Poem: "Dreams of Ink"
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ysabetwordsmithThis is today's freebie, inspired by a prompt from dialecticdreamer. It belongs to the series Path of the Paladins.
"Dreams of Ink"
-- a decastich
It is a dream that does not fade,
When dawn's light overtakes the glade,
Of thorns and blossoms, berries too,
All decked about in morning dew.
Already he's bestowed his heart,
And not upon the God of Art,
So why this vision that won't go?
It's nettlesome, it breaks the flow,
And Johan knows not what to think.
He sleeps again, and dreams of ink.
* * *
Notes:
A decastich is any poem of exactly 10 lines. It is often free verse, but it can use rhyme/meter, as this one does.
dialecticdreamer. It belongs to the series Path of the Paladins. "Dreams of Ink"
-- a decastich
It is a dream that does not fade,
When dawn's light overtakes the glade,
Of thorns and blossoms, berries too,
All decked about in morning dew.
Already he's bestowed his heart,
And not upon the God of Art,
So why this vision that won't go?
It's nettlesome, it breaks the flow,
And Johan knows not what to think.
He sleeps again, and dreams of ink.
* * *
Notes:
A decastich is any poem of exactly 10 lines. It is often free verse, but it can use rhyme/meter, as this one does.
Lovely
Date: 2015-05-19 08:01 pm (UTC)Nettlesome.
8-)
Re: Lovely
Date: 2015-05-19 08:09 pm (UTC)Yay! I still need to do the long poem about actually getting the ink, because there's some important stuff in there, but this is a kind of setup that was needed and I didn't realize until you prompted.
>> Nettlesome.
8-) <<
Heh, yeah. Johan has a real push-pull feeling here, and he's confused about why it's even happening. So it itches and prickles at him, gets under his skin, distracts him when he's trying to think of something else.
Re: Lovely
Date: 2015-05-19 08:17 pm (UTC)I love how you took the /simplest/ form, almost free verse, and made it more structured, more decorated... flourishes and swirls, rather than rigid restrictions.
Re: Lovely
Date: 2015-05-22 03:10 am (UTC)That's what I realized, yes. The ink is ... less a thing unto itself, and more a process that links other vital things together. And it's something that Johan has to agree to.
You may have noticed that he's not very good at agreeing to anything.
>> I love how you took the /simplest/ form, almost free verse, and made it more structured, more decorated... flourishes and swirls, rather than rigid restrictions. <<
Yay! Often I find that shorter forms need more structure to hold them together.