As I journey into appreciating more poetry, I had to decide how best the use the little time I have for it. I would like to talk about it, but writing it is the more fun option to focus on and I haven’t really sat down to do that since I was in grade school.
Also, it is apparently a holiday today, so I’m going to say this was something special for that.
Shoutout to , , and for suggesting some poetry for me to read. I’m working my way through those. If the piece to follow is good, you can take credit!
If not… We’ll just say I haven’t read enough of your recommendations yet!
An amber shred
of heaven’s veil
Twirled to fancied whims unseen
To reach, to take,
a doomed avail
The gifts to keep,
has freely been,
Given in
its radiance
Enlight our homes
Nourish with tendered meal
Let it fill,
let it guide
The beauty of this life we’ll find
Turn the chariot’s wheel
Stud the night with jewels
Tame, control,
and harness, we,
And soon to heaven’s heights we’ll see
Yet our eyes
so ever wander
From the charge
we are to tend
For strangers passed
there in the shadow
And like starving beasts...
We chase
For luck
we pluck
Strand of the veil
As we race
we feel its heat
Mounting
Great
Pushing on
Compelling
Engulfing
Consuming
It hungers more,
and then it finds
Our hidden parts
on which to dine
It beacons each
for all to see
Branding deep
indignity
Our passions run out
Our scars now cool
We read the wisdom
etched in each
Humbly recede
Our posts to tend
You,
perhaps,
learn joy again
When is left
no more than embers
Sheltered in
their nest of ash
Too late,
we’ll think,
to take it in
And with its warmth, bear the last
Our hands are cold
Our joints unmoving
Longing we gaze
A winking glow
No parting kiss
The last speck dims
Silence burns...
its form we never knew
When we reach what lies beyond,
Will its form
be new there too?If you’re a subscriber to my normal content and wondering why you didn’t see this in your inbox, note that I put this in a new “Section” of my publication named “The Raven’s Song” dedicated to poetry/music/etc.
If you want notifications for those, you will need to manage your notifications for your subscription to Ars Corvi proper and enable them for the sections you want. I didn’t want to assume all you came here for amateur poetry.
(You came here for amateur professional philosophy and fiction, obviously…)
Well done. Like the images here.
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