Thank you very much Garik (not sure if that is correct) I'm so glad you enjoyed this verse. It is one of my favorites. I'm not good with love poems and so I keep rewriting this one in different forms every year. I have a poetry site myself and we are having a contest and will be publishing the top ten poets and their sonnets in my new book "The Feather Bridge" that will be out in the fall of the year. Anyway, I thought, why not make this a couplet sonnet. I wasn't sure if this was too long to be considered a sonnet and then researched it and there just so happens to be in existence a 21 line sonnet. haha ... I appreciate your comments and hope to come and read some of your poetry as well.

Love and light
Sue

Мэтти Дубоис   25.03.2011 06:43   Заявить о нарушении

No, I wish I did have music for this one. The first year I wrote it in tetrameter:
To my beloved Valentine ...

Should I this day with Cupid plot,
to write you Valentine or not?
A million roses’ petals spent,
a symbol of love's sacrament…
he loves me, O! he loves me not
oh No! ‘tis I that Cupid shot!

Be gone from me, capricious brat,
how dare you pierce my heart like that!
A million miles we are apart,
a symbol of love’s lonely heart...
he loves me, O! he loves me not
another rose’s petals shot!

Don’t torture me, reveal my fate
O! this undying love—I hate!
A million tears I’m sure to cry,
a symbol of love’s hope awry…
he loves me, O! he loves me not
which final petal have I got?

And last year it was contemporary (which I can't find right now) I do hope I saved it though.

I am having a Sonnet War on my website poetsview.com and so I thought, Ok this year it shall be an extremely long couplet sonnet.
Who knows what it will be next year. But, now that it is a tradition to rewrite it in a new form every year, then I'm sure it will be something.

Thank you for your most kind review.

Sue

Мэтти Дубоис   28.01.2011 22:36   Заявить о нарушении

For some reason https://poetsview.com/ loads a blank page for me. No content :(

Дарья Вольная   17.02.2011 14:17   Заявить о нарушении