National Poetry Month

[brigdh]

Whoa, it's April! When did that happen? (Well, five days ago, I suppose.) As April is National Poetry month, I traditionally post a poem a day. So, here we go:

Sonnet 109 by William Shakespeare

O! never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seemed my flame to qualify,
As easy might I from my self depart
As from my soul which in thy breast doth lie:
That is my home of love: if I have ranged,
Like him that travels, I return again;
Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,
So that myself bring water for my stain.
Never believe though in my nature reigned,
All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,
That it could so preposterously be stained,
To leave for nothing all thy sum of good;
   For nothing this wide universe I call,
   Save thou, my rose, in it thou art my all.

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

So many of his poems are about loss and separation. I have found his sonnets such a comfort when life leads to travel! A reminder too, that long distance complicated relationships are not new.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree.