Behold, the Poet!

SA · November 03, 2006, 03:14:35 AM

I started this last year, but only finished it this week. I wrote it for my girlfirend, but we broke up and she never saw it...

Ah, well. At least you guys will.

When I Fall

For you I rise
In blasphemous ascent like
Chattering tower before the face of God
And like Babel my pride commits me to my fall
So that I shatter
And my pieces scatter Ã¢,¬Ëcross stone
Only to climb once more
Like the tide before the midnight sphere
Whose wavesÃ¢,¬,,¢ own swell is defeated by AbysmÃ¢,¬,,¢s want
Or morning star who
For passionÃ¢,¬,,¢s throne
In yearning seeks the darkness burning yon
Cast down
Sweet seraph with pinions blazing
And Gehenna clasps me close
But with waxen wings I seek you still
To fly and to fall in subsequence
Crescendo and calamity
Then turn, return eternally
Like ouroboros in ravenous cycle
Whose hide is torn and innards spilled
Undone by thunderous blow at worldÃ¢,¬,,¢s end
As mortal guise and Ãƒ' sirÃ¢,¬,,¢s grace
Are slew by SurtrÃ¢,¬,,¢s flame
And I too pass with all that was
To seek no more what flies beyond grasp
Ã¢,¬ËTil dreaming dies like the fires before Eden
Birthing new this prodigal son
And so I rise again
To find your light upon me

Velox · November 03, 2006, 04:29:27 AM

hey... I liked the dooty one. Really, I did.

Seraph · November 04, 2006, 01:21:54 AM

Beautiful. I am humbled by thine eloquence. Your use of allusion in "When I Fall" is just brilliant.

SA · November 04, 2006, 01:50:56 AM

Thanks. It was actually the easiest to write of all of them, thanks to the free verse, and it currently stands as my favourite.

Seraph · November 04, 2006, 11:42:37 AM

Isn't Free Verse wonderful? And my condolences as to your girlfriend. That put's us in pretty much the same place right now doesn't it? Sometimes I wish my ex could see some of what I wrote about her. But alas for all the bitter ironies of love and life!

SA · November 04, 2006, 07:24:53 PM

I'm at least lucky in that when she discovered I had secretly written poetry about her, she requested to read it. So I mailed it to her yesterday. Won't do anything to mend what was broken, but hopefully it will help her at least realise that she was loved - dearly loved - and I wasn't in it for the ass...

Well, not only for the ass.

Seraph · November 04, 2006, 09:13:09 PM

Quote from: Machinegun PoliticsI'm at least lucky in that when she discovered I had secretly written poetry about her, she requested to read it. So I mailed it to her yesterday. Won't do anything to mend what was broken, but hopefully it will help her at least realise that she was loved - dearly loved - and I wasn't in it for the ass...

Well, not only for the ass.

Shame on you. ;) "ass" should not even be a factor. I dislike that term, in any case. It's so ugly. unbefitting a poet such as yourself. Still I understand what you mean.

SA · November 04, 2006, 09:40:49 PM

Irony, my good friend. Irony. In juxtaposition to the beauty of the poetry, the word appears all the more disgusting.

It's the same as the way I intersperse my more intelligent dialogue in casual conversation with ugly "ghetto" colloquialisms. By comparing my standard speech with nigga-speak, people realise just how atypical a black man I am. It's difficult transcending the stereotype, so sometimes it's good to satirise it.

Seraph · November 04, 2006, 10:11:03 PM

Gotcha. "how atypical a black man," you say, so you're Black then?

SA · November 04, 2006, 10:31:07 PM

That I am. Born in America but raised in Oz. Virtually all my friends are white, so I can't really relate to other members of "my kind".

Seraph · November 04, 2006, 10:44:56 PM

We're all humans. That's "kind" enough for me. Here on the CBG we're all gaming geeks, that's "kind" enough too. You aren't given "your kind," you take it. That would make a great poem. . .

SDragon · November 04, 2006, 10:47:32 PM

Quote from: Machinegun PoliticsThat I am. Born in America but raised in Oz. Virtually all my friends are white, so I can't really relate to other members of "my kind".

you're not the only one. my race is human, and i have a hard time relating to other members of "my kind", too.

oh, and i agree that freeverse is a wonderful thing. wonderful, in that, it's the only form of poetry i can comfortably work with.

SA · November 04, 2006, 10:50:58 PM

Nuttin' wrong with that, so long as you're good ate free verse.

SDragon · November 04, 2006, 10:53:54 PM

whats the level of quality required for your definition of "good"?

i'm not incredible or anything, but i'm sure i could be worse...

SA · November 04, 2006, 10:56:40 PM

I guess that'll have to do...

Farbeit from me to call myself the final arbitrator of poetic quality. Damned artistic subjectivity. Makes it damned hard to be elitist...

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