Sonnet to You, My Love

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    Sonnet to You, My Love
    Memories littered upon our bed.
    Pictured Kodak moments on the wall.
    Our photographs color all we said
    Leaving pastel monuments recall
    Of a bride, a groom, our song erased
    By death's ashes scattered in our room.
    Haunted desire, never effaced,
    I outlive your world in dullest gloom.
    My living memories spurn the wind
    Racing, pacing and pasting a new
    Haunting in my eyes:  I cannot find
    The shadow left of love - I once knew.
    Am I to desire - forever doomed
    And damned by death - my lover's lost tune?

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    knight4696 commented on Sonnet to You, My Love

    04-26-2010

    Sally - This is a very sad write. Life can be hard when one must survive the death of a loved one. It is one of the most difficult things we must endure. You certainly have captured that in this piece. Nice work again my friend. Ken
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    ginga commented on Sonnet to You, My Love

    04-24-2010

    wheel, A profound verse which questions what the survivor feels after mourning starts to pass and life still has to be lived. Haunting and poignant. ginga
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    wheelsal

    04/25/2010

    As one of the best on here, you honor me with your comments.

    nhorlandi commented on Sonnet to You, My Love

    04-18-2010

    A brilliant sonnet form, strong lines coupled with perfect rhyme.
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    wheelsal

    04/18/2010

    Thank you for reading.

    devaamido commented on Sonnet to You, My Love

    03-21-2010

    This is indeed a touching & brilliant write, about the catastrophic sudden onset of unbearable visceral emptiness that occurs with the loss one's lifelong companion & soil mate. An excellent tribute to his passing.
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    wheelsal

    03/22/2010

    Thank you. Sally

    WordSlinger commented on Sonnet to You, My Love

    03-21-2010

    This very touching, as I walk the halls of this great poemty WS
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    wheelsal

    03/21/2010

    Thank you. Sally

    The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)

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