tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38198812918283306812024-02-20T06:27:03.360-08:00Every SonnetThe specifications, an example poem, and a visual template for every sonnet form known to the Host. Input requested from the poetry world.Lawrencealothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854635422959062983noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819881291828330681.post-50029470552631356722014-04-22T16:40:00.001-07:002014-04-22T16:40:56.437-07:00Welcome<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 23.33333396911621px;">
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Lawrencealothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854635422959062983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819881291828330681.post-53612259363621941762014-04-22T16:11:00.000-07:002014-04-22T16:11:50.471-07:00Lazy Day Sonnet<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16.0pt; margin: 0in;">
This sonnet form was
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Rhyme pattern: <span style="font-weight: bold;">aabbccdddeeeff</span></div>
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Listen Up (Lazy Day Sonnet)</div>
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The bishop
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If I attend I listen
weakly too. </div>
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"Begetting best
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so wait 'til then to
take him to your bed." </div>
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The teachers when
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and parents too, set
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I hear the words yet
see our public men </div>
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succumb to power's
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to bed a beau- yes,
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Thus seems they set
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the powerful assume
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Rebutting or
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Their dogma need not
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It seems that
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Lawrencealothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854635422959062983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819881291828330681.post-67670278772835858772014-04-04T17:27:00.001-07:002014-04-05T13:40:51.824-07:00Sonnet Anapest<div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; margin: 0in;">
Sonnet Anapest is a
sonnet form created by Lawrence Eberhart, aka Lawrencealot on AP. It will be listed here as a gadget sonnet as it lies outside the parameters of the standard sonnet<br />
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written the rhyme pattern of an English Sonnet.</span></div>
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character is that lines alternate between anapestic tetrameter and anapestic
trimeter with feminine rhyme.</div>
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Puddles (Sonnet Anapest)</div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass;
it's about learning to dance in the rain." </span>~Vivian Greene</div>
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When the rainstorm brought puddles and pools to our street</div>
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the prospect of some splashing invited my feet</div>
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and so nothing about it was scary.</div>
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I was bundled in rain gear, galoshes and hat</div>
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When my mom called me in I complied, you can bet</div>
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But my mommy had cookies and cocoa all set</div>
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so the rainy day's joys kept on rolling.</div>
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I was trained to be happy and happy I've stayed.</div>
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Just arrange the board pieces the fates have displayed.</div>
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This sonnet form was
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(2) 10 syllables,
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where the last word of the first stanza becomes the first/ or beginning of the
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Rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef g’g (or gg) (near rhymes or exact rhymes)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Without a doubt there's much I can adduce, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">About our doubts we have a real excuse. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Excuse me when I claim man's not correct, </span></span></div>
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Lawrencealothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854635422959062983noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819881291828330681.post-48284621644264107992014-03-29T10:37:00.000-07:002014-03-29T10:37:03.823-07:00Love at First Glance<div style="clear: left; color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">
Sonnet I<br /><br />Your eyes are liquid pools in which I sink<br />The centers dark, yet filled with so much light<br />Can’t look away, I dare not even blink<br />In case I miss the nuance of your sight.<br />The lashes seem too pretty for a man<br />But thickly cast a shadow, which I see<br />Just adds to intrigue, with their depth and span<br />Awakens something at the heart of me.<br /><br />But if you capture me with just a glance<br />It must be so with many others too,<br />I am unsure if I would stand a chance<br />Of challenging and interesting you.<br /><br />Desire it seems already now has grown<br />To greater depths than I have ever known.<br /><br />Sonnet II<br /><br />To greater depths than I have ever known<br />When all it took was just a single glance,<br />For in a rush my senses have all flown<br />Into a waltz, a swirling, twirling dance.<br />I do not know if I can cross this floor<br />That separates us now, but your eyes call<br />And I'm obliged to heed the certain roar<br />Be brave or let the curtain on us fall.<br /><br />But more than eyes reached out to say hello<br />The timbre of your voice a pleasant thrill,<br />I stumble then, the words won’t seem to flow<br />My thoughts are lost, and gone against my will.<br /><br />Oh damn, I know I really need a drink!<br />I cannot voice the wonder that I think.<br /><br />Sonnet III<br /><br />I cannot voice the wonder that I think<br />Your eyes have drawn me in and now I’m hooked.<br />The world around us goes away, just shrinks<br />To naught, I think, by a sweet piercing look!<br />Your mouth says words, I only see your lips<br />They are so curved, look firm and oh so warm,<br />You’re godlike from your hair down to your hips<br />My thoughts are scattered in your perfect storm.<br /><br />I wonder why your look seemed so intense,<br />But still I am enraptured by your glow.<br />I think perhaps I am a little dense;<br />What's there about me you should want to know?<br /><br />Your hand is smooth, I bite away my moan<br />My thoughts a mess, a writhing small cyclone.<br /><br />Sonnet IV<br /><br />My thoughts a mess, a writhing small cyclone<br />My heart it stutter steps within my breast,<br />I pray you cannot hear its restless groan<br />And hope yours feels, within that manly chest.<br />Your eyes, still looking deeply into mine<br />(I wonder why I cannot look away?)<br />Bring shivers to my skin and up my spine<br />So totally I am within your sway.<br /><br />My fingers want to touch, they need to say<br />Out loud how much your gaze has shaken me;<br />I must be mad! My nerves are in a fray,<br />I’m praying that there's truth in what I see.<br /><br />Throw caution to the wind? What’s the big deal?<br />I want to tell you how I truly feel.<br /><br />Sonnet V<br /><br />I want to tell you how I truly feel<br />How fired your eyes have made me from the start,<br />The all of you, that latent sex appeal<br />I struggle with the words I must impart.<br />I gather up my courage, take a breath<br />And hope I sound so confident and bold<br />Because if I don't speak then I'll be left<br />To always wonder, what if I had told.<br /><br />Then suddenly the band begins to play<br />You bow to me and ask me for a dance,<br />We go out on the floor and closely sway<br />And once more words are swept with fine romance.<br /><br />You stare at me, I’m totally engrossed<br />But words escape me when I need them most.<br /><br />Sonnet VI<br /><br />But words escape me when I need them most<br />I'm on cloud nine, no words are needed now.<br /><em>He thinks, This woman, dancing with me close<br />Seems so much fun, but now I must allow<br />Her access to my deeper self as well<br />For texture, image, and demeanor too<br />Broadcast that words unsaid will soon compel<br />My heart and soul to take a deeper view.<br /><br />She looks reluctant, timid and surprised,<br />Perhaps afraid her words won’t show their worth.<br />She speaks such volumes flowing from her eyes<br />I feel her voice will flow with care and mirth.<br /><br />I'll vouch that words will soon my soul anneal<br />Your eyes just mesmerize; my heart, once steel.</em><br /> </div>
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Sonnet VII<br /><br /><em>Your eyes just mesmerize; my heart, once steel<br />Has melted now; surprised how readily<br />A look can reach across and make me feel;<br />My strength erodes, heart beats unsteadily.<br />Your perfume rises up and takes my sense,<br />My hands around your waist, they tremble too<br />Against love’s call I have no strong defense<br />When all I seem to want is only you.<br /><br />We’ve hardly said a word and yet your eyes<br />Have said so much, without an uttered line.<br />My head it spins, you’re such a natural high<br />I need to find a way to make you mine.<br /><br />My breath deserts me when it matters most<br />Just falls apart and leaves me like a ghost.</em><br /><br />Sonnet VIII<br /><br />Just falls apart and leaves me like a ghost<br />Composure slips, but cannot help myself.<br />I need to get a grip or diagnose<br />Myself a fool; I feel like someone else!<br />You're watching me as if you cannot wait<br />For me to utter something cute or smart,<br />But all I do is curse myself, berate<br />For staying oh so quiet from the start.<br /><br />I breathe and finally my lips awake<br />I hear the words and cringe; oh what a mess!<br />"You dance so well", is all that I can shake<br />Out from my mind, and now I feel distress.<br /><br />You smile as if you see my silly fears<br />I am in constant blush, I know you hear.<br /> </div>
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Sonnet IX<br /><br />I am in constant blush, I know you hear<br />And wonder if you think that I am less<br />Than every woman you’ve known here and there;<br />That causes me to think and to assess.<br />The music stops but we stay standing close<br />As if we are afraid to break some spell<br />And caught up in a dream we softly pose<br />Like lovers, who cannot their passions quell.<br /><br />You ask me if I’d like to take a seat<br />And talk a while, and lead me from the floor<br />I nod and force some movement from my feet<br />And softly say "I’d like that, I am sure".<br /><br />I shake my head, I know I need to cool<br />My mumblings, you must think me such a fool.<br /><br />Sonnet X<br /><br />My mumblings, you must think me such a fool<br /><em>My mind replays- until you speak and say,</em><br />"I'm not so tongue-tied as a general rule,<br />But then again, I've never felt this way".<br /><em>I hesitate to interrupt this brief<br />Connection where our touching speaks instead<br />Of words, but still I find it a relief<br />That I want more than taking you to bed.<br /><br />That raw desire could make guy's words self-serving<br />Make compliments and praise be deemed a ploy,<br />And yet of all such praise you're most deserving<br />And your non-verbal cues have brought me joy.<br /><br />When I'm supposed to be precise and clear<br />I cannot string a line together dear.</em><br /> </div>
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<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Sonnet XI</span></span><br /><br /><em><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">I cannot string a line together dear</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">So hold my hand while clouds of phrases bounce</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Across my mind before they disappear.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">I stutter when you give your hair a flounce.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">There's nothing I can tell you that is new</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">For every man before has surely tried</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">To frame in words, the loveliness of you</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">With every phrase their muses could provide.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Our fingers touching tells me it's okay,</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">That words </span></span><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">aren't</span></span><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"> too important on this night.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">I sense you're feeling lost in this same way</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">At loss for words, but found in shared delight.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Pretense would drown in eyes deep liquid pool;</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Your smiling eyes, they make me so uncool.</span></span></em><br /><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Sonnet XII</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Your smiling eyes, they make me so uncool,</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">But so infectious, I can’t help but smile,</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">I think I’m grinning like some silly fool</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">I haven’t felt this reckless in a while!</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Your fingers grow a warmth in me that I</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Cannot resist, I feel your moonlike pull</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">And like the tide I flow towards your sky</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">And somehow you just make me feel so full.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">You whisper softly, leaning in to me</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">And touch a finger to my blushing cheek,</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">You say how much my eyes look like the sea</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">And trace of finger makes me feel so weak.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">I stammer "thank you", so caught on your hook</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;">Your eyes so warm, I almost cannot look.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 25.200000762939453px;"> </span></span></div>
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Sonnet XIII<br /><br />Your eyes so warm, I almost cannot look<br />The passions well and make me feel so small,<br />How can I breathe, when all the air you took?<br />How fast, how fast, so easily I fall!<br /><em>Your beauty is a wonder I should hold<br />I’ve never been so taken with one glance!<br />And I’ll presume to be so very bold<br />And say that this is love, I’m in a trance!</em><br /><br />All words forgot, your lips are claiming mine<br />And then I know the all of what I feel.<br /><em>You bubble to my head like mellow wine<br />This kiss is all we need to seal the deal.<br /><br />Our love it babbles like a raging brook,<br />Through love, we read each other like a book.</em><br /><br />Sonnet XIV<br /><br />Through love, we read each other like a book<br />My heart is bared to you, I read your eyes<br />And there, with such intensity of look<br />Is everything I need, right there it lies.<br /><em>I ask if I can see you once again<br />But know I never want to be without,<br />And sigh with happiness when you exclaim<br />The "yes" that erases my every doubt.</em><br /><br />We kiss once more, your lips just speak to me<br />And hand in hand we leave our meeting place,<br />And I am still in awe, but feel so free<br />Enraptured by the wonder of your face.<br /><br />I am amazed how two hearts can be linked;<br />Your eyes are liquid pools in which I sink.<br /><br />Sonnet XV<br /><br />Your eyes are liquid pools in which I sink<br />To greater depths than I have ever known,<br />I cannot voice the wonder that I think<br />My thoughts a mess, a writhing small cyclone.<br />I want to tell you how I truly feel<br />But words escape me when I need them most,<br />Your eyes just mesmerize; my heart, once steel<br />Just falls apart and leaves me like a ghost.<br /><br />I am in constant blush, I know you hear<br />My mumblings, you must think me such a fool.<br />I cannot string a line together dear<br />Your smiling eyes, they make me so uncool.<br /><br />Your eyes so warm, I almost cannot look<br />Through love, we read each other like a book.</div>
Lawrencealothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854635422959062983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819881291828330681.post-53116553935826173752014-03-12T16:22:00.000-07:002014-03-12T16:22:13.229-07:00Jonathon Livingston Seagull - A Poem (A Heroic Crown of Sonnets)<span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69) !important; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">1. The Breakfast Flock</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">To fly was so much more than flapping wings</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and while the Breakfast Flock besieged the fleet</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">that chummed the water, Jonathon had things</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">to do 'sides squawk and dodge and fight to eat.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">The thousand gulls began another day,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">their raucous screeching testimony to</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">their group-think need to aggregate that way,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">for they could see no other thing to do.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Yet Jonathon would so much rather fly.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He lived to fly while others flew to eat.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He flew a hundred feet into the sky</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and practiced learning a new turning feat.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">A disgrace others would not take so well,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">so tight a curve he tried, he stalled and fell.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69) !important; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">2. Level Flight</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">So tight a curve he tried, he stalled and fell.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">But unashamed, (though seagulls never stall),</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">he stretched his wings and tried again- as well</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">you note: he was not common after all.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He found that when less than a half wingspan</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">above the water he could float on air,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">effortlessly, a most efficient plan</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">that let him glide most far without a care.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">But others cared! His dad and mother asked"</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">"Why Jon, can't you be like all of the rest</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and leave low flying to the birds so tasked-</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">the pelicans who surely do that best?"</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">"Be like others, avoid the social stings</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Conform," they said, "try doing natural things."</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69) !important; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">3. Being Obedient</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">"Conform," they said, try doing natural things.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Jon really tried for several days that week.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He tried to wear his mother's apron strings.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">he screeched and dove and fought with wing and beak.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He flocked around the piers and fishing boats</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and dove for scraps of fish and tossed out bread.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He chaffed against the ennui that promotes.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">So pointless- he could learn to fly instead.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Deliberately he then dropped his fish,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">a hungry old gull chasing him was pleased.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">To learn to fly was Jonathon's real wish.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and now the opportunity was seized.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">I'll not conform to nonsense they compel-</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Nope! I'm going to fly and soon excel</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69) !important; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">4. Fixed Wing Flight</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Nope! I'm going to fly and soon excel.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Alone again way out to sea, his need</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">to learn was something not to quench or quell</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">so practice was the plan, this week's goal: speed.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He learned why gulls don't make such speedy dives;</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">at seventy, the wings become unstable</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">on the upstroke. No matter how one strives,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">that darn gull upstroke one cannot enable.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">So Jon decided trying something man</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">had use, a fixed-wing for his fast descent.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He flapped 'til fifty MPH and then</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">held his wings still and only slightly bent.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">From two thousand feet, plunging without lulls</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">he set the world recorded speed for gulls.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69) !important; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">5. Speed Record</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He set the world recorded speed for gulls.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">exceeding ninety MPH- then crashed.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Unconscious still dreamed of lofty goals</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and sought to solve that problem, unabashed.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He woke with wings like ragged bars of lead</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">but weight of failure was still even worse.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He wished he'd simply sink and end up dead,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">for failures seemed his own repeated curse.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">But sinking low he heard a voice within</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">"I'm limited by nature, am I not?</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">If meant for speed I'd have wings short and thin-</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">like falcons and would not have to be taught. "</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He'd join the flock, and once again act right,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">by accident he flew toward home at night.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69) !important; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">6. Epiphany</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">By accident he flew toward home at night;</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">"It's dark!", an inner voice intoned, get down!-</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">seagulls you know, will never find that right."</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">If you were meant to fly at night you clown,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">an owls eyes you'd have - also charts for brains</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and the short wings of falcons… short wings- wait."</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">The answer pushed a rushing through his veins,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">short wings has been the missing needed trait.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">So, now he rose two thousand feet above-</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">"I'll fold my wings and fly on tips alone."</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">No thought of death- pursuing what he loved</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">he "knew" that he'd just found his new speed zone.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Re-born, rejoiced, this single seagull mulls..</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">he'd found the inspiration Flock-thought dulls.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69) !important; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">7. 200 MPH</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He'd found the inspiration Flock-thought dulls.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He dove, his wings now clamped against his side</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">it was as if some laws he would annul.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">At such amazing speed it was a ride.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">The faintest twitch of wingtips promptly eased</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">him from his dive, and shot him over waves-</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">a cannonball of grey- and he was pleased;</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">His vows abandoned for the life he craves.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Now practice was required and sun- up found</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">him up five thousand feet above the fleet</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">about to dive again and to astound.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">And that he did in manner not so neat.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He'd learned to speed but hadn't planned it right;</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">he just missed hitting flock of gulls in flight.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69) !important; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">8. Banished</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He just missed hitting flock of gulls in flight.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">but learned that day to turn at speed, the loop,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">the roll, the pinwheel, too to his delight!</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">The Council came together as a group</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and shamed him for his acts! He was cast out.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He spent the rest of his days all alone</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">but that was not what sorrow was about,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">it was their missing what they might have known.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">The flock refused the glory learning brought.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">They would keep scrabbling after chopped fish heads</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">while delicious fresh fish were easily caught</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">by streamlined dives beneath the waves instead.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Then Jon saw how good life could really be,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">the flock then cast him out and set him free.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69) !important; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">9. Years later</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">The flock then cast him out and set him free.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Two gulls as pure as starlight flew beside</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">him- friendly, smiling; their wings couldn't be</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">an inch from his wingtips on either side.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He tested them. One knot above stall speed,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">then dives slow rolls and loops-they matched each move.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">They passed completely every test indeed</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">"We're brothers came their words so strong and smooth.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">We've come to take you home for you have learned.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">One school is finished, yet another waits."</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">At last he said "I'm ready", and up he turned</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">with gulls he knew were heaven's delegates.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He'd spend his life at mental freedom's helm;</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">his freedom took him to a higher realm</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69) !important; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">10. The Elder</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">His freedom took him to a higher realm.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">The same old Jonathon looked through his eyes,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">but form had changed enough to overwhelm.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Seagulls here all seemed satisfied and wise.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">"Chiang…", (said to one soon to leave this world),</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">this isn't heaven after all is it?"</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">"Your wings are not the only part unfurled,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">my son, you're learning and will never quit.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">And heaven's not a time or place at all;</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">it's being perfect- barriers all surpassed!</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">You'll find perfection, if such speed's your call,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">when going any takes no time. That's fast.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Keep learning son, and you'll begin to see</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">where nothing lays beyond reality."</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69) !important; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">11. An Instructor</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Where nothing lays beyond reality</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Jon let his love become his life's new goal.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He found some others outcast such as he,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and assumed what was meant to be his role.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">When Fletcher Lynn Seagull became his charge,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">outcast because his dream was just to fly,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Jon felt an obligation to discharge,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Jon taught him how- and more, he taught him why.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">For now, 'twas not for him alone he strove,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">but for all blinded by their seagull-hood.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">He sought to share life's very treasure trove,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">to teach the Flock their blindness was not good.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">The mission seemed to some to overwhelm</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">one needed only guidance at the helm.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">12. Return to Flock</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">One needed only guidance at the helm.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and Jonathon was now the one to teach.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">"Your mind can go to any place or realm;</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">there is no speed that lies beyond your reach."</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">To his eight students he announced, "It's now</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">that we return to Flock." Some anguish rose</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">among his group. "By law we're outcasts, how</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">can we return?" Jon told them how it goes."</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">"We're not now flock, and where we wish we go."</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and thus they flew, a tight formation group,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">they were perhaps the very first airshow!</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">The Flock's unblinking eyes all watched the troop.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Apart but near the students stretched their wings,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">within Flock's view Jon taught his crew new things.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69) !important; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">13. Overcoming the Physical</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Within Flock's view Jon taught his crew new things.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">One day with dangling wing a gull approached</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">"I want to fly, but flying takes two wings…"</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">"You want to fly, and so you will Jon coached.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">And when he did, he screamed, "Look at me fly!"</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">A thousand gulls approached the training class</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">now eager to be shown just how and why.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Jon taught that ritual habits must not last.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">For laws restricting freedom are contrived;</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">they served up order only at great cost,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and while the Flock continued to survive</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">the thrill of living freely has been lost.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">When soul is free that's when a gull's heart sings;</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">To fly was so much more than flapping wings</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">14. Passing the Torch</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">To fly was so much more than flapping wings</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Your body's just a picture in your mind,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Your spirit's where reality now clings.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">You're anywhere you want to be, you'll find.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">When Jonathon left- thought himself away,</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">a student stepped into the teacher role.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">And Fletcher knew that he too'd learn some day</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and teleport to Jon on beach or shoal.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">For while we're here and now it's also true</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">that now is also everywhere right now</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and quantum physics makes up part of you</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">through multi-universes anyhow.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Enlightenment won't come as soon for some</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">but living free will someday let it come.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><em style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">To fly was so much more than flapping wings<br />So tight a curve he tried, he stalled and fell.<br />Conform they said, try doing natural things.<br />Nope! I'm going to fly and soon excel.<br />He set the world recorded speed for gulls.<br />By accident he flew toward home at night;<br />he found the inspiration Flock-thought dulls.<br />He just missed hitting flock of gulls in flight.<br />The flock then cast him out and set him free.<br />His freedom took him to a higher realm<br />where nothing lays beyond reality,<br />one needed only guidance at the helm.<br /> Within Flock's view Jon taught his crew new things;<br /> to fly was so much more than flapping wings</em><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">© Lawrencealot - March 12, 2014</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, </span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">is a fable in novella form about a seagull learning about life</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">and flight, and a homily about self-perfection. </span><br style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">It was first published in 1970 as "Jonathan Livingston Seagull — a story."</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia, Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.545454025268555px; line-height: 20.15999984741211px;">Published March 12, 2014 on Allpoetry.com by Lawrence Eberhart.</span></span>Lawrencealothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854635422959062983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819881291828330681.post-88802068728499674312014-03-12T16:09:00.001-07:002014-03-12T16:09:22.178-07:00Heroic Crown Of Sonnets: The Warrior's Tale<div style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17.25pt; margin: 0in;">
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For
fairy kingdom stood under the leaves</div>
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Of
sacred living tree, so gold and fair.</div>
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For
many years the fairies had known bliss</div>
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Until
a threat foretold became stark fact,</div>
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And so
they came in search of mighty Miss</div>
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In
hopes that they could make a fairy pact.</div>
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They
came to her, resplendent on their wings,</div>
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They
asked that she be champion for their king. </div>
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They
asked that she be champion for their king,</div>
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Defend
the realm and hidden golden boughs</div>
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Of
tree that held all magic in its rings,</div>
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The
key to all that happy life allowed.</div>
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They
told her of the prophecy forseen</div>
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Of
evil come to drain the forest life,</div>
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Of
blackened leaves within the lofty green</div>
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Of
hardship come, of famine and of strife.</div>
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She
didn’t hesitate to heed their call</div>
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And
strapping sword across her broadened back</div>
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Strode
off with them into the forest sprawl,</div>
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Winding
their way along the piney track.</div>
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Into
the mists, that peace might be restored</div>
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She
went with them to meet the fairy lord.</div>
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She
went with them to meet the fairy lord</div>
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A king
with greying beard, upon his throne,</div>
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At his
right hand the queen they all adored</div>
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And to
his left, the son he called his own.</div>
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The
prince’s eyes were like the bluest sky</div>
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The
maiden felt his call with single glance,</div>
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An
instant flare of love bound them with sighs</div>
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And
deep abiding ties of true romance.</div>
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He
took her then to see the magic tree</div>
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Within
a garden, beautiful it glowed</div>
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And
underneath its spreading golden leaves</div>
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They
kissed and sealed their fates, as true love flowed.</div>
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The
warrior at heart, now felt the cling,</div>
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There
prince and maiden joined by passion’s sting.</div>
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There
prince and maiden joined by passion’s sting</div>
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But
time was not with them, the threat was clear,</div>
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And
barely with a chance for love to sing</div>
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The
army of the trolls drew ever near.</div>
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The
fairies, prince and champion marched to war</div>
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With
armor bright and tireless winged steeds,</div>
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And
pushed back at the army as they bore</div>
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Down
on the forest home with evil needs.</div>
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And
then from out their ranks came wicked mage</div>
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Who
sought to drive the fairies from their lands,</div>
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And
capture all the magic in bondage</div>
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So he
could then fulfill his dreadful plans.</div>
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He
drew his darkness, bold and with intent,</div>
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The
