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    AC Benus
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  • 08/01/2017
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One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets - 33. burst

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Sonnet No. 65


My soul is a bubble about to burst,

Growing full with an iridescent sheen,

And over the surface, it is traversed

With rainbow-silver and aquamarine.

You fill me up to the point of release

By coaxing and teasing my poor spirit

And making it so my love finds increase

Beyond its ability to hold it.

So, like champagne fizz on your palate soft,

Know each little pop will be replaced there

By finer that can carry us aloft,

Beyond the currents of sparkling air.

As two bubbles rising in the sunshine,

We will fuse, and ultimately combine.

 

 

Sonnet No. 66


Love is a prism that refracts the light

And bends the loved one into his base parts –

Split into jewel tones he rises in sight

More gleaming than has the power of arts.

Sometimes with you, I have to use my hand,

Draw it up to my forehead to make shade,

Because your light is more than I can stand,

And when it burns brightest, I am afraid.

But the crystal pure that is deep inside

Filters out every harshness for my eyes

To show me the pure you and where you abide

Channeled into color that never dies.

Rainbow arcs fleetly grace the sky in a storm,

But prism bands live always in perfect form.

 

 

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Mikiesboy

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Colours, rainbows, and pure bright light, these two are a lovely pair.  The love you and this boy share  expands, and fills you both, as it should be. I love the becoming one reference. His light is solid and defined like the light thru a prisim.. unlike rainbows which while beautiful are temporary..  xo lovely the pair of sonnets.  

 

 

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On 7/31/2017 at 5:41 PM, Mikiesboy said:

Colours, rainbows, and pure bright light, these two are a lovely pair.  The love you and this boy share  expands, and fills you both, as it should be. I love the becoming one reference. His light is solid and defined like the light thru a prisim.. unlike rainbows which while beautiful are temporary..  xo lovely the pair of sonnets.  

 

 

Thank you for your review, Tim. I appreciate it. 

 

Not all of them, but some I can remember the circumstances of writing these Sonnets, and this pair were written soon after waking up one morning, while I was still in bed. 

 

Thanks again for all of your support. 

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On 7/31/2017 at 6:20 PM, Reader1810 said:

I appreciated both poems, but in the second, you have me thinking of the one who is no longer with us. It's  a lovely vision.

Thank you, AC :hug::hug: 

Thank you, Reader. You have lovely comments and I appreciate them a great deal. 

 

I have to say the complex reactions to No. 66 take me back a bit, but I love hearing about people's interaction with it. 

 

Thanks for reading!   

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On 7/31/2017 at 7:19 PM, MichaelS36 said:

AC  I am no writer. And well I write a mean report but may I just say, while I cannot express it well, I truly enjoy reading your work. They make me feel things which are difficult for me to express. Thank you for the images your words bring. 

 

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Thank you, Michael. Your support here and elsewhere for my work makes me feel very warm inside, if that makes sense. It just means a lot that you give my stuff I shot, and again I say thank you. 

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On 8/1/2017 at 11:44 AM, dughlas said:

In both you use light and color but from there they divurge in their images yet both speak of love ... an emotion poets have been writing about forever. Yet these seem fresh and full of life.

Yes, Dugh. As I read your comments here, I think about how wonderful a form the Sonnet is. It is timeless when done in a way that's very personal, and yet the intimacy it offers can make it eternally fresh. 

 

Thank you, my friend. I appreciate your comments. 

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On 8/4/2017 at 9:48 AM, Parker Owens said:

How beautifully you bring color and light and effervescence and joy to life in this pair of poems. Like your beloved, they have a bright iridescence showing newer, more glorious aspects at every change in view. 

Parker, thank you, dear friend for a wonderful review. Talk about colors.... picture me :blushing: 

 

thank you; thank you; thank you :) 

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