Poetry Friday: The Supreme Court and Shakespeare

The man himself

 In honor of the Supreme Court striking down DOMA this week (and in memory of my friend Daryl, and with respect for his loving partner Wayne)  I offer up this sonnet by Shakespeare, who knew a thing of two about love:

Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
   If this be error and upon me proved,
   I never writ, nor no man ever loved. 


Here's to striking down unconstitutional impediments. Bravo!!  (Speaking of Bravo, I really should have a poem here honoring Wendy Davis of Texas!  And I should have another poem about how disappointed I am with SCOTUS's Voting Rights decision....my gosh, what a week!)

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