Sonnet Sad Love Poems

manifest destiny

pros say 'tain't reasonable expecting
change overnight involving much money
besides military needs more funding
to destroy north bear and make days sunny

peace is not exceptional agenda
when...

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Adam was in his late 50s and Jean was younger than him by 27

They both had a lot in common, they saw life as if...

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Shatter me
 The aching, hollow pain that carves out the very essence of my heart burns through my veins, filling this fleshy vessel of mine
...

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Chill confines a diary of absence
as September keyholes a papered wall.
A smirk tears a face--escapee silence
--styles wall with nothingness, dead ends AWOL.

A bottle of spent...

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What curious charge to press 'pon lover -
that he "overthinks" - therein his mistake.
When he feels fire difficult to cover,
while innocent passions keep him awake.

The...

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Was forced to do this,
Do what I hate,
What I loved, I will miss,
These days, my love's final dates

What I love, or my true passion,
Gone, after...

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Lilac gently pressed on a page,
Soft kisses remain like whispers.
Time dwells as wine doth age. 
In the dusting of springtime,
love`s promises lie eternal;
yet somewhere inside...

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A cup to slake the parch of thirsty lips
Spilled from heart to goblet, with love twas filled
Words penned from the nib of inked fingertips
Bouquet of...

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I think of another
Let my heart surrender
With pleasure under
To give and render
The lost me to the other
Which is not my wonder.
She professes to be tender
But...

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The balcony bows like a bridge unmaintained.
Song birds are silent, their hearts uninspired.
Grape vines hunker down as if never trained.
Scarlet petals fall, their fragrance expired.

Shattered...

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History runs deep, and it’s too late to rewrite
We were gasoline soul mates — friction ignites. 
With persistent anger that destroys my virtue
Sharpened tongue, time-thickened...

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"If anything were to ever happen,"
whispered a girl with heavy eyes and lips,
"remember to set your alarm for six,
you have a bad habit of sleeping...

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Cellphone monologue

I’ve been driving, you know the road is no highway,
how taxing, skirting potholes, cajoling the new jalopy
will be there for a candle lit supper,...

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Consider yourself on the tip of my tongue
Daring to be told and toxic to taste
To swallow the words and account as waste
Would injure my mouth...

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Sonnet 21, Old Hiking Shoes 
(Spenserian Format)


Don't grieve for me here on the attic shelf;
we're joined infinitely as one, you said.
In an old moldy box...

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