love song for one

 
maybe i am going about things
the wrong way,
i have fallen from being a paladin
and your tower is now as unreachable
as the sky with my bare hands,
unarmored, usworded, unhorsed,
the wilderness is lonely with the cry of wolves,
and your tower is high, among the clouds.
but once in a while
i chance upon a thorny flower,
and i pick it [...]

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sonnet for silence

 there is a silence deeper than the depths
of sweetest song, or intellect, or wit;
that travels broader than the broadest breadths,
that conquers din, and causes fires be lit
 
within the breast of man, and there, begin,
the wonder of all wonders; first, the smile,
the smoothing of the brows, and next, the grin
of someone lost in thought, third comes [...]

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siga girl

amusing,
the way you pout
upon noticing my stare,
the ball cap and the tee,
matches to complete
your seeming disregard
to femininity.
how quaint
how lavishly simplistic,
you hide behind your armor
to escape,
when every night
you water your pillows,
berating yourself
for being too weak
to set aside your scowl
and return the smile
of him who courts you.

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