QUOTE (Psyche @ May 1 14, 22:52 )

Signs
When we were brash of heart and full of play,
embracing by the lake, svelte swans glided
close to shore. Sensual scenes confided
in earthy words, with kinky toys held sway - I love this line
Myth’s lovers shrugged off portents of bleak fate:
Leda’s raunchy trysts with Swan’s beak untrue! this rings a bell, lol
We missed the relished lane that leads anew
to fancied nuptial chains we claimed could wait.
Today I brawl beside the loathsome lake
and trace a humbled heart with bloodstone dew near-rhyme
on mirrored heavens… - entranced, hope renews,
but drifts embodied in the knave swans’ wake.
Old sylphine chants inform my soul that you couplet should be rhymed
in faith will not reverse my contrite state.
By Psyche
Copyright: Sylvia Evelyn, Bariloche, Argentina, 2014.
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File:Copy of 'Leda and the Swan', Leonardo da Vinci.
Hello Sylvia;
well, well; so, I inspired you to write a sonnet? I love the overall mood expressed in this contemporary sonnet on a mythological theme that's (just possibly) intermingled with personal reflections on failed love (I hope it isn't so, lol).
You indicated that substantial critique is desired? I'm too enthralled by your write to offer more than I have noted in your text. I'm sure, a more detailed feedback than mine will be forthcoming, but I accept a poem's contents rather than its perfection; and I love yours.
Jerry