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    AC Benus
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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 - 7. words are words, and flesh is flesh

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Sonnet No. 13

 

The poet-lovers once explored a land

Where Mother Nature’s bounty overflowed;

Where milk and honey on the desert sand

Gave promises only Time could erode.

And so, seeing your smile when I dipped

The perfect strawberry in the syrup

Recalled in me the sensual manuscript

Where the ink of body and mind line up.

The morsel brought to your lips for a bite

Smothers the sweetness of a New World

Where Rimbaud’s rose the deepest kisses invite,

And Verlaine’s passions to the depths are hurled.

Explorer, or the land that is conquered,

We long most for the place our hearts are spurred.

 

 

Sonnet No. 14

 

“And all the pleasures we shall prove” still yields

A landscape of delight for our domain,

But “hills and valleys” are not the far fields

Rhetoric strikes, but my lips staking a claim.

They glide in confident survey, noting

Every divot my Sir finds most intense,

And in your lordly enjoyment gloating

How my skill beats your sensual defense.

For words are words, and flesh is flesh for aye –

As long as comforts move them together,

Equals they meet and never have to sigh

“Live with me and be my love” forever.

Yet, if that holy word should slip from me,

Let it roam free where it can simply be.

 

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Georgie DHainaut

Without disparaging the beauty and brilliance of nrs. 1 to 12...nrs. 13 and 14 are beyond words of praise. I really can't find the right phrases to praise these sublime pieces of poetry. 

These two lines for example:

"And in your lordly enjoyment gloating

How my skill beats your sensual defense."

Or this quartet:

"Equals they meet and never have to sigh

“Live with me and be my love” forever.

Yet, if that holy word should slip from me,

Let it roam free where it can simply be."

How can one find words to write the most glowing comment without violating the beauty of what is written here?

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AC Benus
7 hours ago, Georgie DHainaut said:

Without disparaging the beauty and brilliance of nrs. 1 to 12...nrs. 13 and 14 are beyond words of praise. I really can't find the right phrases to praise these sublime pieces of poetry. 

These two lines for example:

"And in your lordly enjoyment gloating

How my skill beats your sensual defense."

Or this quartet:

"Equals they meet and never have to sigh

“Live with me and be my love” forever.

Yet, if that holy word should slip from me,

Let it roam free where it can simply be."

How can one find words to write the most glowing comment without violating the beauty of what is written here?

Thank you, @Georgie DHainaut! I accept your kind words humbly.

One thing I'll mention, because it may seem otherwise, but I didn't write this sequence of Sonnets considering which ones might pair nicely together. I wrote them (in the order seen here) organically, and some themes carry over while others do not. I post them two at a time on GA because it was a nice formatting arrangement for me when I posted my Tony Sonnets.

That being said, Nos. 13 and 14 have a beauty in both being "poet poems" -- 13 centering around one by Rimbaud and Verlaine (a Sonnet, incidentally, which I'll have to translate one fine day) -- and 14 with Christopher Marlowe's beautiful Gay love song Corydon to His Alexis (usually straight-washed to "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"). It's a joy to see 13 and 14 fit so nicely together.

Thanks once more for your support and encouragement :)

 

 

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AC Benus
7 hours ago, Parker Owens said:

I have said this before, but it bears repeating: he was a lucky man, the one you loved. These sensual and intimate sonnets are more than mere words. They speak of the swift, irresistible current of love. 

Thank you, @Parker Owens! I suppose, per the metaphor utilized in Sonnet No. 1 of this series, swift irresistible currents is perfectly apt as a descriptor :yes:

Thanks again. Your comments are always warmly welcome and appreciated     

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