simple thread that bests the rot of time
And weathers all the blight there is to be,
Surviving yet the worst of mortal crime;
Believing she will triumph come what may
Despite the darkness damning fortune metes—
In this the truest heart will sure allay
The wretchedness that foul fate accretes.
As morning sun gives hope to savaged earth,
As gentle rain breeds life from barren ground,
As precious souls bestir in hallowed birth,
So in abiding rhythm truth is found.
In measured cadence love plays out its course
Against all odds, though they be blessed or cursed.

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Sonnet 386

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Do what you will, and may you bide in shame;
Dishonor every promise ever made,
Let each dear nuptial utterance burn in flame
As you in lust your very worth corrade.
The sweetest angel may yet fall from grace
So may you lag in second circled hell
Where I forever see your anguished face
Stare up in pain from that infernal well.
Perdition granted, you may take your leave,
Smug Satan waits for you beside the gate —
Loss of true heart your soul may yet bereave;
There is no time to dwell on love or hate.
Go then you must for he now beckons you:
A smile discreet…the devil has his due.

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Sonnet 385

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My nighttime muse has left me so it seems
Though passioned fire smolders in my breast,
While silver moon lights up your face in dreams
To taunt my fervor with that visage blessed;
Black alchemy has turned my pen to lead —
What demon dare deny sweet voice of mind?
Where lies that nectar that proud ardor fed,
What dram shall coax parched lips of praise to rhyme?
I sit in silence fettered by the night,
No strength to lay my thoughts on paper down,
Your spirit dancing with me in my sight
Where I entranced will perpend ’til grey dawn;
Yet if my muse is gone, no more to see …
I’ll write in dreams ‘til she returns to me.

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Sonnet 384

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Then march forever onward wicked Time,
Carrying the world with you to it’s doom;
And n’er look back upon your vile crimes
As you stride ever forward to your tomb.
May lines of purposed truth your story tell
To chronicle the beauties razed to ruin;
Of good or evil that your blade befell:
Sad effigies of hope lie callous strewn.
Relentless, obligate, cruel, unconcerned
Here always  bound unto your tyrant vows,
Determined to destroy, all beauty burned—
Charred relics of the past to but avow.
Yet from those ravaged fields emotes a flower;
‘Midst tears of rain, fair proof of beauty’s power.

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