Cardinal Rose, my rusty heart was done,
Until your healing touch revived his beat.
For years I thought my inner song was gone,
Before I found a soul rubescent sweet.

You lay your hand on mine and we escape,
Into a world of opalescent hues,
A universe in which we run agape,
Where fire and ice can mingle if they choose.

My silence thunders once again aloud,
Your ruby petals mend my broken tones,
And when your smile applauds me in the crowd,
Vermillion flames erupt inside my bones.

Salaam and awe for heavenly design,
That made the dream come true to call you mine.

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((Written for the Poets Pub February Contest ))

*A Sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines (iambic pentameter) with a particular rhyming scheme:

Examples of a rhyming scheme:

#1) abab cdcd efef gg
#2) abba cddc effe gg
#3) abba abba cdcd cd

* A Shakespearean (English) sonnet has (three quatrains) and a (couplet). It has 10 syllables per line, and rhymes (abab cdcd efef gg)