Sonnet Doubles,Forty Years of Inking
What Great Love, Our Memory Shall Remain
What is left when I am buried and dust
ancient grave upon which a white-stone rests
vanished shades of a future we did trust
as if that one great wave would never crest!
What great love or memory shall remain
when deepest of sleep, centuries accrue
will it matter wealth, worthless earthly gain
as paying of the pied piper comes due?
What truth, shall weigh in as one's repentance
when exposing light shines its judging gleams
will sad regrets reduce final sentence
or give power to mercy craving dreams?
Pray tell, can great sorrows yield forgiveness?
Birthing mercy a gift, divine kindness?
R.J. Lindley,
April 3rd, 1979
Sonnet
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Fate Peeled Back Its Deepest Dark Curtain
Fate peeled back its deepest dark curtain
leaving nothing to chance, all certain
this year the bravest of heroes dies
golden streets flooded with angel cries.
What justice, one so young shall perish
midst of love of those he so cherish
roars not a harder, greater anguish
than living through and in pain languish
With hunger for life, for love's sweet touch
so cursed and sadly fated such
Fate, its massive powers so decreed
greatest hero on battlefield bleeds
steps into eternity, no seeds
grave now hidden by overgrown weeds!
Robert J. Lindley, 4-08-2019
Sonnet in nines.
Sonnet doubles..... a 40 year span
Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2019
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