Ki Wone
Sean Taylor 1968 (Georgia)
Brazen Truth
Stepping through Clio’s book
Seized the hearts of some,
Their minds and hands
And, forcing the pen along the page,
Began to write.
Inspiration.
They named it so
Though the service was immutable,
Fixed before the first struggling cries
When Truth drew breath into
Time’s infant lungs.
While others
Danced their secret initiates
Under night’s unclosed gaze,
Dreading against all hope
To touch the emptiness, failed,
And named the emptiness gods,
Truth laughed
At the creatures of dust,
Fashioned himself in their image,
And let them touch
The very thought
Of who he was.
© Sean Taylor
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Submitted by seanhtaylor on May 20, 2021
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 99 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 24, 1 |
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