BS: In every thread someone has to be last!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 07 Apr 09 - 10:28 AM

of course I did- and now that someone else has posted, i can continue with ...


MORE SONNETS!



Sonnet 23/7/01                        DLXVIII

I think about your words, and dream of smile,
Though I have little cause to hope for care.
My age does not allow pursuit, and while
I may desire, I cannot your soul share.
I wonder what you dream, and know I seek
Beyond even concern: My heart has played
Out past desires, and found faint hope. I speak
But cannot say, though I have for words paid.
I know only you seem to understand
The passions of my past. I try to tell
My dreams, but few care to listen. I hand
You verse, and pray you understand, as well.
All of my words try to tell how I feel:
Will your reading of verse make my dreams real?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 02:02 PM

So, who wants some more sonnets?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 02:11 PM

Who could possibly refuse that kind offer?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 02:13 PM

OK! I'll get the file out and start posting!!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: skipy
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 04:59 PM

Zygomart
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 06:29 PM

Sonnet 09/05/01                                DXLVIII

I read your words, and my dreams try to feel
The coolness of soft silk, and warmth of skin:
I would reach out, and with sweet kisses seal
My heart, that I might heart's desire win.
As soft, and subtle scented as a rose,
But without thorns, you pull me to your soul.
I touch, with lips and tongue, yet hope heart knows
How much these dreams can of my hopes take toll.
I reach to touch you, but words do not hold
The softness of your lips, nor feel of hair.
How can I taste skin, or let fingers fold
With yours, when only written words we share?
Would you, then, drive me crazy with desire
When distance and some years prevent love's fire?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 21 Apr 10 - 06:31 PM

Sonnet 23/05/01                        DLVIII

I cannot alter Time's slow march, to speed
The days, or slow the hours. If I could change
The years, I would not stay so far, nor need
To censure dreams, and desires rearrange.
I cannot send what you deserve, to ease
The effort of your days. Can words lend care,
From one as I? How can my verses please,
Or offer solace? Should I dead dreams share?
I cannot offer heart, though your words reach
Into my dreams: I have no right to ask
That you care for me, nor can I heart touch
To see beyond those dreams, or longing mask.
I see a flame in you, to light my soul,
Yet cannot reach to it, or time control.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,999
Date: 22 Apr 10 - 01:53 PM

xox
oox
xxo

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 23 Apr 10 - 01:38 PM

oxo

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Apr 10 - 12:10 PM

Who says?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 01:42 PM

One of 12 ...

Sonnet 01/10/04   At Franklin's                        CMXXXV

A pixie in plaid pants, you offer sight
To ease these tired eyes. Perhaps in dream
I might have chance to thank you for the light
You give imagination. Do you seem
To smile? What might I say, to have you glance
In my direction? Years keep me from thought
Of more than dreams. You leave: I have no chance
To find if dreams might add to more than naught.
Will I see you another night, and stare
As if I might see your desires, or try
To know what you are thinking? Might I share
These words, though age must hopes and dreams deny?
I do not ask that you reply: Just let
A foolish man his ramblings not regret.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 03:55 PM

"Der krieg ist forlorn."

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 04:42 PM

More sonnets wanted??

OK.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 26 Apr 10 - 04:43 PM

2nd of 12...


Sonnet 29/03/05                         CMXCI

You are too beautiful to just ignore,
Yet too young to ask more than your sweet smile.
What can I say, to show that you restore
The joy to late nights, and my thoughts beguile?
Can words begin to tell the gentle thrill
That flash of your eyes gives the night? Can page
Hold how you make me feel? Your bright looks fill
This crowded room, and make me forget age.
Yet, should I bother to tell of the powers
You hold in glance? Perhaps you know how much
Smile gives, but would you want me to spend hours
Trying to find out what might your dreams touch?
Thought of you dreams allow, but should I let
Sight of a dream all of Reason upset?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 11:46 AM

3 of 12...

Sonnet 31/03/05                         CMXCIII

Seeing curl upon forehead, I must ask
If you're like girl in rhyme: Are you now good
As looks and smile suggest, or do they mask
Some inner imp? I know not if I should
Try to find out: Do I annoy, with verse?
You do not seem to mind, but let me know
If I should cease, or make greeting more terse.
I seek only to effect on me show.
I do not know how to beauty ignore,
Nor eyes as yours not look to see. I try,
But fail: Only my absence could insure
I would not look at you, and my words ply.
Perhaps it does not matter, but I plead
You do not object to my verses read..

