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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Morris" data-source="post: 4363627" data-attributes="member: 87">These were originally posted on the Circvs.  Members over their know the details behind these which I won't divulge here. I'm just posting them since I feel they turned out rather well and I want to share them.I use a structure of my own devising here, the rhyme scheme is abcabcdefgefgdI.Songs and poems most often speak of love,For rhyme gives reason to what reason canNever sway and rhythm that can defyThe most eloquent and loftiest ofSpeakers among all of the World of ManTo enunciate however they try.Yet we try my love; for try we must dear.For as uncounted as the sands of timeAnd unnumbered as the drops of the seaAre the songs we sing for the ones we love.So hear now each note sounded in sublimeTribute to the beauty that I do seeBefore me and of whom none are above.Time has come to sing for who I love hereII.Nearly two years have passed. I am aloneWith my dull memory of hope dyingAs embers of a magnificent fire.I now know that I should never have thrownAll caution to the wind and in tryingI bought a pain that punished my desire.No one ever hurt me as much as you. My heart tells me hope yet, for it is aDesperate creature straining for anyGlimmer of favor no matter how faint.My reason tells me hope not, for in aMoment you broke my heart -- all memoryOf you is now shadowed beneath this taint.And now I curse the day I first met you. III.I once heard if you truly love someoneYou must have the courage to set them freeAnd if they return then they love you too.You have returned, but to what end? No oneMay ever know, perhaps not even you.Your heart is locked, and I hold not the key. You haunt me. You taunt me. Without knowing.You hurt me. You burn me. Without seeing.You spite me. You smite me. Without feeling.Without knowing you rule over my dreaming.Without seeing you control my hours waking.Without feeling you block my hope of escaping.Your heart is locked, and I hold not the key. IV.Once, long ago, I was free, I could seeMy life ahead of me and I was freeTo believe that I could go wherever.Once, long ago, I believed I was freeTo accomplish any dream, I could reachFor any goal that I had wheneverBut that was before the day I knew you. Now I am nothing but a spoony bardSinging the songs that will never be heardWriting the words that will never be read.I was a fool in the name of my heartIgnoring all counsel, acting absurdI died that day, and yet I am not deadSo I am after I was broke by you. V.You have set me at war within myselfThe mind and the heart each are in full hateOne to the other when you are near me.My heart still fully loves you though you dealtIt pain and it will not ever abateTo reason - it wants you to be with me.So I ask, Do you love me? I must know. But my mind reasons you never loved meIt does not accept the reasons you gave.It wants to follow the counsel of thoseFar wiser in matters like these and beRid of you, For your choice is now madeOr so my mind would now like to supposeAnd I fear that you love me - I can't know. VI.Once upon a time there was a girl named Sondra Kaye. My imbecilic farewellTo her was a sonnet such as this one.In four years in high school I ne'er proclaimed Anything out of fear of her dispelOf my dreams of love. And then she was gone.And I swore never to not try again. I said three words I thought I'd never say.You hurt me in reply, you left but then You returned to me. I am confused by You, and I do not understand this way.I cannot make any sense of you andI am sorely afraid. I don't know why.But I swore never to not try again. VII.There is much to be said for silence andthose moments alone in thought when there isNo one around to distract from your dreams.Wisdom too can grow up strong in the sandOf quiet contemplation, and such blissWas once as soothing to me as sunbeams.But I have seen light and been burned by it. There's much to be said for cacophony --The turbulence of being full aliveTo the sensations of our existence.Folly too has its place in life you seeFor who among the wise would ever striveTo of all love's many riddles make sense?Lovers are fools - it is prerequisite. VIIIDid you know that you are most beautiful?You are, but did you know? If so you doubt -Each glance betrays your lack of confidence.It is sad for me to see your bashfulThoughts drive you far away from me and outFrom my life and to some other fate hence.Don't do it. You will regret as I do. For I too doubted myself when someoneFell in love with me. I did not see herOvertures for what they all truly were.I turned her away for I thought no oneWould ever love ugly me. I hurt herWithout knowing - Now perhaps its my turn.Such pain of regret I would not wish you. IX.I am never as happy as when I Hear your voice and yet when you are not near All the world is faint as a day in fall. I look forward to each meeting and I Fear the day that another won't come dear. Maul my heart for its impetuous gall. In one moment you lift my spirits up. See I am never as melancholy As when you are away for I am as A tree that has been robbed of sight of day Becoming weak and withering slowly As the memory fades of what it has A strength unequaled in the bright sun ray. In one moment you can tear my heart up. X.I cannot wait for you much longer love. I must seek my future wherever it may lie. And though I would have it be shared with you I cannot wait forever for you answer love. For now my love is unrequited by You. Soon I must know what you wish to do. Soon I must have your love or have your leave You have buried your feelings deep my love But the time approaches when you need to Answer yes or answer no to me dear. I do not want your dismissal but love I would prefer that the heartache end to This uncertainty for my future here. For I am ready for joy or to grieve. </blockquote>

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