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+Steven Curtis Lance

Apr 29, 2004, 02:13 PM

Transcendental Sonnet #607:
As Silent Steals the Stalking Night

So much to write so much to read
My eyes my pencils busier
As light now fails in darker need
Than in good days which never were

So much to read so much to write
I excavate for meaning now
In my dark struggle toward the light
To dig out of my grave somehow

So much to write so much to read
So much to read so much to write
So little wisdom so much greed
Wrong everywhere no right no sight

The failing light now fails indeed
As silent steals the stalking night

*~ ( + ) ~*

+Steven Curtis Lance

from Transcendental Sonnets and Other Observations, Copyright MMIV Silke LLC

Dara

Apr 29, 2004, 02:40 PM

hmmm, Dark and deep(You know I like the dark and deep ones!)
I think the last 2 lines are the best!

Love,
Dara

+Steven Curtis Lance

Apr 29, 2004, 02:45 PM

Thanks, little sister; I was thinking of you as I wrote it, of you and me and Silke and all of us. I just sent it to you in an email as well (blue on black, dark and deep!). I'm so glad you like it. I agree with you, the last two lines are the best; that's where the rubber meets the road in a sonnet, that's the time to shine (if, in this case, darkly).

I love you, and I'm happy to see you hereabouts on these pages. Silke will be wearing the ring later today! Hooray!

Hmmm... that's something to be happy about!

You and I are in unbreakable solidarity, always.

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