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RE: Burn up my verse!

in #poetry7 years ago

Fantastic!

Have you read Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson? I immediately thought of his opening as I read your verse:

State your intentions, Muse. I know you're there.
Dead bards who pined for you have said
You're bright as flame, but fickle as the air.
My pen and I, submerged in liquid shade,
Much dark can spread, on days and over reams
But without you, no radiance can shed.
Why rustle in the dark, when fledged with fire?
Craze the night with flails of light. Reave
Your turbid shroud. Bestow what i require.
But you are not in the dark. I do believe
I swim, like squid, in clouds of my own make,
To you offensive. To us both, opaque.
What's constituted so, only a pen
Can penetrate. I have one here; let's go.

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Wow!! No I haven't, but that is really cool stuff! Thanks for posting it :D