Loss Italian Sonnet Poems

Les Miserable 

I walked and walked down a steep ravine and came across
a village has forgotten by time by a road that evaded dwellings
A track...

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Can any fonder love myself endure
Than self-regard bestowed upon a name,
Or for the cause of unrelenting fame
Become a thing unpleasant to inure
Myself, I think it...

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Three long years since my love has gone away
And I have settled into a life of lonely self-ease,
Seeing no regrets or sorrows I need to...

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Come sit beside me in the sunshine’s golden rays 
Tell me what special secrets lie hidden in your heart 
Things you need to tell me...

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A Viennese waltz, seamless and sublime...
We move as one, adrift on heaven's floor;
and, though my knees go weak, sky-high I soar!
Each measured stride defies a...

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A pewter mirror cracks in veins of jade,
ensconced I've been in winter's house of drear.
Aback I'm taken, palpable my fear
to see my likeness in such...

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The Ides of March, cruel fate’s Spring Cleaning Day.
Solid walls collapsing around his head.
The day his trusted friends leave him for dead.
Mighty kingdoms burn and...

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Some days I see the rain clouds coming in
Then pull my head beneath this turtle shell
The world outside takes on a fetid smell
And all the...

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You didn’t come that dreadful night
Or in the morning with the rain
Even through all my pain
You didn’t come, with all your light
You didn’t come to...

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My brother is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. I still remember that day

His Human Heart

He laid red rose upon white casket
Tears were hidden behind dark...

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A frequent visitor is Mary Anne,
 Who first did come before the bloom of rose
 As tiny bud before it fully grows.   ...

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If you never come back to me,
if you break your promise,
if you cause my demise.
Will you just leave me be,
or my pain will you...

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Friendship is the deepest emotional gift that can be known.
You may have many friends in life, but there will be one.
This is the inner boundary...

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When I consider how my life is spent,
Both nights and days rolled into one, a smudge.
I wonder how my love you can begrudge,
For in my...

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Sometimes I feel left out, pushed out the way;
Pushed just enough for me to loss you and be able to say;
How unfair, how terriable this...

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