The Wood and the Trees.

Since joining this forum I have been exploring sonnet form. I feel that the structure lends itself best to "comparative" modes,or a dialogue between two or more ideas, because the final couplet ties the contrasts together by breaking the "normal" rhyme sequence. However there is perhaps much learned exposition of this matter for which someone might like to provide a link.



The Wood and the Trees

Walk with me along this childhood path.
Once thoughts were budding here like Spring's array
That fir, as sapling knew my breath
And bent to the grasp of random play.

Here was the stream where Summer's heat
Trickled to cool beneath the tree
And stark stones sharp beneath my feet
Stippled the flow of eternity.

That which was supple, time binds firm
And that which was wide, to stricture grows.
Each junction of life invites our turn
But closes behind mind's dark hedgerows.

Youth's smiles and tears may betoken nought
Until life's path has its values wrought.