13 February 2012 - Leave Without a Mark - planet poetica sonnet

This poem shows the dark promise of love without commitment, how the music and mystery of  a tryst can be alluring but filled with fear because you can’t know if you’ll ever see such lovers again.  And when one is in love but the other not, this is the dark promise.

13 February 2012 - Leave Without a Mark - planet poetica sonnet

Each silver leaf is dripping moonlit dark,

she dances there, a graceful silhouette

a soft acoustic drum brush plying night

a rippling song, her lips to mine, will spark

my hand to trace and limn with hips’ arrest.

Percussion weaves sonatas when there’s love

and heartbeat symphonies are not enough.

Some nights the stars will fall and slip their net,

moons trip and spill their light, exposed and stark

but like songs urge, I’ll bare it all and fight

for love and life; holding light, I’m still in debt

until her leaves leave light without a mark.

In waves the violins are plying tears

and catching rosined stars on bows of fear. 

3-18-12

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first couplet (a) is to sum quintet A, and second couplet (b) to sum all the poem OR quintet B