I've wanted to post this for a while but kept forgetting. But today I was reaing my scripture journal and happened upon this sonnet I wrote when I was feeling particularly pensive about a loss I'd just gone through. I won't get any more specific than that but this is what came out:
Time ticks slowly by, I wait, for what?
For all I used to seek has left me still
in deeper sand. And now the door is shut
I teeter on an open window sill.
My aim was sure and clear: a distant star
Once reached I thought, no, knew, that I had won.
And now the morning shews my goal afar
I fear to fail in blind pursuit o' the Sun.
So what? To squat an ever fixed stone?
Unmoved waiting for His higher hand?
Or with shaking knees and fire of will alone
Stagger forward, ill content to merely stand?
On, on! For though my choice be half a guess,
My Master fails me not when giv'n my best.
And there you have it kids. My first Sonnet...*sigh. Will would be proud.
Thoughts?
5 comments:
That's great, Val! Beautiful, and so good at portraying a strong feeling behind it.
I've missed your updates lately. It's been a while.
I liked the themes, it definately fits the classic approaches to love, time, fate; the allusion to sonnet 116 (my favorite) was a nice touch too - "an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken" - but it had a whole new meaning from your side of it. If you have the disposition, keep them coming.
Love it Val...Hope to see more in the future! Hope all is going well for you...especially the part that you wrote of not too long ago.
It was Sister Odies, actually it was Shelby Odies, her daughter, and the Odies family lives in Brockton. Back in the days when I was in the Haitian program. I think her husband was home, or their "uncle". I lost a lot of blood so it's all a bit hazy
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