Sonnet: O This be Love

(Companion to immediately prior offering “The Red and White Ball” ~ centerpiece of the seven-sonnet series commissioned for that performance)

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Recorded Reading (1:10): https://www.dropbox.com/s/4vjqriuplyri9w6/O%20This%20be%20Love.mp3?dl=0

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O This be Love

O this be love, wherein one single frown
Unkind allusion, or a darkened brow
Do all the lover’s hopes bring crashing down
Nor any gleam of happiness allow

O this be love, which waits upon a smile
As on the outcome of a worldwide war,
For whom one glance may eas’ly reconcile
Any divergence which hath gone before

O this be love, when hell and heaven wait
Upon the pleasure of the best beloved
Who, ransomless, the heart holds confiscate
In iron hand, all softly velvet gloved

Ay this be love: the best, and eke the worst
Of earthly dramas here below rehearst

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This poet is physically disabled. Public housing being insufficient to her medical and creative needs, she is presently living, in order to continue working, in her minivan, publishing all of her works using one thumb on the touch screen of her smartphone at an income of a fraction of her nation’s poverty level. She would treasure any donation you might care to offer ~ http://www.UgiftABLE.com ● #72D-31S

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