Brokenhearted Sunsets

The love you lost will not scrub away time
Nor disguise a tear stained face curled in dark
You doubt brighter suns will once again climb
Your misery's sadness turns oligarch
Sovereign hearts judge their own choice of pain
And weigh distressed scales of fleeting love lost
Extent of emotions spent to sustain
Grow rotten and die to love at all cost
Tomorrow fills with torture you provoke
And is fraught with blurred mind's eye that remains
This pained remembrance you'll evoke
Will discharge to leave darker deeper stains
You curse the sunsets you count and lament
Brokenhearted sunsets are your torment


1/24/18 contest One in Five #4
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Barden Avatar
February 15, 2018 at 11:02 PM
All the best and big congrats on your wonderful win in Joseph's contest, Frederic - blessings as always, my friend! :-)
Gauthier Avatar
February 12, 2018 at 3:21 PM
Congrats on your fine win, Frederic.
Sands Avatar
February 7, 2018 at 9:16 AM
Congratulations for your win Frederic :)
Wigley Avatar
January 25, 2018 at 2:06 AM
A fine piece, Frederic, packs a real angry puch. Will do well, I'm sure. Regards, Viv
Dietrich Avatar
January 24, 2018 at 11:29 PM
As always, you came up with a sophisticated sonnet, Frederic. You need to do a book of sonnets!!
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January 24, 2018 at 11:28 PM
funny what you said about tyburn. I feel that way too. Let me see what you wrote here now. It seems a lot of poets are drawn to that same theme of Joseph's as I am.
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January 24, 2018 at 7:09 PM
Sounds like Hell to me. Beautifully composed.
One Avatar
January 24, 2018 at 10:41 AM
A sonnet full of sadness Frederic.. I like the rhymes in this one..
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