Melancholy
original poetry
Introduction
Melancholy is a type of sadness unlike ordinary disappointments and hurt feelings. It is a sort of pensive disposition not directly proportional to the events of life. It is a more expansive gloom than even the most sorrowful memories could conjure. It is, perhaps, joy's shadow: the intuition of some vast design, which, however, eludes one's comprehension, and therefore haunts rather than enlightens. Perhaps, it is empathy extrapolated to a cosmic scale: the tuning into the miseries of bygone eras. In any case, it is a common affliction, especially among artists, intellectuals, and those spiritually inclined. It is evasive, defying satisfactory description: yet here is one meagre attempt by yours truly.
Reading notes
The poem is composed of seven stanzas, each having one more line than the previous (beginning with 3.) Thus, stanza one has 3 lines, stanza two 4 lines, stanza three 5 lines, and so on, up to 9 lines for the final stanza. Additionally, the lines of the stanzas alternate "long and short" to create an interesting form, symbolic of the repetitive nature of the melancholic feeling. The piece is written in free verse.
Stanza 1-3
Melancholy as the choice fuel for diabolical entities.
Stanza 4 & 5
Idealization of youthful romanticism and innocence.
Stanza 6 & 7
Melancholy as the echo of divine glory.
Melancholy
(with images)
A rare nectar
That swings the
Flytrap shut
.
Enticing ghouls:
Their slow tentacular
Vampirism of joy
Ravages the veneer
.
Creatures that smell heat,
Detect loveblood
With ghostly senses:
Life their fuel
To power evil's engine.
Morbidity,
The tenderness
Of youth,
Frost innocence
Unconscious,
The urge to union.
.
The overwhelm, archetypical
With potent feeling
Overloading bionic circuits
In a lunar harvest,
Centerpiece of the festival
Of sallow lights,
Glowing vortex melancholic.
Polarized lives,
Lurking or surging forth:
Dark alternation
In the revolution of orbs
Humming steady,
Quickening their resonance
By cold marriage
With the ether unalloyed.
.
Fruit of yearning in the vastness:
Melancholy, amber light.
Song of the remembrance of warmth—
Melancholy, crimson speech.
Heart of the agony of incarnation:
Melancholy, black tears.
Luminous booklet and affection's fade—
Melancholy, love transparent.
Nectar of lost purity, sad infinite facade.
Melancholy
(no images).
A rare nectar
That swings the
Flytrap shut
.
Enticing ghouls:
Their slow tentacular
Vampirism of joy
Ravages the veneer
.
Creatures that smell heat,
Detect loveblood
With ghostly senses:
Life their fuel
To power evil's engine.
.
Morbidity,
The tenderness
Of youth,
Frost innocence
Unconscious,
The urge to union.
.
The overwhelm, archetypical
With potent feeling
Overloading bionic circuits
In a lunar harvest,
Centerpiece of the festival
Of sallow lights,
Glowing vortex melancholic.
.
Polarized lives,
Lurking or surging forth:
Dark alternation
In the revolution of orbs
Humming steady,
Quickening their resonance
By cold marriage
With the ether unalloyed.
.
Fruit of yearning in the vastness:
Melancholy, amber light.
Song of the remembrance of warmth—
Melancholy, crimson speech.
Heart of the agony of incarnation:
Melancholy, black tears.
Luminous booklet and affection's fade—
Melancholy, love transparent.
Nectar of lost purity, sad infinite facade.
Written by
12/28/17
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Image credits
.1 --- "Leaf Fiber" by isischneider
.
2 == "Venus Flytrap" by isischneider
.
3 --- "The Night The Moon Burned A Hole In The Sky"
by KittenDiotima
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4 == "The Colony - Edited Version" (edited)
by BuuckPhotography
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5 --- "Time in Fossil" by rain2shine
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6 == "Die Rast" (edited) by Knechter
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7 --- "Melancholy" by Cakobelo
