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A LASTING MIST WITH CANDLES SNUFFED (co-written by Jade-Pandora)
Here, our noctambulant kingdom
Wherein disdain girds our lament
As morrow was the first descent
I’d sleep until the dream was dead
The rogue from our deluge of rain
Continued to walk dark the night
And would each time deny the day
Out of reach from admiration
An ire could not mask what had bled
Nascent into lust-borne prison
The days that festered in her head
As hours passed, onset of pain
Which gave no voice to give me sight
A reason why, a chance to pray
I saw you there by aperture
A listless gaze toward opal stir
To thus avail this portrait blur
Still winsome as you ever were
Without the sun of how it was
I lost the hands of time within
As time grew short, dissonant knell
Our solitude had struck a bell
The constant damp and dark to feign
My lord who first had offered love
A brilliant light, a symphony
And like plucked rose soon atrophied
Bereft of what had nurtured it
Devoured by the void e'er dim
Poetic-twisted ligatures
The ties that bound us in our need
Of boney fingers' strangled creed
Where did all of my powers rush?
For I was youth in its full flush
With skin of white like Dresden rim
'Twas such that captivated him
Upon the canvas wretched ghost
Like mirrors the eyes of failing health
Her chiseled crevice marked the host
Catharsis through an emptied self
The days were stretched as was my flesh
O'er features sinking into depths
That plumbed the very death of me
A drowning will, an ecstasy
Perverse the thrill, malignancy
That clutched the dying heart in me
And like tsunami's deepest surge
It dragged me under from its scourge
While sirens sang a mournful dirge
And venom ushered forth from you
In sanguine love, I lavished you
With vivid funerary hue
This art that has become of you
I woke into a deeper sleep
To witness from my crypt a keep
The evil, clearer still, that bloomed
While echoed chanting filled the room
Embraced by him as cultish priest
In preparation of a feast
To sanctify his temple beast
And quantify the list of crime
My lord had justified from time
Inscribed on pages of a tome
While bending low his shaven dome
The deed is done, no turning back
Disrupted shadows fade to black
As one-by-one the candles hiss
In darkness that I never missed
A climax for an epilogue
For it has been so very long
I’d seek a pattern for the grave
A rose to meet ivy ingrained
Will e'er the night burn fast away
The gloom that still denies the day?
Beneath the earth I will run deep
I’d pray for Hell, my soul to keep
Italics - Jade-Pandora
Normal - UbiquitousVoid
Published 5th Dec 2016
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5th Dec 2016 12:01pm
UV, this, our 2nd co-write, is all I could ever hope for in its completeness. Thank you for inviting me to partake and mingle our inspirations.
RL bound
-Jade
RL bound
-Jade
5th Dec 2016 12:10pm
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5th Dec 2016 3:58pm
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5th Dec 2016 5:57pm
Such an amazing collaboration you and Jadey did together.
It was absolutely fantastic 👏🏼 🙂
It was absolutely fantastic 👏🏼 🙂
Anonymous
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6th Dec 2016 4:24pm
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6th Dec 2016 11:33pm
A dark and poetically beautiful collaboration of talent, an amazing blend.
Thanks for a great read...
Thanks for a great read...
Whomever it was said there's no beauty in sadness never read this.
With syntax, verbiage, and soaring metaphor the likes only a master's pen could spiel, completely immersed, stunned, and captivated my senses from first to final word, as your combined skills of sheer poignancy changed the very atmosphere ~ down to my core … the different styles complimented and dovetailed perfectly.
One to appreciate, revere, and envy all at once … the palpable emotion swept through my soul in such a way I shall not soon shake the haunt of it.
Brilliance personified … thank you both, with my poet's heart, for sharing something truly special!
Humbly ⁓ Richard
With syntax, verbiage, and soaring metaphor the likes only a master's pen could spiel, completely immersed, stunned, and captivated my senses from first to final word, as your combined skills of sheer poignancy changed the very atmosphere ~ down to my core … the different styles complimented and dovetailed perfectly.
One to appreciate, revere, and envy all at once … the palpable emotion swept through my soul in such a way I shall not soon shake the haunt of it.
Brilliance personified … thank you both, with my poet's heart, for sharing something truly special!
Humbly ⁓ Richard
25th Sep 2018 9:40pm
My thanks, friend. It is truly an honour to us. Thank you for taking the time to read and to write such an eloquent response to our work.
~ void
~ void
