Sonnets – John Sapiro

“Veggio co’ bei vostri occhi.”

March 21, 2022Posted in poetryTagged literature, love, music, photography, poems, poetry, psychology, reading, relationships, romance, Shakespeare, Sonnets, ThoughtsLeave a comment

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O ME! what eyes hath Love put in my head
Which have no correspondence with true sight;
Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,
That censures falsely what they see aright?
If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,
What means the world to say it is not so?
If it be not, then love doth well denote
Love’s eye is not so true as all men’s: no.
How can it? O! how can Love’s eye be true,
That is so vex’d with watching and with tears?
No marvel then, though I mistake my view;
The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.
O cunning Love! with tears thou keep’st me blind,
Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find.

— Sonnet CXLVIII

Open My Eyes

That time of year thou mayst in me behold

October 21, 2021Posted in poetryTagged life, literature, love, memories, music, photography, poems, poetry, psychology, relationships, romance, Shakespeare, Sonnets, ThoughtsLeave a comment

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THAT time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks

October 5, 2021Posted in poetryTagged inspiration, literature, love, music, photography, poems, poetry, psychology, quotes, relationships, romance, Shakespeare, Sonnets, ThoughtsLeave a comment

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If this be error, and upon me prov’d,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.

And the Wichita Lineman is still on the line

Sonnet CXXXIX

June 8, 2020September 26, 2020Posted in poetryTagged literature, love, music, photography, photoshop, poems, poetry, quotes, reading, relationships, romance, Shakespeare, SonnetsLeave a comment

cf. Gold Bell Catalog (1963)

O! CALL not me to justify the wrong
That thy unkindness lays upon my heart…

Second Chance

O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide

May 18, 2020Posted in poetryTagged employment, life, literature, mashup, music, parody, photoshop, poems, poetry, Shakespeare, Sonnets, TV, workingLeave a comment

O! FOR my sake do you with Fortune chide
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdu’d
To what it works in, like the dyer’s hand:
Pity me, then, and wish I were renew’d;
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
Potions of eisel ’gainst my strong infection;
No bitterness that I will bitter think,
Nor double penance, to correct correction.
Pity me, then, dear friend, and I assure ye
Even that your pity is enough to cure me.

— Sonnet CXI

Work To Do

When I consider every thing that grows holds in perfection but a little moment

April 25, 2020September 28, 2020Posted in poetryTagged digital art, life, literature, memories, music, photography, photoshop, poems, poetry, psychology, Shakespeare, Sonnets, timeLeave a comment

cf. Edwin Rosskam, “Untitled photo…” (1936)

WHEN I consider every thing that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
Cheered and check’d e’en by the self-same sky,
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
And wear their brave state out of memory;
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay,
To change your day of youth to sullied night;
And, all in war with Time for love of you,
As he takes from you, I engraft you new.

— Sonnet XV

Who Knows Where The Time Goes

Read my palm and tell me why do lovers come and go

April 4, 2020September 28, 2020Posted in photographyTagged literature, love, music, photography, poems, poetry, relationships, Shakespeare, Sonnets, vintageLeave a comment

George A. Alsop, “Sweet Memories” (ca. 1917)

NOT from the stars do I my judgment pluck
And yet methinks I have astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons’ quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
Pointing to each his thunder, rain, and wind,
Or say with princes if it shall go well,
By oft predict that I in heaven find:
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And, constant stars, in them I read such art…

— Sonnet XIV

Mrs. Rita

Sonnet CXVI

March 21, 2020March 21, 2020Posted in poetryTagged books, computers, inspiration, Let me not to the marriage of true minds, literature, love, music, photography, poems, poetry, relationships, romance, Shakespeare, SonnetsLeave a comment

PC Magazine, 1982

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds…

Sheena Is a Punk Rocker

Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring

September 5, 2018October 2, 2020Posted in poetryTagged digital art, literature, love, music, photoshop, poems, poetry, reading, relationships, romance, Shakespeare, Sonnets, writingLeave a comment

cf. TV commercial (edited)

From you have I been absent in the spring,
When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim,
Hath put a spirit of youth in everything,
That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.
Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell
Of different flowers in odour and in hue,
Could make me any summer’s story tell,
Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew:
Nor did I wonder at the lily’s white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight
Drawn after you, – you pattern of all those.
Yet seem’d it winter still, and, you away,
As with your shadow I with these did play.

Tell Me

“Attention Shoppers…”

January 6, 2018January 18, 2018Posted in poetryTagged couple, literature, love, music, photography, poems, poetry, relationships, romance, Shakespeare, shopping, Sonnets, stores, vintageLeave a comment

The Finnish Museum of Photography, “A customer ascending to the fabrics department of Kyminlaakso cooperative’s new department store.” (1961)

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang…

—Sonnet LXXIII

“Enjoy’d no sooner but despised straight”

March 2, 2017January 15, 2018Posted in poetryTagged art, collage, digital art, literature, music, paintings, parody, photo composition, poems, quotes, relationships, satire, Shakespeare, SonnetsLeave a comment

cf. Jean Raoux, Couple Dancing in a Park (1725)

All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.

–Sonnet CXXIX

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