Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PRODIGAL, by EUNICE CREAGER


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PRODIGAL, by                    
First Line: Come, let us sing a sonnet to your eyes
Last Line: He sought and found the light within your eyes.


Come, let us sing a sonnet to your eyes
As twilight courts the waiting night's embrace.
Come sit beside me. I must see your face
For you are dear and very, very wise.
Please draw the shades. I'm tired and travel-spent
From quaffing flesh-pots, reeking underworld!
And as your fingers 'round my own are curled
The prodigal acknowledges content.
Forgive a fool, a slave in folly's clutch
Who danced and sang and tarried long with wine
Until beset by smell of dirty swine
He yearned to feel your cool and cleanly touch.
Then he arose and came -- at last, was wise --
He sought and found the light within your eyes.





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