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Sonnet 60

Mar 30, 2012, 12:41:05 PM by ~veritaslux
Literature / Poetry / Romantic / Teen / Traditional Fixed Forms

Sonnet 60
What love I gave to you, I'll always keep,
Despite this epic being at its end,
For now my love to you, I put to sleep
To you allow in joy your days to spend.
I took too much and gave too much
And I confused you by my love's excess;
And actions which I took were actions such
That you did value me at ever less.
I'll not forget the amber of your eyes
And nor your berry-scented autumn hair;
And how could I your brightest smile despise
Which you with easy comfort often wear?
Let stand my love in this last elegy
For I have given up my fight for thee.

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He should be a woman, really,
His face as white as the lady's powder
And his cowering heart
Locked in his breast.

Leave the daggers, I said!
But here they are,
Dark as the wine in my veins.
I will do it!

I will swim in the red river
Of his royal blood
And take his heart as my
Sceptre and orb.

My hands will wash daily
In that thick lacquer
And I will delight in its
Spewing fountains.

Be they weird or not,
Those sisters give to us what we
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Oh no, no, no. The sleeping guards
Are not yet dead.
Knife in the heart. Knife in the neck.
There we go.

Because I will be the qLady Macbeth by ~veritaslux

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Day of Worship Church was a very different entity to what it had been a hundred years ago.

At least, that's what they were all told. What was written in the history textbooks at school. But what did it matter what was the old now? What was the new was the important thing.

Throngs of people bustled through the tall iron gates at the front of the church, wearing the holy dress of their individual gods. Some stopped at the refreshment stands either side of the gates, partaking in an overpriced hot dog or a pint of cheap beer before the main service began. The sun was high in the sky, though its glare was obscured by a few white clouds. At least thDay of Worship by ~veritaslux

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The New World The ground beneath their feet shudders violently before abruptly stopping, the steady hum of the ship's mechanics falling silent for the first time in years. Silence is unusual for these people, who look at each other nervously, looks of uncertainty engraved into their faces made paler by over a decade of artificial lighting and lack of sunlight. The bright lights in the room dim down to a pale golden glow.

One of the people speaks, more to everyone than to anyone in particular. The language he speaks in is harsh and clipped, evolved to extreme concision and expressing with one sentence what a hundred expressions could not. Without looking bThe New World by ~veritaslux

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The Cloud Capped Towers - Prologue Prologue

A warm fire flickered in the hearth, its lambent tongues licking at the now-blackened logs. A smattering of coal glowed orange, radiating a welcoming heat. Beside it stood a rocking chair resplendent in varnished pine, creaking in its old age, upon which was sat a cushion, plump and floral.

And upon this cushion was sat a man, or something which looked like a man, his deep wrinkles accentuated by the shadows cast on his face by the fire. In his hair – which had all but gone by now – there was no longer any colour but brilliant white, and his ancient eyes glittered with the reflection of the flames. In the relative darknesThe Cloud Capped Towers - Prologue by ~veritaslux

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Step One. . . Today was going to be that day.

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Not Beautiful, Not in Love i.
I am not beautiful.
I have told you this before.
I am not beautiful,
But they say it doesn't matter.

ii.
What I do:
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Talk (fast),
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Dream (hopelessly)

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(I must say it to myself until I believe it)
But it doesn't seem to be working.
Because, as I have discovered the hard way,
Too many people aren't all that interested
In "inner beauty."

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He paints beauties.
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In dresses and heels and lipstick.
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Dec 25, 2011, 3:55:45 PM by ~veritaslux
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If anybody's interested, I'm going through the old sonnets and editing and revising to fit my metre and make them work far better. If you want me to upload them, I will

btw, merry christmas!

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~SoundlessWhispers Jan 31, 2012 Hobbyist

Hi.
I just wanted to say that you have a very impressive gallery: not to mention that Sonnets are one of my all-time favorite literary works. I think you deliver them with definite talent and thoughtful musings. It's really quite beautiful.
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Favorited on account of the sonnets.

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hey so as a critic there is a folder in the gallery called critique submissions. I will probably critique many of the poems that will be placed in there but you can too. Im sure once people start to submit to that folder I will need help critiquing all of them. So please feel free to do critiques even if i have already done one since Im new at critiquing myself. thanks

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[link] thats the link to the chat room. i need to talk to you about becoming a critic. as im new to this as well. I would like to work some stuff out

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Hi you should join our group called love for the lovers! we'd love to see your poetry in our galleries. Check out the poetry contest and glance over the rules. We also have a new critique feature that we hope will provide our writers with the help they need! Hope you join! [link]

btw sorry for spamming this again. But we are in need of some critics for our new critique program if youd be interested and also our poetry contest requires a sonnet.

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