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One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets - 1. choices
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One Hundred and
Fifty-Five
Sonnets
Lyrics of Dedication
And so here, this work I offer
Has found a form, and is complete –
For you, dear one, I proffer
An infinity of Love's heat.
Many will be the hearts kindled,
In the centuries that follow,
Where Love grows not to be dwindled,
But venerated as hallow.
I love you Tony; now I've said it,
And quatrains living in my blood
Will always make your beauty sit
Like heaven's dome with stars bestud.
by
AC Benus
Sonnet No. 1
You touched my heart, with that thing you did –
Taking your laptop just to chat with me,
Sitting at your family event like a kid,
With a private smile, everyone could see.
Risk; Fear – You moving in the shadow of fright,
Typing that you just had to take it out –
And perhaps in me, you sense the daylight
Coming to cast away all your self-doubt.
It moved me because it took some planning –
To bring your laptop to this party indeed,
And keep the date on which I was counting –
That appointed time and hour we agreed.
Public/Private, what we do is for us,
For you and me, what we hold is precious.
Sonnet No. 2
Hollow the feeling, destitute the art
To try to put into words what it is
That has made me queasy right from the start –
But then again, oh what magic is his.
A word, a thought, a kind gesture given,
And all over again, I fall once more,
As if for nothing else I've ever striven
Than to make him happier than before.
So my art of feelings may be bereft,
So my heart of wisdom may be new stripped –
But for love of him I'll suffer no theft
Of the loving passion that my soul has gripped.
To hold onto, or to let loose in time,
These are the only choices, that are mine.
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