O Comet of Another's Dream
original poetry featuring the art of JanRobbe...with recitation on
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[short update on the contest at the bottom!]
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O Comet of Another's Dream
I.
Someone else's history,
a subtle barrage of memories bygone
cometlike descent rescinds me
flayed by the haunting likeness
of their idealshpere.
personified fancies,
& a brazen button.
more than reflect
Psychic energy like the ground opened up:
Absorption abysmal – capturer of joy,
I am vacuumed through to
someone else's eyes of beguiling
desperation.
orbs strobing disillusionment & ecstasy
a land barren – wombful of prophets,
loom of accosting striations, here the
crunched edges are brigands, here the
smooth corners are speaking cadavers
O Ancestors!
O muse.
Lessening, or quickened,
The gnome intellect hermetical
With blasphemous momentum
Autonomously builds and unbuilds
Its capital cities.
II.
Empire of lustrous unbecoming—
You who fit to the pedestal
Some artifact uproarious with hellfire.
You who clenches the bristling falcon's roost,
Who agitates a pristine pond
Who executes abstruse decrees
Who maims the flush of youth's careless glee
Who laughs in disaster's wake
Who cries cruel fantasy through moonbeams
Who rages in the face of love
Who snuffs promise with
an acolyte's gown
Who turns away the agonized bride
Who wallows in despair's necrotic fluid
Whose plenitude of wile chokes the righteous
Whose pyramid of fire blinds the poor.
You, whose ætheric stone bends
the universe's gravity &
produces greatness & mediocrity
Inside a gourd of papyrus:
Who are you?
And whence came
The traces of universal essences
You trail barrage-like, O comet of dreams?
Written & spoken
By 
3/10/18
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Art by
JanRobbe
.1 — "Riverside"
2 — "Solace"
3 — "Ice Strength"
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Short update on 100 days challenge
Hi all!
here. First I want to apologize for my lack of formal updates for day 3 & 4. To be completely direct, I am way behind in my work on the challenge. I am currently building a team to help me manage everything. Most of my life I have been a person that tries to do everything myself. However, this undertaking is too big for one person! So I must express my apologies that I have not been able to run this challenge as well as I would like.Here is a mini update to tide you over:
- Winners for days 2 and 3 are not yet announced. More information will come tomorrow.
- Maximum skip days in the 100 days is increased from 7 to 10. HOWEVER, If a contestant skips 3 days in a row, they will be disqualified.
- Poetry class is moved one hour earlier, now at 6 PM GMT (the same time days begin & end.) It lasts for 2 hours. The reason is so we do not go over into the next session as we have been.
- No official class tomorrow. I want to take a day and catch up on some things.
- First theme for Monday's class is the use of repetition. Second topic will be "inspiration/writer's block."
- I am reading many poems, but currently don't have the time to leave in depth feedback via comments. A huge shout out to all the participants that are helping in that area!!
- Massive gratitude, love & respect for all participants, as well as the curation team I am putting together. An emphatic and joyful thanks is also in order for the visionary founder of the Steemit school, generally amazing person and friend,
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Tomorrow I will come forth with a traditional, mega-update. Thanks for bearing with me. I'm doing the best that I can. :-)
