Love Me...Love Me Not (Shadow Sonnet)

Late summer evening and you are late
moments spent waiting are lost moments
time together, so precious is our time.
Will you come my love? I pray you will.

Petals plucked at random, scattered petals
love me?..,love me not?, I ask of your love.
Childish game. Oh, am I being childish?
Last petal reveals our love won't last.

Evening cools, did your love this evening?
Alone with my thoughts, I sit...alone.
Perhaps you are just delayed? Ah...perhaps
dusk, scattered petals of love lost at dusk.

You have broken my heart, still I love you
why didn't you come my love? Oh why...

25th November 2007

The Shadow Sonnet was created by Amera M. Andersen, may be written in any sonnet style. The Shadow takes place at the beginning and ending of each line as the words are identical or homophonic. Since all poetry was originally meant to be sung or recited out loud, homophonic words are acceptable, these are words that sound alike such as "see and sea". (Rules: 14 lines, 9 or 10 syllables per line. The poem should have a volta or pivit; iambic pentameter is not necessary.)