Keith D Trestrail Poet Sonnet

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For Oscar On His 8th Birthday

I feel it in your heart and in my own,
  and its spirit is a joy to the world -
far you have come and I will it beknown
  that you are the love and light of my soul.
Never lose faith or wickedness requite
  or by doing become all you begrudge -
always in the tumult of wrong do right
  and let the haughty over this world judge.
If one truth is mine to tell let it be
  that no father ever loved his son more -
thus do I with the fondest frequency
  affectionately hold and gaze in awe.
Behold! I see a lamb with a lion’s heart,
I see my whole and you its greatest part.


            Written: March 2008

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Jacqueline R. Mendoza June 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM Hi Keith, your poem is cool, u tried rhyming with own and be known, thank u for adding Rhyming in my Rhyming Vocabs. I invite u to check my crafts maybe comment on them, informing me u visited. Oh! If u can look at my 1st trial of Rhyming, it's not that great but I thank u for visiting and maybe commenting, if u want but how wud I know u visited right? Thanks in advance. ~Jac