Sonnet 046

Sonnet 046

Laijon Liu 20160331

Window shows world, inside, outside

Inside reveals partial, outside is vast

Chest stores belongings, secrets and toys

Secrets to unlock, toys for children to play

Myriad blooms and unpredictable weather

Countless faces, more real than portrait shots

Priceless memorabilia only for love to keep

Broken trinkets are always someone’s treasure

A face never ages to that special someone’s eye

Beauty through years with her beauty expands

Heart is a locked drawer, an unknown world

Secretly holds that special someone’s ______ [space].

Eye beholds, heart conceals

An object, a world

Sonnet 045

Sonnet 045

Laijon Liu 20160330

Labor, grief, spirit, and passion

These four elements I make myself

Four limbs thrust into earth, wrestle in sweat

Two sunken springs hold shimmering ripples

Gasping breath calls forth four seasons

Fever burns and burns till death drops

Beastly hunger devours many souls

Demonic desire to come alive again

I strive to be beautiful, like an angelic voice

Sing a melancholic melody, rest

Or chant a serene prayer, wake

The sleeping to feel moving again

I’m healthy, I want and I chase

Should I be happy? Should I?

Sonnet 044

Sonnet 044

Laijon Liu 20160329

Thoughts trapped in the brain, all our thoughts

The very fabric of our being incarcerated in flesh

Emails, sextings, video chats in this internet age

Yet, I am still lonely, all of us still lonely

I hate smart phones and social networks

They are more of a distraction than connection

Billions accounts interact, trillions twitts update

We all live in a distance, converse in a distance

How I wish my family and friends sit beside me

Share simple dishes and sour wine around table

Talk about food price and dark matter, curse politicians

Together live in a real life, in a real communion

Those good times are long gone

Now everyone is on his own road

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Sonnet 043

Laijon Liu 20160328

Nights bring me dreams, desire and fantasy

Away from the world, the days and mundane

My senses are magnified in quiet darkness

Daylight cannot distract me with its illusions

And you shine brighter in the veil of night

There you are in the spotlight on my mind’s stage

The sparkling starlight glitter on your gown

And you stare and smile at me silently

I tell myself many times, not to be too fixated

Your appearance at night is but imaginary

But dreams always bring comfort and happy

And make dead nights brighter living days

O, days are white nights in your absence

And nights turn sunny if I see your face

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Sonnet 042

Laijon Liu 20160327

You don’t love me, and that’s not all my grief

But the way you act like you do love me dearly

That pretending love is truly my wailing chief

A false love that hurts me greatly

You love’s pretender, should I excuse you?

You deceive me because you know I love you

And for this reason you abuse me

So I suffer more to please

If I lose you, then my love is loss

But I keep you, I must continue to lose

Ah, why it’s so hard to be in love!

Can we just be who we are, and love what is true?

Love me tender~ love me true~

All my dreams fulfilled~

Sonnet 041

Sonnet 041

Laijon Liu 20160326

Youth betrays everyone of us

Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits

Beauty of our years, full of promise and energy

We believe our dreams and we pursue

Brave we are, therefore to be fooled

Beauteous are we, so to be marketed

When the world woos, most of us will accept

Is it wrong to crown our youth with fancy and glory?

Ah, everyone must pass through young adult years

Why blame our natural beauty and straying youth?

I treasure and praise my youth

That time I was fun and for real

Stupidity I have done then

Now think of it, savory sweet.

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Sonnet 040

Laijon Liu 20160325

Yea, take all my loves, my love, I’m all yours

What you have not before and now you have

Whatever you demand and seize, that suit you

Or even make me your servant if you please

But true love is that we both respect each other

Being together and communicate in equal rank

Instead of venting, abuse, endless episodes

Selfish love kills itself, makes everyone suffer

And I do forgive your past gentle crimes

Everything you’ve ruined, everything can go

Only broken heart cannot be pieced together

That's too delicate, and we know not how to fix

What is love~ love~ love~

Baby, don’t hurt me~ don’t hurt me~ no more~

Sonnet 039

Sonnet 039

Laijon Liu 20160324

I too live a double live [1]

To compose a better self of me

I also have a pseudonym

And multiple personalities

I and myself divided walk

But hold a same identity

Through this separation I gain

The best complete image of me

O absence torments me

Trapped in this dreadful tragic reality

Make myself on my pages

Beautiful, heroic and carefree

Like everyone else I am two or many

Till I and myself finally... -woo~hoo!

[1] correct phrase should be "lead a double live", but I want to be truthful, so I use "live a double live", mathematically speaking there are two "live" words in the phrase literally, that's truly "double live" in numerical sense.

