Write me a Sonnet



Write me a sonnet with love and beauty
Beyond compare
Write me a sonnetof warnth and solace
And comfort O' so rare
Pen your lines of freedom and peace and
Tell of the wind and rain
Speak of dreams both failed and real
Tell of things never the same
Relate of hush and solitude and the
Stillness of the night
Voice the morning mist and sit in harmony
With the early light
Recite the human frailities with a deep
And searching mind
Ask the Lord's forgiveness perhaps he
Will be kind
State the sorrow pain and grief and all
The sadness in our role
When all is said and done perhaps God
Will embrace our soul

                                          Jim Richardson

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCBDEFGHIAIJKAKLMNM
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 651
Words 120
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20

Jim Richardson

James Anthony Richardson (born 16 February 1941, Tottenham, London, England) is an English jazz and rock bassist and session musician. He was a member of the progressive rock band If.  more…

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