Frank fell a point shy of candid,
his rotor spun turns less than tight.
His wedding ring finger disbanded,
Frank waltzed up Astaire in the night.

Frank, Louise watched with a band on.
His reckless deep art her delight.
Her quest for a man should she land one,
left Frank a thread short of bedight.

"Why, Frank", her sweet coo ever dovish,
"Come hither" she bid bond him tight.
Envisioning the light through her rubbish,
Frank vanished thin heir to the night.

"I wonder", he pondered in quandry,
"Why Louise fashions me such a sight?
In filth, I still roll after laundry??"
What he missed was her sweet oversight.

"I feel for you deeply, dear Franklin!
I yearn for our union apart.
In depths of still water thrive plankton
And you course as blood through my heart!"

"What say you? Odd reference, to - plankton?"
Louise, you're adrift and a daft!
Your crashing with wreck less abandon,
bids me cast off lines fore and aft."

"Oh Franklin, pray lash tight a line here
I'm worthy at least as a dock."
"Louise - if an anchor I'd need dear,
I'd settle for any old rock!"

So, Frank sailed a weigh anchor heave ho,
poor Louise watched him vanish from port.
Her heart as she saw Franklin leave though
couldn't beat the pain of Frank's love tort.

What was wrong with the original title "Frank & Louise, sans eros"?

No thoughts on Frank & Louise then?

I'm sorry, I hadn't actually read it until just now; I was having a bit of a bad patch there for awhile, but am now just catching up on things. Now that I read it I think it's great! Its quatrains are very solidly-made; even the rhymes are funny. Funny poetry is very hard to do well, but I think you do it very well here, and I enjoyed reading it.

Now that it's up to the top of the board here, I hope others will read it as I have and share their thoughts.

You are a very clever and gifted poet, if Unknown; come join us if you like, and we would be glad to have you with us.

Cheers on behalf of us all here on the poetry board, Unknown friend and skillful fellow poet!

Respect and solidarity,

+Stevie

Thanks! I'm equally impressed with your sonnets!