<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460707" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0243 The Sonnet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why is this sonnet form so dear to me? <br>this silent cloister of the singing heart<br>where I may be myself in sanctity<br>yet meet beloved strangers there in art; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a shape like some great arch across the world<br>where every word has music in its sound; <br>a place like prayer, inner maze uncurled<br>to find a pattern in that measured ground; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a conversation with tomorrow's friends<br>of all we know but seldom talk about; <br>a haven in a time that never ends; <br>a love that's now a whisper, now a shout; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- to final couplet, falling heaven-blest<br>to stillness, in that space where all things rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=460707" data-title="0243 The Sonnet de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Why is this sonnet form so dear to me? this silent cloister of the singing heart where I may be myself in sanctity yet meet beloved strangers there in art; a shape like some great arch across the world where every word has music in its sound; ..."></div> </div> </div>

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