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Sonnet

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As aeons chart the birth and death of stars
Our lives are numbered minutes, hours and days;
The end of time seems far too far away
To try to stretch a mortal love like ours.
To seize the infinite’s not in my powers;
An epoch’s longer than we can delay
Our lives’, our love’s inexorable decay;
As temporal as flowers in a vase.
But if we grasp each moment that we get -
Each cigarette, each kiss, each coffee cup,
Each friendly fight about the washing up,
Each smile, each fleeting bliss - then we may yet
Create a universe within each breath,
Immortalised each second; cheating Death.
A sonnet. A bit Donne-ish, a bit Marvell-ish, a bit me own. Continuing the conceit of Space which seems to more than occasionally come unbidden to me. I like the extra little internal rhymes and words which echo the sound of the end-rhymes. They feel like a good bit of extra stability - like visible beams in an old house.
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Parsat's avatar
Nice example of a Bowlesian sonnet.