A Love/Hate Sonnet
Summer Dichotomies
You hate me/you have me/you love me and shove me;
with goldest hair all in battle blondly spilling
down your neck and reddened freckled cheeks and filling
these sarcastic spaces with your frightful spastic glee;
Enkindled, flowing messenger, the coursing steeds—
flow forth and press to drive forth, licking tongues killing
ants w/ fierce magnified flame; Bright One, fulfilling
like the horde of storm gods, Bright Ones, press driving needs:
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I cannot offer you the summer; it’s not me
who can offer you a Summer like this One—
this is a snapshot distillation of it, a
Facsimile thereof, with some sacrificial
herbs and oils boiled in laudation thick with verbiage:
an Icon and a Reliquary for EARTH TIME usage.
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Rob Angeli
sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt
There are tears of things, and mortal objects touch the mind.
-Virgil Aeneid I.462
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I see you haven't come along in awhile. I could not bear for your legend to fade, so I added this wonderful sonnet to my CREATION MYTH! Hope you are well, friend! https://shopping-feedback.today/poets/creation-myth-m8dm0x8d%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cstyle data-emotion-css="w4qknv-Replies">.css-w4qknv-Replies{display:grid;gap:1.5rem;}
An apt & worthy laudation.
Stunning. This is perfect, 'I cannot offer you the summer; it’s not me who can offer you a Summer like this One— this is a snapshot distillation of it, a Facsimile thereof, A line I wish I had the talent to think leat alone write!
Oh, this is great! I read it outloud, well quielty and it sounded amazing! Not my voice lol, your words! Well done!
Very good
Take one part oxytocin, one part dopamine, one part adrenaline, one part serotonin, and one part random nonsense none of us comprehend. Is it love or hate? Well now... that will depend... ...one how you construct your fate!
Wow, the first line of this was breathtaking and the rest was addictively enjoyable too.