Archive for Sonnet

1. SONNET ll • by Gabe Dybing 6 Comments

   I will write a book of such stunning art that the leaders of the world will elect it as the outcry of the human heart. My two billion readers will select their cherished passages to memorize, reciting them in a million tongues, provoking from standers-by wrenching sighs out of thudding hearts and constricting lungs. It [...]

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2. SONNET IV • by Gabe Dybing 6 Comments

   Of course I know that love cannot be real, that it’s mere contrivance, something polite to believe in, an emotion to feel because we want to, not because it’s right; that characters in films love more than we by the plain virtue that they don’t exist. Our true loves are made vicariously through each constructed [...]

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3. A SONNET • by Gabe Dybing 7 Comments

   Since by now we both must know that the height Of love is a mere biological Drive, that two meet, then love, then touch, then fight, And then, completely hysterical, Drive one or the other into the rain; And since, despite all this, we still believe That this is worth pursuing even pain Let’s hold [...]

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