Transcendental Sonnet #978:
Light of Light Made Manifest

Morning in the east
Evening in the west
Light of light made manifest I see
Shining on the least
Shining on the best
Light of light made manifest to me

Rain falls on the just and the unjust
Falling as Lucifer fell from the sky
Weeping as it falls just as it must
Weeping as it must as just and unjust die

Very well then you who hate me laugh at me
The rain is weeping for us both will wash away
Your laughter and my tears and our destiny
The light of light made manifest on Judgement Day

*~ ( + ) ~*

+Steven Curtis Lance

Copyright MMIV Silke LLC

How about "The Great Equalizer"? You know I am like you. I hate the word "Untitled" as a title (after all, isn't your title about the same thing?). I love the poem. It already is the finest I have read in recent memory. The imagery is splendid! It just flows...charged with emotion...of equality, of mortality. I love it, love it, love it! But for crying out loud +Goofball, give it a name already. The theme is abundantly clear. BTW, have I told you how incredibly gifted you are? And, how incredibly inspirational you are to me? You are a great source of strength for me. This is just another fine example of why you are that to me.

By the way, did I ever share "Forget Me Not"? It's a Revolutionary War poem. Also, "Stand and Deliver" another Civil War poem. Did I share that? If I did, did you read/like them? If not, I will post them. I think they are good examples of what you seem to appreciate the most in my poems...epic (at least in my mind).

Semper Fi,

Kevin

My dear Kevin, you are so kind to me.

But I must first write four more lines before I know the conclusion of the matter and what it is to be called.

Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.

Kevin: You wrote two lovely reviews of my book, and then they were lost when the book died and rose again like the Phoenix. Would you be willing to write a third, assured that the book is never to be changed and your review remain forever?

I will publish another book, but this first one is finished and your review would be safe.

Thank you with all my heart for all you do for me.

SEMPER FIDELIS

P.S.: To your questions, yes, epic; you are right. I did read and especially enjoy those. You are blooming beautifully, and I am proud of you.

Damn you know how to make a "Padowan" feel good about himself. Thanks +Jedi-Master! I guess I have to search through the pages and see what I have been posting. I have been writing quite a bit lately. I hope you liked my latest work.

Kevo

Yes, my friend. I will write another review of your book. I am glad to see others purchasing it. Hopefully soon you can go to Europe to claim your prize. My prayers are with you always. Keep me and my family in yours, if you will.

Respectfully,

Kevo

What a wonderful man and friend you are!

Silke and I have just been speaking most highly of you on the telephone.

I do pray, and I will pray for you and your family.

Please forgive me for not replying better to all your wonderful poems, but I am sick with headache of late, and not good for sitting up much at the computer.

I will go and try to finish this #978 now in a way which I hope you will find worthy.

Thank you with all my heart for all you have done and do. You are a living treasure, and, frankly, I expect you to have a greater literary impact than me, and that actually makes me very happy. I am truly proud of you. You are, remember, quite a bit younger than I am, so I can say things like that.

I am not for everyone, and, as you might have noticed recently, occasionally I generate the most bitter and quite inexplicable hostility in some; why I cannot say. It seems that people either like me a lot and want to be my friends, or they hate me and wish me dead.

Frankly I wish I were. Dead, that is. Except for Silke.

And it's fun to see if maybe I can get good at sonnets.

I send you my sincere love and respect, and our friendship and solidarity is unbreakable.

Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.

Well, Kevin, it is complete now.

I hope you like it.

Semper Fi

Oh, Steve this is cool.
I still have trouble understanding the concept "Sonnet", other than the 'fourteen line' description you so nicely had given me before, but I still like this one.

I always thought a "Sonnet" was like that of a song.
And I should know this, for I love Shakespeare, but the term "Sonnet", unfortunatley, may be forever lost on me.

But the contents are quite beautiful.

Safe journey
Aiyana

Yes +Goofball, divinely inspired, divinely written, and divinely titled. It is a brilliant piece of writing - dare I say "masterpiece". Hail to the king!

Big K

Oh...this really turned out to a BEAUTIFUL Sonnet! Great write!

(I love you Steven)