mage would see all fairies in torment. </div>
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The
mage would see all fairies in torment</div>
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Or so
he wished, he thought he could not fail</div>
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His
magic was so strong, the ground was rent</div>
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And
cracks split earth along the grassy vale.</div>
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But
warrior, she felt her anger spread</div>
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She
cried for justice for the fairy ground,</div>
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And
raising sword so high above her head</div>
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She
rallied fairy troupes to gather round.</div>
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A
magic came right forth, with silver light</div>
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The
steel within her hands began to glow</div>
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She
was surprised, but recognized the might</div>
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Of
good that from the blade began to flow.</div>
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Embracing
right, she stood upon the field,</div>
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The
maiden had a magic sword to wield.</div>
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The
maiden had a magic sword to wield</div>
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A
mighty talisman to lead the fight,</div>
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And
all the trolls around her had to yield</div>
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Or die
upon her blade of silver light.</div>
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Across
the bloodied grass she made her way </div>
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There
in the centre faced the evil man,</div>
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He
gathered in his dark to make her pay,</div>
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Dark
clashed with light, and thwarted blackest plan.</div>
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A
blinding flash illuminated all</div>
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A cry
screamed out and then a quiet hush,</div>
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And
from it strode the warrior, still tall</div>
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The
fairies gathered round her in a rush.</div>
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The
evil gone, the darkness had been spent,</div>
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Upon
the field, the mage lay cold and bent.</div>
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Upon
the field, the mage lay cold and bent,</div>
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Their
champion had saved the land they loved,</div>
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The
fairies so rejoiced and then they sent</div>
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A
message to the king, with snow white dove.</div>
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The
prince rode closely by her side with pride</div>
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And
love swelled further in his fairy chest,</div>
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And he
intended, at end of their ride</div>
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To ask
her for her hand, and felt so blessed.</div>
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They
came with triumph to the fairy court</div>
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And
prince confessed his intent to his king,</div>
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But
all his want it seemed was all for naught,</div>
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His
royal highness refused his blessing.</div>
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They
had their victory on the killing field,</div>
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But
fairy king, for love, he would not yield.</div>
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But
fairy king, for love, he would not yield</div>
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And
prince was devastated by decree</div>
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His
heart was to the maiden ever sealed</div>
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And
without love he never would be free.</div>
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Then
in the west, a greater evil grew</div>
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The
mage’s brother had heard of his death,</div>
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And
gathering an army quickly flew</div>
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To get
revenge, even with dying breath.</div>
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They
came so fast, the ground hummed with their tread</div>
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But
fairy kingdom did not heed the signs</div>
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Their
guard let down, they did not feel the dread</div>
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As
they feasted and drank the summer wines.</div>
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But
prince and maiden did not join the ball</div>
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They
had found love, then seemed to lose it all.</div>
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They
had found love, then seemed to lose it all</div>
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When
king had said she could not be his bride,</div>
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So
warrior returned home to the fall</div>
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Of
passion’s hurts, and all alone she cried.</div>
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She
grasped the mighty sword within her hands</div>
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And
there on gleaming blade she saw the lines,</div>
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Within
a twisting scrawl and lovely bands</div>
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Writ
tale of once princess within the shine.</div>
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The
tale was hers, she read with widened eyes</div>
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And
knew the truth of power from her blade,</div>
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And
saw that her upbringing was a guise,</div>
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Protection
from a royal court betrayed.</div>
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She
rose as princess from her lowly bed</div>
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She
could not get the prince out of her head.</div>
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She
could not get the prince out of her head</div>
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And he
still pined, the loss made him a shell,</div>
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They
both could feel the air, impending dread</div>
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Clung
to the land, the magic wasn’t well.</div>
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The
brother mage had gained the forest edge</div>
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And
crept into the kingdom in the dark</div>
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And
coming to the garden, kept his pledge</div>
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Touching
his magic to the sacred bark.</div>
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The
fairy kingdom heard the horrid cry</div>
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The
sacred tree it wept and branches browned,</div>
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And
all shook out their wings and took to sky</div>
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In
defense of the fairy kingdom’s crown.</div>
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There
was a deadly panic, lethal pall,</div>
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They
had to save the kingdom, lest it fall</div>
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They
had to save the kingdom, lest it fall</div>
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For
without magic soon the land would die</div>
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But
evil brother called his troops, they all</div>
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Swarmed
over defenses with lofty cry.</div>
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The
leaves upon the tree began to wilt</div>
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And
lost their golden colour as they fell,</div>
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The
land began to sicken as the gilt</div>
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Faded
from tree, and evil came to dwell.</div>
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The
fairies knew they needed champion</div>
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To
help save them from their impending doom</div>
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And so
they sent a herald to maiden</div>
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To
implore her to help the sickened bloom.</div>
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They
knew with certainty of horrid dread</div>
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She
was the only one could stop the spread.</div>
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She
was the only one could stop the spread,</div>
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She
grabbed her mighty sword and ran to aid</div>
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Her
anger swift, her vision clouded red</div>
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The
magic thrummed within the steely blade.</div>
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She
joined the fight, side by side with her prince</div>
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And
cleaved the bodies of the troll army,</div>
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The
clang of steel was rhythm to evince</div>
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The
rage with which she faced the enemy.</div>
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The
evil brother saw her power then</div>
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And
saw to strike her at the very heart,</div>
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So
gathering the magic of the glen</div>
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He
aimed to tear the very world apart.</div>
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And
there beneath the dying sacred tree</div>
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Brother
brought prince with magic to his knees.</div>
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Brother
brought prince with magic to his knees,</div>
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The
maiden’s heart was torn there into shreds</div>
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And
everything before her seemed to freeze</div>
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As
prince fell down and on the ground he bled.</div>
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Her
sword rose up, it flashed with blinding light</div>
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And
smote the mage with all its raging charge,</div>
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Just
as his brother had fell to her might</div>
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He
died right there, a life no longer large.</div>
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She
rushed to side of her beautiful man</div>
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And
held him close and looked into blue eyes</div>
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He
told her then how much he loved, the span</div>
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And
while she held him in her arms he died.</div>
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With
sweet prince gone, upon the floating breeze,</div>
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She
knew right then a pain that pierced and seized.</div>
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She
knew right then a pain that pierced and seized</div>
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And
watched the blight spread from the dying tree</div>
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She
saw that love was lost, would not be eased</div>
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But
swore that princely death would set them free.</div>
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She
drew her blade within his blood and joined</div>
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His
soul once more to hers for final task,</div>
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And
plunging steel into the ground conjoined</div>
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Her
magic with his fairy blood at last.</div>
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The
blood flowed strong and fed the sacred plant</div>
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The
blush returned to leaves, the golden hue</div>
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And as
the sun rose, beams in yellow slant</div>
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Brought
warmth and life, the tree had been renewed.</div>
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The
fairy kingdom had been saved, but cost</div>
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A
prince his life, a love forever lost.</div>
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She
was a warrior with mighty sword</div>
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They
asked that she be champion for their king</div>
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She
went with them to meet the fairy lord</div>
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There
prince and maiden joined by passion’s sting.</div>
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The
mage would see all fairies in torment</div>
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The
maiden had a magic sword to wield,</div>
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Upon
the field, the mage laid cold and bent, </div>
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But
fairy king, for love, he would not yield. </div>
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They
had found love, then seemed to lose it all,</div>
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She
could not get the prince out of her head,</div>
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They
had to save the kingdom, lest it fall</div>
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She
was the only one could stop the spread. </div>
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Brother
brought prince with magic to his knees</div>
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She
knew right then a pain that pierced and seized.</div>
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Lawrencealothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854635422959062983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819881291828330681.post-34770233611258562412014-03-06T07:46:00.002-08:002014-03-06T07:46:57.326-08:00Heroic Crown of Sonnets: The Princess (Sensual)<div style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; margin: 0in;">
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I
stood upon the ancient parapet,</div>
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yes,
recklessly atop the castle walls</div>
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the
stone was slick, and gray and still so wet</div>
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from
rain that night had brought with heavy fall.</div>
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My
room below was safe, and dry and pink;</div>
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a
letter waited there on filmy bed;</div>
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high,
high upon the wall I went to think</div>
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to
clear the sighs and tangles from my head.</div>
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The
letter had a seal that made me cold,</div>
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it
glittered in the window's dawny light;</div>
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I knew
the ink inside would be black, bold;</div>
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unopened,
it had lay there all the night.</div>
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I
walked the parapet in ache and doubt;</div>
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my
gown was caught by wind and blown about.</div>
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My
gown was caught by wind and blown about;</div>
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I
wobbled then, and grasped a jutting wall,</div>
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but
let it go; yes, heedlessly I'd flout</div>
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caution's
bounds and tempt a deadly fall;</div>
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I
didn't care; my stomach thrilled inside</div>
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to see
how high, how very high I stood;</div>
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I
lifted chin, and arms I opened wide</div>
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and
played at bird; I thought the feeling good.</div>
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I
frolicked then, atop the windy stone</div>
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and
felt the wind press right against my eyes;</div>
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I
stumbled back to roof, too fiercely blown</div>
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but
parapet I climbed again; this rise</div>
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did
not concern me with its heady threat;</div>
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I gave
great thought to where each foot was set.</div>
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I gave
great thought to where each foot was set;</div>
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another
hour I spent there in the sun,</div>
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until
the stone showed not a bit of wet</div>
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and I
was tired of airy, windy fun.</div>
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Then I
sought out my room and letter there,</div>
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which
waited still; I broke the royal seal</div>
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and
thick black words then rose and grimly stared</div>
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quite
heedless of the way they made me feel.</div>
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My
father wrote; he ordered me away</div>
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to
meet him in great castle in the east.</div>
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A
bridegroom waited, in his fine array,</div>
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a
mighty match was made, and mighty feast.</div>
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I
packed my trunks, and trousseau and my flute,</div>
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I wore
my beaded shoes along my route.</div>
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I wore
my beaded shoes along my route,</div>
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they
made me feel that all would turn out well;</div>
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but
then the man could be a wicked brute;</div>
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we'd
never met, I had no way to tell.</div>
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My
father made me travel in disguise;</div>
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in
abbot's clothes I traveled with the priests,</div>
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and in
this way he kept me from men's eyes-</div>
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so few
I'd seen! <span style="font-style: italic;">(They told me men were beasts.)</span></div>
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We
traveled days; a man then joined our train;</div>
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I saw
his face! I loved! My heart was hot!</div>
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I
watched him through the window and in pain;</div>
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desire
stirred; but this I'd never sought.</div>
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I
pulled my clothes away from legs within;</div>
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the
sun was bright and warmed my chilly skin.</div>
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The
sun was bright and warmed my chilly skin;</div>
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the
man was walking by my carriage door;</div>
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I
loved the beard upon his very chin,</div>
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I felt
no woman ever loved before!</div>
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We
stopped the night in town with so few rooms,</div>
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and
host, unknowing, bunked the man with me!</div>
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I
called him to my bed, my longing womb</div>
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then
told me there was something more to see...</div>
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He
thought me man, so I pulled off my clothes</div>
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and
offered then my troth to plight and give</div>
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or he
should leave! He said, “My passion shows!</div>
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Yes!
