1 post tagged “sonnets”

"Write even when you're tired," she said
Tears silenced the wind
And the dust on the sleigh bed
No sun today only fog and noir night
Getting used to using each other
I dreamt you brought home a baby
Alice wrote in 165 Meeting House Lane
Her first book a book of sonnets
Oh Henry!  Just like me
No cigarettes and plain black tea
And I walk to the sounds from my ipod
Lucky in some ways yet
I may never get out of debt
 
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Sweeter than pears' flesh to boys
The thump of icky music pierced my ears
Waking me from dreams of babies
Dreams of swimming naked languidly
And since then I've been bathing in the poem
Of the celestial flowing mystic sea
Swallowing great swaths of golden moonlight
Meant to guide those home on foot
Who had no use for trains
More great than song, the poem
More great than rhythms of the sun
I know what the setting sun means
And I have seen what others sometimes
Have thought they've seen