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rima fragmenta, Fragments of a Rift: Fifty Sonnets for Kevin - 20. you think I could forget

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Sonnet No. 39

 

In his stately pleasure dome, Coleridge said,

Kublai Khan lacked for nothing – even boys –

To distract the keen omnipresent dread

That everything he must love, he destroys.

So in our drifting puffs, a cloud is there

To obscure the ground upon which we walk,

Grasping with blind hands for what we most care,

When all the words have turned to merely talk.

But, my mind, the big tent of our pleasure,

Floats above intermittent THC

To elevate our seeking together

For the deathless bonds of fraternity.

Like a poet’s high, all I need’s belief

For cares and concerns to poof in relief.

 

 

Sonnet No. 40

 

It’s hard to tell if anything was good

When viewed through the curtain of my tears,

Wondering if this therapy ever could

Negate the hurt of these past several years.

Do you think I could forget that last glimpse

Of you come back to my door to accuse? –

No, for to do so would make us both wimps,

And in the balance, it’s Love who would lose.

So, even though your eyes were brimmed with scorn,

I’ll now remember it by forgetting

How you left me cold that bright sunny morn

To contemplate my penance of accepting.

For ridicule deserves none of the same

If it reduces feelings to a game.

 

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Parker Owens

I must thank you for sharing these intimate poetic sonnets. Number 39 pierces more than clouds of smoke, letting the reader see into your own feelings and thoughts as you ponder stronger bonds than the physical. But in  Number 40, you remember, and force us to see, the pain you experienced and the hurt inflicted upon you by the beloved. You’re right that fleeing such a memory makes you seem a weak  shadow. My heart goes out to you in these. 

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7 minutes ago, Parker Owens said:

I must thank you for sharing these intimate poetic sonnets. Number 39 pierces more than clouds of smoke, letting the reader see into your own feelings and thoughts as you ponder stronger bonds than the physical. But in  Number 40, you remember, and force us to see, the pain you experienced and the hurt inflicted upon you by the beloved. You’re right that fleeing such a memory makes you seem a weak  shadow. My heart goes out to you in these. 

Thank you, my friend. Perhaps sometime you can come back to read No. 39 on its own. The posting of these two poems together is somewhat arbitrary, although written in the order presented. Hopefully No. 39 can offer a smile or two on some cloudy day in the future when you revisit it :)

 

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