Open Poetry #14 |
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Final Wake |
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Poeminister Senior Member
since 2000-02-26
Posts 1862Regina SK; Canada |
Final Wake Wherefore beamest thou through the window? wherefore beamest thou into my night? to hove' and haunt, refusing to go, issuing so low: "Be for thy day dight." Will I be taken in haste, still young into thine kiss, darkling damosel, bound here to taste thy tasteless tongue that fates sheer, each mortal morsel Ere I have met true loving's spark? ere I have left an earthen mark? The mirror waxes swirling liquid, Death, as I feel the breeze, of thy boding breath. Our lives are made by the starlight spun 'twixt Nature, God, and Oblivion and slide through season after season, that cultivate the eternal one. Thou givest in between, that dark dose whence comes the sudden Spring of Shadows that softens sight, into forgetting; but I, my faith, shall not lose of wing. 'Gainst obscurity, for aye more light, rage, so may gilded be life's last turn'd page, Every night reaches forth to daybreak and Heaven, shall be the final wake. [This message has been edited by Poeminister (edited 06-30-2001).] |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
so go thee, Sire, go swift, and fast for heaven awaits your soul at last and be assured in thine familial grief thy Lord shall soon give them blessed relief Poeminister....you know I like this one! 'Tis a keeper, Sir, a keeper.... |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
very nice writing here! I'm impressed> |
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Sven![]() ![]()
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
well done Sir, thou dost know that I do so very much enjoy this style that thou hast penned so eloquently this eve. . . superbly done with the tone of the Bard himself. . . ------------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
Quite an impressive employment of archaic, middle English language. Well done! Made me look up 'dight' and I trust it's the 1st definition. Am curious about the extra syllable in the middle of damsel. Is that a traditional middle English use or was it for syllabic count? |
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Interloper![]() ![]()
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
'Gainst obscurity, for aye more light, rage, so may gilded be life's last turn'd page, Every night reaches forth to daybreak and Heaven, shall be the final wake. ============== Yes! |
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