CayCay Godwin Poet Sonnet

SWEET MERCY

For Timothy Lee
A plea for your sweet mercy I now speak.
You surely see my consorts are shadows,
grown longer still as my sadness fades bleak.
All my streamed love gifts altered as fallow.

I will not share my gloom and misery.
If together my gray would fade your skies
and seize your heart made dreamy fantasy.
I would not want destruction in your eyes.

I have no shelter from my painful storm
though sorely I seek such as I do long
to rest my entirety inside a norm
since sorrow hallowed my hope once held strong.

Constant aches hold me, I nurse hurt and bleed,
so how as coupled could love dreams succeed?

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Darren White October 25, 2016 at 3:52 AM CayCay, they are beautiful, just stunning. I love them both. Good luck in the contest!

Connie Marcum Wong September 28, 2016 at 6:15 PM These sonnets are so special CayCay. You have opened a vein in your first poem written with such depth of inner searching. Your second poem is so exquisitely written sharing the birth of love in all its joy. I love both of these CayCay. 7 ; )

Nette Onclaud September 27, 2016 at 3:40 PM you set the mood in the beginning and ended it with such charm, cay... nice contrast and fluent handling of lines... ahh, love, need it wait?.. huggs

Becca Teagan September 27, 2016 at 10:20 AM aw Caycay these are really good, both of them! Looks like a nice contest and I think you did well. Hugs

Jan Allison September 26, 2016 at 11:49 AM two beautiful sonnets Cay Cay - this contest is not for me - I struggle to write one decent one lol:-) hugs Jan xx Jan Allison September 26, 2016 at 6:34 PM With the amount of N/A's I have had recently CayCay I am just grateful if my poem gets a few reads and comments before it disappears off the recent poems list lol - a win is a bonus:-) CayCay Godwin September 26, 2016 at 4:08 PM Thanks for the word 'beautiful.' This may not be your contest, buy surely you will wipe the floor on the Stink contest. I can't wait! CayCay

Eileen Manassian September 26, 2016 at 11:41 AM :) Lovely, dear. I love sonnets! The first one spoke more to me. "I lack the strength to bring you along"....has me thinking. Love is such a delicate intricate thing. I also loved the ending couplet of the second one. Good luck in the contest, dear. Hugs from a true fan. ;) CayCay Godwin September 26, 2016 at 4:06 PM It's a joy and a pleasure to find you here! HEY there. I love all of your sharings, appreciate and value them ... CayCay

Daniel Turner September 26, 2016 at 10:57 AM Well done, CayCay. I have been thinking about this one. I think the first sonnet would come fairly easy but then the second for me would be a stretch. Yours should do very well! Good luck! CayCay Godwin September 26, 2016 at 4:04 PM Thanks, Daniel - let your muse marinate on the topic, anything could happen. Mine is true - the tale of me and my love, Tim, who I waited a lifetime to be with. I had given up - so DON'T give up, you ... CayCay