Unique And Perfect Are Your Dancing Feet
Unique and perfect
are your dancing feet
Your eternal beauty
captivates all
I don’t know when
first did we ever meet
In countless birth my
wonder did not pall
I lend my ear to your
enchanting voice
Even my wrongs earn
your indulgent smile
Your bounty to my
fill do I rejoice
And here you are
standing there without guile
You always did have a
beaming visage
Why are those furrows
lining in your brow?
What does the storm
through the nostril presage?
Why in the sea tipping
is my ship’s prow?
In shine, rain and
storm you’ve lived through ages
You do detest outlasting
on pages*
*If we are not careful either Nature or mankind will live in
books only
Posted for Tony’s
prompt @ d’Verse Poets Pub
Yes, very true. Is time we wake up and realise where we are taking the nature, to our ultimate destruction.
ReplyDeletewe're surely playing a dangerous game with mother earth...and she had to take too many blows already... i really hope that we'll manage to re-think and re-structure before it is too late
ReplyDeleteSuch devastation in the footsteps of mankind.. The "good" news is that humanity will probably annihilate itself... And then in a few million years the earth will recover on our pyre.
ReplyDeleteA timely warning ... on our news this morning there was a story about whether the time is right to exploit the resources on the deep ocean floor ... will we learn before it is too late?
ReplyDeleteOn to the sonnet ...
Rhyme scheme ... perfect ... smiles. presage/visage is particularly good.
Flow ... pretty smooth, although not metrically perfect.
Overall ... this is a fine effort at a difficult form. Well done.
Excellent message Sumana you have expressed this very well, the sonnet is always a challenge but you have made a good contribution.
ReplyDeleteYou can smell a storm, can you?
ReplyDeleteMarvellous.
Heartfelt and well done jo hanna;)
ReplyDelete...I mean Sumana, sorry ;)
ReplyDeleteVery well crafted Sumana! This is writing like a real poet. You are a natural, Ma'am!
ReplyDeleteHank
nice closing line....i wonder what we will do to finally wipe ourselves off the face of the earth you know...if we take out nature, we take out ourselves which people def dont seem to understand...smiles...well played....
ReplyDeleteI love the message & we should learn to appreciate her dancing feet before she fades away from the page ~ Good one Sumana ~
ReplyDeleteWonderfully expressed!
ReplyDeleteWow incredible thought isn't it... nicely penned.
ReplyDelete... and the inner heart is what really counts
ReplyDeleteTrue. Well expressed use of the form.
ReplyDeleteYes, we are playing the most crazy Russian roulette of all. Very well done.
ReplyDeleteIf nature goes...so do we. And yet, we seem intent on self-destruction
ReplyDeleteA thoughtful, heartfelt message - compellingly sketched, Sumana
ReplyDeleteHow beautiful you express the wonders of nature through image and personification. Well done!
ReplyDeleteI love the veneration here, an honoring which must worry about an unhappiness because it may be the death of all. I'm trying to picture a universe composed only of stars and floating books. Grin.
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