Thursday, January 24, 2008

love in a sonnet-----Totally Optional Prompts




if you ever change your mind, give me a ring
we’ll check out the weather to take out the boat.
carrying food, clothes, other essential things
going out sailing, whirring away- keep afloat.
sleeping it out, soaking warmth of the sun, in.
to prevent you from sunburns, I put up a shade
applying lotions, sunscreens on your fair skin;
so soft, so smooth to touch, as velvety as suede.

if you rather not, we might go to an isolated beach-
watch those sea waves so beautifully green-blue.
against my better judgement I would slowly reach
out, pulling you into me all of me to love all of you.

just when you ask me to take you back to land
reaching for your finger, I push in the gold band!
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Hope this works as a contemporary sonnet!

22 comments:

Andy Sewina said...

There's a lot going on here - I like the ring thing on the first and last line - and 'as velvety as suede'

Anonymous said...

This sonnet certainly does have a contemporary feel to it. I like the way you've structured it starting with 'If' and then repeating it for the turn at line 9 and then switching to 'just when' for the couplet at the end.

Anonymous said...

pulling you into me all of me to love all of you

I love this line, Gautami, it's gorgeous, so expressive.

Christine Gail said...

'against my better judgement I would slowly reach out, pulling you into me all of me to love all of you.'

is still echoing
beautifully

Anonymous said...

Whoa. vwd, Complex like an intense relationship and every detail has meaning.

paisley said...

it works wonderfully on paper... now if we could just figure out how to make it work in real life!!!!!

Tumblewords: said...

I like it. Contemporary, for sure!

Anonymous said...

You really pulled me in, even with the ring. ;)

ozymandiaz said...

If you don't know about it already there is a sight for sonnets...
http://www.sonnetwriters.com/

TS said...

Yaar tum achha likhti ho.

Linda Jacobs said...

Oh, I so want to be there right now! Thank you for fourteen lines of escape! Lovely images in here!

Anonymous said...

Absolutely!

Don Iannone, D.Div., Ph.D. said...

Shakespeare Gautami: Sonnet, get on it, bring back tomorrow, doggone it.

awareness said...

wow! that was well done.....such a difficult type of poem to write because it seems to me it's almost like a short story.

i'm glad i stopped by micheles in order to stop by here! Hi from michele and me.

WithinWithout said...

Wow, Gautami...this is pretty intense! You would be very attentive and loving to this person...

Pardon my ignorance, I don't get the last line about pushing in the gold band...must just be me...

But beautiful words and very emotive...

carmilevy said...

Beautiful writing. It feels like doors are being left open for someday in this lovely sonnet.

You're a remarkable talent, Gautami. Michele recognized that early on.

floots said...

like the sentiment here
(but i am allergic to rings - literal and figurative) :)
thank you

Anonymous said...

shade/suede !

Kai said...

it's wondrful.

Annie Jeffries said...

The first line ending in ring left me fleetingly with the idea of a wedding ring. The second line showed me it was a call instead. But then the end brought me right back to the original impression and made a perfect circle.

Writing on Board said...

Ooh, you got me. -Alex

sage said...

nice, wonderful images, you may become the contemporary sonnet poet of the new century!