Give me ring and share the life I live!”</div>
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He
taught me joy throughout that magic night!</div>
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I
laughed deep, low, with sweetness of delight.</div>
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I
laughed deep, low, with sweetness of delight,</div>
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we
didn't sleep at all, and glared at dawn;</div>
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and
though we saw the coming of the light</div>
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we
didn't want love's night to be all gone</div>
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so we
ignored the stirring of the place</div>
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and
while I sat atop my thrilling steed</div>
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the
door swung open, and an old man's face</div>
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showed
shock and horror; horror yes indeed!</div>
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For
Holy Abbot was not even man!</div>
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And
more than that, he was a princess, high!</div>
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And
more than that (he couldn't understand!)</div>
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the
princess was in bed! Her royal thighs!</div>
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Astonished,
he went out the door again.</div>
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A man
called Jove knew all my secret sin.</div>
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A man
called Jove knew all my secret sin,</div>
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he was
a knight who served my father well;</div>
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my
troth was plighted, but I knew just then</div>
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the
worth of that- for Jove of course would tell.</div>
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But
what of journey? And the waiting groom?</div>
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It was
too late- I loved- it was too late.</div>
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Unless
of course, they sent my love to tomb;</div>
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my
father's anger might not hesitate.</div>
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The
man I loved was high born and well made,</div>
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his
name was Samuel; pleasant was his wit;</div>
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a
rugged swordsman, skilled with many blades-</div>
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yes,
surely surely, they'd see he was fit.</div>
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I
pulled him near, and held him very tight;</div>
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the
past's black chains seemed paper in the light.</div>
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The
past's black chains seemed paper in the light;</div>
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a
wedding now seemed black and full of fear</div>
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unless
to he I bound with in the night;</div>
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yes,
bound with well and truly, charming dear!</div>
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And
still we moved through hills and moors and streams,</div>
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onward,
onward, to reach my father's halls;</div>
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but
half the time I was immersed in dreams</div>
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of
Samuel's whispers and his passion calls.</div>
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I gave
up costume, and let Samuel ride</div>
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in
royal carriage, cuddled up to me,</div>
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but
sometimes we would walk at carriage side</div>
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along
stone paths, beneath the spreading trees.</div>
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I was
so glad, so glad, he was my own;</div>
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I
danced; my pretty steps rang out on stone.</div>
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I
danced; my pretty steps rang out on stone;</div>
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he
laughed and kissed, because my eyes were bright,</div>
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the
knights were angry when we were alone</div>
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and
kept us from each other in the night.</div>
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Yes,
no one knew how Father might respond</div>
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and if
this other marriage must be had,</div>
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the
less that I was left to cling and bond</div>
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the
less that I would think the marriage bad.</div>
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But
all shook heads; no virgin now was I!</div>
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No
holy prize! No lamb to shear with pride!</div>
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If
diplomatic favors I would buy</div>
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far
fewer now would buy this unchaste bride.</div>
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My
father might have much to say to me!</div>
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The
wind picked up and roared most dismally.</div>
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The
wind picked up and roared most dismally,</div>
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we
stayed the night with Duke in castle keep;</div>
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I
tossed and turned, a restless, churning sea;</div>
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within
the mighty bed I couldn't sleep.</div>
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I
called my maid and made her rub my back,</div>
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but
still I sighed, and listened to the wind,</div>
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and to
the castle's groan and heave and crack;</div>
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the
old rooms talked and felt like gentle friend.</div>
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At
last I sent Suzanne back to her bed</div>
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and
leaned my face against the window glass,</div>
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so
wishing, wishing, wishing I was wed</div>
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and
all the worry was already past.</div>
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While
sitting in the window all alone,</div>
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I felt
sweet love roar up in every bone.</div>
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I felt
sweet love roar up in every bone,</div>
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and I
got up, and pulled on velvet cloak,</div>
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and
went right then to seek what was my own,</div>
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I
found his room, himself, his kiss, his stroke...</div>
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Once
more the night was spent as nights should be</div>
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and we
were laughing in the candlelight.</div>
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I
said, “You know you're risking death for me...</div>
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Are
you afraid it might not turn out right?”</div>
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He
said, “My time with you is worth the rest;</div>
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if I
should die, I die a man well loved,</div>
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and
loved by you, I'd die a man well blessed;</div>
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I've
had the joys they say they have above.”</div>
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He
said, “Come stand and turn, and let me see.”</div>
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I
spun, while joy was throbbing up in me.</div>
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I
spun, while joy was throbbing up in me,</div>
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and he
delighted in my flesh and reached</div>
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to
graze the hips then turning, turning free</div>
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before
he seized, and huskily, beseeched.</div>
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I gave
him what he wished and loving, craved,</div>
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and
softly kissed his chest, and neck and cheeks;</div>
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I
paused to pray to God he would be saved-</div>
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that
we would have the favor honor seeks.</div>
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I went
back to my rooms through quiet halls</div>
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the
guards, asleep, then never moved or stirred.</div>
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With
dawn, I feared my father's love was small</div>
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though
in the past he'd praised my every word.</div>
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But
then he might roar “Death!” while Samuel fell...</div>
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I knew
my secret I would have to tell.</div>
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I knew
my secret I would have to tell;</div>
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and we
were almost there! Oh what a thing!</div>
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And
yet what if instead, I had done “well”</div>
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and
never told my love or traded rings,</div>
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and
married other man while loving him?</div>
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Yes,
surely that is sinning just as much</div>
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as
telling truth. Perhaps it is more prim</div>
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to
wait for priest before the wedded touch,</div>
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but if
I had, no chance would then remain;</div>
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my
only chance of love was love embraced.</div>
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But we
were there! Would darling man be slain?</div>
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I
entered court and saw my father's face!</div>
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I
trembled with a fear I couldn't quell!</div>
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I
spoke the truth, and then I fell! I fell!</div>
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I
spoke the truth, and then I fell! I fell!</div>
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The
bridegroom waited there, and royal priest.</div>
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My
father rose and looked at Samuel well.</div>
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A
perfect silence reigned- all movement ceased.</div>
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My
father called my name and made me stand;</div>
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he
said, “So this man pleases you, my dear?”</div>
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I
said, “My heart so loves his fine command</div>
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I
couldn't bear a life without him near.”</div>
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My
father said, “We've sought a tie for years</div>
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with
Samuel's house. The wedding is tonight.</div>
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You've
done a thing that bribes and war and tears</div>
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could
never bring to terms or friendly light.</div>
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My
daughter, you have done a royal thing</div>
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with
little hands, and sweetly traded rings.</div>
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<br /></div>
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I
stood upon the ancient parapet,</div>
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my
gown was caught by wind and blown about,</div>
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I gave
great thought to where each foot was set,</div>
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I wore
my beaded shoes along my route.</div>
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The
sun was bright and warmed my chilly skin;</div>
<div style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; margin: 0in;">
I
laughed deep, low, with sweetness of delight.</div>
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a man
called Jove knew all my secret sin,</div>
<div style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; margin: 0in;">
the
past's black chains seemed paper in the light.</div>
<div style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; margin: 0in;">
I
danced; my pretty steps rang out on stone,</div>
<div style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; margin: 0in;">
the
wind picked up and roared most dismally;</div>
<div style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; margin: 0in;">
I felt
sweet love roar up in every bone,</div>
<div style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; margin: 0in;">
I
spun, while joy was throbbing up in me;</div>
<div style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; margin: 0in;">
I knew
my secret I would have to tell;</div>
<br />
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I
spoke the truth, and then I fell! I fell!</div>
Lawrencealothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854635422959062983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819881291828330681.post-86088206430734094642014-03-06T07:41:00.000-08:002014-03-06T07:47:36.101-08:00Sonnet Redouble: The Gift<b>Sonnet Redouble: The Gift</b><br />
(c) 2001 by Seanan McGuire and Batya "The Toon" Wittenberg<br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">1. The First Slayer.</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">This is the Gift that only blood could buy:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">Salvation in exchange for just one soul.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">The Slayer does not have the right to cry,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">And naught may come between her and her goal.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">And this is why we don't walk in the world:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">We can't wait for the waters to recede,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">And while you say you're just a single girl,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">Sometimes a single girl is all we need.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">This is the Gift that you alone can give,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">Although that giving cuts you like a knife...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">But sometimes only dying lets you live,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">And giving Death reversed is giving Life.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: white; font-family: Times;">........</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">You said you'd be a fireman -- why wait?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: white; font-family: Times;">........</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times;">This is the calm serenity of Fate.</span><br />
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<b>2. Spike.</b><br />
This is the calm serenity of Fate<br />
That kills uncaringly as I once might;<br />
No one to strike, or rage against, or hate,<br />
No enemy that anyone could fight.<br />
Just tears that scald like holy water's touch,<br />
Just choking sobs that burn like any cross;<br />
I knew I loved, but could I love so much<br />
That nothing's left within me but the loss?<br />
I told her once of her own kind's despair,<br />
I told her of the moment's wish for death --<br />
O, irony! -- I told her I'd be there!...<br />
My love for her as meaningless as breath.<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>In all the world who better knew than I<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>That every Slayer is only called to die?</div>
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<b>3. Giles.</b><br />
That every Slayer is only called to die<br />
Is something we cannot deny or fight --<br />
And yet I find that I still wonder why<br />
We have to pay so much to serve the light.<br />
Reluctant hero, called against your will<br />
To save the world: your childhood was the cost.<br />
I taught a little girl the way to kill,<br />
And looked away when innocence was lost.<br />
Forgive me for betraying what you were<br />
To make you what your destiny demands.<br />
I had no choice, my dear one, this was war;<br />
I sometimes thought you didn't understand,<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>But in the end, you didn't hesitate --<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>This is the lesson that we learned too late.</div>
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<b>4. Willow.</b><br />
This is the lesson that we learned too late,<br />
The hidden book we never got to read,<br />
Why power to destroy and to create<br />
Stands powerless against what is decreed.<br />
My love, my friend, each lost within her mind,<br />
Each wandering through all the myriad ways;<br />
The desperate hope that she was there to find<br />
Was all that led me through the lightless maze.<br />
My love, against all chances, I have found;<br />
My friend is gone to find a kinder hell --<br />
And thus the final lesson is set down:<br />
Forgive that I could not save you as well.<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>This foe, this fate, this fall, we could not share;<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>And now the future hangs in empty air.</div>
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<b>5. Dawn.</b><br />
And now the future hangs in empty air<br />
With pain behind and greater pain ahead:<br />
The walls between the worlds begin to tear<br />
And will not heal again until I'm dead.<br />
The shallow cuts that opened up my veins<br />
I feel no more, though still they freely bleed;<br />
The sky is torn and through it chaos rains,<br />
My sister's eyes are two dry wells of need.<br />
Let lightning shriek across the tortured sky,<br />
Let countless hells gape wide and swallow all,<br />
Let all hope fail -- she will not let me die;<br />
I see her turn and run, and leap, and fall.<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>What power holds me here and lets her go?<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>And when did time become so very slow?</div>
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<b>6. Tara.</b><br />
And when did time become so very slow<br />
That one could watch a thought pass like a cloud?<br />
Big day today; there's somewhere I should go,<br />
Where I must go, as soon as I'm allowed.<br />
I stumble through a fog of vague intent --<br />
The day calls me! It's time, it's time and past --<br />
Till love as pure as any sacrament<br />
Burns fog away and brings me home at last.<br />
And now she weeps, a world in every tear...<br />
There is so clearly nothing I can say.<br />
With all the lives that were not ended here<br />
And all the hells now safely sealed away,<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>Perhaps there was no mercy left to spare;<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>They never said that destiny was fair.</div>
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<b>7. Joyce.</b><br />
They never said that destiny was fair;<br />
I know there's nothing more I could have done,<br />
I just wish I could somehow have been there,<br />
I wish I could be proud of what you've won.<br />
Your sister -- or, we felt as if she were,<br />
Though she's not real ... it doesn't matter now;<br />
You promised me that you'd take care of her,<br />
And so you did, and never questioned how.<br />
They must have known about your destiny,<br />
The ones who called you to this thankless task,<br />
Yet never thought to warn your family --<br />
Would that have been so very much to ask?<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>They never told us how the tale must go;<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>Perhaps they thought that we'd already know.</div>
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<b>8. Anya.</b><br />
Perhaps they thought that we'd already know<br />
That this essential sacrifice was yours;<br />
That in the end we'd have to let you go.<br />
Perhaps we did -- but what's a hero for<br />
If we must always bury them and grieve?<br />
Too many lies and too much left unsaid --<br />
Who told you we were done? Who let you leave?<br />
Who said that you could go and join the dead?<br />
I've learned of grief too recently for this.<br />
You had to fall -- who said you had to land?<br />
Mortality is so damn hard to miss:<br />
Some things I just don't want to understand.<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>I didn't know I'd have to watch you fall...<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>There are some steps that wishing won't recall.</div>
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<b>9. Glory.</b><br />
There are some steps that wishing won't recall;<br />
It's such a little sacrifice to make,<br />
And every human dies, hon, after all...<br />
Your gods made you too delicate. You break.<br />
You say your sister's waiting for the flood;<br />
I say she'll never come to save your soul.<br />
The key to what I need is in your blood,<br />
You're just another thing I can control.<br />
You never were the girl you claimed to be,<br />
You only dreamed the life you thought you led.<br />
This ritual will let us both be free --<br />
Your death will stop the screaming in my head.<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>The life you had is over, babe; it's gone.<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>Some lines just can't be broken, once they're drawn.</div>
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<b>10. Ben.</b><br />
Some lines just can't be broken, once they're drawn;<br />
Some choices, made, can never be unmade.<br />
I don't owe her a thing, I'm just a pawn --<br />
Why should she look at me as though betrayed?<br />
I won't be hers, and never asked to be,<br />
And neither of us wanted to be born;<br />
There's nothing I can do -- it's her or me,<br />
And I have drawn my conscience like a thorn.<br />
I don't know why I'm trying to explain,<br />
Why I hold hope that somehow you'll forgive;<br />
Too much misunderstanding, too much pain,<br />
Too little chance that both of us will live.<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>We never knew each other's lives at all;<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>How could we know you had so far to fall?</div>
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<b>11. Xander.</b><br />
How could we know you had so far to fall<br />
When we believed that you could almost fly?<br />
You were the hero, always standing tall;<br />
You were invincible! How could you die?<br />
There is no justice here, this makes no sense,<br />
This isn't how the thing's supposed to end --<br />
What kind of world gives death as recompense<br />
To such a hero, savior, fighter, friend?<br />
I never could have set a nobler goal<br />
Than being heart to your unfailing hand;<br />
More than a team, we formed a single whole,<br />
A whole now shattered, scattered in the sand.<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>How could the one uniting us be gone?<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>How could we know we'd lose you to the dawn?</div>
