Apotheosized

Love the mythology in this. The form and rhyme aren't bad either.

Is there a particular reason that you personified the second Pharoah and not the first? I feel like I should be catching something. . .

I didn't specifically intend personification but I will admit that the sonnet is about me and the missus.

I've got an app with a channel that carries on about ancient history:)  

That makes me love it even more! I adore Paul's poetry to his wife and yours is right up there! Even though she's read these, I'm sure, you should still compose a book for her - women dig that. Seriously.

The initiatory impulse for the poem was indeed my wife's epidermal tint of bronze, which often has the mind and pulse race toward Mediterranean style female divinity, which in turn led me a merry synonymic chase to fetch an appropriate enough title to call attention to the idea of matrimony being akin to temple style worship of the idealized lady, and the yoking to her that brought on the banal marriage as slavery trope, which begs an update to Stockholm syndrome if the sex is still awesome after 35 years...(this September).

And due to all of that and more I wholeheartedly concur that a poem to the wife ought to go above and beyond mere eroticism, as any worthy goddess might insist, and the book will happen, should I survive her conjugal insatiability.

LOL! Poor you!

Well done on this one! Like Ahavati, I really enjoyed the mythology.

We sonneteers must weave the dictionary contents as skillfully as the rarest quilter, or risk disappointing the immortals:)

Quite delighted to hear that you enjoyed it!

I know the sonnet form is part of your name but dang it all flows so perfectly smooth.
Brilliant work MS

There's an intrinsic charm to a well composed sonnnet that I have to keep coming back to.

The key is to adroitly dovetail the line endings with the beginnings.