EXPRESSIONS OF THE ELEGIAC
decisive
instinctive
espousals
in
simultaneous
interplay
fragment
counter-
-vailing
the
mysterious
influences
energising
attitudes
to
identify
&
interpret
aspiring
structured
synthetic
interplay
of
aesthetic
speculation
in
a
multiplicity
contradictory
continiums
Volcanos split the earth
Venting the heat within,
Vaulting upwards at rim.
Vermillion-burnt magma
Vrooms the molten lava-
Vailing, melting all paths;
Verily, countless deaths.
May 6, 2021
~2nd Place~
Contest: Pleiades V
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Judged: 05/07/2021
Ever vailing; the eyes of this fearer.
Shade of wispier shape; holds tight his gaze.
Witching hour; moonlit tryst before his mirror.
He loves alone; death 'tis the toll he pays.
Father God above shake my shattered mind!
Let that which was lost finally be found!
Let broken pieces too be recombined!
I plead you break these chains which have me bound!
The silent prayer of this searching soul.
Trapped in ones mind; the worst of labyrinths.
The choices made seem outside his control.
All that he was; built upon crumbling plinths.
The human condition; that of despair.
Existence; such a trivial affair.
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