Sonnet 73 Quotes

“Life Looks Lasting by Stewart Stafford

Why should evening's last hues
Get short shrift by rays of morn?
Or contented looks of jaded age
Be void by stung slits, newborn?

The skull's opalescent orbs shut,
A lifetime's sense memories kept,
Amnesia's windfall revisited in spirit,
In corridors of déjà vu, windswept.

Though not the peeled eyes of youth
Nor intoxicated with passionate ire,
Scarcity unveils beauty in mundanity,
Visions consumed by a funeral pyre.

© 2026, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford