Sonnet I

20 Jan 2012

·seuratski

I break away in stumble as the leaf That claws its curl~ed tips in ache beind, Reaching through this heartbreak wind, nay a thief! That tears mine stem from off thy branch, unkind. In tempest now I view the World enraged As time and distance set us two apart, For then in growth It found us two engaged, Now It finds death at feast upon our start. I long for a soft landing 'pon dry grass, For darkness at the bottom of a pile; Where my sorrows gather, my loss amass To ponder how once more I am to smile. The branch freshly will bloom a leaf for you, By Hope I will be chang'd into life anew!

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seuratski

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round...

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