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Hold Firm Your Immovable Sacred Heart

Hold Firm Your Immovable Sacred Heart


Your sword that badly broken thrown away
night winds blowing another world apart
seven nuns, heads bowed slightly to pray
but what of my loving heart that gave your start
has this terrible world defeated us
did the black river decide to flow west
pure gold or did the dying man just cuss
as those spitting words cursed you the best.

Hold firm your immovable sacred heart
that pierces very deep my troubled soul
in the Heavens, across Poseidon's chart
red roses strewn celebrating your goal.

Your sword that badly broken thrown away.
Seven nuns, heads bowed slightly to pray.

Robert J. Lindley. Sonnet
July11th 1978

EDIT-
age 24, getting more serious..

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Jennifer Proxenos

Date: 8/7/2023 9:17:00 AM

Your second stanza Robert pierces my soul for you, you seem troubled at the age of 24 but your eloquent words perfect your poetry to a maturity far older than what one would expect, and i love the repetition of your two last lines, magic, intense meaning - something that you knew about was coming your way that even nuns had to pray for a broken sword thrown away. Bravo. Hugs and blessings, Jennifer.

Robert Lindley
Date: 8/7/2023 1:14:00 PM

Thank you, very much my friend. Yes, this poem was about a personal relationship that ended badly. I wrote many such in my youth. Still haunts the way it ended. God bless.