The Dream (Sonnet - Spenserian)

by Steven Beesley   Aug 29, 2005


Parenthesis: Changzhou City and Tian Mu Lake do exist on the delta of the Yangtze river. I have never been there, it is deja-vu as this all appeared in a dream to me. So I cannot comment on the actual scenery at the lake.

The Dream:

With a new dawn, another day awaits
Two thousand five hundred years history
See beautiful Changzhou on Yangtze straits
River merging in sea of salty tears

The might has cast over so many years
Scenic Tian Mu Lake, a sight for your eyes
Tranquility, natural wonders appears
See the larks fly by, letting out their cries

Mirror reflection of the clear blue skies
Willows swaying softly and so ghostly
The time that is spent here, it fleets and flies
However you will see locals mostly

But this is all a dream that comes to me
I still have yet to visit, don't you see?

Sonnet - Spenserian Style
It has 14 lines. It was named after the poet - Edmund Spenser because he used a rhyming scheme of ababbcbc/cdcdee. There are 10 syllables to a line.

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  • 18 years ago

    by charles

    Well this poem lacks something i am not sure what i have read some of your other works and you have some talent but for some reason this poem offers me nothing

  • 18 years ago

    by shobhana kumar

    This is awesome, Steve. if it is your dream, it must be real!

    regards
    shobhana

  • 18 years ago

    by Beautiful~*~Dragons~*~Fire

    Once again a wonderful poem!

  • 18 years ago

    by Robert Gardiner

    Very nice, splendid visions brought to life, in such resplendence!!!

  • 18 years ago

    by EoB

    Well, I am impressed...

    Every line fits perfectly in..every word contributes to making it a remarkable peace of poetry...

    The last two lines contrast the rest of the poem in a perfect way, and makes it ever more exiting to read..

    So original...

    Seldom have I read a more beautiful sonnet...and I read quite alot..I'm a big fan of this style...

    well...

    congrats on one hell of a poem