Perfidia
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Delusive hope, so often
the fickle partner of strong love
dwells in the well of lost plots,
where malformed ideas ferment
in the ironic shapes of narrative streams,
permanently dammed
'til an invisible hand offers
salvation to all who are faithless,
boojummed into a cynic's myopic view
from cliches and ideals and scorn
a faint gossamer thread is woven,
strung across one world and the next,
always in search for the elusive raven,
a cunning jester festering in Poe's wake,
he clenches melancholy like a worn silk scarf.
Within the rubik cube of space and time
flies a scarlet ibis banished
from a rime of sea and salt, silently watching
Delusive hope, so often
the fickle partner of heady wine-love,
curve her lips in a Sissyphus smile.
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An exercise in personification, enjambement and intertexual representation. -
Are you studying Literature in university by any chance?Originally posted by peebrain:Delusive hope, so often
the fickle partner of strong love
dwells in the well of lost plots,
where malformed ideas ferment
in the ironic shapes of narrative streams,
permanently dammed
'til an invisible hand offers
salvation to all who are faithless,
boojummed into a cynic's myopic view
from cliches and ideals and scorn
a faint gossamer thread is woven,
strung across one world and the next,
always in search for the elusive raven,
a cunning jester festering in Poe's wake,
he clenches melancholy like a worn silk scarf.
Within the rubik cube of space and time
flies a scarlet ibis banished
from a rime of sea and salt, silently watching
Delusive hope, so often
the fickle partner of heady wine-love,
curve her lips in a Sissyphus smile.
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An exercise in personification, enjambement and intertexual representation.
Well, I like that representation of a gossamer thread, reminds me of spider silk, so thin yet strong and hard to destroy..which is what scorn and stereotypes are, lacking in foundation but hard to remove from society.
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Did double literature in junior college, but political science in uni.
Now I write copy all day. Life's full of strange turns, innit? -
Double Lit?Lit and S Paper eh?Originally posted by peebrain:Did double literature in junior college, but political science in uni.
Now I write copy all day. Life's full of strange turns, innit?
Yeah life's full of strange turns.I'm in a similar situation, now thinking of my major. -
hahaha nope, sirree!
English Lit and Chinese Lit (yes I know -- I was insane) -
Originally posted by peebrain:hahaha nope, sirree!
English Lit and Chinese Lit (yes I know -- I was insane) *claps*. Now that's something to crow about man.. -
Originally posted by peebrain:hahaha nope, sirree!
English Lit and Chinese Lit (yes I know -- I was insane)