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Sweet Mercy

For Timothy Lee, the Best of Me A plea for your sweet mercy I now speak. You surely see my consorts are shadows, Grown longer still as my sadness fades bleak. All my streamed love gifts altered as fallow. I will not share my gloomy misery. Love's beauty may shine in your hopeful eyes, But I know trickery or mystery Can taint love's passion with silvery lies. I have no shelter from my painful storm Though sorely I seek such as I do long To rest my entirety inside a norm Since sorrow battered my hope once held strong. Constant aches hold me, I nurse hurt and bleed, So how as coupled could love dreams succeed? ... CayCay 9/26/16

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Darren White

Date: 10/25/2016 3:52:00 AM

CayCay, they are beautiful, just stunning. I love them both. Good luck in the contest!

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 9/28/2016 6:15:00 PM

These sonnets are so special CayCay. You have opened a vein in your first poem written with such depth of inner searching. Your second poem is so exquisitely written sharing the birth of love in all its joy. I love both of these CayCay. 7 ; )

Nette Onclaud

Date: 9/27/2016 3:40:00 PM

you set the mood in the beginning and ended it with such charm, cay... nice contrast and fluent handling of lines... ahh, love, need it wait?.. huggs

Becca Teagan

Date: 9/27/2016 10:20:00 AM

aw Caycay these are really good, both of them! Looks like a nice contest and I think you did well. Hugs

Jan Allison

Date: 9/26/2016 11:49:00 AM

two beautiful sonnets Cay Cay - this contest is not for me - I struggle to write one decent one lol:-) hugs Jan xx

Jan Allison
Date: 9/26/2016 6:34:00 PM

With the amount of N/A's I have had recently CayCay I am just grateful if my poem gets a few reads and comments before it disappears off the recent poems list lol - a win is a bonus:-)

Caycay Jennings
Date: 9/26/2016 4:08:00 PM

Thanks for the word 'beautiful.' This may not be your contest, buy surely you will wipe the floor on the Stink contest. I can't wait! CayCay

Eileen Manassian

Date: 9/26/2016 11:41:00 AM

:) Lovely, dear. I love sonnets! The first one spoke more to me. "I lack the strength to bring you along"....has me thinking. Love is such a delicate intricate thing. I also loved the ending couplet of the second one. Good luck in the contest, dear. Hugs from a true fan. ;)

Caycay Jennings
Date: 9/26/2016 4:06:00 PM

It's a joy and a pleasure to find you here! HEY there. I love all of your sharings, appreciate and value them ... CayCay

Daniel Turner

Date: 9/26/2016 10:57:00 AM

Well done, CayCay. I have been thinking about this one. I think the first sonnet would come fairly easy but then the second for me would be a stretch. Yours should do very well! Good luck!

Caycay Jennings
Date: 9/26/2016 4:04:00 PM

Thanks, Daniel - let your muse marinate on the topic, anything could happen. Mine is true - the tale of me and my love, Tim, who I waited a lifetime to be with. I had given up - so DON'T give up, you ... CayCay