Sonnet I (complete poem)

One of your classmates, Frank Panilla, pointed out that there must be one line missing in Jose Garcia Villa's sonnet printed in the module. And he's right! Because a sonnet is normally composed of 14 lines and the one in the module has 13 lines only.Here's the complete poem with the missing line in bold... please correct your module accordingly.

First, A Poem Must Be Magical
By Jose Garcia Villa


First, a poem must be magical,
Then musical as a seagull.
It must be a brightness moving
And hold secret a bird’s flowering
It must be slender as a bell,
And it must hold fire as well.
It must have the wisdom of bows
And it must kneel like a rose.
It must be able to hear
The luminance of dove and deer.
It must be able to hide
What it seeks, like a bride.
And over all I would like to hover
God, smiling from the poem’s cover.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention Frank! :-)

Incidentally, I found a short biography of the poet who wrote this lovely piece about a poem. Read it here.