I wonder now what gives your journey hope When you have cast aside your love from youth. Does it not leave you lost, alone? You grope For what you once held fast as solid truth. You stand instead on that which soothes the mass-- Humanity so loves what makes it…
And In The Silence, Hear My Heart Beat Fast With Abject Fear. Good (?)- Night. postscript Day twelve of the May Sonnet Challenge. Word sonnet. Not as fun as the last one of these I wrote, but it'll do.…
It's only you for all my life, I swear-- And all my heart will long for til I die. My soul and mind will long for God, but I-- I've given you my heart and body, dear. Some moments draw me wayward into fear Away from…
Patience lost and fallen is the rose: Love was in the nightfall til it froze. Frozen was the air one summer eve Despite the warmth and mist in fields beyond. Leave it be to agonize and grieve; It has no more the warmth of when it dawned. Summer birthed our…
Perfect form and face and bright blue eyes Or gray as summer sea. So cold and tall And how impassive--without joy or sighs And lacking any fervor shown at all. The warrior of the stars, the last to fall Cradled in the blood-warm hands of Mars Noble in his task…
It here remains your right to do your worst And lacking fervor, standing tall on sand-- Or fear to do your best should death come first. Come back a hundred years and understand. The grains of sand will move and you will fall; We stood for freedom, tolerance, and love…