... and we're off...

From the pen/cursor of Beatrice Grundbacher, in Switzerland, the first offering from the exercise I suggested. Come on, Brits – and others – this woman has written a stonking sonnet AND it's not in her native tongue! (She swears, too, that 6 of her 13 qs/as appear, in disguise, in this poem).

Song of Shades

When early morning drinks her cup of tea,
her drowsiness disguised in dallying dawn,
and silk trained dusk advances the black night
and shelters secret sources for the fawn,

when chimneys give away where fire burns
and dreamers wake to make their dreams come true,
I write my first love letter to myself
for twilight makes my other sides shine through;

I give up scolding and unfriendly words
at all my weaknesses and lazy ease
and ponder upon little trivial stuff
as why a soothing wind is called a breeze.

Transition’s merit mingles black and white
and transforms dreary darkness into light.

 

© Beatrice Grundbacher July 2014