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 11:55 AM

My Krag is 30-40.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 01:44 PM

sure is lonely here.....

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 02:18 PM

You been told today? No?

Flip off!

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 27 Apr 10 - 02:39 PM

Feel the love!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 02:17 PM

4th of 12...

Sonnet 27/05/05    MidNight at Franklin's    MVII

The witching hour, and you have cast a spell,
That I watch every move you make. I try
To turn away, but eyes return. Thoughts tell
I am a fool, but cannot hopes deny.
I watch you dance, and dream, but dare not ask
For more than smile. I cannot find the nerve
To offer more than words, though my words mask
Desires: Yet, what can my mere words deserve?
You light dreams with your smile, and fill the night
With flash of eyes: Should I not let dreams form
In which I wake at dawn holding you tight,
Or of chill evening when I'd keep you warm?
How can I dream, and not be thought a fool?
Your beauty all of reason overrules.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Badiggety Dawg
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 06:04 PM

MMMFFF!!! (suppressing my helpless laughter here, hand held over mouth, unsuccessfully trying to hold it back...nope...it's no use...)

Ah-Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 06:58 PM

As a guest, you seem to lack decorum.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 07:05 PM

But I guess it means you want more sonnets...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Badiggety Dawg
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 07:07 PM

Such is the fate of one who passes through like a mere phantasm, unknown, unrecognized, and unloved! But anyway, thanks for the great laugh.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 07:13 PM

You are welcome- I like to keep people happy.

So I will post LOTS more sonnets here.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 07:16 PM

5 of 12...


Sonnet 10/06/05                                        MX

Now, what is it about you that I find
To steal my thoughts, and dreams? I think your eyes;
I can't ignore your glance, yet you remind
Of no one else. Is dreaming of you wise?
Perhaps, your smile; All others seem to fade
Upon your bright look. Yes, I find pleasure
In just seeing you, but your smile has made
Ordinary evening into treasure.
Yet, you have something, beyond eyes, or smile:
I do not know why you capture my dream,
Just that you do. Should I ask questions, while
I have chance to watch you, and hopes redeem?
Would you allow my dreams, or should I cease?
Should your continued smile my dreams increase?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 07:17 PM

6 of 12...

Sonnet 27/09/05                                        MXXII

Looking for one who might appear, I wait,
Not knowing if she will be here. Her eyes
Might seasons change, but is this waiting wise,
Without reason that she would hopes relate?
Yet, I cannot help but hope it is fate
She will be here tonight, to with bright glance
This evening grace: I must leave hope to chance
That she shares smile, and some of her dreams state.
Alas! Night fades, without her: All I hold
Are dreams and empty glasses. Can I find
Enough moonlight, to future hopes inspire?
The night is warm, but I find star-shine cold,
Not seen mirrored in eyes. Does desire blind
My dreams, and soul, to all but her eyes' fire?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Apr 10 - 11:18 PM

If she had been 18 instead of 17 there might have been no sonnents from the pedergast's pen.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 29 Apr 10 - 12:28 PM

Stop judging me by your standards- she was in her late 20's.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 29 Apr 10 - 12:29 PM

7 of 12


Sonnet 06/10/05                                        MXXV

Shall I ask now for reasons you might smile,
Making the night worth remaining awake?
Would you reply? Can I dream of you, while
Desires hide from speech for fear of mistake?
Shall I longing for touch deny, or state
I would not kiss pursue? I will not lie:
That dreams excite gives reason to stay late,
And sight of you reasons for dream supply.
Shall I pretend I even have a choice,
To flash of eyes ignore? You focus thought
Upon desire: Smile gives cause to rejoice,
And hope, even in vain, is what dreams sought.
Might I imagine that you smile for me?
How can I not want all of dreams to be?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 29 Apr 10 - 03:36 PM

8 of 12...


