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Aubade at Seven AM

The years have fled, and time so swiftly flees,
since that brief hour when you and I first met;
but how we loved I still remember yet;
so purely did you live and love and please.
You were a wonder then and still are now,
a form of beauty and of loveliness;
your spirit shines with light and blessedness;
you are a bright and cheerful soul. And how!
When you’re around you do not understand
how happy is my heart and soul and mind.
You make me glad that you are near; yes, and
when I see your infectious joy, I’m blind
to everything else, which seems drab and bland;
and my cold soul is warmed by what I find.

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Bruce Dale Wise is a poet and former English teacher currently residing in Texas.

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4 Responses

    • BDW

      Who Suffer Us
      by Wilbur Dee Case

      He is a charming fellow, with good manners and some wit.
      He is the maker of more than six-thousand poems writ.
      His verses written out in full fill more books than his years.
      He pays less for his words; his works are rarely in arrears.

      He does not put his words on parchment scraps, or on new scrolls;
      he does not smooth his words with pumice; those are not his goals.
      He may seem like a goatherd, since he grew up on a farm.
      To look at him again, you might say he has been transformed.

      How to account for this? When he was younger he was in
      intelligence, in Russia, and the US college scene.
      There is so much, much worse in life, than souls who suffer us;
      each person has his own delusions; be not covetous.

      Wilbur Dee Case is a poet and literary critic of Middle America.

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  2. Mark Stellinga

    A wonderfully provocative ‘aubade’, Bruce – penned, I’m guessing, for someone you’ve been deliriously happy with for a very long time?? A very fine piece –

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  3. Cynthia L Erlandson

    Truly beautiful! I’m sure any recipient of this sonnet would be thrilled!

    Reply

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