Throughout the year
\nby cricketjeff on November 18, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nAs Winter wind emerged from Autumn breeze
\nI found a cure for ice-cold lonely nights.
\nThe thin sunlight that only seems to tease
\nWas bright enough to show me your delights.<\/p>\n
The silhouettes of trees suggested death
\nBut I found life and laughter in your eyes.
\nThe Winter chill that lets you see your breath
\nMakes clouds of joy from new-found lover’s sighs.<\/p>\n
We sampled love beside a roaring fire
\nAnd tasted hope in sips of ginger wine.
\nA fall of snow can’t blanket out desire
\nAnd underneath its carpet you were mine.<\/p>\n
On cold, dark days the blackbird learns to sing,
\nWhile Winter frosts soon melt into the Spring.<\/p>\n
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While Winter frosts soon melt into the Spring
\nA Winter love does not soon fade away.
\nReturning sun brings life to everything
\nAnd we were more alive on every day.<\/p>\n
The roadside banks soon filled with daffodils
\nAnd clearings in the woods turned bluebell blue.
\nThe year grew up presenting me with thrills
\nSuch pretty scenes that I could show to you.<\/p>\n
We skinny-dipped in one still icy stream
\nAnd held each other close while getting dry.
\nI found in you the answer to a dream
\nAnd knew that I would never say goodbye.<\/p>\n
As everything in nature’s having fun,
\nWarm days of Spring turn hot in Summer sun.<\/p>\n
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Warm days of Spring turn hot in Summer sun
\nAnd you and I found heat in other games.
\nWe walked though life ignoring everyone
\nAnd only heard each other’s secret names.<\/p>\n
I took you to my dark green mountainsides,
\nI showed you all the places I had been.
\nWe found the parks where England’s beauty hides,
\nMade love in places only gods have seen.<\/p>\n
The best of weather brings the best of love,
\nThe best of you brought out the best of me.
\nWhile larks sang songs of love from high above
\nI spoke to you in gentle poetry.<\/p>\n
The story of the year is almost told
\nWhen Summer’s greens first turn to Autumn gold.<\/p>\n
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When Summer’s greens first turn to Autumn gold,
\nThe trees are graced with something new to say.
\nBefore the nights have started turning cold
\nThey give their new found treasure trove away.<\/p>\n
When morning mists give way to golden light
\nAnd fallen leaves start crunching underfoot.
\nIt’s time to hold your lover very tight
\nAnd watch the nights start turning black as soot.<\/p>\n
With blackberry-and-apple pie to eat
\nAnd hedgerow fruits to pick as we walk by.
\nIt isn’t only you that keeps me sweet
\nBoth you and they are easy on the eye.<\/p>\n
I held you close between the shedding trees
\nAs Winter wind emerged from Autumn breeze.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nA “crown” of Shakespearean sonnets. A crown can be any number of sonnets with
\nlinked themes which are also linked by reusing the final line (or lines) of one
\nto start the next. The final sonnet links back to the first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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