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Shakespearean Sonnet #1

My sweet Lady Sea, how she calls to me (a) The Hurricane’s wind batters my white sails (b) My heart locked away with her golden key (a) Battered and broken by wind my will fails (b) Through forbidden seas, I am lost adrift (c) Carried by the currant of a love; shared (d) Heart of mine, torn asunder with a rift (c) I leave it open, all thoughts of mine bared (d) As I lay aboard my raft, I now know (e) That in the darkness of my heart I thrive (f) To see the sunset in the west aglow (e) My sweet and gracious Sea, I will survive (f) The captain’s heart forever raging mad (g) With the thought of she so scantily clad (g)
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michelle-jordan
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May 1, 2012
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