Sonnet 038

Sonnet 038

Laijon Liu 20160323

You and yourself are your subject to invent

And your breath pours into my verses too

Your own sweet argument, too excellent

Let every four-eye pedant scratch his head

Please give yourself thanks and fun for me

That worth every hour we rack our brains

For everything is so easy to write for you

If you see yourself in your invention light

You Are the Tenth Muse, the Living Muse

Ten times more worth than those nine dead names

Now, call your name: Creativity and New!

Sing out your life and never fade.

Thank you Bard and your mighty Muse

The pain you go through, now we praise!

Note:
Talk about Creativity, my 2 cents is a long time Observation and Meditation combine on the subject we study, we learn to observe and meditate. Human Being is creative animal, it's our brain evolution. Everybody is creative and should be creative, unless we are lazy, and we give ourselves excuse to dally. Rome isn't built in one day, so the pyramids and Great Wall, so the Iliad and Hamlet. It takes millions years to make fire with 2 dry sticks. keep going at it. what?!

Sonnet 037

Sonnet 037

Laijon Liu 20160322

Delight in youthful bright: our worth and truth

For whether strength, thirst, or faith, or insight

Or any of these all, or all, or more

That we must thrive like April blooms

For burgeoning spring fleets in tweeting noise

Bees busy, butterflies flutter, nests done in hurry

Earth brings forth her plants in the heart of light

In fortune we must march with drums and roars

The happiest time of our life is early May

Mild sunshine, healthy and glad

Fragrance in breeze, welcoming and pleased

Spring is special season, short and once

We all should be glad in spring

Exploit it, that’s our happy time

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Sonnet 036

Laijon Liu 20160321

For love we calculate our best choice

Often we have no option but to part ourselves

Self-sacrifice, self-deny, self-outcast, stay behind

So the person we care can be burden free

No love is greater than Mother’s Love

The Son of man agonized on His cross

Mary’s whole being was ground to sand

One heart to die, another to be tortured forever

How we wish only Death do us apart

That ceremony vow for every close bonding

To pass the exams of time and distance

To love someone is to die for, to say: “forget me.”

Ah, this Love burdens me forever

Even with all my success I can’t pay back.

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Sonnet 035

Laijon Liu 20160320

For love we make war, for love we sin

There are things so valuable to us in this world

That we weaponize ourselves to protect

Be a soldier, a sinner, and a redeemer too

Trespasses we have done in our quests

Wars we have waged against each other

Blood bath we crawl out on our trembling hands

No holy rituals can cleanse our hearts

Hope takes root in poverty and despair

Faith grows in doubts, love for sworn enemies

Maybe living is just a constant conflict

Confounded we are, but we must be in peace

Our world is like a film set

Art is created out of mess

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Sonnet 034

Laijon Liu 20160319

Potion for the body, tears for the soul

Bitter herbs are better use than crocodile tears

Minor injuries that body naturally heals

But O soul, soul is incomplete, incurable

Pedestrians walk in their fashions, cloaked

Their stress, fears, doubts, and lonely misery

Daily cross the street on the zebra lines

In their rush hours and mechanic motion

Every face is a blob in a grand painting

How insignificant we are, successful or not

In this vast vacant seemingly timeless world

Our life seems only a biological process

Tears are pearls of a repenting soul

Precious remedy also cures another

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Sonnet 033

Laijon Liu 20160318

Your warm grace showers upon my face

Crown on my head, your golden glory

And in your shinny armor I suit myself

Standing on the mountain top in your light

But friendship also comes raining days

Drenched thoughts, raindrops drum my heart

Obscure clouds blur my vision

Suddenly I alone search in the dark

Like the sun, you bring triumphant splendors

Dawn covers the reviving earth with roses

Or like the thunders break the peaceful morn

You drop stage curtain that mask my mind

O, true friendship should never give up

In our sunny days, in our gloomy days

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Sonnet 032

Laijon Liu 20160317

The best verse is a soul that cries and sings

That moment Death has no effect on mortal being

Your bones are now already dust by wind

But your body on page regains new spirits

What a man can give to this world, only his true self

What rhymesters can do with their elementary skill?

I’m always tuned for true love :D and we all do

Your poor rude lines better the bests of the times

O, vouchsafe me with your loving thoughts

Be my friend and Muse, for my old age too

Because your love has brought many births

Of the past, the now, and the future true poets!

Men die, and new comers will come

Their new style sings constant Love.

Sonnet 031

Sonnet 031

Laijon Liu 20160316

What makes you “You”

When you cease to breathe?

The warmth of your blood long gone

But your heartbeats still echo

In you hold love and all loves’ loving parts

Where all your friends buried and their love lies

Through you I also see my love

And our holy religion’s creed

O, you are grave where love still lives

Hung the trophies of all past lovers gone

All their parts of you they’ve given me

And all parts of me that you’ll receive

Ah, their beauties I see in you

And your beauty perfects me

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Sonnet 030

Laijon Liu 20160315

Debt of the past, how can I not to collect?

