04-16-2025, 05:02 AM
Taken for a Blessing
Madonna, you require a real
unyielding attitude to make
of this annunciated deal
no more unease than you can take.
To feel a child’s unsettling ache
without a wife’s conjoining bliss,
shamed for your and your husband’s sake
seal still intact, alone like this.
Was angel but an artifice
of mind unstrung, of womb-disease?
Was what she carried child of Dis,
which waited to erupt and seize?
Madonna, courage, fortitude:
doubts conquered are beatitude.
[Form: curtailed Spencerian sonnet]
Madonna, you require a real
unyielding attitude to make
of this annunciated deal
no more unease than you can take.
To feel a child’s unsettling ache
without a wife’s conjoining bliss,
shamed for your and your husband’s sake
seal still intact, alone like this.
Was angel but an artifice
of mind unstrung, of womb-disease?
Was what she carried child of Dis,
which waited to erupt and seize?
Madonna, courage, fortitude:
doubts conquered are beatitude.
[Form: curtailed Spencerian sonnet]
Non-practicing atheist