Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Doug Sooley's avatar

English is a rich language? It is the only language that isn’t really a language. It’s a bastardized version of the rest of the world’s languages. That’s why we have homophones and homonyms. Every word comes from a different language.

Expand full comment
Sheldon Goldfarb's avatar

Reposting the sestina

Now comes the end of all that we call time

When what we wish has gone with what we love

And there is nothing but a looming stress

And we cannot exist another day

Then in the dark of night we feel our age

And venture deeply into dark despair

*****

*****

And yet though we feel called on by despair

And think we can but while away our time

Still we may think there comes another age

In which we’ll sport and find a way to love

And then we’ll yearn for yet another day

To soothe us in the thing that we call stress

*****

*****

Oh, that we could escape the demon stress

And wash away the tentacles of despair

Oh that we could yet sing another day

And let us not expire though it be time

Oh at the end of all may there be love

And something yet of comfort in our age

*****

*****

Oh that we could surmount the toils of age

And find some path to lead us through our stress

And then perhaps we’ll find a greater love

That may allow us to pierce through despair

And that may be a rising of the time

It may be something for the final day

*****

*****

And if upon that bright sunshiny day

We somehow can forget our growing age

And give ourselves the greatest gift of time

An end to all that strives to give us stress

And then perhaps we’ll end our bleak despair

And find ourselves embraced by arms of love

*****

*****

It is a wish we have to find our love

To spend it with them for a greater day

To grasp the surly giant named despair

To realize the strength that comes with age

Oh then perhaps we’ll fight that demon stress

And come to happiness before our time

*****

*****

I think that I shall love another age

And in the day will triumph over stress

And then despair will go before my time

Expand full comment
19 more comments...

No posts