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Fatally Star-cross'd

May 9, 2013
By Virginia PLATINUM, Bartonville, Texas
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Virginia PLATINUM, Bartonville, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
And yet, through the gloom and the light,<br /> The fate of a nation was riding that night<br /> And the flame struck out by the steed in its flight<br /> Kindled the land into flame with its heat<br /> <br /> Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Met like stars whose galaxies pull adverse
Beneath one sky, love shied the cord
Which glances formed, scripted to life by verse;
Yet true brilliance bound could they afford?
Their names eternal which fortune ordained
And Fixed forever, plotted plight’s
Poisoned rancor, dosed to wither deigned
Romance, thus undone by the world’s cruel blights
Stars met without their fields unbalance all,
The sky cannot hold, as flames verge to meet.
Saturnine globes shall bar each burning ball;
Sent to orbit goes one in narrow feat.
When the tremulous cord fatally splits
Behold remnant sparks cross the sky in flits.

© Alex D., Phoenix, AZ

The author's comments:
While reading the play of Romeo and Juliet, I was assigned to write a sonnet detailing their romance. This tragic piece is of course, brimming with ironies that Shakespeare subtly wove in. I took off with his "star-cross'd" line, describing Romeo and Juliet as stars from personified "galaxies adverse".
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