“Sonnet to Middle Age” by Paul F. Lenzi

 

Give credit where credit is due, says I. Paul Lenzi over at Poesy plus Polemics: Words of Wisdom, Worry and Whimsy has a beautifully written sonnet (yes, sonnets are still cool) that I had to share.

The mortuaries for young hopes and dreams

Are built in middle age when first we find

Real obstacles impede the flow of streams

We mapped for navigation in our mind

But callow yearnings for romantic end

Should not be coffin-laid before their time

Such wonder is their power to transcend

The tortured course that challenges our prime

Experience yields choices grown more sage

Less likely to abjure a changing line

We modify our prospects as we age

Through crisis, chance or canny redesign

What matters after all is done and tied

Is did we find the bliss beneath the pride

“Sonnet to Middle Age,” Paul F. Lenzi