Sonnet 650

Were I now but a queer lad crowned in curls
With cherub smiles that all should want me there
And I did covet his ass more than yours—
Then of your coyness I would never care.
I would forsake those endless feline games
To full pursue pure lust directed wants
And in one night hold dozens without shame
In back of bars or seedy dim lit haunts.
Perhaps but sad, I was not wired so;
I am a slave unto the female form,
To sacred curves and golden ratios—
More to soft arms that swaddle me in warmth;
To plumb sweet depths of soul filled sultry eyes,
Then detumesce betwixt encircling thighs.

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Sonnet 649

Bright, pert and green she sashayed up to me
Stroking my ego with soft moues and smiles,
Breasts brushing slight, sure accidentally…
Provocatively standing in profile.
A giggling child caught up in women’s schemes
Perhaps unknowing still the scene in play
Or yet responding to some half baked dreams,
By nascent lust or puppy love displayed.
Pure innocence that just discovered fire,
That flame licked passion flickering in the soul;
A sylph controlled by instinct born desire
Preparing yet for love’s heart-scripted roles.
Were I a knave, her dance might so invite—
But twice her age, a forehead kiss good night.
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Sonnet 648

To see the smile of that sweet darling child
Now to my heart here brings no greater joy,
For love of love will never be reviled
And life, through love, shall ever so be buoyed.
For what remains when God calls us to leave
This earthly bower we have called our home,
And of our passing, who shall truly grieve
Save blood of bairn there always to flow warm?
The gilt of Mammon oft becomes a lure
To lead astray those souls it can enthrall—
The essence of out life is thus obscured
As secular pursuits pure purpose galls.
True love’s a candle in the dark of night,
By love of God, in hope, our guiding light.

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Sonnet 647

My father’s hands, pure strength that raised and wrought
A life from out the unforgiving grange,
Where nerve and sinewed toil so filled the pot
To keep our humble table well maintained.
By wit he bartered for the clothes we wore
And mended yet the roof above our heads;
There on his arms we saw the scars he bore
As he each night would tuck us into bed.
Though taciturn, he spoke through loving eyes
And all he said, pure wisdom so to heed;
Wry stories that he told best served to guide,
With every action set to suit our need.
In pride I seek to best his loving hand—
That I might make a father half as grand.

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Sonnet 646

She left in springtime, darling buds to wreath
As daffodils shrugged off the icy snow;
Mocked so by nascent life her death to grieve
And me to ask how God could make it so.
The world upraised in happiness and joy
Yet in cold earth my heart rude buried there;
Sweet feathered choirs all spirits set to buoy
While yet my soul to languish in despair.
Perhaps there is no God—no God at all—
Least one that cares about a wight like me;
By simple love could He not have forestalled
And chose a bleaker time near winter’s lede?
For now of springtide, bliss to bless the land…
Bide smiles and tears admixed by Heaven’s hand.

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Sonnet 645

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Sonnet 644

My love has so imbued with golden light
That visage rare which every eye adores
And I, spellbound, in passionate delight
By finest wish, could never want you more.
Yet though I pine, you stand so out of reach
As grasping mist in some elusive dream—
Here still I strive with every thought to breach
Those ramparts that surround your sacred realm.
I have no standing, lineage or birth
To rive those walls that so ensconce you now;
Not but a paltry dowry courting mirth…
As worthless as this ink—sure to raise brows.
This rune is but a bolt shot to your keep,
Staunch heart surmounting hurdles legs can’t leap.

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Sonnet 643

For I have felt the mighty force of love,
Life’s surging torrent seeming tempest born
Where wind and wave stirred by brash Heaven above
Turn halcyon delight to raging storm;
Haughty sun restrained by rain and roiled clouds—
Wrought passion pure to vex a placid sea,
Almighty blessed to court sky splendored bows
That beckon hope…still ever yet to be.
So rages then impassioned hearts and souls
To stand defiant on tumultuous shores
Fair set to plunge into fret foaming shoals
Where singularity shall sing no more…
And as sogged sea nymphs lost on billowed main,
So drown in unplumbed depths of joy and pain.

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Sonnet 642

Though verse may languish in the public dross
This sterling rune shall here proclaim by fame
The best that truth and beauty ever was,
That all who read, desire to know your name.
No greater challenge posed to poet’s ink
Than your sweet essence blest beyond compare,
Where, quill in hand, spun golden hours sink
As muses strive to find just tribute there.
While many mighty pens have sworn to score
A timeless paean to rare beauty born,
Over ink stained notes perpetually pour
In hapless toil, near triumph e’er to mourn.
Here I sit poised, clear victory in my sight—
Rapt in a vision words can scarce bedight.

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Sonnet 641

Pure love in mortal form—sure stands no other—
The sole purveyor of all life to see
Proudly bearing the cherished name of Mother,
Sweet shepherdess of every soul to be.
No triumph of the heart accords more praise,
By selfless acts each day, no measured end—
Dear heart and hand to waning spirits raise
With every joy or sorrow to attend.
Soft gentle hand upon the lilting cradle
With might to move an unforgiving world;
By light of love all shadow to disable,
On sight alone bright flags of hope unfurled.
By heaven’s grace and love’s unending power…
The best of human virtue in a flower.

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