Inspired by a poem by Edna St Millay - Bluebeard; it plays with the idea of personal autonomy; as, do we or should we share all of ourselves with another?
Sonnet in Silence
They had walked along the beach in silence,When she, taking his silence as separation
Had asked him what he was now thinking, as
Though his thoughts to himself did not belong,
But as much to her, so he might as well
Surrender with grace without an appeal
To an inner privacy he’d not shared;
So, what was thought could also be heard,
By becoming less his own and more hers.
And was that his fear – of being conjoined
More than in body but as much in mind,
When being himself was what he thought?
All this passed through his mind so fast that
As he looked at her he felt himself caught.
D G Moody 2025
Sonnet by D G Moody
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Written on 2025-01-09 at 15:52
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