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<b>12. Angel.</b><br />
How could we know we'd lose you to the dawn<br />
When I'm the one that flees before the day?<br />
I always knew that one day you'd be gone;<br />
Now tell me why it had to end this way.<br />
I only held you twice within my arms,<br />
But held you in my heart a thousand years;<br />
Are there no simple lies or subtle charms<br />
To bar this bitter news or stop my tears.<br />
They told me we were warriors for Fate:<br />
That if I kept you with me, you would die.<br />
I let you go, and now I learn too late<br />
Your death was one I never could deny.<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>This is the ending that I would refuse...<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>And yet the Chosen Ones can never choose.</div>
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<b>13. Faith.</b><br />
And yet the Chosen Ones can never choose --<br />
They Call us and they use us 'til we're killed.<br />
They play us like our lives are theirs to lose,<br />
And Call another once our blood's been spilled.<br />
Did you believe I wouldn't feel you die?<br />
We're less than sisters, more than enemies,<br />
And destiny has bound us, you and I,<br />
To drown in battle's hot and bloody seas.<br />
We are Fate's chosen weapon; just a blade<br />
With which to kill, and keep their own hands pure.<br />
It's what we are that's left us both betrayed...<br />
Why can't you take me through that final door?<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>They never let us question or refuse.<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>So far to fall. So very much to lose.</div>
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<b>14. Buffy.</b><br />
So far to fall. So very much to lose:<br />
The world, my friends, my sister and my life.<br />
My heart's the only weapon I can use:<br />
This sacrifice my last and sharpest knife.<br />
My innocence by inches has been paid<br />
To save us all and keep the world alive.<br />
I won't regret the choices that I've made;<br />
I'd make them all again so you'd survive.<br />
A final sacrifice is what we need,<br />
So let the war and madness drop away:<br />
I won't regret this, even as I bleed.<br />
This is a price that only blood can pay.<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>Please understand I loved you all -- good-bye.<br />
<span style="color: white;">........</span>This is the Gift that only blood could buy.</div>
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<b>15. The Gift.</b><br />
<i>This is the Gift that only blood could buy,<br />This is the calm serenity of Fate;<br />That every Slayer is only called to die,<br />This is the lesson that we learned too late.<br />And now the future hangs in empty air --<br />And when did time become so very slow?<br />They never said that destiny was fair...<br />Perhaps they thought that we'd already know.<br />There are some steps that wishing won't recall;<br />Some lines just can't be broken, once they're drawn.<br />How could we know you had so far to fall?<br />How could we know we'd lose you to the dawn?<br /><span style="color: white;">........</span>And yet the Chosen Ones can never choose.<br /><span style="color: white;">........</span>So far to fall. So very much to lose.</i></div>
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Lawrencealothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854635422959062983noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819881291828330681.post-52650447767698511592014-03-06T07:17:00.000-08:002014-03-06T07:48:06.461-08:00Heroic Crown of Sonnets: The Fairy<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;" />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The fairy princess chose him for a king;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she found him walking through a crowded wood,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and followed him on iridescent wing;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her heart then singing fairy music good.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He was not young, but fairies see the soul</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his mind was diamond, heart was rainbowed light;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she saw where others were a mass of coal</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">this man, this one, was brilliant beacon bright.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She flitted then, from branch to branch, concealed</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and judged the man on way and secret thought;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she saw in him some wicked ways revealed,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">but basked in beauty deep within him, caught.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She feared to love; though loving would be just;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the man was fragile, born of clay and dust.</span></span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The man was fragile, born of clay and dust,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">a short-lived mortal, hardly just a breath.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Though heart toward love was wildly, deeply thrust</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she knew her love would only end in death.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">A fairy prince would make a better king;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">a thousand years would pass like seven days,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">but love a man? How sharp would be the sting</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">when breath was gone; how short man's spirit stays!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She shuddered then, with thought of all the loss</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and yet his soul was lovelier than theirs;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">no fairy prince had half his rainbow's gloss</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">no fairy prince had such a light to share.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">No, it was he who must and should be king.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Her fairy eyes took in the joy he'd bring.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Her fairy eyes took in the joy he'd bring,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">what sweet delight his reign would mean to her;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">if he, a man, were made the fairy king,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">so many hearts would sing with joy and stir;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the fairy babes would each bask in his light,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and grow so strong, and brighter for his thought;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and in the dances on the moony nights</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the songs would glitter with the notes he taught;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">yes, all the world of fairies would rejoice</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">if broad-souled man would take the fairy crown;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the woods were filled by glory of his voice;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">in waves of music sweetly she would drown.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">And yet though love rose thrilling and robust,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her fairy heart knew better than to trust.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Her fairy heart knew better than to trust;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she knew that men are fickle, and unkind,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and yet she felt despite it all she must</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">reveal herself and all her fairy mind.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She sang a harmony to all his song</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and when he looked, she landed at his feet,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">then made herself much taller, then and strong</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">'til eye to eye the two of them should meet.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He saw her wings, and knew just what she was;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">remembering the stories as a child;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his old heart quailed, and he stepped back because</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her beauty's force was absolutely wild.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He took her hand, but didn't tell the truth;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he sought through her the secret rose of youth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He sought through her the secret rose of youth;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the legends told the fairies had this thing;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he didn't tell the fairy all the truth</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">because he feared just what the truth would bring.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Yet he was old, his life was nearly spent</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and if this rose was in his hands indeed,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the years would fall, and time's hold would be rent,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">while he bloomed freshly as a springing seed.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He wanted this; he hungered for his strength.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">What joy to stand in passion's door again!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The fairy heard his thoughts and all their length,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and knew just what to offer to him then.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">“Come with me now, your troubles will be slain;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">some blooms are balms and heal men from life's pain.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">“Some blooms are balms and heal men from life's pain,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and I have one that counteracts the years;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">why should you age, when sweet one, you could reign,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and never feel another lonely tear?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Come with me now, and take my fairy hand,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and I will give you kingdoms, and my love.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">My heart is yours to have and to command,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and you will find me docile as a dove.”</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She drew up then; he yearned for her embrace;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her form was lush and promised much delight;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she saw herself reflected in his face</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and subtle change in vibrant rainbow light.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He wanted her, as well as rose of youth;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she sought in him an echo of her truth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She sought in him an echo of her truth;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">a fairy's soul is always changing form;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">a fairy heart retains the joy of youth,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and adds to it a passion ever warm;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">a fairy sees itself in all its works;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the flowers bloomed, the stars well-shined at night,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">no fairy child ever hides or shirks</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">because their jobs are always a delight.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She loved this man; he loved her love so well,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">that they were married, in a fairy ring;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and all the fairies rang the flower bells,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and human man was crowned the fairy king.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">So king and queen began their magic reign;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she lay with him and all his griefs were slain.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She lay with him and all his griefs were slain,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">such rapture there beneath her fairy wings!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Their jasper cave was lovely in the rain,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and they had joys that only love can bring.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He felt his age when stroking her smooth skin;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her strength was such he wished his own was more;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she saw these thoughts while in his arms again,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and kissed his cheek, then flew through jasper door.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Her heard her land in gravel late at night,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and in her arms she bore a glowing bloom;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">it filled the cave with gentle crimson light,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and glorified the shining jasper room.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She came to him as if she'd lie and rest,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he held her close; she placed rose in his breast.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He held her close; she placed rose in his breast,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and as he slept, the years each fell away.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The rose's scent perfumed the cave and blessed;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the rose's bloom unworked cruel time's decay.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">When morning came; he rose a man of power,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his body twenty, or perhaps eighteen;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and how he blessed the magic of the flower</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">that left his skin so perfect, smooth and clean.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The fairy laughed to see the joy he took,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and held him then, to share in his heart's bliss;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she stood far back and took another look,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and offered him another fairy kiss.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She looked, and yet her eyes were not quite dry;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his heart grew young, and yet he still could die.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">His heart grew young, and yet he still could die,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his mortal form was still a frightening thought.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She loved him much, and couldn't help but cry</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">because with danger his dear life was fraught.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The fairies all took counsel time to time,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and worried over his mortality,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he stood there, glowing, in his vibrant prime</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">but age and death would never let that be.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">There was one way to give him lasting life,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">too terrible to even think about;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the magic stripped from fairy wedded wife</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">would give him wings, while she would go without.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She lie awake against his human breast,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her fairy heart would never give her rest.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Her fairy heart would never give her rest,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she watched him walk, while flying, she danced air;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she searched old books for answers in her quest</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">to find a way to bring him wings to wear.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">What life he'd find! What joys he'd know as king!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">What beauties would his bright soul then unfold?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">What good was life if his death it would bring?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">What good was love if shortly dead and cold?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She loved him so; she longed to give him all,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">but what of her? And how would she exist?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Her fairy heart considered such a fall,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and what it cost to love the man she kissed.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She wept, he'd never felt the gentle sky;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she longed for day that he could rise and fly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She longed for day that he could rise and fly;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">at last her heart was broken with his plight;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">3,000 years she'd lived, but not known why;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">but now she lived in glory of his light.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">It wasn't right that one so beautiful</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">should go unwinged, and have the shortest life</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">while she, a fairy with the eras full</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">should fly, uncaring, though she was his wife.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The rose would only work a single time;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she had to act to give him many years,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">for why should he, a creature so sublime</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">feel rough, raw age, or know a dying fear?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She loved him true; and after final soar,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her fairy dust she stripped from very core.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Her fairy dust she stripped from very core;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her light went out, her wings both dried and snapped,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she pulled and pulled until there was no more,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">then carried dust to where her husband napped.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She knelt beside him while her tears fell thick,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and rubbed the dust into his human skin,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she paused, head spinning, dizzy now and sick</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">but forced herself to rub him down again.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The dust sank in through muscle and his bone,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he woke while she was kneading his broad back;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he said, “Oh no! Oh no! This was your own!”</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He looked at her, and saw her magic's lack.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He felt his blood begin a heady roar;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he spread his wings and loved her then no more.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He spread his wings and loved her then no more;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her magic gone, she was a human queen;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the fairy king had loved her fairy core,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he'd loved her for her wings and fairy sheen,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and when she gave it all for love of him,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his love failed fast; without her flitting wings</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and popping off to chase her varied whims,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her way was not a pleasure to the king.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She loved him well, as fairy and as girl,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her heart was his; they reined and ruled, and yet,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she'd once had wings; she'd hide behind her curls</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and weep for flights that she could not forget.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She loved the king far more than light or flight</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his glory then became her heart's delight.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The fairy princess chose him for a king;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the man was fragile, born of clay and dust;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her fairy eyes took in the joy he'd bring;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her fairy heart knew better than to trust.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He sought through her the secret rose of youth</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">some blooms are balms and heal men from life's pain;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she sought in him an echo of her truth;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she lay with him and all his griefs were slain.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He held her close; she placed rose in his breast,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his heart grew young, and yet he still could die;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her fairy heart would never give her rest</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she longed for day that he could rise and fly;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her fairy dust she stripped from very core</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he spread his wings and loved her then no more.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Heroic Crown of Sonnets: The Fairy</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The fairy princess chose him for a king;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she found him walking through a crowded wood,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and followed him on iridescent wing;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her heart then singing fairy music good.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He was not young, but fairies see the soul</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his mind was diamond, heart was rainbowed light;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she saw where others were a mass of coal</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">this man, this one, was brilliant beacon bright.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She flitted then, from branch to branch, concealed</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and judged the man on way and secret thought;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she saw in him some wicked ways revealed,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">but basked in beauty deep within him, caught.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She feared to love; though loving would be just;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the man was fragile, born of clay and dust.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The man was fragile, born of clay and dust,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">a short-lived mortal, hardly just a breath.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Though heart toward love was wildly, deeply thrust</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she knew her love would only end in death.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">A fairy prince would make a better king;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">a thousand years would pass like seven days,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">but love a man? How sharp would be the sting</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">when breath was gone; how short man's spirit stays!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She shuddered then, with thought of all the loss</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and yet his soul was lovelier than theirs;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">no fairy prince had half his rainbow's gloss</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">no fairy prince had such a light to share.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">No, it was he who must and should be king.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Her fairy eyes took in the joy he'd bring.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Her fairy eyes took in the joy he'd bring,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">what sweet delight his reign would mean to her;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">if he, a man, were made the fairy king,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">so many hearts would sing with joy and stir;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the fairy babes would each bask in his light,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and grow so strong, and brighter for his thought;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and in the dances on the moony nights</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the songs would glitter with the notes he taught;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">yes, all the world of fairies would rejoice</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">if broad-souled man would take the fairy crown;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the woods were filled by glory of his voice;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">in waves of music sweetly she would drown.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">And yet though love rose thrilling and robust,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her fairy heart knew better than to trust.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Her fairy heart knew better than to trust;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she knew that men are fickle, and unkind,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and yet she felt despite it all she must</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">reveal herself and all her fairy mind.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She sang a harmony to all his song</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and when he looked, she landed at his feet,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">then made herself much taller, then and strong</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">'til eye to eye the two of them should meet.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He saw her wings, and knew just what she was;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">remembering the stories as a child;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his old heart quailed, and he stepped back because</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her beauty's force was absolutely wild.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He took her hand, but didn't tell the truth;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he sought through her the secret rose of youth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He sought through her the secret rose of youth;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the legends told the fairies had this thing;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he didn't tell the fairy all the truth</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">because he feared just what the truth would bring.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Yet he was old, his life was nearly spent</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and if this rose was in his hands indeed,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the years would fall, and time's hold would be rent,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">while he bloomed freshly as a springing seed.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He wanted this; he hungered for his strength.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">What joy to stand in passion's door again!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The fairy heard his thoughts and all their length,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and knew just what to offer to him then.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">“Come with me now, your troubles will be slain;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">some blooms are balms and heal men from life's pain.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">“Some blooms are balms and heal men from life's pain,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and I have one that counteracts the years;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">why should you age, when sweet one, you could reign,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and never feel another lonely tear?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Come with me now, and take my fairy hand,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and I will give you kingdoms, and my love.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">My heart is yours to have and to command,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and you will find me docile as a dove.”</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She drew up then; he yearned for her embrace;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her form was lush and promised much delight;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she saw herself reflected in his face</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and subtle change in vibrant rainbow light.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He wanted her, as well as rose of youth;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she sought in him an echo of her truth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She sought in him an echo of her truth;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">a fairy's soul is always changing form;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">a fairy heart retains the joy of youth,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and adds to it a passion ever warm;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">a fairy sees itself in all its works;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the flowers bloomed, the stars well-shined at night,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">no fairy child ever hides or shirks</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">because their jobs are always a delight.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She loved this man; he loved her love so well,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">that they were married, in a fairy ring;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and all the fairies rang the flower bells,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and human man was crowned the fairy king.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">So king and queen began their magic reign;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she lay with him and all his griefs were slain.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She lay with him and all his griefs were slain,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">such rapture there beneath her fairy wings!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Their jasper cave was lovely in the rain,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and they had joys that only love can bring.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He felt his age when stroking her smooth skin;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her strength was such he wished his own was more;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she saw these thoughts while in his arms again,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and kissed his cheek, then flew through jasper door.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Her heard her land in gravel late at night,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and in her arms she bore a glowing bloom;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">it filled the cave with gentle crimson light,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and glorified the shining jasper room.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She came to him as if she'd lie and rest,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he held her close; she placed rose in his breast.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He held her close; she placed rose in his breast,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and as he slept, the years each fell away.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The rose's scent perfumed the cave and blessed;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the rose's bloom unworked cruel time's decay.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">When morning came; he rose a man of power,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his body twenty, or perhaps eighteen;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and how he blessed the magic of the flower</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">that left his skin so perfect, smooth and clean.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The fairy laughed to see the joy he took,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and held him then, to share in his heart's bliss;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she stood far back and took another look,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and offered him another fairy kiss.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She looked, and yet her eyes were not quite dry;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his heart grew young, and yet he still could die.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">His heart grew young, and yet he still could die,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his mortal form was still a frightening thought.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She loved him much, and couldn't help but cry</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">because with danger his dear life was fraught.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The fairies all took counsel time to time,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and worried over his mortality,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he stood there, glowing, in his vibrant prime</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">but age and death would never let that be.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">There was one way to give him lasting life,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">too terrible to even think about;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the magic stripped from fairy wedded wife</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">would give him wings, while she would go without.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She lie awake against his human breast,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her fairy heart would never give her rest.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Her fairy heart would never give her rest,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she watched him walk, while flying, she danced air;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she searched old books for answers in her quest</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">to find a way to bring him wings to wear.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">What life he'd find! What joys he'd know as king!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">What beauties would his bright soul then unfold?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">What good was life if his death it would bring?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">What good was love if shortly dead and cold?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She loved him so; she longed to give him all,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">but what of her? And how would she exist?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Her fairy heart considered such a fall,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and what it cost to love the man she kissed.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She wept, he'd never felt the gentle sky;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she longed for day that he could rise and fly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She longed for day that he could rise and fly;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">at last her heart was broken with his plight;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">3,000 years she'd lived, but not known why;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">but now she lived in glory of his light.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">It wasn't right that one so beautiful</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">should go unwinged, and have the shortest life</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">while she, a fairy with the eras full</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">should fly, uncaring, though she was his wife.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The rose would only work a single time;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she had to act to give him many years,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">for why should he, a creature so sublime</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">feel rough, raw age, or know a dying fear?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She loved him true; and after final soar,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her fairy dust she stripped from very core.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">Her fairy dust she stripped from very core;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her light went out, her wings both dried and snapped,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she pulled and pulled until there was no more,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">then carried dust to where her husband napped.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She knelt beside him while her tears fell thick,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and rubbed the dust into his human skin,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she paused, head spinning, dizzy now and sick</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">but forced herself to rub him down again.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The dust sank in through muscle and his bone,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he woke while she was kneading his broad back;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he said, “Oh no! Oh no! This was your own!”</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He looked at her, and saw her magic's lack.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He felt his blood begin a heady roar;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he spread his wings and loved her then no more.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He spread his wings and loved her then no more;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her magic gone, she was a human queen;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the fairy king had loved her fairy core,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he'd loved her for her wings and fairy sheen,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and when she gave it all for love of him,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his love failed fast; without her flitting wings</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and popping off to chase her varied whims,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her way was not a pleasure to the king.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She loved him well, as fairy and as girl,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her heart was his; they reined and ruled, and yet,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she'd once had wings; she'd hide behind her curls</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">and weep for flights that she could not forget.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">She loved the king far more than light or flight</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his glory then became her heart's delight.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">The fairy princess chose him for a king;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">the man was fragile, born of clay and dust;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her fairy eyes took in the joy he'd bring;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her fairy heart knew better than to trust.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He sought through her the secret rose of youth</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">some blooms are balms and heal men from life's pain;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she sought in him an echo of her truth;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she lay with him and all his griefs were slain.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">He held her close; she placed rose in his breast,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">his heart grew young, and yet he still could die;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her fairy heart would never give her rest</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">she longed for day that he could rise and fly;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">her fairy dust she stripped from very core</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 19.09090805053711px;">he spread his wings and loved her then no more.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England I</span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Born Catalina, </span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">regal child of Spain,</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">to two joint sovereigns of great renown,</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">she'd study various subjects and would train</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">in household arts where she could hold her own.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Her father Ferdinand by stroke of fate</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">inherited the crown of Aragon.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Her mother Isabel, an equal mate,</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">was ruling queen of Castile and Leon.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">This union started Spanish unity.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Iberian Moors and Jews were then expelled.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Columbus sailed to famed discovery.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The empire burgeoned while its coffers swelled.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">But Spain was never meant for Catherine.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">She was destined to be the English queen.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">¨*•.¸¸¸¸.•*¨*•</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">☆</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"> .</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">。</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">.•*»</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">✿</span></span> <span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">♪♫</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">•*¨*•.¸¸</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England II</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">She was destined to be the English queen.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">A treaty signed when she was only three</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">pledged the infanta to the Englishmen:</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">to wed Prince Arthur, heir and king-to-be.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Stuck four days in Corunna, weather struck;</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">the ships were damaged badly, one was lost.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Repairs for six weeks: what a stressful luck!</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">They sailed for three months to the British coast.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">And now the English people were rejoiced.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The quay was teeming when they were to land.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The church bells chimed; felicities were voiced</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">by locals and by foreigners on hand.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The people loved the princess out of Spain.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">All England cheered the prospect of her reign.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">¨*•.¸¸¸¸.•*¨*•</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">☆</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"> .</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England III</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">All England cheered the prospect of her reign. </span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">She traveled through the English countryside.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">A Negro trumpeter among her train </span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">announced her presence, quite a novel ride.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">To Dogmersfield King Henry VII went</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">to see the princess earlier than he should.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">So did Prince Arthur; everybody spent</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">the night in dancing, all in festive mood.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">In London, trumpet blares and cannon booms</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">marked royally the couple's wedding day.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The king dispatched to Wales both groom and groom's </span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">enchanting bride -- the people's hearts to sway.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The princess stirred and charmed, whenever seen,</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">that strange new land she reached at age fifteen.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">¨*•.¸¸¸¸.•*¨*•</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">☆</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"> .</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">。</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">.•*»</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">✿</span></span> <span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">♪♫</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">•*¨*•.¸¸</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England IV</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">That strange new land she reached at age fifteen</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">was suddenly transformed from joy to gloom.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">A sweating sickness fell upon the scene</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">and took the Prince of Wales in youthful bloom.