Sonnet CLXIII

Eyes that speak, how thy crystal word shatters,When night outward lives within these ramparts.For my love hath left mine youth in tatters,And courage wanes when pleasure’s heart departs. Where sweetness once chose its tender flower,Under the brightness of the midday Sun,And didst sweetly chide thee, from the towerA view this rite of passage had begun. […]

Sonnet CLXII

When all light hath been taken for grantedAnd burnt embers frame a valiant skyPonder the divine sapphire enchanted,Once the blissful poetry of Versailles; Where vision blurred the barren edge of treesWhich stood ‘fore thee a royal diadem,And kingly virtue brought thee to thy kneesDazzling truth the likes of which ne’er condemn, For thy beauty do […]

Sonnet CLXI

How savory tis flora scented lustWhen row upon row art weary trodden?Gardens long denied parched worn abust,Mine own love’s source of freedom to broaden. Where ideals aching in thee art inclined,A furtive tear dampening hallowed ground,But defends that noble code stands the mind,And echoed fanfares teeming strain in sound. To pedals rising sunward lift thy […]

Sonnet CLX

So, am I what thou doth see’st, a face lost?In the bamboo wood a tiger to meet,As rain slants upon the bold waters tossed,Tides upward rising swallow up defeat. Therefore, one holds to solemn holy ground,Where rare sightings art in mine soul revealed,Like crystal refractions echoing sound,On golden sails upon the gale doth yield. For […]