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A Lasting Mist of Candles Snuffed (with UbiquitousVoid)
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
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italics: Jade-Pandora
normal: UbiquitousVoid
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
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italics: Jade-Pandora
normal: UbiquitousVoid
Published 5th Dec 2016
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5th Dec 2016 11:24am
5th Dec 2016 11:35am
5th Dec 2016 12:12pm
Jade, what a marvelous work we have sculpted once again. As always a pleasure, and I hope that we can coalesce further in the future.
- UV
- UV
*formal bow*
Thank you so much, UV. I'm sure it's already written in the stars.
~ Jade
Thank you so much, UV. I'm sure it's already written in the stars.
~ Jade
5th Dec 2016 3:12pm
I love the various use of line structure and rhyme schemes and how the stanzas seem to sing echoes of each other's. Well done you two!
Geoff
Geoff
We thank you so much, Geoffrey! It's satisfying to know when a reader is able to embrace more of what I would term the "production" side of a collaboration. If it wasn't for that, there'd be little foundation to create on, no?🔥
5th Dec 2016 5:53pm
Such an amazing collaboration you two did together!
With two talented poets it was definitely gonna be great.
Great job :)
With two talented poets it was definitely gonna be great.
Great job :)
6th Dec 2016 5:22am
Why thank you, MsRocky, for the honor, and for sharing with us your appreciation! It was a pleasure.✨
5th Dec 2016 7:36pm
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 bell resonated in this deeply, you two.
Well done.
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 bell resonated in this deeply, you two.
Well done.
6th Dec 2016 5:30am
Dearest Ahavati, our thanks & gratitude for your kind words & appreciation, with our best to you.🌟
6th Dec 2016 6:25pm
"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"
Intensely good
The gloom that still denies the day?
Beneath the earth I will run deep
I’d pray for Hell, my soul to keep"
Intensely good
7th Dec 2016 1:22am
Our regards & thanks to you, D_monik, for stopping by, and for sharing a part of our co-ink that spoke to you.
Anonymous
8th Dec 2016 12:16pm
Always fulfilling to read talent...
👣👣Trish
👣👣Trish
8th Dec 2016 1:27pm
Ah my dear Trish, you are so very generous, and I'm honored by your visit & words. We both thank you for such appreciation.
~Jade👣👣
~Jade👣👣
