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Pavilions of Time

"If home is where the heart is and the heart lives in memories, remember that the past was just a second ago". Just like decor from long forgotten proms, balloons and crepe left tangled in the sky - a beachball clings where rafters echoed songs, and breaths were lost when love became a sigh. Once tightly held, old promises would fade like salutations in a book of years, now yellow with the memories they made and fragile, like a page-pressed boutonniere. Yet smiles recall a love-stained rented tux - the sand you shook from puff sleeves made of lace, were lost within emotion's melting flux, while tears of laughter glistened on your face. Those pieces of the life we leave behind are paths to home for pensive souls to find... (English Sonnet)

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Gregory Richard Barden

Date: 8/18/2023 3:39:00 AM

Love this, esp the ending two lines of rhyme … tied up with a rhythmic little bow!

Ink Empress

Date: 8/15/2023 10:49:00 PM

When love became a sigh! What a brilliant and profound write about lost time and all that we’ve experienced. Your rhymes are sublime and the flow is stunning and such resonating lines that gives a sense of nostalgia. I love the title too. Exquisite sonnet

Hat Bueckert

Date: 8/14/2023 9:30:00 PM

Like a page pressed boutiniere, I love that line, well deserved congrats to you!

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 8/14/2023 4:39:00 PM

It does seem as though the past was a second ago. Is time real..perhaps to us, yes…but perhaps it overlaps. We just don’t see the unknown. I love the prom imagery, Craig! Congratulations on your placement!

Di11y Da11y

Date: 8/13/2023 11:55:00 AM

Congratulations Craig, I liked how this took a different direction and had a personalised stamp on there, I appreciate the time spent as indicated in the comments :)

John Lawless

Date: 8/13/2023 10:53:00 AM

Nicely done Craig, you old sonneteer ...

Craig Cornish
Date: 8/13/2023 11:19:00 AM

John, from one sonneteer to another - thank you!

Sam Kauffman

Date: 8/7/2023 11:15:00 AM

Oh, I knew I was in for a magical, poetic experience in your ethereal "pavilion," Craig. Amazing, original, fresh imagery and word use. This would make a great contest theme! Thank you for this moment standing in a beautiful place. Blessings my friend!

Craig Cornish
Date: 8/7/2023 1:21:00 PM

Thank you Sam, I'm honored ... I took over a week to write this and almost tossed it into my unfinished pile of "Almosts"...rewrote almost every line and took 3 days to finish the couplet which is the 5th iteration. It's all okay - funny that writing is perhaps the only thing in life that doesn't hassle me, yet, I love the rest as well.

Tom Woody

Date: 8/7/2023 10:33:00 AM

I'm tempted to break out into song, "Memory's, like the corners of my mind..." Great poetry as always. Stop my way when you can Cwaigy

Craig Cornish
Date: 8/7/2023 1:10:00 PM

Thank you Thomas - yes - the way we were!

John Hamilton

Date: 8/7/2023 9:11:00 AM

Beautifully done Craig, enjoyed.

Craig Cornish
Date: 8/7/2023 1:08:00 PM

Thanks so much John