Sonnet 28/10/05                                        MXXVII

Have you been told how beautiful you are,
Today? The sight of you gives my heart cause
To dream, and wonder. Would you my dreams bar,
Or ask imagination to now pause?
Are you aware the impact of your eyes
Upon a weary soul? I dare not tell
The power you command: If I were wise,
I would seek to not be under your spell.
I dare not hold you: I could not let go,
Nor find words to say how you make me feel.
Yet, would it matter if I let you know
That dreams are more to me than what is real?
I look at you, and wish to more than dream:
But know I'd never loss of smile redeem.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 12:32 PM

9 of 12


Sonnet 03/11/05                                        MXXVIII

Might you teach me how to find words to say,
That tell what seeing your smile gives to me?
Sight of your elven eyes takes breath away:
Thought of you gives heart chance for hope to be.
I dream, but dare not hold you: Should I plead
That you be more than beauty seen afar?
What might I offer that would your dreams feed,
Or give reason you'd join me under star?
It does not matter what I wish were real:
Heart cannot alter what has been, nor find
The path to future I desire, nor steal
What is not offered. Should my dreams be blind?
I am a fool, to dream, when you remain
Only desire heart cannot hope to gain.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 01:30 PM

How old were you when you wrote this stuff, Bruce?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 01:46 PM

Five years younger than I am now...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 01:51 PM

But I have been writing sonnets for quite a while...


Sonnet 05/12/73                                        I


But I will not ( now) inflict that one on you...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 03:41 PM

Heh! I'm glad you are capable of some compassion, Bruce.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 03:41 PM

Hey! What are friends for?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 03:56 PM

Yeah, eh? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 30 Apr 10 - 07:45 PM

10 of 12...


Sonnet 15/12/05                         MXXXVIII

In dream I find the chance to hold you near,
And whisper just how beautiful you are.
But dream does not give warmth, nor end the fear
That longing cannot carry heart so far.
How might I win a chance to brush my lips
Behind your ear and upon neck, and touch
The corner of your smile, or kiss the tips
Of fingers? Might my heart yet hope for such?
Yet, all remains a dream: The chilling rain
Hides moon, and stars, and hope. I dare not seek
For heart's desire without thought how to gain
Your own desires: Might you of your dreams speak?
How can I not dream, when I see your smile?
Do you not know you can with look beguile?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 May 10 - 02:56 PM

11 of 12...


Sonnet 28/12/05                                              MXXXIX

Vision does not yet see what dreams display,
To give reason smile touches soul. She lends
An air of passion to room: Dare I say
She makes night worthwhile with the joy smile sends?
I long to learn about her dreams, to know
What might smile earn, and what has chance to please.
Yet, should I longing for her think to show,
When I might any hope for passion seize?
I offer verse, and heart: Is there a chance
She might in kind reply? Will she inspire
More than just dream? What is the circumstance
That raises muse from beauty and desire?
She leaves room empty in absence, and gives
With her sweet smile a hope that in dream lives.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 May 10 - 08:07 PM

12 of 12...


Sonnet 26/01/06                                     MXLV

Have I reason to think you might be more
Than just beautiful woman? Will you share
Some of dreams' light, and with smile hopes restore?
Can I dream that there might be chance you'd care?
What can I do to earn a smile or give
Soft laughter cause? It seems that eyes can say
As much as all my words: Must longing live
Upon just glance? Has hope led heart astray?
Might I ask evening to explore your mind?
Would starlight guide our conversation? All
I ask is that we have a chance to find
If you are one that might my verses call.
Can I try to within my arms enfold
A vision that dreams upon page have told?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 May 10 - 08:18 PM

ok, I'll start another sequence tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 04 May 10 - 12:45 PM

1 of 68...


Sonnet 10/11/00                        CDLXXVII

Could I look in your eyes, I'd hope to find
A muse to hold my weary heart in thrall.
Such I might dream: Yet, would I with dreams bind
Soul to another, when I Past recall?
Might I know more of you, to understand
All you might ask, and what you might refuse?
Raise not my hopes, that heart might heart demand,
Except that you would hearts and souls yet fuse.
Keep what I offer clear: I do not know
Enough to know where these desires might lead.
Let time and conversation serve to show,
Least I my dreams into your words might read.
Echos of past show paths I dare not go:
Yet I would know if you might fill my need.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 04 May 10 - 01:40 PM

One all by itself...


       Sonnet 18/05/01                        DLIII


        A perfect day for planting, with no sun
        To burn life from small leaves; The promise of
        Water to sustain new growth. Here's one
        Of Nature's subtle gifts, to show her love.
        You plant sweet herbs for future use, and weed
        Unwanted growth, but know a use for all
        The garden grows. Four senses gardens feed,
        And birds, who nourish fifth with evening call.
        The breeze brings cool contentment, as the day
        Slides into night. You have the future sown.
        In time, all that you plant will grow, to pay,
        With interest, labor done by harvest grown.
        With laughter in eyes, and smile touching cheek,
        You have in your garden all I might seek.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 May 10 - 01:30 PM

2 of 68...


