Love Matters ~ A Sonnet

Love Matters ~ A Sonnet

In dreams of eyes so raven blacked, with lips
Too mad to taste such sweetness as prevails
In sleep, he makes a feint to quell but rips
Instead the hold of summer love regaled.

In him she sees example rare and deems
How night in silence bends a will and binds
No one but she alone, so fair she seems
Too delicate, a maiden and refined.

But he by chance does overhear such joy
As she recounts old love not cold, now near.
In haste, his heart betrayed a dulling toy,
He spends his luck and she, outcast, no tear.

        With strength in love do women hold the hand
        And men, their hand betrayed, lose all command.


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This month, Every Day Poems is exploring sonnets, beginning with this feature by Karen Swallow Prior at TweetSpeakPoetry, which references this podcast on "How to Write a Sonnet". This is my second effort at writing a sonnet; I'll share the first, a "backward" sonnet, in a few days.

You'll want to read also "Glass Slipper Sonnets" by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, author of Saint Sinatra and Other Poems. It's as complete an explanation of the form as you're likely to find and will leave in your mind images of six-inch heels and maybe the six-foot kind, too.

Sonnet Central