So often do we seek to keep the peace,
Prospective harmful conflict to prevent,
When thoughtless words, unguarded, find release,
Invoking in the vuln’rable dissent;
Beneath apparent shining, suave veneer
That affable demeanour oft adorns,
Resides a fractured Nature, so severe,
Responses to survive may feel like thorns;
However can we know the human heart,
Subjected to the whims of living life,
From advent moment, thence unto depart,
Recipient of delight as much as strife.
Acceptance of the frailties in my self,
Helps me accept the frailties in your self!
©Meanderings 2016
A beautiful thought-provoking sonnet for a dreary Sunday. I love the rhyming couplet. Accepting our failings and fraulties is one of life’s hardest lessons
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Thanks Mel. Yes, accepting our frailties and failings can be a struggle!😳😳😳 Hugs.
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Yes it can be but stop can accepting our successes too. You’re welcome
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Indeed…Sadly, too often successes are counted without acknowledging our human frailties which can deepen gratitude…. 😉 Hugs! ❤
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Yes I see my comment was mangled by my phone. Touch screens are too sensitive
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Ha! Ha! Big Hugs! 💕💕
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😉 I’m not hugging my phone though. It might get the wrong impression
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The mind boggles…..Someone might have transformed into a phone…. 😉 Magic Potion…. 😏 Hugs!
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Oh my! I’ll be kinder to my phone in that case
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Thanks. Hoping you would. 😇😇 Hugs.
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You’re welcome
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You have such an elegant style. So old school – if your know what I mean? I mean yoou use language we don’t use these days. Classic language. I know I have probably said something like this before. This sonnet did remind me of a person who I was on a training course with. She came across as quite confrontational with me and everyone noticed it. One of the girls told me something along the lines of this’ usually the most fragile people are the ones who come across as rough and possibly overbearing. It’s a self-defence coping mechanism – they see it as a strength. It’s surprising what happens to a person who chooses to express themselves in this manner when they are challenged or made to feel vulnerable’ in other words that hard exterior shatters. Vulnerability can be a strength. Anyway, I am rambling away it is a beautiful sonnet( as always)
, your friend ❤ 🙂 Daisy 🙂
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Thanks ‘D’. Much appreciated. Yes, I was ‘schooled’ in this manner of English Usage….unashamedly heavily influenced by the ‘Classical’ poet/writers…especially The Bard….. 😉
Yes, I believe one deals best with vulnerable people when one has come to know and accept one’s own vulnerability….. Love and Hugs! ❤ ❤
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ha ha! Yes, the Bard. 😀 – I really love your style of writing. Have a great week xx
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Thanks D! Hugs. 💞
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good sonnet, true words…:-)
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Thanks P! Off to Germany for a fortnight. See you, if/when possible. Hugs! ❤
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I’m back home, after a pleasant weekend, if hectic. I don’t like all that racing around. Haven’t had a chance to work on a poem…miss it. glad to be back to the old grind. 🙂
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Unwind and relax. Home the best. Hugs. 💞
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yeah right…all the issues and hassles just stay waiting right in place. 🙂 Lots to do.
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enjoy Germany!
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Thanks P. Hugs. 💞
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last time I was there piles of rubble were everywhere…hmmm, sounds like a poem?
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here’s a question for you, something I have wondered about off and on for years” is a fortnight ten days, or two weeks? 🙂
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Definitively two weeks/fourteen days. Hugs. 💞
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well, even I am wrong sometimes…:-)
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Such lovely words for your Sunday sonnet.
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Thank you…..Take Care! Hugs! ❤
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You’re very welcome.
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Some interesting comments. Great writing. it is true that many fragile personalities put up a hard front.
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Thanks Peter. Yes. Happens more often than we think.
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My friend this one may be your best. We must think before we speak. And before we are quick to judge, we need to clean the windows on our own glass houses.
Be well.
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Great comment. Too true. Stay Well. 😊
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so true, and rather apposite in my own case … wisdom much needed!
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Bless you Gilly. Take Care. Hugs.
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