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Palimpsest

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I.
I'm so tired of all the sweethearts and young beaus
comparing their loves to the stars,
the infinitesimal specks of luminiferous ether up yonder,
yet I'll chop off all the stars in the cosmos
as if they were hanging from a thread in a little boy's room,
so you can be the only guiding light in the night sky.

II.
I'm so tired of all the heartthrobs and exalting admirers
comparing their loves to the angels of above,
the cold and placid sentinels of immateriality, incorporeality,
yet I'll turn all the diaphanous clouds of the heavens into concrete,
where it shall plummet from the firmament like its own fallen seraphs
and you can rise from the ashes, a sempiternal empress of veneration.

III.
And I'm so tired of all the lovers and grandiloquent infatuates 
comparing their loves to the platitudes of today,
their meanings lost to tumbleweeds and detritus,
yet this is how it transpires, back to the rudiments,
my diction analogous to ten thousand more,
like a flock of birds in the sky, all the same when you look at them.

But this is how it transpires,
trying to capture the paradigm of beauty in ink,
but you can't quite find the ideal tone,
the correct permutation, the sufficient expressions,
the right words-

And the birds they fly.
Palimpsest - A manuscript written over earlier ones.

Hello again, and I'm back with another! (Two in one month, what a miracle.) So as of late, I haven't been posting as much as I like, which is pretty of obvious from my lack of activity. However during this rehabilitation period I've been teaching myself a lot of new words, primarily from reading works by Poe. Dude's a lifesaver, learned a bunch of words, and here I put my newfound knowledge to the test.

toxic--sunrise helped me get started with this deviation, so props to her.

Feel free to comment your opinion, critique, whatever you wanna say below.

Enjoy!:iconfeelingfreeplz:

(p.s. the poem gets more and more weird towards the end and i'm sorry.)
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yet I'll chop off all the stars in the cosmos
as if they were hanging from a thread in a little boy's room,
so you can be the only guiding light in the night sky.


this is brilliant :heart: