Sonnet # 56

Luis A Estable 1958 (Oriente, Cuba)



Is it in beauty, beauty ever there?
Or just the eyes that see utterly false?
The eyes to roses give delicious care.
Don't mind the thorn that it the heart appalls.
And then, a yellow sun that gives us heat.
A diamond ring, for looks better the flesh.
I think the eyes have us with much deceit.
They beauty see to keep  the sight e'er fresh.
If hearts the out would see, or so they were,
Talk, beauty! Where'd you be? Or what were you?
Between a rose, a weed we should prefer
The one most animals, indeed, do shew.
The purpose's what to have the heart inside?
Besides pump blood, to make this judgment slide..
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Submitted by luisestable1 on August 11, 2023

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Scheme ABACDEDEFGFGHH
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 608
Words 128
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

Luis A Estable

Poet for more than twenty years; lives in Spokane, WA. Single and has no children. Writes poetry in several styles: sonnets, songs, haikus, children's verse, free style poetry and more. Has published three books of poems: Eighty-Three Sonnets, Book One," Religious, Thirty Sonnets," "My Mind Simply Saying." All of them available on Amazon books more…

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