Sonnets

Deluge

Intruding here without a place

I found the souls alive within

And came not seeking affection's embrace

But in this space it were to begin

Through painful nights we clung close

Although bodies remained far away

Our minds did speak and found verbose

And in time our hearts would sway

There was no goal nor a set task

With which I began pursuit

But remain in your presence and there bask

Togetherness, for which, I became resolute

Romantics exalt, with prose and pen

All I cherish, my truest friend

Shoals

Embanked here on the shore of Sea's tumult

Resting on the barrier that separates defeat

Rotting hulls once challenged, and that dared to exult

Now broken as the promise of lover's lips to meet

The harbors, let none tell you, offer safety from the wave

The vessels there are moored, no less are they interred

Before they haul anchor and begin their chance to brave

Keels crack, masts tumble, the crafts voyage is deferred

Tragedy need not be the end

Though contrary belief brings it in heaps

Should that pair might apprehend

And cast off, that their final leap

Against fate, they might avail

On stormy waters a ship will sail

Shallow Wake

I never asked what I should be

nor considered it honestly

maybe I thought it'd come to me

given enough time

strayed away from creative work

my imagination to shirk

the artist type? he's just a jerk

no words from me, or rhyme

my mind they said was technical

well suited and best of all

gifted, like a festival

and to study was my climb

but now its almost said and done

and I have quit before I won