Sonnet 30: On Milton’s Satan

Signet of splendor, model of wisdom,
Corrupted by pride, full of ambition.
Combustion in Son, flames to imprison—
Lucifer plummets, clique to perdition.
Fire and brimstone brands angels fell devils.
Attack His Redoubt? Corrupt His Man-made?
Elected by fraud, cloistered right vassals,
Contrition forsook; lapsarian swayed.

Devil suffers God’s Man with Sin to Fall—

Bids White, Red, Black, and Pale uproot His Word:
By plague, dearth, war, and death to smite His thrall.
Man serves Hell’s reign better than Heaven’s Lord?
Free will masters o’er Fated façade—
Justifies the ways of Satan to God.

Sonnet 29: Honor Thy Father and Mother

Enjoined in true tablets of Testament—
Writ in ought-nots by God’s finger laws ten,
Out one sole aye for heirs a Commandment:
Honor good thy parents for life, Amen.
By grace is love fruitfully multiplied—
Divinity maugres further merit:
Redeems pensioned charity codified
In stone to licit for honors credit.
Filial honor as with dis—transcend
By analogue to Heav’n come joy or grief:
Creation redounds to wights, a godsend—
Creates imago Dei, Honor’s motif.
Lest mine transgress to wanton stygian,
Pray Creator rainbow’s oblivion.

Sonnet 28: Croatian Vacations

Our father newborn interwar forth strove—
Of Dalmatian stock shipped to Gotham quay,
Weds his bride ere begets their treasure trove:
Homeland sojourns under vine and fig tree.
A seaside hamlet mapped on rocky treads—
Jammed by loaded brays and fatted stock flocks.
Maids bore water-brimmed jugs up on their heads—
Drawn from public wells. Bocci bowls and knocks.
Masoned homes roofed by tiles clay monk and nun,
Skirts the steepled church and belfry tower:
Framed by fish boats, crop farms and Alps nigh sun—
Homespun, sweat and feasts! Snubbed motive power.
I rote the bouts my proud ancestors braved.
I note the past, successors crave be saved.

Sonnet 27: Love At First Sight

Dayspring scans the sable mantled
Starry night by amber light kissed with tea
Rose hues—spies the comely face whose chandelled
Lids doth stall oped, in ken, to gaze on me.
Limpid lapis lazulis flashing fire—
Jet-flecked portals beguile with guerdons paid
In ogles winking on enflamed desire:
Visual wonders bade my looks be stayed.
Winsome stares and frisson beams, penetrates
Both ways, makes cynosures of prizing eyes—
Lambent coups d’oeil to rouse impassioned mates:
Ovational smiles witness noontide skies.
Enchanté dear image queued in mirror—
Each day my peer reflects coupe de foudre!

Sonnet 26: Paterfamilias

Happy wedding with our children present,
Her boy my girl ere twain babes born did come—
The count tallies two boys charmed and pleasant,
Two girls fair and lovely—each a good plum.
My wife kept house as ‘twere our gilt Versailles—
Beset clock-round my firm career enthralled.
Tree-lined locus with rills and lochs nearby,
Customs treasured, though velvet dreams forestalled.
Fledglings on-high stooped low and durst defy,
Edict powers I claimed but feigned whilst reigned—
Blessings bibbed with precepts bore no reply,
Save for mean acts, cold shuns, brass spites entrained.
My covert cares buffered unseen troubles—
Their overt snubs spat from carefree bubbles.

Sonnet 25: Original Seduction

Incubus Fiend, father of Sin and Death,
Impregns with temptsome seed Her dream gestalt—
Dread cants supernal fruit in shibboleth:
Godlike by branched knowledge vouchsafes no fault.
Eve of narcissistic bent discovered
On distant ground by Evil serpentine—
Nigh seduced by her female charms, suffered
His envy ere seduced her to incline.
She crooked to crocks ere fall a vain goddess
Immaculate—Rib’s pride cloyed on urged sin—
Wife-cμm-seductress woos Adam to bliss,
Chose flesh from his o’er God and reaps chagrin.
Paradise lost in tandem seduction,
Paradise regained by paid redemption.

Sonnet 24: “My Kingdom for a Horse!”

O divided House of Plantagenet—
Rival cadets sporting martial roses
White and red chance war and banishment.
Usurpation! Death till Death reposes!
Succession ambition ruled the canted
Contender, ape-squared The Prince, of suspect
Claim to the Albion throne: his planted
Axiom—‘G’—wrought murderous affect.
A regicidal villain woos to wife
The vexed widow he created; a rude
Ruse, doth wed again for gain—authors strife
For next-in-line nephews: towered ere slewed.
Enthroned! Rivals battle: Lord loses reins—
“My kingdom for a horse! “…Tudor rose reigns!

Sonnet 23: 12 Labors of Hercules

Herc dons Nemean’s mane—proves pride’s Rex dead.
The Lernean Hydra re-crowns ere seared.
The Golden Hind ensnared—yet shafts out fled.
The shaggy Boar back-borne still live sans beard.
The Augeas Stables—twain streams did clean.
The Stymphalian Birds clapped and shot away
Forged gift rousts bronze-beaked raptors up ere fired;
Horned beast rampages, subdued by Strength’s spleen;
Mares moated, groom downed—mouths stitched—homed retired.
Girded Shrew deigns—baited slain—her boon stole;
Strait through, sun cupped, triune slayed—rustles bugged;
Stymied, lifer freed, picked by trick world’s thole;
Permission conditioned hell’s hound throats tugged.
Spelled to familicide—Labors assized,
He squared circles twelve ere immortalized.

Sonnet 22: “…Casual Slaughters…”

Death is the object of impermanence:
Come-at-able mortality renders
Life a transient change of existence—
A fait accompli for played offenders?
The spectered King adverts his paccavi;
Unseen eavesdropping mole poniarded,
An unearthed skull cupped in hand vis-à-vis—
Sycophantic schoolfellows beheaded.
A lady in waiting drove senseless drowned,
Mourning brother envenomed by unction,
Royals imbibe pearled poison—pates uncrowned,
Tortured Dane undone by self-seduction.
Death lives when life dies, yet death’s durance vile
Can commute death’s life if life played shows style.

Sonnet 21: Alpha Wolf Unpacked

Oh, mystical lupus! Wolfpacks pack lairs—
Alphas quest solus. Eerily endowed,
Cum snarled perception intuit he bares
His fanged precognition—rivals kept cowed.
He advocates by preternatural
Idealism—acquits by his canine
Moral code—harmonizes radical
Ends to achieve his perfected design.
Hunts altruistic and selfless causes—
Moonlight romance, deeper than howling thrills!
Cycles of empathy and recluses—
If challenged, on guard Quixote’s windmills!
Cursorial mind, authentic au fait:
His personality—INFJ.