<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424756" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bitter-Sweet Triple Sonnet - Current Version</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once Black, White, could compete<br>no neutral grey'd encumber<br>life's canvas - harvest wheat<br>framed golden peace aslumber.<br>Now hope tree's ninety feet<br>is felled, logged down as lumber, <br>eco-system complete<br>with canopy's down-under.<br>Grey - neutral once - concrete<br>ugly urban tundra<br>now witnesses, pain's street<br>paves joy's grave, wanton plunder.<br>Enthralled pure white delete, <br>grey pall shawl sprawls - death's treat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long nights creep bitter-sweet, <br>love's lightning darts stunned, under<br>bright stars two no more meet, <br>wan true heart torn asunder.<br>Wor[l]d block where wont to greet<br>glowed soul-pair sharing wonder, -<br>there hole weighs whole defeat<br>bewailing blindest blunder.<br>Moon bale, clouds shroud deceit, <br>light veiled from countless number<br>of throttled hopes, dead-beat<br>memories encumber.<br>Who'd read rimed rhyme complete, <br>need couplet indiscreet? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Despair in winding sheet<br>stifles resentment's thunder, <br>where weary tears repeat<br>wear, tear, bare bodkin's funda-<br>mental balance-sheet<br>pro's conned or misunder-<br>stood, as gale blown wheat, <br>scattered harvest plunder.<br>Drops sully virgin sheet<br>as sally weeps lost slumber<br>red-eyed vigil replete<br>with wishful-thinking scumber.<br>Was plighted troth tryst treat, <br>commitments vain conceit? <br> <br>(14 March 2012)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</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=424756" data-title="Bitter-Sweet Triple Sonnet - Current Version de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Once Black, White, could compete no neutral grey'd encumber life's canvas - harvest wheat framed golden peace aslumber. Now hope tree's ninety feet is felled, logged down as lumber, eco-system complete with canopy's down-under. Grey - neutral onc..."></div> </div> </div>

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