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THAT Took the Spirit Out of Me

by JennyGordon

...ARGH!  Hence the title... (sonnet #MMMMMMMDCCLXV) Spent, ere the fragile chance to what? avail, Look how blue skies warm in dawn's welcome, whence Don't roll a single word for aught intents Across my tongue, jist see, and wonder, pale As howling oer grey heavns' sheer lack, nor scale Lo, any bit of this or that cuz sense Drowned late on Monday night where visions dense With oh, Victorian airs stole off wee bail. Yes, when I've but a minute to bestir My pencil for ah, which detail passed through? I'm swooning sans a voice yet over her-- That girl whom lit'rature FORGOT, cuz ooh! She was his mistress; won the world as twere Because of that keen secret:  I've naught cue. 12Mar19a
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Written by
JennyGordon
51 / F / Bolingbrook, IL
Published
Mar 14, 2019
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2m
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Yep, immersing me in all I could read on LEL aka Letitia Elizabeth Landon took my soul in a whirl back to that era and familiar visions, so much so that even after a "good night's" sleep, when I found a chance to scribble, that waltzed before me in lieu of aught else.

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