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Of Leander Toiling I've No...Word

Keats swooned over a world that never was, except in dreams, and I've no use for that.

 

 

 

(sonnet #MMMMMMMDCCLXIII)

 

 

In lieu of aught we know: blue skies t'avail

Sans blot of clouds 'til puddles mirror thence

Heavn's eye...take up the chalice to drink hence

That fragrant draught which yields as if to scale

More heady visions than we've drunk, t'exhale

Like sailors on the faerie seas, pretense

Our dainty meat; as lovers swoon for sense

Oer plighted troth, not as we know; sans bail.

Go into raptures likeas Keats would stir

And Byron knew to write, as Shelley drew

Up in his Ode, faint cuz ye know in tour

What minstrels sang in ballads, weaving to

Effect those silken strands to snare souls fer

The Devil's heights. Cuz what we have won't do.

 

11Mar19c

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Written by
JennyGordon
51 / F / Bolingbrook, IL
Published
Mar 12, 2019
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NOTE: Who knows of L.E.L. ie Letitia Elizabeth Landon? I prefer reality though it's far too shallow.

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