Poetry

Gert Strydom


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20 july 2012

This I by experience know (English sonnet) (in answer to Dorothy Parker)

This I by experience know,
that although to some love brings misery
or a severe kind of woe,
some people trod its path quite happily

and although at times I had been alone
in my later years,
I now have got the very one
who brings bliss and joy instead of tears.

Even if I had experience heartache before
now my life is merry and gay
even though a lady showed me the door,
another is at my side on this happy sunny day.

This I know that sometimes love brings happiness,
has something magical in every caress.


[Reference: “Wisdom” by Dorothy Parker.]






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