Sonnet 14
- Lovely Lovely, breathe all the burden in,
- Now that I have noticed you above me.
- Such wonders merit much grander marquee,
- Than my strained words do awfully chagrin.
- Wherewith can I avoid terms to endear,
- In bound witness to your fetching delight,
- My pen humdrums jive and unfit requite,
- Failing to match Lovely's lovely premiere.
- Yet write I will despite your pedestal,
- Unaccepting of this courting's remand,
- Refining each Lovely's features demand,
- Til I no longer warrant dismissal.
- And when laws abide to rules of the heart,
- My verse will frame Lovely's undying art.
Notes
Alright, so I was watching a Korean drama (yes I watch those occasionally, the girls are toooooo cute), and along with the egging of my #1 fan, I found something to write about. I'm taking some liberties here with law terminology, using a "courting romance" with a legal twist so I hope it works. And since I've been reading more about poetry than actual poetry, I'm finding much of my body of work (here and things unpublished) lacking in body, weight, and meaning, but that's the bain of all writers. So this is what it is.
'This is kind of an offshoot of Sonnet #11, starting in a similar fashion, though "Lovely" here is used as a pronoun and as an adjective. There's some shifty stresses here and there, so this isn't perfect, but I'm trying to get into the mood of sonnet writing again after the drought so my apologies for that.
— Huy on