All sweet moments are already paid then

Yet the dried tear marks still stain through years

Thoughts circled me like seasons, never leave

My memory refreshed like newly happened

My mind screens those permanent scenes

My heart torn by the preset ending known

My soul cries like I meet doom the first time

Then I relive my life that’s long gone

Retell myself the old stories told many times

Curse the present resulted from its root

And be mad, as rising ash burning in flame again

But when I think of you, my love

I feel somehow I'm debt free.

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Sonnet 029

Laijon Liu 20160314

We live in circles, family circles, friend circles

Circles overlapping, in men’s eyes and opinions

Mingle to gain people skill, to be a social animal

Or else we be ostracized and confined in solitary

I wish I be that popular dude or that prom queen

Making entrance like a brand new yacht into bay

Friends fist bump me and enviers dare not to hate

Always be confident with my talents and state

But our society is never a world that we wish for

There are locked doors, walls, corners and edges

That everyone must go look for his/her hideout

To share that sanctuary with his/her close friends

I know a few places, where away from the noise

Some great books, great music, and great friends

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Sonnet 028

Laijon Liu 20160313

Life is not about pursuing happiness

It’s dealing with survival matters:

Troubles, problems, you fix or you endure

In this eternal mess to somehow gain momentary rest

Daytime comes with struggles and labors

The usual business and routine shows

Those fighters and gamers urge you on

So you rehearse your lines, and try not to be a victim

Night comes with your silent reflection

Your dream starts to self-construct

After your doors shut out the world

That’s when loneliness wraps around you

I fear the daylight, men hunt in those hours

I hate the nights, I tremble and I wait alone

Sonnet 027

Sonnet 027

Laijon Liu 20160312

What makes you weary and toil all day, every day?

What makes you haste on your endless journey?

What makes you awake in bed and restless?

What burdens you after your heavy labor done?

Something or someone at far distance

That always draws your mind, always

Sleepless, tossing and turning in bed

Staring at darkness like a blind trying to see

O, your soul’s imagery sight, or a friend

Does he give you vision and light?

Like that round moon beneath the night sky

Even make your nights seemed beauteous?

Ah, labor at day, dream at night

For what you must try, but probably never find?

Sonnet 026

Sonnet 026

Laijon Liu 20160311

The heart of love is hidden in this message

Where a reader finds through a winding passage

A burdened tillage from child years to old age

That bitterness and tears made sweet distillage

Happiness parted that’s a dreamer’s wage

Bonding aparted, a sail lost on her voyage

Mirage of deserts guides thirst of a mage

Aria on stage is a songbird in his cage

Those sacred years poured out like wine

All pieces are carefully broken and served

By writer’s own hands, his damaged hands

Cuts, scars and deep wrinkles woven fine silk

Mark and reread this page

Remember, Take Courage!

Sonnet 025

Sonnet 025

Laijon Liu 20160310

Title, fame, and surname are earthly label

That we judge each other on our social ladder

Royal and blood line are vain pride

Degrees make speech right and sound

Artists with awards, athletes medalled crowned

We are simply a price tag we project

Auction blocks, coliseums, HR department

All a same place as a muddy pigpen

I don’t know what’s the real value?

In all the shouts and bidding calls

Sold or not, worth or not, hot or not

Everyone is a number in the noise.

There’s no profit in true honor,

The trade distains its meaning

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Sonnet 024

Laijon Liu 20160309

From colors, lines and shapes

Our mind constructs pictures

By pre-categorized perceptions

An individual models his groups

A painter paints what he sees

The appearance and his subject

But the true image of his object

Is secretly hanging in its heart

Our eyes can only see forms

Our mind can only interpret

But heart keeps and shows its truth

Like the sun gaze upon you and me

So, do not rely on eyes

Only judge individuals

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Sonnet 023

Laijon Liu 20160308

Actors on stage, life on a page

It’s often too difficult to express

Everyone has a role and must play well

Parents, child, lover, a bully boss

Some thoughts are never meant to say

Some rants you wish to take back

And someone you dare not to call him out

How I wish we live and work in a noisy bar

Be that eye twitching stiff to speak out

Be unrestrained, drunkard to drunk

Strip off our costume just for a moment

Sex or brawl, things and cause are simplified

Verse that in truth makes us drunk too

But truth hurts, so we all need alcohol :D

Sonnet 022

Sonnet 022

Laijon Liu 20160307

My Friend, what keeps us young?

When mirror tells us we’re old

When wrinkles cover our faces

Do we feel the rush of our years?

