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Sonnet I by =melancholy-dreamer:iconmelancholy-dreamer:

Categories Literature > Poetry > Romantic > Teen or Young Romance > Sonnet


I love you because I do not know enough not to;
like the lemmings that leap off cliffs,
so am I oblivious to the places
this will lead.

I love you because you are irresistible,
as inevitable and inescapable as Death himself,
and although you are inaccessible, I have inadvertently
fallen inarguably, irrevocably innamorato.

I love you as dancers love to dance,
as actors love to act, as lovers love to love-
because I do not know what I would do if I didn't.

I love you because you help me find words
when there are none, because you hold me tightly
as I spin out of control, because you are you.
©2009 =melancholy-dreamer
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Author's Comments

This series of sonnets was inspired by Pablo Neruda's Cien sonetos de amor, all of which are written in this fourteen line format.

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=synnn Nov 6, 2009, 8:59:59 PM
You capture the unavoidable way love finds its way into your life quite nicely. :)

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Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. :heart:
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=melancholy-dreamer Nov 6, 2009, 9:07:31 PM
Thank you! I have found it rather impossible to escape. :)

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"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. And yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them." -Frederic Chopin-

If you need some poetry in your life I can read you Neruda.
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=EPAmanda123 Nov 6, 2009, 9:08:51 PM
Woahsnap, Katie. You've done it again :)

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I am afraid that once I get to Heaven, God will sneeze and I won't know what to say.

God made men first. Then he had a better idea!

Member of =SkyAndNatureClub and ~THEDABANDNERDCLUB
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=melancholy-dreamer Nov 6, 2009, 9:09:50 PM
:hug:

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"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. And yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them." -Frederic Chopin-

If you need some poetry in your life I can read you Neruda.
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=CatTheNinja Nov 7, 2009, 6:08:50 AM
I can tell that your poetry has improved between the last time you posted a poem and now. Great job! :)

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Geography is DESTINY!
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=melancholy-dreamer Nov 7, 2009, 7:52:23 AM
I think it's because of Pablo Neruda. That man was magic, and I think it rubbed off a little. ;)

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"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. And yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them." -Frederic Chopin-

If you need some poetry in your life I can read you Neruda.
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=underworldriver Nov 10, 2009, 6:53:54 AM
This is so sweet. :happycry:

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~Save me from my fears, save my butterflies and love me forever, my beloved Styx~
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Remember we all have =RawEm0tion :blackrose:
I am a proud member of ~lyriclub B-)
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=melancholy-dreamer Nov 10, 2009, 7:31:49 PM
Thanks! :)

--
"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. And yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them." -Frederic Chopin-

If you need some poetry in your life I can read you Neruda.
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