01-19-2012, 01:02 AM
Like Milton, the truth of all time I might aspire to pen,
that the Muse might let it flow from some place here within,
but looking outward I find it’s always the easiest to see,
yet when I turn within it’s dark, I find no truth in me.
Error, like a lustful bitch her brood quickly whelp,
and so battle as I might, I can’t o’er come myself.
Through a glass darkly am I condemned to view,
dull gray shades only, never the multi-colored hues.
How long must my vision be cursed with these cataracts,
seeking Truth yet finding only, mundane worthless facts?
I grope with benumb hands, through these cruel razored tomes,
what crime did I commit that in this way I must atone?
When all my blood has seeped away, into this hateful book,
will that have bought me one chance at unvarnished truth to look?
Or will I die unknowing, only to come back once again,
I pray not as a poet, but as an ordinary man.
©2012 ~Erthona
16 lines of accentual heptameter with rhyming couplets
that the Muse might let it flow from some place here within,
but looking outward I find it’s always the easiest to see,
yet when I turn within it’s dark, I find no truth in me.
Error, like a lustful bitch her brood quickly whelp,
and so battle as I might, I can’t o’er come myself.
Through a glass darkly am I condemned to view,
dull gray shades only, never the multi-colored hues.
How long must my vision be cursed with these cataracts,
seeking Truth yet finding only, mundane worthless facts?
I grope with benumb hands, through these cruel razored tomes,
what crime did I commit that in this way I must atone?
When all my blood has seeped away, into this hateful book,
will that have bought me one chance at unvarnished truth to look?
Or will I die unknowing, only to come back once again,
I pray not as a poet, but as an ordinary man.
©2012 ~Erthona
16 lines of accentual heptameter with rhyming couplets
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.