Sonnet # 13

Luis A. Estable 1958 (Oriente, Cuba)

Sonnet

You can have with tears the saddest child.
No hands to wipe the cruelness of his life.
His hardship and suffering in pain so wild
Due to his heart as if cut by a knife.
You a girl can have hates all her dreams
That have become the focus of her life.
Then, through her mouth much blood when sad she screams
With without mercy it seems he tears a knife.
You can have things in horror out of word.
Still quite small with the sadness of my brain.
I have in my sight a cut throat young bird.
No firmament to calm my thirst has rain.
I suffer and call my thick tears, "Oh damn!"
The pain the wind does slam with hate, I am!

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Submitted by luisestable1 on September 30, 2024

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Scheme	ABABCBCBDEDEFF
Closest metre	Iambic pentameter
Characters	631
Words	136
Stanzas	1
Stanza Lengths	14

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Luis A. Estable

Luis A. Estable, poet for more than twenty years. Single, no children; originally from Cuba. Writes poems in several styles: sonnets, songs, haikus, children's verses, free style verse and more. Has published three books of poetry: " Eighty-Three Sonnets, Book One," Religious, Thirty Sonnets," "My Mind Simply Saying. All of them available on Amazon books. Has degrees from SFCC and EWU. Lives in Spokane, WA. Thinks that poetry is the most compact and beautiful expression known to man, and that a poem never reaches perfection; the work goes one and this is a good advice to keep, especially for young poets. more…

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karlcfolkes
Bien hecho amigo. Ojalá que pudiera oír or leer este poema en la rica lengua nativa!
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- luisestable1
  This is not a translation, but a poem in English thus the language always has been English so read it as such. But thank you for you read and for your comment.
  LikeReply8 days ago
nelzealoursmotoe1
Absolutely awesome
I like the poetic flare
LikeReply11 days ago
- luisestable1
  My thanks to you for reading and for your good words. Thank you again!
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amandak
Can't find the sunshine without the rain. Awesome write
LikeReply11 days ago
- luisestable1
  I thank you for reading and for your good words. I'm glad the reading gave you that impression.
  LikeReply11 days ago

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