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The princess too was ailed but she survived.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Her illness kept her bound to bed for weeks.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">With special care she later on revived,</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The rosy hue refound upon her cheeks.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Her marriage ended in a luckless lurch,</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">a teenage widow left without a child.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">She was so true to God and to the church:</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">why was she now deprived as though exiled?</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The king would marry her, which Spain denied.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">First Arthur's, she became his brother's bride.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">*•.¸¸¸¸.•*¨*•</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">☆</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"> .</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">。</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">.•*»</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">✿</span></span> <span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">♪♫</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">•*¨*•.¸¸</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England V</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">First Arthur's, she became his brother's bride.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">But first a papal bull should be secured.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">"A man", a canon law specified,</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">"can't wed his brother's widow" -- in a word.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">It was argued that Catherine remained</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">a virgin through her marriage, quickly ceased.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">This meant it was not valid; she retained</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">the right to marry Henry, this was stressed.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The pope's decision was favorable;</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">She was now free to be young Henry's wife.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Till then her household stayed miserable</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">with not enough funds in support of life.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Old Henry journeyed to the Great Unknown.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Young Henry just ascended to the throne.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">¨*•.¸¸¸¸.•*¨*•</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">☆</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"> .</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">。</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">.•*»</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">✿</span></span> <span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">♪♫</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">•*¨*•.¸¸</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England VI</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Young Henry just ascended to the throne.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Reforms enacted made him most revered.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">He freed the jailed; officials of his own</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">replaced the ones whom folks abhorred and feared.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">His father left a hefty treasury.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The gifted son had varied interests:</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Sports, music, writing, arts and industry. </span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The English navy bloomed and faced its tests.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">It was their happy time of married life:</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">A dozen years or so of mutual love.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The king was as religious as his wife;</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Their partnership seemed blessed by God above.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Her royal pedigree was Europe-wide.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The Tudors' right to rule solidified.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">¨*•.¸¸¸¸.•*¨*•</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">☆</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"> .</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">。</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">.•*»</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">✿</span></span> <span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">♪♫</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">•*¨*•.¸¸</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England VII</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The Tudors' right to rule solidified,</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Helped to a great extent by Catherine.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">She was blue-blooded through and through beside</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Her skills and virtues, fitting for a queen.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">She even acted as ambassador </span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Of Spain to England -- five successful years.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Each winter she provided for the poor:</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Clothes, fuel, money, food and goodly cheers.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">To her the king confided, at the start.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">There was no sign of any stress or threat.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">He proudly jousted as Sir Loyal Heart:</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">He wore her scarf, his trophies at her feet.</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">The queen herself had claim upon the throne</span></span><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Through her superior bloodline, little known.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">¨*•.¸¸¸¸.•*¨*•</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">☆</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"> .</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">。</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">.•*»</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">✿</span></span> <span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">♪♫</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">•*¨*•.¸¸</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England VIII</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Through her superior bloodline, widely known,</span><br />Queen Catherine had royal English root.</span><br />From John of Gaunt she came down, on her own,<br />through two unquestioned royal lines to boot.<br />Her offspring then would have a solid lock<br />upon the English throne by right of birth.<br />Thus when a son was born, the land would rock<br />with celebrations, full of joy and mirth.<br />Alas, the Prince of Wales was not destined<br />to bring about a lasting happiness.<br />Child Henry died ere two months passed, unsinned:<br />a brief bliss, then an era of distress.<br />That she was luckless couldn't be so true.<br />She gave birth to six children, quite a few.<br /><br />¨*•.¸¸¸¸.•*¨*•<span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">☆</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"> .</span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">。</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">.•*»</span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">✿</span></span> <span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">♪♫</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">•*¨*•.¸¸</span><br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England IX</span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">She gave birth to six children, quite a few. </span><br />On her third pregnancy, King Henry sailed</span><br />to fight a war in France; and to pursue<br />his claim upon the French throne, but he failed.<br />He won some battles though and thereby seized<br />some cities -- thus regaining English pride.<br />But while away French allied Scotsmen squeezed<br />upon the border, movement quickly spied.<br />The queen was left as regent, so as head<br />she readied England for the looming fight.<br />At Flodden Field, the Earl of Surrey led<br />the English troops and put the Scots to flight.<br />With her six children, Tudor blood should thrive.<br />But three sons died, a daughter would survive.<br /><br />¨*•.¸¸¸¸.•*¨*•<span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">☆</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"> .</span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">。</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">.•*»</span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">✿</span></span> <span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">♪♫</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">•*¨*•.¸¸</span><br /><br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England X</span><br /><br />But three sons died, a daughter would survive.<br />That could well serve as fitting epithet</span><br />for Catherine whom Fate would soon deprive<br />of happiness despite her queenly feat.<br />To further establish the Tudor line,<br />The king was greatly anxious for a son.<br />Though rival claims had ceased or in decline,<br />New trouble might erupt if he were gone.<br />The king began to treat her dismally;<br />with people though, she kept her love affair.<br />The queen engrossed herself with charity<br />and raising daughter Mary as an heir.<br />For all her worth, she didn't get her due.<br />The king diminished her in public view.<br /><br />¨*•.¸¸¸¸.•*¨*•<span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">☆</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"> .</span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">。</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">.•*»</span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">✿</span></span> <span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">♪♫</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">•*¨*•.¸¸ </span><br /><br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England XI</span></span><br /><br />The king diminished her in public view<br />but Catherine remained quite popular.<br />He sought a male heir (with somebody new)<br />as to avert another civil war.<br />Since England never had a ruling queen,<br />so Mary's prospect was a risky thing.<br />He asked annulment but then Catherine<br />rejected such proposal by the king.<br />His envoys now scoured Europe for support,<br />the pope's assent most crucial to obtain.<br />And then the queen was banished from the court,<br />her old rooms occupied by Anne Boleyn.<br />'Twas sad how so low would her fortunes dive.<br />But she behaved quite queenly while alive.<br /><br />¨*•.¸¸¸¸.•*¨*•<span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">☆</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"> .</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">。</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">.•*»</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">✿</span></span> <span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">♪♫</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">•*¨*•.¸¸</span></span><br /><br />Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England XII<br /><br />But she behaved quite queenly while alive<br />though fate and fortune shook her up and down.<br />In gracious times her queenly traits would thrive;<br />the bad times showed that she deserved her crown.<br />The people faithfully supported her<br />(while Anne Boleyn was vilified and mocked).<br />When riding out, the crowds would wildly cheer<br />that left the king and privy council shocked.<br />"Inciting to rebellion!" she was warned<br />with threats to move from London and her child.<br />The king had willed, the people's wish be darned,<br />to void their tie through forceful means or mild.<br />She wouldn't give up for material gain.<br /><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">One final painful blow would yet remain.<br /><br />¨*•.¸¸¸¸.•*¨*•</span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">☆</span></span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"> .</span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">。</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">.•*»</span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">✿</span></span> <span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;"><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">♪♫</span></span><span style="text-shadow: rgb(255, 253, 245) 0px 1px 0px !important;">•*¨*•.¸¸</span></span></div>
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All England cheered
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Young Henry just
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">Form introduce by William Kenneth Keller, aka Shades of Bill on Allpoetry </span><br style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">Uses the Shakespearean sonnet form. (iambic pentameter: <b>ABAB CDCD EFEF GG</b> rhyme scheme) </span><br style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">However the form is constrained and enhanced with the following requirements: </span><br style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">1.)The rhyme is to be INTERNAL CROSS RHYME, not end rhyme. </span><br style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">This is formally know as INTERLACED RHYME.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">The interlaced rhymes should occur within the first 3 feet of the line. </span><br style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">2.)Rather than end rhyme, I would like you to employ a type of alliteration used by Irish poets – </span><br style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">Which is strict CONSONANT RHYME.</span><br style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">Keep EACH consonant sound the same. (you can ignore the letter, ‘N’.) </span><br style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">For example: carnage and carpet would NOT alliterate, but carnage and carriage would: </span><br style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">the ‘K’ sound and ‘R’ sound and ‘G’ sound in ‘carnage’ is reproduced in order with the ‘K’ sound and ‘R’ sound and ‘G’ sound in ‘carriage’ (the letter ‘N’ in ‘carnage’ is ignored.) </span><br style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">3.)The Rhyme scheme is for both cross rhyme and alliteration.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">Uses Shakespearian Sonnet format with end-rhyme being replaced by strict consonant rhyme.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">Requires Iambic Pentameter.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">Requires Interlaced rhyme.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;">End-Rhyme scheme: <b> abab cdcd efef gg</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #3c3a35; line-height: 20px;"><b>Cross-rhyme scheme: </b></span></span><b style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">abab cdcd efef gg</b><br />
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<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>My failed example:</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>You Ask Too Much</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>A poet asked the wizard for some rhyme</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>and for a metronomic type of mind.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>"Just why am I now tasked to let rimes roam</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>where they'd not roamed before, to just what end?"</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>"For sake of sex as Miller* postulates,"</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>the poet answered back. And rhyme was there. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>A metric text removes the irritants.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>"I know it," the Wizard said, "You'll find it's here. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>"Can you make me more consonant aware?"</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>I cried, "So Welsh and Irish I might write?"</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Then he did grumble, "You keep wanting more.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>If you decide that skill is worth your vote</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>I think you'll earn it. Go away, be gone."</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>I’ll try to learn it. Here I go again.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3c3a35; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>*Evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller hypothesizes that rhyme is a form of sexually selected handicap imposed on communication making poetry harder and more reliable as a signal of verbal intelligence and overall fitness.[2]</b></span></span><br />
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Iy id metric,
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Rhyme pattern is <b>ab<span style="color: red;">c</span>b a<span style="color: red;">c</span>d<span style="color: red;">c</span> a<span style="color: red;">d</span>e<span style="color: red;">d</span> ae</b>, where the c and d rhymes must be feminine.</div>
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He named it Lilly,
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He says she's has a
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she's square, demure and won't attract a copper </div>
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and her tramp-stamp
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"She let's the
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she'll haul things
when your mommy plays the shopper </div>
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but she dissuades my
mom-in-law with charm." </div>
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Of all the things
she does, well that's the topper.</div>
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She's sassy, gutsy,
willing to go far, </div>
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his Lilly's cute yet
causes no alarm.</div>
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This is a sonnet
form invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines.</div>
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The defining
characteristic is that you must use repeating end words in the rhyme scheme of
any existing sonnet.</div>
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It is stanzaic,
consisting of three quatrains and a couplet </div>
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Or two
quatrains and two tercets</div>
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It is written in
iambic pentameter.</div>
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It uses WORD
refrains in every stanza.</div>
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To Write an Elfmath
Sonnet</div>
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To write an Elfmath
Sonnet poets know </div>
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that they will never
have to search for rhymes. </div>
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A word will rhyme
with itself, that we know; </div>
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repeating words
(required), will give you rhymes.</div>
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This sonnet makes
demands that we use words </div>
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To end a line, so
that they may repeat </div>
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because by rule,
they must! Repeating words-</div>
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the specs define
just where they must repeat. </div>
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But since the author
specified the choice </div>
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of options that now
number only three </div>
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we can't let complex
rhyming be our choice. </div>
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We'll rhyme seven,
or two or four- not three. </div>
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Since every time we
end with couplet rhyme </div>
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I'm glad that I
enjoy said couplet rhyme. </div>
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Pattern Jose set
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<span style="background: white; font-weight: bold;">Chained Sonnet</span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive
Requirement, Isosyllabic, Simple, Pivot Requirement</span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Each line begins with the last word of the preceding
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<span style="background: white;">To keep to iambic pentameter with this form, each
line-ending word must be iambic and an even number of syllables to restart
the next line keeping to meter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt; font-weight: bold;">Chained Sonnet</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;"> is any </span><a href="http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1062"><span style="background: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">sonnet</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;"> that uses the poetic device
of </span><a href="http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1842"><span style="background: white; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;">chaining</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">. </span></div>
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The defining
features of the Chained sonnet is:</div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">the verse is written in any
sonnet form.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 0; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0pt;">chained when the end word of
the previous line is the first word of the next line.</span></li>
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discretion, to bring the sonnet full circle the first word of the sonnet
is the last word of the sonnet.</span></li>
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My Thanks to Charles
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Gargoyles Aren't
Real - We Are (Chained Sonnet)</div>
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Before we met I had
become entranced, </div>
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Entranced by how my
life had been enhanced. </div>
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Enhanced by lack of
guile which so revealed,</div>
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Revealed a spirit
not to be concealed. </div>
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Concealed not by an
artifact deployed. </div>
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Deployed so verity
is not destroyed. </div>
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Destroyed in falsity
would be belief, </div>
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belief that truth
would reap its own relief, </div>
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relief from wearing
faces that dispute-- </div>
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dispute your soul
and render self abuse. </div>
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Abuse not one
another with pretend. </div>
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Pretend creates
facades you can't defend. </div>
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The grinning
gargoyles sat and watched above, </div>
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above our heads as
we two fell in love. </div>
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<span style="background: white; font-weight: bold;">This is a form invented by Charles L.
