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Sonnet

The next sub-theme in Love's Tempest is 'Imaginary Relationships'.
Before you begin to experience love, you think about it a bit, imagine what it might be like.
And at that age too, you're being asked to write stories a lot and poems a little bit at school.
Practicing story telling and poetry writing and thinking about love, it all merges together...
This first one experiments with sonnet form:
 

 

You may have found in her a better friend,
Her words are soft, and sugar to your ears.
You know I do not have the time to spend,
On painted face and other worldly cares.
But here I make my pledge to God above,
She shall not have you, who have touched my heart.
If I can never be the one you love,
So shall I scheme to tear out Cupid's dart.
No girl shall better me, you may not go.
You are not free long as I draw a breath.
You laugh, and say it's easy, don't you know?
There's naught shall take you from me, saving death.
For I can still forgive you all this pain,
And you shall learn to love me once again.

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Aviva Rifka Bhandari

Tue 30th Mar 2021 04:21

Thank you for commenting Nigel. The sonnet form is often used for expressions of love.. as if each line were a rose stem ending in a delicate rose, a bouquet of words.

Thanks also to everyone who has clicked 'Like' for this poem. ?

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Nigel Astell

Mon 29th Mar 2021 01:43

A love letter in such form would break many a heart.

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