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Thread #58995   Message #938889
Posted By: Joe_F
23-Apr-03 - 08:12 PM
Thread Name: Shakespeare... Sonnet 22
Subject: RE: Shakespeare... Sonnet 22
Not quite Shakespearian, but:

INSECTS

No, not with you or any of my kind,
But with a pair of coupling dragonflies,
Spindles gun-blue with wings of filmy black,
Will I embalm the last shreds of my mind.
Let chevroned grasshoppers in full green dress
Parade in chaos where my body dies
To show me off, and I'll salute them back
While overflights of butterflies impress
The spies among the reeds. Oh, let me take
My leave of water striders as they row
To keep their station, court with ripples, make
Quick, bright-ringed shadows on the rock below;
And fireflies dancing at the edge of night,
Flashing their itch against the fading light.

                                           1992

On the topic of the sonnet that started this, cf. "Lies" by Stan Rogers.