Hello, Lady Forever

15 September 2011

This is my first attempt at a Shakespearean Sonnet, inspired (or at least patterned in a way) from Shakespeare's Sonnet 104. I know the iambs aren't perfect, please forgive it this time, it's a first draft :)), I'll get the hang of writing with the stress of syllables in consideration as I write this stuff (I hope). This was originally intended as a class assignment now it also is signal of my return to dipping my foot in the cold sea that is poetry.

Hello, Lady Forever

 

You shall not age like leaves do fall at fall.

My eye sees you eternal and divine.

For in the land time did and will take toll,

But to your grace all beauty did align.

Three seasons that does not seem that much cold,

Nor did summers that passed burn like before.

Gone is the beauty of nature I’m told.

Those lovely pearls have fallen on your shores.

The land is cloaked by your eternal face.

The shadows will and shall live above life.

Are you the gift god made just to disgrace.

The very earth he cut with his own knife?

For pretty things fade ugly at your shade.

You killed all other beauty God has made.