The Framework of Forever
(Inspired by "The Architecture of Time" by GOC Ogaraku)
Forget the warp of expanding space,
The pulling weight of a heavy place;
Though Einstein spoke of a bending frame,
The poet locks it in Newton’s name.
No cosmic strain, no speed can flight
The steady anchor that holds the night;
A river rushing one way alone,
By thermodynamic law is blown.
Behold the driver, the cosmic engine,
Beyond the range of our comprehension;
As Schopenhauer once tried to track,
The Blind Desire that won't turn back.
The canvas stays while the pictures change,
The silent absolute, vast and strange;
You cannot freeze what is already still,
Time never moves, for it is the will.
And through it all beats a rhythmic gears,
A structured metric that counts the years;
Anapaestic feet hit a structural wall,
Rhythmic Rhymes keeping pace for all.
Our frantic minds feel it race and fly,
While objective cosmic truth sits high;
The ticking clock of the written page
Enforces peace on our panicked age.
Halloween heist
(Anapaestic Tetrameter)
As the ghosts of tomorrow amass in the hall,
unaware of the darkness descending around,
from the silhouettes crawling along the back wall,
to the creaking of doors with the faintest of sound.
Then a walking ensemble invaded the room,
as the gremlins start growling their threat and demand,
made the joy of the people turn quickly to gloom,
with their creepy attire and light weapons in hand.
A true heist is afoot, no trick for Halloween,
“Now just open the wallets, hand over the cash.
if you follow our orders, we will not be mean
just surrender your jewels, we’re out in a flash”.
In the land of the living, there’s instants of dread,
Be afraid of the mortals, not scared of the dead.
11.02.2022
Contest: Halloween poetry contest
Sponsor: Emile Pinet
Words used: creepy, descending, silhouettes, gloom, darkness, living, open, walking, Halloween, dread.
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