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Nyx
quatern
With furtive whispers through the gate
Of slumber, tasking passion’s dreams
In sacrifice to Nyx, prostrate
Caught, impotent against her schemes
The senses’ twilight fades in gloom
With furtive whispers through the gate
Erotic fear wafts like perfume
Enslaved to her licentious fete
Seductive vapor stirs, frustrates,
As pleasured strokes debase her thrall
With furtive whispers through the gate
Foretelling tortures to befall
The succubus, with blade in hand
Now poised and eager to castrate
The sleeper’s spirit, soon unmanned
With furtive whispers through the gate
With furtive whispers through the gate
Of slumber, tasking passion’s dreams
In sacrifice to Nyx, prostrate
Caught, impotent against her schemes
The senses’ twilight fades in gloom
With furtive whispers through the gate
Erotic fear wafts like perfume
Enslaved to her licentious fete
Seductive vapor stirs, frustrates,
As pleasured strokes debase her thrall
With furtive whispers through the gate
Foretelling tortures to befall
The succubus, with blade in hand
Now poised and eager to castrate
The sleeper’s spirit, soon unmanned
With furtive whispers through the gate
Published 23rd Feb 2019
Author's Note
For the "Ravens and Poets" competition...
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1st Sep 2019 5:40pm
Love you command of rhyme and form here. Why this particular form for this poem, if I may ask?
1st Sep 2019 5:50pm
My only reason is that I enjoy writing quaterns. I like puzzling over what to make of the repeating line.
Because I was writing this one specifically for that competition, I decided to make the form a bit more strict, staying with iambic tetrameter and a rhyming scheme. I thought that would give it a more classical feel. I was happy with the result, and I have continued with the stricter form for most of my quaterns since then.
Because I was writing this one specifically for that competition, I decided to make the form a bit more strict, staying with iambic tetrameter and a rhyming scheme. I thought that would give it a more classical feel. I was happy with the result, and I have continued with the stricter form for most of my quaterns since then.
