Two English Sonnets

An English sonnet is a 14 line poem with 10 syllables per line containing two quartrains and two tercets rhyming as follows: ABBA CDDC EFE GHG. Show me your sonnets!  Forgive my lack of formatting as I’m still struggling with the beast that is WordPress.

Forgiveness

Ah, Love! That fatigable mother’s milk

Proves lasting beyond outward appearance

Creation once done holds no difference

Sinew and bone hid by piercable silk

Yet upon piercing, a cry stops the blade

Of doubt – mercy for thy love’s dark actions

Peace born in facing thy love’s infractions

Thy fingers broke skin, thy hatred was made

Bare lasts the bone, white sepulchre now filled

Bare laid thy love – was not your mouth once full?

Thy love continued, thy love’s full mouth stilled

Yet fond memory resurrects the dead

Their laughter endures in thy countenance

Ah, Love! Laugh – tell me what was it I said

In Ways I Cannot Miss You

I missed you in ways I cannot miss you

Whenever skies are darkened by eclipse

Whenever again smoke traces your lips

Or as children who point fingers pew pew!

Different dimensions, time periods

I criss-cross your skin in whispers and shouts

Until you stand aged and loved -without doubts

Of being loved- you rise in myriads

of mended cloaks spread out behind your frame

A sea of healing in your wings -and I?

having nothing left except my poor name

I leave the scene knowing I’ll miss you in

ways I cannot miss you. In moments like

this where the sun hits you, love’s dark twin