Diminuendo

[crystalwizard]

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Fantastic tales.
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Life.

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[BitterHermit]

The new poetic Edda? Send to me in rft . . . They fit perfectly for Acheron's Shores.
I'm rather fond of Norse and related mythos, but I must confess that the Eddas are rather abstract in my view. I think these are really cool as Edda meets haiku. sort of. It's the dacence of the Eddas that eludes me, but I get a much more lyrical feel to this for a sequence. Any more whence these come?

Howard von Darkmoor said...
A Mortal Eschatology: The Work of Finite Destiny

"Fate falls"

Ragnar?k cometh:
mortals, giants
gods doden;
twilight's
grave

"Niflheim falls"

Loki-led monsters:
Midgard serpent
Fenrir, Hel,
vomit
pain

"God falls"

Valhalla tumbles:
overweighted
Odin dead
Asgard
crushed

"Silence falls"

G?tterd?mmerung!
Terrible steed
Forseti
riven -
gone

"Eternity falls"

Apocalypse come:
Aesir fallen
Nidhogg full,
empty
Hel.

Incredibly prolific penster

[crystalwizard]

I like those. Someone chain Jason to his chair and make him write a bunch more.

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[von Darkmoor]

No chains, please. And, at the moment, no more whence those came from either. They actually were a bit of work, but my excitement carried me through them. The next batch might be a bit longer in the crafting.

I appreciate the comments David. You must have a higher tolerance for abusive use of a defined pattern than Daniel does. [img]/emoticons/wink.gif[/img]

I appreciate your comments even more after reading your admission to a fondness for things Norse. I must admit to a lack of much knowledge of the Edda form, though.

Thanks foreven reading them.

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[Frank]

Sequoia
I am ancient as
stone, larger than
dinosaur
still, I
grow.

Reptile Into Raptor
We once ruled oceans,
then we ruled the
land, now we
rule the
sky.


What about adapting into dims from other forms like this D.H. Lawrence snippet:


Whales Weep Not
They say the sea is
cold, but the sea
contains the
hottest
blood.

or this plucking of Rilke?s The Gazelle to question poetry itself:

How can chosen words
ever attain
harmony
of pure
rhyme?


or paraphrasing Darwin:

From so simple a
beginning, forms
endless have
evolved
here.

or this bit of Rudyard Kipling:

For the female of
the species is
more deadly
than the
male.

or this misquote for fun

Cheating
Warhol: Everyone
will be famous
for fifteen
sylla-
bles.

or this paraphrasing of Thomas Paine:

A religion that
shocks the mind of
a child can
not be
true.


which inspired me to question everything:


Are We There Yet
Self-evident truths:
that all men are
created
equal.
Free?

which led to this:


They Can Only Kill The Dreamer
Mine eyes have seen the
Glory of the
Coming of
The Lord
BANG!

[von Darkmoor]

Welcome back, Frank. As always, you enter with ?lan


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[Frank]

Thank you, Jason. A gentleman you are, as always. Why am I talking like Yoda?...

[crystalwizard]

Frank! Welcome back and a very nice selection of poetry you came back with, indeed.

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[Frank]

Thanks. Now if only I could find a market for them...

[crystalwizard]

Frank said...
Thanks. Now if only I could find a market for them...

*points at Abandoned Towers*

You could send them to me.

or Poets Forum magazine

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[crystalwizard]

Well now. It's been a while since anyone posted a dim. in this thread.

Did everyone lose interest in the form?

[DavidMPitchford]

memory returns
exile come back
outlandish
humbled
home

[BarbT]

Snowflakes, crystals; spores
Of graceful ferns.
Perfection
In the
Small

[DavidMPitchford]

rainy holidays
beneath gray skies
but grateful
to be
here

[Phillip A. Ellis]

Even currawongs,
even wolves, calves
lions, bulls,
vultures
dream....

[von Darkmoor]

Purple reign, purple
mien, purple clothes
purple prose
purple
four

[DavidMPitchford]

frostbitten fingers
boxes of books
ex's garage
petty
theft

[Frank]

She comes to me still
in moments I
least expect.
Welcome
thoughts.

Cold comfort found in
low earth orbit
while above
wander
stars.

Come back to me in
dreams if not in
life, so I,
too, may
shine.