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    AC Benus
  • AC Benus
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  • 04/30/2022
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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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rima fragmenta, Fragments of a Rift: Fifty Sonnets for Kevin - 6. lost in fleshly riot

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Sonnet No. 11

 

Your email’s full of anticipation

Keen as a kid awaiting Christmas morn;

Only, the pleasures we’ll unwrap are homespun,

With clothes alone in danger of getting torn.

I greet you at the door and thus begin

The longstanding way we will reunite:

Hands and eyes locked, hearts pumping adrenaline,

Lips coming together as we both lose sight.

Nothing ever seems so right as your kiss;

No embrace ever returns such longing,

For equanimity is its own bliss

When both feel the decisive belonging.

Like a child knowing Santa must be real,

Belief itself proves the greatest appeal.

 

 

Sonnet No. 12

 

On the street, lost in the whirl of the world,

I oft times become drawn by the currents

To let my vision settle where allowed –

On someone still amongst the human torrents.

That one – say, a handsome young man – on his own,

Attracts my empathy like a magnet,

For though he and I are seemingly alone,

Separate isolation may find joint outlet.

How different to sit by myself in a room

And contemplate our tender intersection,

For you and I never have to assume

Distance equals a lack of connection.

In thought alone or lost in fleshly riot,

Being with you is contemplative quiet.

 

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Georgie DHainaut

it didn't cost me any effort to put a "love" under these 2 sonnets, but I had to think over a reaction. Because, in a way I'm running out of words to describe their beauty (bad advertising for a writer of course, running out of words🙂), not particularly these nrs. 11 and 12, but all of them. 

But apart from the exquisite choice of words and the original, poetic way of building the sentences, I start to note another aspect: it is the way you are able to maintain the arc of tension in a way that I suspect it will still be there in the remaining odd 38 sonnets to come.

My sincere compliments!!!

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AC Benus
On 5/1/2022 at 4:15 AM, Georgie DHainaut said:

it didn't cost me any effort to put a "love" under these 2 sonnets, but I had to think over a reaction. Because, in a way I'm running out of words to describe their beauty (bad advertising for a writer of course, running out of words🙂), not particularly these nrs. 11 and 12, but all of them. 

But apart from the exquisite choice of words and the original, poetic way of building the sentences, I start to note another aspect: it is the way you are able to maintain the arc of tension in a way that I suspect it will still be there in the remaining odd 38 sonnets to come.

My sincere compliments!!!

Thank you, @Georgie DHainaut! Your compliments are well-received and appreciated. When I started this effort, I had hoped to tell the story of a romance through the Sonnets and their arrangements. Somewhere in the middle of their composition, real-life circumstances soared and then crashed, altering what I felt I could do to complete the "story." But I did persevere, knowing my experiences would be relatable to many potential readers.

Thanks again for your support and encouragement   

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