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Joshua Kronengold ([personal profile] mneme) wrote2015-01-06 12:09 pm

A Sonnet for Serenity

A Sonnet for Serenity

First quatrain and last couplet by Joshua Kronengold, second quatrain and following couplet by [personal profile] batyatoon, first couplet (5-6) and editing by [personal profile] thnidu.


Deny me answer to my heart's behest,
Deprive me of my property and lot,
Remove my person, force me by duress,
To where the land shan't bear me, I care not.
For I am unencumbered by oppression,
Nor canst thou wrest the sky from my possession.

Though I be exiled to the endless dark,
And though they tell the world I'll not return;
Though thou may'st fan the flame or set the spark
That seas may boil and that the land may burn;
My will's my own, and so the skies shall be --
And neither wilt thou ever take from me.

Now nowhere can I be, since Peace I found,
But mine is that which lies above the ground.
thnidu: Red pen. Text: The red pen^is the editor's friend; editing mark "insert space" in "penis". from lj:stormsdotter (editor's friend)

[personal profile] thnidu 2015-01-12 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
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