Ordained
“The lunatic, the lover, the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
(Shakespeare)
The lunatic a sorcerer
enchants her own mind
‘twixt reality and dream
confutes the line
Love marks a heaven
on her lover’s brow
the calculus of Reason
nimbly beguiled
Golden the orbs
of crystalline glass
unlocking cosmic radiance
setting fire the fancy
of a poet’s staff
from Infinity
she pours a draught
seizing the elixir
to paint a poem
drawing nothingness
into form
Twining the three
a silken thread
stringing the bow
that bends toward the sun
her arrows
to pierce the vein
where madness and vision
their courses run
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Written on 2023
Submitted by Keilani on September 04, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | XX AXXX BCBX DDDDXEXAXDX EXCBDXBB |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 629 |
| Words | 120 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 11, 8 |
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