One True Love 16

VI



Adventure could be gotten once or twice
By leaving on a valiant sailing ship
For sunny clines or lands of snow and ice
Where mysteries are found with each wet dip.


Or one could course the steaming jungle, thick
And plush with animals and verdant life;
For there would be strange creatures, coarse or slick,
And there constant, romantic, primal strife.


And even now, the planets, stars are there
For those whose drear existence gets them down;
They need not stay attached to earthly care
When other worlds are reached by thrust and bound.


Yet such are found in your enchanting sight:
Excitement, joy, mysterious delight.

"Sonnet VI" was first published in Son(love)nets, 1975.  The romantic persona continues to be enchanted by the one true love; in fact, he seems to replace all adventure with the one relationship, but to limit oneself that way may be a foolish thing to do.

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