Note: While authors are asked to place warnings on their stories for some moderated content, everyone has different thresholds, and it is your responsibility as a reader to avoid stories or stop reading if something bothers you.
One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets - 18. Swimming the Hellespont
.
Sonnet No. 35
Leander kissed all over by Neptune
Had no room for doubt swimming the Hellespont
That the love on his lithe body bestrewn
Said the god made no mistake in what he want.
So sad to think the majority rules
Say the past must change and be sanitized,
And that those who loved openly were fools
Whose private lives should not be scrutinized.
But, Alexander had his Hephaestion,
And side-by-side long years of war campaigned,
Never once held his love in hesitation
To say the gods had a mistake ordained.
Love's always certain, despite others' views;
It can change their hearts, though their minds refuse.
Sonnet No. 36
I think a pair of eights are you and I –
A mark others see but can't comprehend;
A linking amplitude to signify
That like-energy into one can blend.
Infinity flows – one to the other,
Never fading; never diminishing –
Always fresh that we may discover
The Alpha and Omega's beginning.
For the cipher's key is written in sand –
The "open sesame," a word soft-spoken,
And your lips upon my own can then band
The tie between us never to be broken.
For it is love which unlocks realities;
Its eight-ball foretells all possibilities.
_
- 7
Note: While authors are asked to place warnings on their stories for some moderated content, everyone has different thresholds, and it is your responsibility as a reader to avoid stories or stop reading if something bothers you.
Recommended Comments
Chapter Comments
-
Newsletter
Sign Up and get an occasional Newsletter. Fill out your profile with favorite genres and say yes to genre news to get the monthly update for your favorite genres.