<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398179" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>How Do I Love You? (Sonnet Corona)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(after Elizabeth Barrett Browning) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is no way<br>that I can truly express my love for you, <br>the yearning of every day<br>not even in the things that I say and do, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the simple things<br>that fit into the puzzle of life, <br>and heartfelt tidings<br>outbalances the every day strife</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that comes naturally to a consort, or wife<br>is all unclear in the quite need, <br>and its truth never pierces like a knife, <br>it is from beyond any act or deed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but is like childhood faith, without pain <br>it’s somewhat difficult to explain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s somewhat difficult to explain<br>how love is supposed to be<br>in rays of sunlight, drops of rain <br>and everything that we see</div><div style="margin:10px 0">totally without iniquity<br>even in sorrow, pain, joy, <br>as a natural instinct, sprouting free<br>from every ploy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or whatever life brings, in sincerity<br>it is in every heart beat, every breath, <br>the things that you are to me<br>surpassing even the power of death, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that against adversity can endure<br>as something sweet, something pure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As something sweet, something pure, <br>our love is always striving to be true<br>coming free from any pressure and being sure<br>it bonds me to you in all that I pursue, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">my world, everything that is dear, <br>gets a own clarity<br>when you are near and without fear<br>we take on the responsibility</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that living together brings<br>loosing ourselves in each other, <br>finding meaning in small happenings<br>in things that brings blithe and bother</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I am attracted to you’re dear smiling face; <br>you surpass any other grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>You surpass any other grace<br>beauty or splendour that I do see, <br>everything is in the praise<br>of you who loves me, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">blessed I am among men<br>to have found a heart as kind, <br>that comes alive when<br>I am near and if I call to mind</div><div style="margin:10px 0">among the greatest things that I have experienced<br>you reign supreme with your lasting love<br>that comes unprejudiced<br>as the finest blessing from above: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in every single day I am truly alive; <br>although we are hardly yet through the fight of life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although we are hardly yet through the fight of life, <br>still with time we struggle on, <br>you are the one <br>who supports me, as my sentry, my dearest wife</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and through the strife<br>that destiny demands, until it is done <br>no one can leave each other or be gone<br>as we are bonded and the challenges is rife, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">we live with no lies, with truth between us, <br>we walk hand in hand and eye to eye<br>although sometimes we are frightened, <br>every thing we do discuss, <br>as children of God under the clear blue sky, <br>to each other we have opened.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To each other we have opened, <br>the doors of our hearts and souls<br>we have straightened, <br>the lines of our narrow lives, letting out the ghouls, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">we have experienced the secrets of the body’s bliss<br>have unbarred our inner selves, every windowpane<br>in every single kiss<br>with warmth and understanding tried to explain</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the beauty of loving each other<br>we have opened doors that cannot be shut again<br>in sheer nudity without a bother, <br>we have bonded without restrain </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I read intimacy as time flies, <br>in the silences in your eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the silences in your eyes <br>there is an own language and every gesture<br>have more hues to it than the skies<br>in its structure, it’s simplicities and its nature</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and some things I do not comprehend or hear<br>while you unfold with petals while you are flowering, <br>as I am far too near to distinguish lustrous things as clear<br>and it’s as if I am in the middle of spring</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the fragility with which you unfold, <br>is very striking, takes my breath away, taking it hither<br>while I hold you in the cold <br>of this winter, as if it will whither, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">as if like a blooming rose you cannot stay, <br>there is no way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: Sonnet XLIII “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398179" data-title="How Do I Love You? (Sonnet Corona) de Gert Strydom" data-description="(after Elizabeth Barrett Browning) I There is no way that I can truly express my love for you, the yearning of every day not even in the things that I say and do, the simple things that fit into the puzzle of life, and heartfelt tidings out..."></div> </div> </div>

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