Life's Sonnet #57, Poet and the Maiden

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Life's Sonnet #57, Poet and the Maiden

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2011-10-18 07:38 AM

The love-struck poet scribbled out his days,
Yea! And into old age did his pen leak,
Sonnets, pure of love to a lovely maid;
She read them for amusement; not critique.
She was the fairest daughter of Runyon,
Her beauty unmatched by Heaven's seraph,
The bard wrote on and she read them for fun,
Til she was bequeathed to the vile sheriff.
Upon her wedding night he took her cruel,
A mean, evil man and hated by all.
A prisoner in the castle he ruled,
Each night he had her hard in a small stall.

Her comfort was the poet's words he writ,
They were with her under the sheriff's submit.

©October 15, 2011 / Jerry Pat Bolton

~* The saddest words of tongue or pen are the words It might have been.--John Greenleaf Whittier ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2011-10-18 08:19 AM

So she lay upon words of love
that sustain her past the pain...

Lori

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2011-10-18 10:12 AM

Yes, she did, and yes it did, Lori, thank you for checking in.

~* The saddest words of tongue or pen are the words It might have been.--John Greenleaf Whittier ~*~

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2011-10-22 07:18 PM

Enjoyed...James

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2011-10-22 08:08 PM

Thanks, James.

~* If they give you lined paper, write the other way. ~*~

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

5 posted 2011-10-23 01:22 AM

a fine piece of work Jerry!

you remind me of someone. I don't know who.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2011-10-23 06:56 AM

Thank you very much, Lady.

~* If they give you lined paper, write the other way. ~*~

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