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English sonnet Autumn Sentiments
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English sonnet Autumn Sentiments |
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Heart2Heart Senior Member
since 2009-05-15
Posts 738Scotland/Norway 
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 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 Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
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  |
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2islander2 Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825by the sea |
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 |
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Heart2Heart Senior Member
since 2009-05-15
Posts 738Scotland/Norway |
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 |
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Heart2Heart Senior Member
since 2009-05-15
Posts 738Scotland/Norway |
Thank you Yann, yes I write of nature like I would to a lover, hehe Love 2 U Katriona |
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Chalmette Guy Senior Member
since 2009-03-11
Posts 1257Louisiana |
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. |
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Heart2Heart Senior Member
since 2009-05-15
Posts 738Scotland/Norway |
Thank you Chalmette, yes sonnet writing is my passion too, it's easy to get hooked Katriona |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
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 |
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Munda Member Elite
since 1999-10-08
Posts 3544The Hague, The Netherlands |
I love sonnets, especially English sonnets and this one spoke to me. Great job and what a pleasure to read. Thanks. |
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Robert E. Jordan Member Rara Avis
since 2008-01-25
Posts 8541Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Yo dear Heart2Heart, This is an excellent Elizabethan/English sonnet. Everything is in the right place. Love Bobby |
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Heart2Heart Senior Member
since 2009-05-15
Posts 738Scotland/Norway |
Why thank you for that most generous comment Linda. Katriona |
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Heart2Heart Senior Member
since 2009-05-15
Posts 738Scotland/Norway |
Munda, thank you for looking in on my sonnet, I appreciate your reply. Heart2Heart |
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Heart2Heart Senior Member
since 2009-05-15
Posts 738Scotland/Norway |
Thanks ever so much Bobby, very kind of you to say so. Katriona |
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