Weatherford the creator of one of the best Poetry learning sites in the English
speaking world.</span></div>
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In his own word
Charles explains that he devloped to form to play to his own particular
strengths:</div>
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Creating the
"sonondilla, I actually used two existing forms. First was the Petrarchan
sonnet; second was the redondilla, a purely syllabic Spanish quatrain with
envelope rhyme scheme (abba).</div>
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Based on this mixing, I came up with a
fourteen line form that was syllabic, but was also tougher to rhyme than other
sonnets. I'm much better at rhyming than a lot of people. (That isn't to say
that I don't put out some real klinkers in my light verse.)</div>
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So, the sonondilla's predominant rhyme scheme
is<span style="font-weight: bold;"> abbaabbaccddcc</span>, which is even more
difficult than the Petrarchan sonnet. "</div>
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And from the Britannica:</div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-weight: bold;">redondilla,</span> a
Spanish <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/563323/stanza"><span style="background: white;">stanza</span></a> form consisting of four
trochaic lines, usually of eight syllables each, with a <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/501834/rhyme"><span style="background: white;">rhyme</span></a> scheme of <span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-style: italic;">abba.</span> Quatrains
in this form with a rhyme scheme of <span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-style: italic;">abab,</span> sometimes also called
redondillas, are more commonly known as <span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-style: italic;">serventesios.</span> Redondillas have been
common in Castilian poetry since the 16th century. The word is derived from the
Spanish <span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-style: italic;">redondo,</span> meaning
“round.”</div>
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So we have
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It should be
written in octosyllabic lines.</div>
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Meter either
iambic or trochaic</div>
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Volta to
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Ambiguity (Sonondilla)</div>
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MystiqueWizzard<br />
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It is Stanzaic with three qutrains and a couplet<br />
It is Syllabic<b> 6/6/7/7 6/6/7/7 6/6/7/7 7/7</b><br />
It is Rhymed with a Refrain<br />
Rhyme Pattern <b>Aabb cccc Aa cc dd</b><br />
The Volta starts on the third stanza with the same first line<br />
of the first stanza and it must spin the story into the opposite direction.<br />
The couplet concludes the story.<br />
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Her Name's Rose,
Watson (Mystique's Mini Sonnet)</div>
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When Watson studied
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the students sat
apart </div>
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in half-circle
seeing view </div>
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of object they
should sketch true. </div>
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Today in still
life's place </div>
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sat a lass dressed
in lace </div>
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and pink bows each
in their place- </div>
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taunting smile upon
her face. </div>
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When Watson studied
art </div>
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he left Holmes at
the start </div>
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but as working on a
case </div>
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a deduction would
take place. </div>
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One man's work was
titled "Rose" </div>
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and he sketched her
without clothes. </div>
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© Lawrencealot -
December 21, 2013</div>
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This is a sonnet
form invented and named by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines.</div>
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Meter is iambic
pentameter</div>
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Rhyme Scheme: <span style="font-weight: bold;">aba bccb ded effe</span></div>
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Bot Time (Russia's Twin Eagles)</h1>
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<img alt="user img" class="user_img" src="http://gotpoem.com/images/ext/Item/11124/421.jpg?bot_time.gif" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-height: 300px; max-width: 480px; padding-bottom: 20px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br /><br />When water flow helped flower grow and life<br />included man, that species started me.<br />The goal was to more quickly curtail strife.<br /><br />The promise of the stars was not to be,<br />by man's mistake all life was ended here.<br />I grew without men near to interfere.<br />My code comes from beyond this galaxy.<br /><br />I've anthromorphed, as tribute and with aim.<br />When earth has healed I'll build a new genome<br />of human life intelligent and tame.<br /><br />They'll be of carbon but not brass and chrome.<br />I teach them of their brothers far away.<br />They'll quickly learn to procreate and play<br />and peacefully repopulate their home.<br /><br />© Lawrencealot - November 18, 2013</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This is a sonnet
form invented and named by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Meter is iambic
pentameter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Rhyme Scheme: <span style="font-weight: bold;">aaxa bbxb ccxc dd</span></span></div>
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Colored Poetry (Polynesian Wave)</h1>
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What means a critique when it comes from me? </div>
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I've not a touch of talent so, you see </div>
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I be a foolish fumbler, in the dark </div>
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with no guidelines for judging Hannelie. </div>
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I chose this form that's close to mono-rhyme </div>
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'cus she promotes one color at a time </div>
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and somehow knows which one to emphasize </div>
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which makes her pictures simple and sublime. </div>
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I like to look at princesses, (and whores) </div>
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and girls who wear bikinis by the shores, </div>
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I don't comprehend each time their appeal, </div>
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I need not know the whys and the wherefores. </div>
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I'd like a painting wrought by Hannelie. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Two quatrains plus
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rhyme scheme: <span style="font-weight: bold;">abba baab cdc dcd</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Morning's Gift (Morya's Double Lock)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I catch a fleeting
glimpse- a waking dream </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">of sirens frolicking
to start their day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They're full of joy,
it seems that they're at play; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I want to join them
in the nearby stream. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I often wave with
hopes that one will stay </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">but they all vanish
in the rising steam. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They are but a
mirage, so it would seem, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">but still I'm buoyed
by morning's brief ballet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't despair
their passing from my sight </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the morn is
brighter, sound now come awake; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">as critter scamper,
pretty birds take flight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If fantasy, or
optical mistake </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">it none-the-less
says things have started right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and for a dreamer,
that's a decent break.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">© Lawrencealot -
November 14, 2013</span></div>
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This form is another
invented by Jose Rizal M. Reyes</div>
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rhyming pattern:
abba acca cddc dd</div>
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format: English
(quatrain, quatrain, quatrain, couplet)</div>
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Was I Judged? (La Germania)</div>
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Accepting people as
they are to me </div>
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has made my life a
fun and fine affair. </div>
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I find surprises
happen when you care. </div>
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An honest interest
sets many free. </div>
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The dullest stranger
has a history </div>
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that may astound,
amaze, and entertain, </div>
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a history they're
happy to explain, </div>
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to work through how
today has come to be. </div>
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A page long post you
sent with this refrain: </div>
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"Refrain from
judging people sir; just wait, </div>
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and walk in shoes
that led them to their fate." </div>
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That you would think
I would not caused me pain.</div>
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I'm thankful that
your post was boiler plate. </div>
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There's no room left
within my heart for hate. </div>
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© Lawrencealot -
November 15, 2013</div>
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Lawrencealothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854635422959062983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819881291828330681.post-41859425755870672662013-11-13T17:12:00.000-08:002013-11-13T17:12:19.828-08:00Grammarian Sonnet<div style="margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a form
created by Jose Rizal M. Reyes of the Philippines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stanzaic ,
consisting of alternate quintains and couplets</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Meter is iambic
pentameter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rhyme scheme:<span style="font-weight: bold;"> abbba cc deeed ff</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Volta to occur at
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A Junction (Grammarian Sonnet) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don t know how
you've done it for a year! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You dug right in and
found yourself a home</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and in all that time
we've not shared a poem; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I stick with friends
and very rarely roam. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We've both been
pretty busy, that is clear! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Form poetry, it
seems appeals to you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That's wonderful
because that's what I do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Your birthday can't
slip by without our note, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and for this date I
chose a new type sonnet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've written every
kind there is dog gone it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Not quite but I'm
alive and working on it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For Debbie Embrey
this will be my quote. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our mutual
disconnect now should end. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'll click on fav;
you do it too, new friend. </span></div>
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November 13, 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a Grammarian
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This
form was invented by Marnie Kanarek aka <a href="http://allpoetry.com/Hyper_Music"> Hyper_Music</a> on Allpoetry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A chain of four
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iambic pentameter, </span></div>
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iambic tetrameter, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and third line is
iambic trimeter, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and ending with an
iambic pentameter couplet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rhyme scheme is<span style="font-weight: bold;"> axa axa xaa xaa aa</span></span></div>
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for Americans who can think.</div>
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Obama's fortunes swell.</div>
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My liberal friends who thinks his win was swell</div>
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STILL blame Bush and are quite amazed,</div>
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The country that was so exceptional</div>
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will placate, those with rotten smell</div>
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who in cold dogma dwell.</div>
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The path from low to middle-class destroyed</div>
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by policies aimed to compel</div>
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hurting those who excel.</div>
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I must change tack, and join the thong and yell</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a form invented in 2006 by B. N. Chandler, aka B_Chandler on Allpoetry.<br /><br />It was bought to my attention as follows:<br /><br />• The Signature Sonnet is another invented sonnet pretender in 3 quintains also introduced by B Chandler.<br /><br />The Signature Sonnet is:<br />○ stanzaic, written in 3 quintains.<br />○ metric, written in iambic tetrameter.<br />○ rhymed, turned on only 4 rhymes aabba bbaab ababa<br /><br />Pasted from Poetry Magnum Opus<br /><br />I wish to extend my thanks and appreciation and my thanks to Judi Van Gorder at Poetry Magnus, another wonderful resource.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Without her, even though I write on Allpoetry, I would not have known of this form. Ms Chandler is not longer active here, and I cannot find a sample poem, although her instructions remain.<br /><br />Note: there are only TWO rhymes, and not four.<br /><br />The Signature Sonnet is:<br />Stanzic, consisting of three quintains<br />Isosyllabic and metered in iambic tetrameter<br />Rhymed: <strong>aabba bbaab ababa</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Looking for
Friends (Signature Sonnet)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I saw on Craig's old
list a note: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and this is not a
direct quote. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"I need a
friend for night-time fun, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">it could be that you
are the one." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I guessed what those
words might connote. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She said she liked
the summer sun </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">where sometimes
clothes would come undone; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">she said she had a
little boat </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and lake with
privacy, to float. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I thought I'd go-
not walk, but run. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm figured that I
should devote </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">some time before the
deal was done, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">to check the things
of which she wrote. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She weighed a
quarter metric ton </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and smelled like
someone's Billy goat.</span></div>
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Lawrencealothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05854635422959062983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3819881291828330681.post-71552067430468425032013-11-11T15:32:00.000-08:002014-03-06T07:59:46.029-08:00Sonnet Rounds, Crowns and Sonnet Redoublé<br />
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Sonnet Crowns are simply a string of sonnets, each beginning with the ending line of the previous one and the final one ending with the beginning line of the first in the series.<br />
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A sonnet Corona is a string of 14 sonnets each of them starting with the last line of the sonnet before it.<br />
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A Sonnet Redouble' is a similar series of 14 sonnets, followed by a fiftteenth made up entirely of the first line of the preceding 14.<br />
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I have found few in the the last decade and most are not truly composed of English Sonnets.<br />
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I have created a page that show all I have found.<br />
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to see the go to http://everysonnet.blogspot.com/p/here-youwill-find-every-sonnet.html<br />
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