Keith D Trestrail Poet Sonnet

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For Oscar On His 1st Birthday

By the raised light of Thor at rainbow’s end
  on first calendar moons of Mars - a son
born of this Earth and Time, and I portend
  a new renaissance age is now begun!
From first kicks in utero and gorged teat
  till long foretokened days for all to see -
so begin uncertain and incomplete 
  the eternal bonds of futurity.
O babe in arms, beautiful child, my vow
  is to mind and hold - to acquaintance seek,
to feel soft against mine your heart and brow
  and kiss those sleepy lids and milky cheek.
So hearken when tiny almond eyes peep
papa’s birthday vows - vows I mean to keep.


            Written: March 2001

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