All the good deeds we have done:

Family, Love, Friends, and Career

Aren’t they like badges of honor

Hanging, shining on our chests?

I stare at myself in front of mirror

Gray by efforts, through seasons

Smiling, because I’m never off course

And now homecoming, journey ends.

My heart quits not, it’s in you now

And you will go on In My Pulse.

Sonnet 021

Sonnet 021

Laijon Liu 20160306

Word games, catch phrases, make me yawn

I like to see beauty undressed, who does not?

Nude charm is more revealing than heaven’s ornament

Every fair is fair if rhymesters rehearse not

Their constellation maps and neuropsychiatry terms

Paired with criminal analysis and gene mutation thesis

Or some are just daylight intellectual property robbery

And spin it as “good artists copy, great poets steal.”

Sigh, not many true in love and truly write

Do not believe me that my love is fair, or rare

As to any mother’s child or child’s mother

Love is always true and heavenly fair

So, let bees hum their new vocabularies

I myself, want no mic, and not for sale.

Sonnet 020

Sonnet 020

Laijon Liu 20160305

Aren’t we all part man and part woman?

That’s how our brains wired in Nature’s womb

Les, gays, bis, and trans in dazzling riot colors

Their shifting hues bewilder a gawker’s head

Nature works on a body, and gives it breath

Her perfection is in her own possession

By her extra touch which why men lack a stroke

Not all men’s desire should dictate women’s acquire

O, must accept all gifts, everybody houses a soul

Thoughts expressed in varied ways and forms

Men also feel to belong to women’s want

All creatures are complete in Nature’s wrought

Body for one’s own pleasure

Love for lovers to treasure

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Sonnet 019

Laijon Liu 20160304

The Past, is a mighty gravitational pulling force

That contains antiquity, present and future

The Big Bang(s) of Universe(s) collapse and fall into it

Becomes a trace of information, of knowledge, of mystery

Matters and Time collide, distort, and converge

Assemble men and their worlds into past tense

All things proceed forward, toward the Past

Begin and end also in it, it’s logical, and terrifying

What men could do to survive the Past?

Paint lively pictures on a cave wall to preserve

Recite a heroic epic, and keep reciting it

Compose moving melodies that make hearts sing

Let the Past be our time vehicle

Keep sending us into the future

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Sonnet 018

Laijon Liu 20160303

Love, you are my eternal verse, eternal!

I sing of you, summer’s day and wintry nights

With you I be content in hunger and thirst

With you I’m calm through thunders and hails
When seasons of Time bring forth its decay

Your beauty, every beauty will never decline

When earthly eyes are clouded by dim smog

Your gold complexion shines through heaven

You will never fade or cease, never!

Your eyes, your lips, your lines and shades

Forever wander about continents and seas

You, update times, and stride across the void

As long as men can breathe and see

So long you live, you give life to me.

Sonnet 017

Sonnet 017

Laijon Liu 20160302

I never expect anyone would read my verse in future

Pen pal, soul mate are hard to find even in their time

Verse is but a marble tomb we chisel our life to carve

How satisfied am I to know we are on the same page

You write the beauty of his eye, I count his heartbeats

His grace in your numbers and pounding in my lines

World may one day call us poets all liars and trolls

But every drop of our ink is tears of heaven made

So on the day I finally fold my books, read no more

Be old, dry and tired to keep his kindled spirit warm

Then I’ll truly earn the rights to be rage and mad

Let it be babbling, grumbling, rhymed meters or not
Dive into your passions with my obsessions

I’ve lived so many times in your voice!

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Sonnet 016

Laijon Liu 20160301

But my mightier way is to make peace with Time

That bloody tyrant is presiding over everything

All fortification must meet its own decay

Even the best verses will be forgotten someday

Ah, our happy hours are always short and past

Many maiden gardens deserted, slumber in dreams

A flowering place requires too great costs and tasks

Labors in rains, in heats and barren winter snows

Lines of life renews life through heavy burdens

No great poets pencil can brush over the pains

Inward worth, outward fair, be that temporal

It’s not a bad thing to rest in the eye of men

So give away myself or keep myself still

Oh, only Time knows, then let Time tell

Sonnet 015

Sonnet 015

Laijon Liu 20160229

What is perfection in every living creature?

Is his, her pinnacle state or whole acts?

Highlights of blood, of thrill, of moan, of sweet melody

Soliloquies of main characters in their given time

Men take root, burst sprout, and gradually weathered

How beautiful their rough palms and wrinkled faces

How solemn their simple prayers and genuine speech

These are the spectacles of Nature’s work

Ah, I must treasure you, and all your seasons

Even those boring hours of housework are precious

Time may not be our enemy after all

Having is great, and lost we value more

No one can defeat Time, I think

But Love makes it void, I guess