A contemplative soul ponders while spending time in his ivory tower of solitude and reflection...


Ivory Tower

This hearth and home, my ivory tower,
where in complete and thoughtful solitude
I daily think, then ponder and often brood
reflectively with creative power:

in the place where I fear not or cower,
where I, here dignified, feel understood;
where I sometimes am seized by raptured moods
that alter my loneliest, and darkest, hours;

and where, waves of pure bliss can clarify
and wash my confusion and gloom away,
filling me with an overpowering high,
a feeling of elation every day,
that only thoughts on God can magnify
and make perfect in the springtime of May.




Sonnet by Ngoc Nguyen The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2021-01-21 at 08:07

Tags Tower  Solitude  Ivory 

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