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Occasional Poetry - 23. May Sonnet

i>A sonnet for a new month. Can't stop writing poetry, it seems. No doubt there are errors. I made them.
Come, love, and let me be the gentle rain
to soothe your fever's all persistent ache;
let me assuage your solitary pain
and all your desert desiccation slake.
 
Come, love, and in me kindle flames which burn
so wild as to consume fear's forest deep,
that dark, forbidding fastness rude and stern
where I lay hid with secrets that I keep.
 
Come, love, so let us till our autumn ground
and plant again that we might know the spring
may come again to us who may confound
the seasons of our life upon its string.
 
Come love, here make in me your dwelling sure;
upon my heart's foundation be secure.
 
em>I appreciate reviews, if you feel so moved.
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On 05/04/2016 06:03 AM, mayday said:

Moving indeed.

I love the pun on may...

the shift from 'softness' - soothing, gentle rain - to harshness and darkness of the second quatrain, then the new idea about togetherness - we in the third.

Thank you, Parker

I am glad you were moved, as I was in writing it. Also glad you caught the contrasts in the quatrains, as they weren't originally that way in draft. Thanks so much.

On 05/04/2016 09:28 PM, skinnydragon said:

A beautiful introduction to May, Parker.

 

But it speaks to love with a wisdom not at all springlike. In that, it becomes a haunting contradiction.

Nicely Done!

No, I'm not in the springtime of life here, though sometimes I still feel that way. But there is the tension between autumn and spring in this poem that I wanted highlight, and so I'm glad that came through. Many thanks for your thoughts...

On 05/06/2016 10:11 AM, AC Benus said:

You've staked out some Christopher Marlowe territory here ('Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove…'), and done so really charmingly.

 

Sometimes a refrain can be the most powerful aspect of a poem, and here it shines.

 

It's a lovely May Sonnet.

Kindness upon kindness, and all undeserving. The 'Come, love' would not let me rest. It was only when fire burned and rain fell that it could let me be. Now is the month of maying....

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