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Upon the Absent Beloved
I bless the hour, though it wounded me,
when first my eyes were taught to look and grieve,
and every joy I thought my heart could weave
was turned to golden thread of misery.For Beauty came, and with her majesty
made captive all I had believed was free;
yet in that chain my soul learned how to see
the heaven hidden in captivity.O gentle light, too distant to be mine,
you burn within me like a sacred flame;
I flee from you, yet follow all the same.Thus love makes bitter water into wine:
I die of longing, yet I live by this—
the wound itself has taught my heart its bliss.Author’s Note: My attempts at a poem in the style of Petrarch
#burningHeart #celestialLight #classicalImagery #devotionalArt #inkIllustration #laurelWreath #longing #lovePoem #parchmentAesthetic #Petrarch #Petrarchan #Poetry #renaissanceInspiration #Romanticism #sacredHeart #starSymbolism #symbolicArt #symbolicIllustration #unrequitedLove #woundedHeart -
here we go again - just started another #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnet sequence based on the ukiyo-e prints of #hiroshige. (if you like this sort of thing, i recently released a whole ebook - alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com) #poem #poems #poetry #sonnets
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my sequence on #hiroshige's #tokaido is OUT NOW! edo-period #japan meets 55 #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnets. purchase / info links via alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com to etsy (best place to buy from), amazon, & apple books. DM about review copies! #poetry #poems #poem #japan #ukiyo-e #sonnet #sonnets
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friends! friends of the #sonnet! just checking final PDF & EPUB versions of my sequence on #hiroshige's #tokaido. edo-period #japan meets 55 #ekphrastic #petrarchan #sonnets! coming in a few days via alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com to etsy, amazon, & apple books. DM about review copies! #poem #poems #poetry