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The Dreamtime!
There's a static that shows, when eyes are closed,
energizing the tinge in every dream
and so simpatico with the moon beam
as to be more than merely juxtaposed;
much, much, more than coevolution wove
through eons of savage savanna sleep
waxing and waning our unconscious deep
to become the neurological trove
of classical cogency and power;
from jealous Jove to each ennead muse
as a slow burning incandescent fuse
In fullest force at the midnight hour,
Only to fade at the break of day...
Like a candle flame...the ethereal way!
energizing the tinge in every dream
and so simpatico with the moon beam
as to be more than merely juxtaposed;
much, much, more than coevolution wove
through eons of savage savanna sleep
waxing and waning our unconscious deep
to become the neurological trove
of classical cogency and power;
from jealous Jove to each ennead muse
as a slow burning incandescent fuse
In fullest force at the midnight hour,
Only to fade at the break of day...
Like a candle flame...the ethereal way!
Published 1st Sep 2023
| Edited 10th Jan 2024
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1st Sep 2023 2:33pm
1st Sep 2023 8:19pm
Thanks!
I suspect that there's something rudimentarily Freudian about that, but I don't have the time to conduct a proper comparison betwixt master and mistress sonnet compositions:)
I suspect that there's something rudimentarily Freudian about that, but I don't have the time to conduct a proper comparison betwixt master and mistress sonnet compositions:)
1st Sep 2023 8:27pm
LOL! Seriously, and most likely wrong, I judge an entire poem by its ending. And if a sonnet, by its final couplet. I mean seriously, I've read poetry that I was totally unsure of, but then when I hit the end I was like, "Holy shit! Just. . .yes!"
Well I've been binge watching a lot of Frasier re-runs lately:)
Certainly you have the Bard of Avon himself to evince that the preponderancy of theatrical clout is to be had in the closing couplet. I recently read somewhere that his sonnets were the ones to popularize the placement of the volta betwixt the end of the twelfth line and the beginning of the thirteenth, when it had been more customary to have it between the octave and sestet, but now I will at least have to re-peruse Browning's SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE, to see if she valued the closing couplet at least as much as he.
It's literary hairsplitting, of course, since I enjoy both:)
Certainly you have the Bard of Avon himself to evince that the preponderancy of theatrical clout is to be had in the closing couplet. I recently read somewhere that his sonnets were the ones to popularize the placement of the volta betwixt the end of the twelfth line and the beginning of the thirteenth, when it had been more customary to have it between the octave and sestet, but now I will at least have to re-peruse Browning's SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE, to see if she valued the closing couplet at least as much as he.
It's literary hairsplitting, of course, since I enjoy both:)
1st Sep 2023 9:40pm
1st Sep 2023 10:47pm
I recall reading somewhere that if the skull were not in the way, then the working brain's bioluminescence could be seen in a darkened room. If true, then I wonder what that light's color might be, and I think it would be most apropos if the color of thought was the same as moonlight, or a candle flame.
Glad you liked it, and thanks for stopping by!
Glad you liked it, and thanks for stopping by!
1st Sep 2023 10:49pm
