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Sonnet For Brion By Isabella Fiske McFarlin

by Yvonne Hofstetter

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Written by beloved Isabella Fiske McFarlin©2023 expressing her love for her dear husband , Brion McFarlin through means of a sonnet. Also dedicated to her father,writer and speaker, Irving Fiske , who died 25 April 1990 .. Love to all beloveds

SonnetLoveDedicationFamilyEternityTransienceNatureLove ExpressionsNature MetaphorsTransience Reflections

Transcript

Sonnet for Brian,

That all love meets,

In one love it is true.

Like stem of leaf and trunk of greening tree,

My love for all has found its strength in you,

And love for you in all love now shall be.

The woven span of time between us lies,

And days seem poignant as they grow more brief.

Eternity within all time shall rise,

And emanate through flower,

Fruit,

And leaf.

Although our lives are spent in transience,

We manifest,

Deciduous and fleet.

Yet great love,

All to all,

Makes recompense,

And in eternal flower all things meet.

Then I in you,

And all love,

Now unite,

And spread forth life,

A fan of human life.

By Isabella Fiske McFarlane,

Also known as Ladybell.

This is especially for Brian McFarlane,

And to Isabella's father Irving Fiske.

Thank you.

Gloriously beautiful.

Much love.

Meet your Teacher

Yvonne HofstetterPaarl, South Africa

4.8 (35)

Recent Reviews

Patterson

July 3, 2025

So grateful to have chanced upon this “gloriously beautiful” poem.

Isabella

June 30, 2024

So beautiful, beloved Yvonne!💚 You read it simply, delicately , and lovingly, and in your beautiful voice, it's perfect. 🌞 Brion is working, but he walked in and I just showed it to him, and he was so pleased. I wrote this for him... he has always been so loyal, loving and dedicated to our children, to my writing, and to me. Thank you, dearest Brion.❣️ Thank you dearest Yvonne! 🐥❣️ 🐥🧡❤️💛🧡💙💚💙❣️ I also dedicate this poem to you and your Brian. I hope we may meet and be friends. I will always love you and I am so grateful, and I think it sounds wonderful. I wrote this Poem for my husband in the Ocala National Forest in Florida in 1990, where we were spending some time with our young son, Andrew. I went there in the early spring each year if I could, to get some sunshine and to be with my family. My father, writer, speaker on Eastern thought, and meditation teacher, Irving Fiske, died that spring. He had a stroke. I was told that he said several times: "I have created this myself." If he didn’t say that then, he certainly thought that, and said many times that we create our own reality. All that spring, I'd had a sense of great wings 🕊️ wheeling in the sky, over the lake and the cabin. I was in Vermont when Irving died. I decided to dedicate this poem, probably the last of mine he ever read, to him as well. Thank you, dearest friend Yvonne❣️! I profoundly appreciate your work on my poems. And as ever, I love you. ❤️❤️❤️ And thank you to Carrie, Angel💓, and Candace, and everyone else, for your lovely reviews. And to everyone else who leaves a review, thank you so much...dearest friends , it means so much to me and to Yvonne when someone leaves an encouraging review!

Iga

October 30, 2023

What a glorious poem to your Husband, dear Isabella! I love " All loves leads to one", and "the fan of human life". Dear Yvonne, thank you for reading it so touchingly 🙏🏽✨️🩷🌺🌿

Kate

June 3, 2023

Nice poetry, soothing voice and soothing , gentle music

Frank

March 29, 2023

Oh what a wonderful thing you've done Yvonne! That's just lovely. The sounds, the music and your voice. The poem itself is wonderful; like all good poems you immediately love it and want to hear it again. And such a lovely thought, that all loves lead to one. I love it! Thank you

Claude🐘

March 18, 2023

💜💜💜So beautiful 💜💜💜✨✨✨thank you Yvonne and Isabella

Xiomara

March 18, 2023

Beautiful and relaxing meditation and music. Thanks Isabella and Yvonne 🙏🏻🧘‍♀️🤗💕

Carrie

March 17, 2023

Indescribably beautiful and moving. Much gratitude to you, Isabella and Yvonne. 🙏❤ 💫 ❤🙏

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