Velvet Silk and Blue-Gold White
Dark shaded wings fly
Faster than the human eye.
Nix rules the heavens,
Bedecked in pale diamonds;
Reflecting heat fires of earth.
Man watches day fade
In the passionate splendor of wildfire sunset.
Velvet silk from blue-gold white,
Light into darkness--
Death of day, birth of night.
Man sleeps, wild beasts wake,
Until the sun conquers night
And blue-gold returns
In pale fervor of sunrise.
Man wakes, Helios rules.
The sun crests white wool clouds
And Nix bides her time again--
Shaded wings, battle of dawn--
When day will rise victorious
With bright blue-gold fire.
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Submitted on October 01, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AABCDEFGHGIGJKLMNOHP |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 551 |
Words | 95 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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