Today I've decided to post a poem that I wrote some time ago - probably about 2 years ago to be exact - for a college poetry class. It's a Petrarchan sonnet following an 'ABBA ABBA CDE DCE' rhyme scheme in meter. It might seem a bit archaic in its diction and pretty obviously Romantic in its expressed themes, but hey - that's one of my favorite poetic periods, so I can't really deny what I love and still be totally truthful, can I? :) Hope you enjoy the little trip back to the age of wonder, spirit, and exquisite verbiage.
"Through Amber Seams"
In light of what that summer brought, to us now bold and lost
A foreign sun now rests upon the form once dressed in dew and dreams
In distant years we leapt through fields; wandered free through amber seams
Before the angels wafted low, with rivers dark to cross
The sails we tended ripped us loose, towards our tempests toss’d
Where virgin vales hid lovely snares that knew no mercies in their teem
The echoes in the splendoured coves are all that linger still to keen
While sleepless eyes invade the nights as bitter days exhaust
Oh fie, oh fie, by grace divine, what song shall now be sung
Of fortune’s joy that hears the voice that spouts so bright in youth?
What tales be told ‘neath pitch’s boughs where fires slouch and wait?
Only those that the weary child bears, now weighted down with truth
So crimson wings may shriek the sins to knaves, amassed and strung
With amber seams like summer’s beams whose sheen conceals the bait
- Joshua Clarke
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