If Love Should Die

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So I wrote an actual sonnet. Three quatrains and a closing couplet, each line must have 10 syllables and a there is a specific rhyming pattern. Mine is a Spenserian sonnet after Sir Edmund Spenser, the first poet to modify Petrarch’s form.

I love when new love begins to flourish

An unknown person there to discover

My body and soul with newness are nourished

I rejoice at the touch of my lover.

Sometimes when nights together are over

And I leave him in the wake of the dawn

I am lost and at his gate I hover

From his warm bed and arms I have been torn.

But if my new love leaves and I must mourn

I will go quietly without a cry

As if the love itself was never born.

I will not beg, plead for another try.

I will leave him with dignity and grace

And never show the tears that streak my face.

Author: Deryn

Born and bred in Manchester UK with a degree in French from the University of Exeter, I found myself in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1995 via Spain, France and Greece. And London. I have worked in the hospitality industry in marketing, as a radio and tv producer, in PR and communications for South Africa's buy local advocacy campaign and since June 2022 have been running my own content creation and PR company, Use Lorem Ipsum. I have always been a reader and writer of stories and am relieved finally to have achieved the publication of this blog. Now for that novel. I am the mother of 2 sons, middle of 3 sisters, owner of a dog and the ex wife and ex girlfriend of a number of men who clearly didn't deserve me. I am an eternal optimist for myself, my country and the planet, so don't let me down, world.

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