Love's Death

Sonnet

While you smiled, the sun did brightly shine,

Enchanting turtledoves courted back and fro

Filling the air with lover’s call ever so droll.

Now the day has grown dark and the cold rain

Silences their song, filling this heart of mine

With sharp unease so troubling to my mind

That I must endure, standing forever below

Melancholy skies, the sun gone for all time.

 

How can it be that the garden rose still blooms

When my world is ever, ever cold and dreary?

The frost of love’s death my heart withering,

Becoming a mere shadow much too weary

Of waiting for ease, desirous of granite tombs

To end the pain of breathing without living.

 

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Adrian K. Smith]

Perhaps it was in the way I read this work, but it had a certain measure that offered movement. I felt an increase in speed moving into the second quatrain that was carried past the question of the third, as it eased into the final couplet... where eternity waits to haunt us.