Sonnet 685

On January 28, 2025June 2, 2025 By Loubert S SuddabyIn PoemsLeave a comment

A blossom fell into a quiet pond

Its ripples ringed the water to the shore,

Disturbance stilled, the pond returned to calm,

Yet stirred a fish to surface and explore—

There rising to the floret, kissed its stem

To ascertain if it were heaven’s handsel

Then vanished in the dream-soaked depths again

To roam the dark subaqueous savannah.

That floweret now carried by the wind,

White petal sails upon a darkling sea

Soon stuck between two water lilies, pinned;

Awaiting for some gust to set it free—

I often muse upon that hapless flower,

Reflecting on the charge of heaven’s power.

Sonnet 684

On January 18, 2025June 3, 2025 By Loubert S SuddabyIn PoemsLeave a comment

Whoever thought that love would last forever

May not have known of ruin’s varied forms,

For all things born of earth are doomed to sever

As surely as the sun will rise each morn.

Inception is the point we start our dying

For life is but the span ‘twixt birth and death,

Illusions of the heart forever vying

For fleeting proof in every mortal breath.

But life is life; the soul gives life its meaning—

And senses five bestow what psyches see

So that gestalt that mingles with our being

Is what we are and what we’ll ever be.

What matters more is measured not by span…

But in the time when hearts and souls were one.

Sonnet 683

On January 10, 2025August 23, 2025 By Loubert S SuddabyIn PoemsLeave a comment

The greatest crown of love is loyalty;

The staunch conviction: two hearts beat as one

Within life’s realm of trust and sanctity,

Where sacred oaths can never be undone.

Here lies the purest form of human faith,

Love’s solid pledge to Heaven’s God above—

Soul embracing soul in celestial grace,

Entwined forever in enduring love.

So may such unions stand as glory-blessed

Where trials may rack, yet love stays ever true

And of stout bonds that evil may dare test—

Fealty born of truth—binds me to you.

No greater rapture on this earth to find

Than hearts united, timeless and divine.

Sonnet 682

On January 10, 2025August 23, 2025 By Loubert S SuddabyIn PoemsLeave a comment

You carry all your beauty in your heart

And what shines forth is but the overflow;

True fairness sets you nobly apart

For from the inside out, your beauty glows.

If all the world judged virtue by a smile,

Then every lovely would be truly seen—

Still, paradox and artifice beguile,

To mask the grace of that bright light within.

But no not you! Not ever you my dear!

For in your soul both truth and beauty shine;

A peerless spirit void of pride or fear,

Whose essence burns in this, and every line.

Though I might scour the earth by hope in kind,

— No paragon your equal could I find.

Sonnet 681

On January 10, 2025August 23, 2025 By Loubert S SuddabyIn PoemsLeave a comment

She held iambic verse within her heart—

Its rhythm pulsed within her living veins,

And lyric vision set her soul apart—

From life’s peculiar and prosaic strains.

She mastered love in every shape and form

And with a glance moved every gazer there;

Her angered voice could call up fervent storms—

Her frown alone could lead one to despair.

Endowed with zeal by some crazed errant god,

She fell to earth—a darling daring soul—

And though she bore an air considered odd,

Brought every critic to her spellbound fold.

Yet when she vanished, none recalled her name…

Though someone swore, it seemed to rhyme with “fame”.

Sonnet 680

On January 7, 2025August 24, 2025 By Loubert S SuddabyIn PoemsLeave a comment

No peace more perfect than a virgin snow;

Sweet lambs of heaven softly drifting down,

Shepherded by zephyrs in a silent show

Whose algid arms now swirl them around.

Yet waft they must in blessed and breathless flight

To gently rest on reverent green copse boughs—

Upraised in prayer, in Yuletide’s holy light,

Like argent angels wrapped in feather down.

Frost now etches the world in Elysian dreams,

Each pane adorned with silver filigree;

God’s blanket of redemption—pure, supreme—

Swaddles the world in hushed serenity.

Asleep as on the breast of Abraham:

Awaiting Spring—and hope’s redeeming Lamb!

Sonnet 679

On January 5, 2025August 24, 2025 By Loubert S SuddabyIn PoemsLeave a comment

Though laboring long in dark obscurity

With naught but love, a candle and a pen,

Proud ink still flowing with such surety

As words recall your elegance again.

If I could capture beauty on a page

Or hold pure rapture in a single line,

Exacting so a poet’s highest wage

As he pours out his heart in aching rhyme;

Perhaps of peerless beauty I might tell

Where humble verse might glow in borrowed light

Revealing so an essence that could quell

The harshest critics and their stygian spite—

All words fall short where there is no compare.

What lyric lauds an angel half so fair?

Sonnet 678

On January 5, 2025August 24, 2025 By Loubert S SuddabyIn PoemsLeave a comment

Perhaps you did not love me at the first

Though I was smitten when I caught your gaze

While calming doves within, did the best I durst

To find a voice with something wise to say.

You smiled a cryptic smile from ages past,

Of Cleopatra, Helen and Belinda—

While I betrayed a face as if aghast,

Fearing your sweet smile might be rescinded.

As hope decreed, the loveliness you wore

Appeared a moonlit presence by my side

And Selena, the Christian name you bore,

The mighty force that moved me like the tide.

Soon pure celestial joy pledged as my wife—

And as God bade, her light became my life.

Sonnet 677

On January 4, 2025August 24, 2025 By Loubert S SuddabyIn PoemsLeave a comment

Love like a river flows both fast and slow

Yet ever onward to a boundless sea,

Past many shore side pageants it must go

Along life’s journey to eternity.

I sprang from mountain springs in carefree days

And from those heights did laugh and babble on

Drawn forth by faith’s sure gravity of ways,

O’er cataracts and rapids sang my song.

At some sweet confluence our lives entwined

And love with warmer love commingled there,

Your heart became my heart as souls aligned

And we surged onward with one course to share;

Though brackish water shall touch streams in time,

Love’s alluvium shall mark that course sublime.

Angelic Light

On January 1, 2025February 14, 2025 By Loubert S SuddabyIn PoemsLeave a comment

Sheer, sleek and gentle as the velvet night,

The moon bowl pouring out her ivory white

That spilled through lattice on your eider bed

Gilding the curls that crowned your dainty head.

A quilt of ermine graced your sleeping form

On opalescent clouds so soft and warm…

Argental dreams did ghost that lustrous lair,

Sweet silvern goddess buoyed on oyster air:

A snowdrop blooming at some sterling ball—

Albescent angels dancing in the hall;

Milk satin butterfly at some vernal fest—

Eclipsing hues in your canescent best.

From secret sable shadows, still, serene

I gazed out on that pale pearlescent scene

Then joined you in phantasms of delight,

A darkling moth drawn to candescent light;

Content to flutter madly ‘round your glow—

Bedazzled by a luster few shall know.

	Steven on Sonnet 556
	julesbikepoems on Sonnet 404
	Meramolin B. on Sonnet 414
	Thalena on In Black and White
	pairunoyd on A Thought

	Steven on Sonnet 556
	julesbikepoems on Sonnet 404
	Meramolin B. on Sonnet 414
	Thalena on In Black and White
	pairunoyd on A Thought

Loubert S Suddaby poems

Month: January 2025

Sonnet 685

Sonnet 684

Sonnet 683

Sonnet 682

Sonnet 681

Sonnet 680

Sonnet 679

Sonnet 678

Sonnet 677

Angelic Light