Transcendental Sonnet #1020:
Nation of Alienation

What does it mean to be alone?
Who is alone and who is together?
How does it feel to be unknown?

You wonder if anyone cares whether
You live or die you laugh you cry
And all your days you wonder: why?

This is my home and this is where
I live: in the state of despair
In the nation of alienation

Here the blind are led by the blind
Here we all fall into the ditch
Here everyone is left behind
Here the poor are harvested by the rich

Goodnight goodnight goodnight... as fails the light

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Transcendental Sonnet #1021:
Non Cogito Ergo Sum

Books! Books! Books! Lots of books and scented tea
Wordsworth and Heine and Goethe and Poe
Sharp-edged reminders that I used to be
A know-it-all now remind me I know

Nothing: non cogito ergo sum: doom?

No! Now that I know nothing I know more
Broadly more deeply more intensely than
Ever the nothing which I knew before
I live a full life as an empty man

Now I am open to your suggestion
I answer your question with a question
I now know nothing and know it for sure
My mind is open and my heart is pure

To be: come and be or not to be with me!

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Transcendental Sonnet #1022:
Our Sweet Moon Calls to Us

I have just taken a walk about my grounds
I have mistaken my limits and my bounds
And I must conclude from these cursory rounds
I am far more fortunate than I realize

My life is less paradox and more paradise
I must see out of this box with this pair of eyes
The latter gift from God has become forgotten
By the strictures of the former misbegotten

I would escape the border of my disorder
Unsure as to the how I would be happy now

Silke so sweet so fond so fair: are you still there
With your hand on your sword your sweet moon in the sky?
The road leads long before us though we know not where
Our sweet moon calls to us: this is no time to die!

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+Steven Curtis Lance

from "Sweet Moon for Silke" http://www.lulu.com/content/76382

Copyright MMIV Silke LLC

Steven

These sonnets are a true delight. Your skills and sentiments within these works are such a pleasure to behold.

I am so pleased that your computer problem is sorted out. It is great to see you back on the board and with some of your best sonnets ever.

Friendship

Hey Hey

All beautiful sonnets Steven, I have missed you on the site! It is so good to rea your poems again.

Havent heard form Silke in a while, is she ok?

love,
Dara

Steven! Yay! I was wondering when you'd get back! The poems are terrific! I'm glad everything's in order for you.

~Much Love~
Megan

I am glad to have you back on the site and I am glad to see all these sonnets!
Very well written(As always)

AMOR VINCIT OMNIA (I love you)

Welcome back Steven,
You were greatly missed. but I see that the time away from us was not wasted.
Wonderful sonnets, as always. Beautiful and a joy to read.

Michelle