Thursday, November 21, 2019

Here's A Sonnet for Your Anniversary

November 22, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A fifteenth anniversary poem about how such a poem might be written:

Here’s a sonnet for your anniversary,
A little poem to brighten up your day,
Pleased to be considered more than cursory,
Pleased to be perused along your way.
Yet tuneful words are sometimes out of tune:
From a distance one applies one’s art
In all good faith to what one must assume –
Feelings that one conjures in one’s heart.
There in the fiery cauldron of one’s love
Emotions can be hammered into grace,
Each with little heft and much to prove,
Now situate where form and sense embrace.
Then off the tiny package goes to you,
Hoping it’s both beautiful and true.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Anniversaries
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