Hymn of Hephaestus
Vows
Lift your veil and honor me by your gaze;
that I might look into your arcane thoughts to read the memoirs of your soul.
I will traverse every landscape of your mind like a wandering Spartan / steeped within your epic;
and when your eyes well and close like covers to a book,
you will know that I am your enraptured reader.
Share with me your novel,
and I will share with you my atlas.
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(Originally written January 12, 2013 - with original title)
The original was written in vers libre.
Below is a re-write of the above poem (the original version).
Lift your dark veil and honor me; your gaze.
I shall then look within your arcana,
And read your soul’s memoirs exotica.
Therein I’ll be steeped; your epic queen’s maze,
Forever lost within your heart, your craze.
Drunken by your pernicious ambrosia,
Decipher past your prolegomena,
In the depths of your tale, I’ll learn thine ways.
Exist within this esoteric myth,
Now you’ve shared with me this novel you write.
Together we explore these chapters all,
We endure all suffering of this pith,
A legendary saga into night,
Pallas’ aegis; roars of gorgans’ loud bawl.
I wrote this as a Petrarchan sonnet, but using alternating lines of iambic, and trochaic pentameter respectively.
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