Chapter 0 - chasing lights 04-01
Submitted April 2, 2016 Updated April 2, 2016 Status Incomplete | Time for the annual poetry challenge. :) Let's see if I last the whole month.
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Chapter 0 - chasing lights 04-01
Chapter 0 - chasing lights 04-01
I’m done with chasing will o’ the wisps,
I tell myself –
No more sparks that die too soon.
I’ll stick to drinking the warmth of day,
Or schedule my waning like the moon—
But the fairies laugh if I try to withhold
From following,
From sweet, pale roaming.
They have all the power
Of a golden hour,
Or shadow fingers,
Or storm-purple gloaming.
And my muse’s half-siren,
Half kitten-at-play,
And she’ll toy with my heart until I stay.
I tell myself –
No more sparks that die too soon.
I’ll stick to drinking the warmth of day,
Or schedule my waning like the moon—
But the fairies laugh if I try to withhold
From following,
From sweet, pale roaming.
They have all the power
Of a golden hour,
Or shadow fingers,
Or storm-purple gloaming.
And my muse’s half-siren,
Half kitten-at-play,
And she’ll toy with my heart until I stay.
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Jadis on April 8, 2016, 10:39:00 AM
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Firiel on April 8, 2016, 6:36:32 PM
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Jadis on April 13, 2016, 11:24:02 AM
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Jadis on April 8, 2016, 10:48:21 AM
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Firiel on April 8, 2016, 6:47:08 PM
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Jadis on April 8, 2016, 10:51:23 AM
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Firiel on April 8, 2016, 6:46:19 PM
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Jadis on April 8, 2016, 10:45:40 AM
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I don't know Lady of Shallot. Is the dark mirror you show us here the 'thought a glass darkly" of Paul in the bible or some other dark mirror? it doesn't matter, I have a fondness also for dark mirrors, and mirrors in general.
Firiel on April 8, 2016, 6:46:00 PM
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The dark mirror is both a reference to Paul, and a continuation of the Lady of Shallot metaphor. The Lady of Shallot was a character from the King Arthur legends, made famous in a Victorian poem, who sat in a tower and wove pictures in tapestries based on the glimpses of the world she saw in her mirror. She had been told in a prophecy that is she ever looked out her window to see the real thing, she would die. And so it's kind of - there's a lot of beauty to be found in the glimpses in the mirror, but when do I get to turn around and see the real thing? When do I get to move from reflections of reflections, to seeing the people and places I'm growing to love long-distance in reality? And with some people I'm not really sure if I'll get out of mirror-mode while I'm on this earth, or if I've got to wait for heaven to see the real them - "face to face and knowing fully as I am fully known", to take Paul a little out of context. ;)
Jadis on April 1, 2016, 8:59:18 PM
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