Opus Books: Some Sonnets of Flame & Flower

Some Sonnets of Flame & Flower
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The Gold Poets Series

This book was written over 43 years, shared by the author with friends, and became a cherished companion to readers for its language and classical sonnet form. It has been read with admiration and called a "tour de force" by poets and thinkers, "distinctly feeling" and "personal". A good bet to give loved ones for the next half century.

"A gripping collection of powerful prose. I was moved. . .
The author manages to touch you with his beautifully expressed sentiment on one page, and then grab you by the throat with his gripping prose on the next. It deeply moved even a jaded cynic like myself - a rare and extraordinary thing."

- An Amazon.com Reader 9/7/99

SONNET 7

We are the playthings of a darkling's lights.
We are the toys of winter in the spring
Who give our fruit to summer's joyous nights
Who never hear the bell of autumn ring.
We are the dreamers who would dance with clouds.
We are the soldiers who believe we know
Who makes the world in all its shadowed shrouds,
Who praise ourselves and see no gentle glow
In flights of spirits hidden from the eye.
All this are we and more, of nothing nothing,
Borne like seedlings on a summer's sigh,
Unable to be modest, humble, doubting.
Goodness gives and does not know itself,
That all is riches, even poverty's wealth.

SONNET 90

Some are not destined for the rose of fame
But buried, ear-marked, for unknown shadows,
Doomed to walk the path that's labeled shame,
Where just or unjust no one cares or knows.
A sense of justice rises in my heart
Demanding truth, a hearing for my case,
An open mind that tears the lies apart
And shows my sadness to the human race.
A voice within me cries out to be heard,
To right my wrongs, to set my honor straight,
To catch what's decent in a single word.
But silent justice is my lasting fate.
A sad thing, this: To be thought so repugnant.
When will ears hear, eyes see, and time recant?

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Trade Paperback, Stitch Bound, Size: 5 x 7
112 pages, ISBN # 0-9661961-0-4
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