Sonnet 15/11/00                        CDLXXVIII

I have not looked into your eyes, nor seen
Your smile, yet I would call you friend, and care
About how you might feel. I do not mean
To push myself on you, but concern share.
I have not heard your voice, but seek to find
Your thoughts within the words you send. I read,
And try to see how you might be, in mind:
I wonder, that I see in you, my need.
Do I but see reflection, that I see
That which I wish to see? Are you a dream,
To match all my desires? Might you yet be
The muse I seek, and all that you now seem?
I do not know, yet know I must decide
If to see you, or from future hope hide.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 May 10 - 01:40 PM

"I have not looked into your eyes, nor seen
Your smile, yet I would call you friend, and care
About how you might feel."

How very nice of you. You're a real sweetie.

"I do not mean
To push myself on you, but concern share."

Great. Could you start by posting no more sonnets? ;-)

"I have not heard your voice, but seek to find
Your thoughts within the words you send.

If you had heard my voice, you'd realize how truly melodic it is... As for my thoughts...yeah, they're brilliant. You'd be amazed.

"I read,
And try to see how you might be, in mind:
I wonder, that I see in you, my need."

Hmmm. Well, I appreciate that thought, but I have to be frank here...you're starting to worry me.

"Do I but see reflection, that I see
That which I wish to see?"

Does a bear shit in the woods?

"Are you a dream,
To match all my desires?"

Now you're REALLY going way out on a limb! I think NOT. Just discard the notion, okay?

"Might you yet be
The muse I seek, and all that you now seem?"

Not bloody likely!

"I do not know, yet know I must decide
If to see you, or from future hope hide."

My advice is: From future hope hide. Now beat it or I'll call a cop.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 May 10 - 03:11 PM

Glad to see you want me to post more sonnets.

Here's another one:

3 of 68...


Sonnet        16/11/00                        CDLXXIX

Do I ask for too much, too soon, to seek
To look into your eyes? Must I pretend
To not care for your smile? Yet, would I send
My words, if I did not care? I am weak
Against emotions: Would you have me speak
Without my heart, as if you had not power
To drive dreams to despair? Would you spend hour
To seal my fate, or free me from this peak?

I am trapped- All directions lead me down
To an abyss, save that I look to you
For inspiration. Would you raise vision
Above this? Is my hope to be but clown,
To amuse? Can I hope to know your true
Opinion, without risk of derision?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 May 10 - 03:40 PM

And another, just to keep LH from complainng I never send him anything:



Sonnet 22/11/05                            MXXXIII

The distant stars only cold comfort bring,
That beauty beyond reach might share. Dreams try
To find desired smile, or voice to sing,
Yet this is season when all of dreams die.
Heart cannot hold to hope, but must it ache
For lost dreams of what could not be? Dreams fail
To fill heart's need, yet should they, for the sake
Of but one's desire? Must hope tears entail?
Dare soul look for the reason darkness falls
On dream, desires, and hope? Is it just chance,
Or fate, that longing for love always calls
Forth darkness, when heart seeks only romance?
Where should heart search, for chance of it's desire?
Is there no hope in those who verse inspire?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 May 10 - 03:44 PM

And another, so LH will know I am reading his posts most attentively:



Sonnet 22/11/05                                        MXXXIV

In time heart will not feel the pain, nor seek
To find desires: I will not care if she
Still smiles, or cries. Then, written words might speak,
But voice and heart will ever silent be.
In time, dreams will not try to light refine
To vision of her eyes. All will be dark,
And cold: Death will unravel hope's design,
And of passion will remain not a spark.
In time, desire will fade, and even kiss
Will have no meaning: All that dream now sees
I will not from the grave think I might miss.
There will be then no chance to my muse please.
In time, I will not love: Yet, must I reach
That time before heart will a resting teach?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 May 10 - 04:44 PM

There's only one rhetorical question in that last one. Not good enough! I prefer those that are absolutely peppered with rhetorical questions that I can post numerous funny answers to.

See what you can come up with. ;-)