DISCLAIMER: This is an unauthorized work of fiction using characters that
are (c) & TM by Marvel Comics Group. No profit is being made on this poem,
so I'll invoke The Marvel Readers' Bill of Rights (for the full text see
"Stan's Soapbox" in some of the May 1998 comics, e.g. GENERATION X #38):
"8. The right to practice scripting and drawing our Marvel characters for
your own pleasure and amusement."
The poem is (c) Tilman Stieve (Menshevik@aol.com) 2001. You can download
this and copy it for your entertainment, but don't sell it for profit, or
Marvel will set their lawyers on you. Please do not archive this on your
website without informing me first.
_Sonnet for Magnus_ belongs to my series, the _Tales of the Twilight
Menshevik_. Although it is treated as a product of the _Days of Future
Twilight_ timeline, the situations described here also apply to the main
timeline (and thus to its continuation into the future, the _Days of Future
Twilight_).
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     _Sonnet for Magnus_

When we first met it was by chance as strangers,
Just fleetingly; the second instance we
Spent time together you saw only Lee
And I was occupied with friends and dangers.
When next we met we did at last discover
Our love that midnight in the Savage Land.
More time wore on until you grasped  my hand,
Put down your fear, and took me as your lover.
Our path was not straightforward, there were places
Where we split up and thought we'd seen the last
Of one another, but in all these cases
We overcame what happened in the past,
Now I am glad when I feel your embraces,
Though not your first I want to be your last.

Notes: This was written by Rogue during her pregnancy in _Strange
Headfellows_. She had to fill the time and she was sharing her mind with
that of Val Cooper, who in my stories has been known to write poetry.
Whether Magneto ever got to see it then I don't know, I rather suspect that
in the end Rogue did not show it to him. Val's sonnet in _Something Old,
Something New, Something Borrowed, Someone Blue_ is a Shakespearean one,
this form, I believe, is a German development of the original Italian form.
As you can see, the pattern of rhymes also is systematic in its alternation
between. one and two-syllable rhymes.

Valerie Cooper, Aleytis 'Lee' Forrester, Magneto (Magnus), Rogue, the Savage
Land and the X-Men are (c) and TM Marvel Comics.