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"Sonnet for a Scholar" Date: April 3, 2000
The light of foreign skies doth touch my face
And fills me with the life of far-gone lands.
A living, breathing glimpse of time and space
Presents to me it's innermost demands.
History's life springs forth within my hands
Unfolding as a map of stars to greet:.
A tapestry laid spread beneath my feet
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Rime Royal
{iambic pentameter, rime: abab bcc}
"God Forms" Date: August 22, 1999
What wonders did the stars about us hold?
What grandeurs graced the slowly moving night?
Wherein the thoughts and lives of those of might
Had placed themselves upon this orb so bold.
What majesties across their minds did fly
When they set first their foot to dust and sand?
To carve for self a new and mighty land
Where flesh encased immortal lives would lie.
For centuries their souls had taken form
Encased with the molds of God-like grace.
But even such as Gods can be displaced
When mortal heart doth look beyond God's norm.
For all within the universe shall yield
When kindness to each other be reveled.
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Sonnet in 14 lines
{iambic pentameter (u^u^u^u^u^)rime = abba, cddc, effe, gg.}
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