rima fragmenta, Fragments of a Rift: Fifty Sonnets for Kevin - 21. the night sky’s beauty

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Sonnet No. 41

The master phrased it best, that the North Star

Is ever-fixed while armillary rings

Protract points of light to horizons far,

Etching harmony amidst the superstrings.

My love is like Polaris, unbending;

Though the position of your heart has changed,

Mine’s steadfast with no mind of pretending

What we two most enjoy’s not preordained.

So let others around this love revolve

To admire the night sky’s beauty here,

For even heavenly bodies evolve

Once a more-perfect model is made clear.

Although the celestial circus is slow,

Rapid burns the fires for all who know.

Sonnet No. 42

Of the many comforts we enjoy, the times

We’ve snuggled to rest beneath the moonlight

Now prod my napping talent for the rhymes

Worthy of the sweetness of our “good night.”

Yet, the crush of my inadequacies

Upon all such surges of the life force

– Which others tap with nar’ a hint of unease –

Drive my efforts to dream a hopeless recourse.

How I’d like to sketch out here the ideal

Of your muscled strength in my grasping hold,

While we mount the higher passions which reveal . . .

But alas, perhaps my soul is not so bold.

These attempts spur me on and on to sing,

Abed in both the joy and pain they bring.

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