Transcendental Sonnet #550:
To Enter Into Bliss

I want to find peace by looking within
Without is madness cruelty and hate
To listen closely transcending the noise
The sadism the suffering the sin
Never too early and never too late
Humors in balance soul in equipoise

I want to be a cultured gentleman
And to be known for kindness and for grace
Control myself and thus my destiny
And that which I dream is that which I can
Unseemly haste makes life seem like a race
Such will not be the way of life for me

And I will reach enlightenment like this
With Silke's kiss to enter into bliss

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+Steven Curtis Lance

from Transcendental Sonnets and Other Observations, Copyright MMIV Silke LLC

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"Drink up, friends; we are going under!" --Hermann Hesse (If you want to know what I look like, look at a picture of my homeboy Hesse, my fellow skinny, simplistic, Buddhistic, once-provincial German [on my mother's side] poet with tiny spectacles, emerging from a brutal background like a bleedin' beautiful butterfly! Am I quite mad? Why yes, but I thought you knew that.)

May you find the inner peace you crave in the love you and Silke share, although I'm sure you're already halfway there.
~...Hmmm, that wasn't supposed to rhyme, but it did! Hee hee....Sorry, I get excited about little things.

~Best~
Megan