Posts Tagged ‘guide’

Poem: Guide, Pt 2 (napowrimo10 #16)

Posted Apr 20, 2010 at 5:28 pm, 5tein

Part II of this poem “Guide” is ottava rima:

II


My muscles locked, my lungs devoid of air,
I struggle to my knees, do all I can
to grapple with my guide's chimeric stare.
Though fierce, its eyes suggest an honest man's;
despite its tarnished scales, its clotted hair,
the fecal stench its winged panting fans,
I realize that here is native brawn
so, answering its crouching, I climb on.

Note: I felt a bad taste in my mouth as I finished this, so sour was its working. Well, it’s effort, it’s practice.

Poem: Guide, Pt 1 (napowrimo10 #15)

Posted Apr 18, 2010 at 12:57 pm, 5tein

Part I is in “rime royal”.

I


As I survey the memories of my world
I'm lifted by a certainty of love,
for who deserves to have these veils unfurled?
Who has earned this coming guide? this dove
whose thundering wings blow tumult from above?
All fear now fails! And all my thoughts are drowned;
disarmed, dismayed I stumble to the ground.