And it creates in me
Such dreams
That I rest so completely
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Intro 3: Such does not reflect
Intro: Yours and Mine
I believe I can’t,
But you believe that I can,
Yours is the stronger.
Sonnet: Heart’s Desire
First day I saw this Universe take flight,
My place within it firmly on the Earth,
And since that moment–from my second birth–
Did I begin to live amidst the light.
The second day I learned of what I might–
What stark perfection I would–never touch,
Nor even look upon but once. But such,
For lack of which, has swept me hence to night.
The Third, in all its perfect form, arrived
On Earth and granted all that I desire,
Left nothing by its dawning to aspire
Nor any by its dawning thus to strive.
So, having every life’s desire to choose
Leaves naught to gain and everything to lose.
Intro: Once again, do be careful:
Do you see how very
Precarious are those good things
Within all our lives?
Sonnet VII: Lotus
I lid mine eyes, yet not in sleep, but wake;
Not hid to prize the darkness, nor to see;
Nor magnify some other sense; nor be
Bereft of beauty; nor once more forsake
The heft of duty, as a way to break
The thrall of such cacophonous debris.
Nor shall so thin a veil set me free
From youthful ties, nor hail its mistake,
Nor truth, nor lies, but merely grant repose;
Which waking purpose, clearly, I’m inclined
To take, whenever I may know such throws
Of agony or bliss. And when I find
Such irony as this, I then expose
Myself, to all the wealth, in all my mind.
This sonnet is part of a short sequence; click here to read it all:
Intro 7: My Every Day is Tried and True Enough
Something I should do
Or more often I should do
Everyone should do
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