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Heart2Heart
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0 posted 2009-07-24 09:14 AM






Old oak with wrinkled trunk and furrowed arms
I am the ghost of summer and I love
To linger long within your golden charms
And stir your crown of glory high above
While you are reigning in your strength of heart
Still singing of a season now grown old
In which life's dazzling colours have no part
So sing old friend your twilight song of gold
Which soon will blow away in autumn rain
Until once more sweet springtime smiles on you
To kindle your cold heart and roots again
Your pale green buds unfurled in skies of blue
Our parting leaves fond thoughts of you behind
To haunt the sentiments that burn my mind

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Margherita
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1 posted 2009-07-24 09:53 AM


A sigh escaped my lips, after reading your wonderful sonnet, dear Katriona. This spectacular oak has inspired you profoundly and your words of perfect harmony fill my heart with awe.

Love,
Margherita

2islander2
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2 posted 2009-07-24 10:00 AM


Hello Heart2heart, I am out of breath, this is the most beautiful homage to a tree I ever read, and the sharing of sentiments is so deep...This is a masterpiece...thanks for the very enjoyable read.

yann

Heart2Heart
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3 posted 2009-07-24 10:02 AM


Thank you sweet Margherita, yes the oak tree is my all-time favourite tree, and in Britain we have the most beautiful old oaks, although I know there are both bigger and older ones in the US, I believe they call them redwoods ?  I talk to trees you know !  They are living creatures, and I cringed and cried last weekend when I came back home and my neighbour had chopped down many of the lovely old birches which stand on the border between his and my property claiming the sun didn't reach his porch..... (Although they were on his side.)
Love
Katriona  

Heart2Heart
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4 posted 2009-07-24 10:04 AM


Thank you Yann, yes I write of nature like I would to a lover, hehe
Love 2 U
Katriona

Chalmette Guy
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5 posted 2009-07-24 11:31 AM


Loved the ending couplet:


Our parting leaves fond thoughts of you behind
To haunt the sentiments that burn my mind


My favorite poems are English sonnets.
And you are as always, amazing.

Heart2Heart
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6 posted 2009-07-24 02:41 PM


Thank you Chalmette, yes sonnet writing is my passion too, it's easy to get hooked
Katriona

Earth Angel
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7 posted 2009-07-24 03:24 PM


Dear Lady Katriona, your sonnet sings to my soul. You wrote of the glorious and mighty oak with reverance and appreciation.

"So sing old friend your twilight song of gold
Which soon will blow away in autumn rain"

~ Only to return next sprin in all its majesty!

A nobel tree of this magnetude must surely reign suprem in the land of Shangri-la.


Linda

Munda
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8 posted 2009-07-24 03:32 PM


I love sonnets, especially English sonnets and this one spoke to me. Great job and what a pleasure to read. Thanks.
Robert E. Jordan
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9 posted 2009-07-24 03:41 PM


Yo dear Heart2Heart,

This is an excellent Elizabethan/English sonnet.  Everything is in the right place.

Love Bobby

Heart2Heart
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10 posted 2009-07-25 12:49 PM


Why thank you for that most generous comment Linda.
Katriona

Heart2Heart
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11 posted 2009-07-25 12:50 PM


Munda, thank you for looking in on my sonnet, I appreciate your reply.
Heart2Heart

Heart2Heart
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12 posted 2009-07-25 12:51 PM


Thanks ever so much Bobby, very kind of you to say so.
Katriona

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