Garden Goddess

by kiwisteveh

As gentle sunbeams stir the barren field,
So does your touch bring life to all around.
A desert once, a garden's now revealed
Where sweetness, grace and beauty all abound.

Now to your side there flocks a bright array
Of singing birds, sweet music fills the air.
And here the timorous woodland creatures play
Amidst the dappled pathways, free of care.

But still a soil so stony, hard, disused,
So long neglected, drenched with salty tears,
I fear the task is hopeless, till, amused,
You cast your spell and banish foolish fears.

My garden goddess, how your magic art
Replenishes the wasteland of my heart!

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Sonnet Poetry Contest contest entry

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An old-fashioned, traditional love sonnet.

For the syllable counters, I know line 7 has an extra syllable. I could have written tim'rous or used another word, I suppose. Why don't we all read it, following the meter so that timorous sounds like it's really only two syllables?

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