Day’s End: Shakespearean Sonnet

Michele Cameron Drew on Nov 18, 2008

Tags: Beauty, blessing, Color, colour, goodbye, heart, love, michele cameron drew, romance, Shakespeare, Shakespearean, sonnet, soul, Start, Sunset

A Shakespearean sonnet about the end of a perfect day.

As sun sets on the beauty of this day,
In hope that it has not been all for nought,
The complexity of that for which I pray,
It’s truth lie in the lifetime blessing sought.

With beauty, love and dreams we have been blessed.
A moment not too soon I felt your heart,
This has me needing more than your caress,
Two souls as one we’ve made a gentle start.

As softly colours blend and crimson, green;
Violet, blue and yellow flood the sky,
Although I’d love to share this wondrous scene,
I raise my eyes and watch you wave goodbye.

And how my gentle heart was soon dismayed,
Oh, I most sadly wish that you had stayed!

—Michele Cameron Drew

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Michael Degenhardt on Nov 18, 2008
This style, the sonnet, adds such a tone for a lament of love. The flow is easy while the rhyme is perfect. Your feelings come through so clearly as they are described perfectly making for a very good write. Michael
R J Grant on Nov 18, 2008
Sweet parting.

Grant
Paul Castle on Nov 18, 2008
Makes for a really nice read well done and thanks
abbic1219 on Nov 18, 2008
very nice…perfectly expressed,i love ow it flows!
abbic1219 on Nov 18, 2008
im sorry my keys are stickin.one is in my name!
Elizabeth on Nov 19, 2008
This is beautiful!
Tony Downing on Nov 19, 2008
Your words are written so naturally, seemingly without effort and the sonnet expresses beauty. Loved it. ~T
JoWo on Nov 19, 2008
I especially loved the opening two lines and the whole of the third stanza. As I read the third stanza I could see the sky changing colour in my mind’s eye. I recently photographed an amazing sunset and your poem brought back that image instantly.
I always have a problem composing Shakesperean Sonnets. The rhyming is not so difficult as with Petrarchan but my own final rhyming couplets always sound trite to me. Those of other poets don’t seem to have the same problem!
Bravo!

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