The Pain of Pleasure
To know the warmth of love is one’s great gift
And yet we can’t feel love without a cost
When morals take a turn and make a shift
Your world will fall, and that’s when trust is lost
Your heart cries out and feelings all run free
The snake of envy bites into the soul
To suffer pain and hurt to a degree,
Until you lose the pieces of your whole
Allow yourself to fall in love once more
For if you never fall, you’ll never rise
Dig deep, reflect, and search inside your core
To feel the warmth and tenderness reprise
I’ll love with every inch of my own skin
And only then will mortal life begin
To know the warmth of love is one’s great gift
And yet we can’t feel love without a cost
When morals take a turn and make a shift
Your world will fall, and that’s when trust is lost
Your heart cries out and feelings all run free
The snake of envy bites into the soul
To suffer pain and hurt to a degree,
Until you lose the pieces of your whole
Allow yourself to fall in love once more
For if you never fall, you’ll never rise
Dig deep, reflect, and search inside your core
To feel the warmth and tenderness reprise
I’ll love with every inch of my own skin
And only then will mortal life begin
-Cathy Zuo
4 comments:
Hey Cathy,
I couldn't get over the line
"The snake of envy bites into the soul," I love that!
My only comment is that some of your lines (near the beg.) start to sound a little sentency.
Nonetheless, I admire that you followed all the sonnet rules- that's not an easy thing to do!
-Charu
This sonnet is AMAZING! :|
like...wow
- Imad
Cathy,
Wow, very impressive. I bet you had a lot more respect for the sonneteers after you attempted writing one yourself. They're not easy are they?
Quick. Review for the others: Petrachan or Shakespearean?
Hint: She's separated her sonnet into stanza that emphasize the answer.
Cathy, I remember this from last year in Mr. Pascoe's English class. You really stuck to the iambic pentameter! I like the same line Charu pointed out for the vivid imagery.
It's Shakespearean, because she has the rhyming couplet at the end.
- Amal
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