Nov 2015
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
The way you count things
just with your fingers, or one time counted
the freckles on my face, final count fifty-seven,
or the way tonight we count stars in your garden
except there are not that many to count
and we’ll soon count sheep in our heads instead
but you are counting from one to whatever
a list of things you count as my best qualities
and I join in and count down
what I love about you, countless memories
we store together and count as treasures,
but to count them all would take so many hours
I’d be out for the count, sleeping by these flowers.
The way you count things
just with your fingers, or one time counted
the freckles on my face, final count fifty-seven,
or the way tonight we count stars in your garden
except there are not that many to count
and we’ll soon count sheep in our heads instead
but you are counting from one to whatever
a list of things you count as my best qualities
and I join in and count down
what I love about you, countless memories
we store together and count as treasures,
but to count them all would take so many hours
I’d be out for the count, sleeping by these flowers.
Written: November 2015.
Explanation: A poem written in my own time - a sonnenizio (devised by poet Kim Addonizio) - taking the first line from a sonnet (in my case, Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning), using a word from that line in each following line (with occasional slight alterations), and finishing with a rhyming couplet. I do not consider this piece very strong at all, so I may try to do another one in the future. All comments welcome. A link to my Facebook writing page is available on my HP home page.
NOTE: Many of my older pieces will be removed from HP at some point in the near future.
Explanation: A poem written in my own time - a sonnenizio (devised by poet Kim Addonizio) - taking the first line from a sonnet (in my case, Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning), using a word from that line in each following line (with occasional slight alterations), and finishing with a rhyming couplet. I do not consider this piece very strong at all, so I may try to do another one in the future. All comments welcome. A link to my Facebook writing page is available on my HP home page.
NOTE: Many of my older pieces will be removed from HP at some point in the near future.
