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Poems for Ross - 7. hesitation

...perhaps the oldest Sonnet of mine I still have...

Poem No. 16

Sonnet:

 

In wonderment I sit and ponder your face,

At how God in subtle ways, shows himself;

In amazement I think undiluted wealth,

For repose, how sullen, you could replace.

Peaceful work, of divine, and perfect taste –

Good God, a maze of beauty's expression felt,

A wonderment of hope to make men melt –

In this frame of words I set your face.

Damn the pompous fools who can't see

The greatness before their eyes,

The sublime is not to them lent,

And fulfillment can't ever be;

If they can't see the joy in your eyes

They'll never know what was sent.

 

Postlude:

 

In stoic art I strive –

I lack the art for the heroic

in creating blaring lies.

 

In stoic art I strive –

I lack the skill of the romantic

and can't read my own sighs.

 

 

 

Poem No. 17

 

In breathless hesitation I say

your name

and I wonder if life could ever

mean the same.

 

 

 

Poem No. 18

 

Your name is the sweetest

word I've ever known.

Speak it to me now or ever,

and back to a trembling mess I turn.

 

Your face – kinder than the one of hope –

drives me mad with desire.

To think of it still,

makes Beauty seem a liar.

 

 

Postlude:

 

My words molest you

their impurity of despair insults you

But, all I long to do is touch you –

not with hands, but with

the meaning of their soul.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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J.HunterDunn

You keep amazing me.
Every time you post another set of Ross-poems there's always something that resonates.

 

In the line "At how God in subtle ways, shows himself" a wisdom is caught in just a few words, that many take a lifetime to be able to formulate, if at all. Remarkable insight for one so young.

 

The same applies to the notion that words can have a soul that is able to touch. How true.

 

These poems can make men melt. I certainly does that to me.

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On 08/27/2015 05:46 AM, J.HunterDunn said:

You keep amazing me.

Every time you post another set of Ross-poems there's always something that resonates.

 

In the line "At how God in subtle ways, shows himself" a wisdom is caught in just a few words, that many take a lifetime to be able to formulate, if at all. Remarkable insight for one so young.

 

The same applies to the notion that words can have a soul that is able to touch. How true.

 

These poems can make men melt. I certainly does that to me.

Thank you. You touched my heart with this review.

 

In fact, as there are only a few left now, I think I will go and post the final chapter.

 

It has not been easy to work thorough these poems. Having been this close to Ross again (in my mind) has not been an easy thing at all. Needless to say, I've never stopped loving him.

 

Thanks again.

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ColumbusGuy

You've done it again AC...put words to something which would be beyond me. Poems 16 and 17 resonate with me this time--you don't have to see the object of your infatuation to be impacted by him, just hearing or speaking his name stirs up all the roiling depths of your sould and leaves you drained but buoyed up on a raft of Hope.

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On 08/28/2015 01:20 AM, ColumbusGuy said:

You've done it again AC...put words to something which would be beyond me. Poems 16 and 17 resonate with me this time--you don't have to see the object of your infatuation to be impacted by him, just hearing or speaking his name stirs up all the roiling depths of your sould and leaves you drained but buoyed up on a raft of Hope.

There's a poet in you yet, ColumbusGuy.

 

'His name stirs up all

the rolling depths of my soul

and leaves me but drained –

buoyed on the raft of Hope.'

 

You wrote that, my friend. Not me, so maybe I can still be able to pull you into the poetry prompts ;)

 

Thank you for your review, and for all of your support!

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