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Poetry by Robert Stone - Lost in luckless life

Lost in luckless life : a sonnet asking why
by Robert Stone
Why are the wicked beautiful and proud
entirely edged by their attractiveness,
never denying yet never aloud
demanding daily pliant acquiesce?

Even most earnestly devoted, quake,
living in limbo, lost in luckless life,
confused by compliments profuse but fake
offered with oath, façade concealing strife.

Many unmerited descriptions show
previous prisoners yet unaware,
entangled early in passion aglow,
riding and roped to untiring despair.

Riddles are reasons hidden in plain words
yielding to younglings who can soar like birds.
~ Robert Stone, 29 May 2017




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