Heaven's Mystique

Steven Dupere 1963 (MA)

Teach me to cherish the end of all things
when breath grows shallow and eyes grow dim.

Lift fears to part skies that hide the heavens
if I am to be carried through stratospheres
into a midst of wisdom beyond comprehension.

What reigns within the vastness of stardust
that has born me unto its mystique
if not the keys to my query?

Shall I rise beyond all knowing
to embrace the hands
that lift the veil of mystery
my flesh has been bound to?

And if to rise, what be its purpose
outside the bones of spirituality?

Am I more than meager knowledge
or less than what eludes me to its end?

Where be the voice that haunts
my humanity...
my immorality...
my fears...
and my courage
if not out beyond the realm
that calls thought
into the brume of nightfall?

Am I but an eye for to see,
blind like an escapade of unknown,
or opulence like dawn
which brings peace and solitude
to an ever-drifting need?

Bare me now and I shall give back
what has been borrowed
to pay back what has been spent.

I’ve been too meager a stone,
headstrong, stood fast and faceless
before an eternity that renders me
paltry and blind.

I see not the great partition,
nor division that leads to sight alone.
It is there you have dwelt
beyond sight...
beyond sound...
beyond reach...
impossibly small,
with no concept for my intuition.

It is here I have wept,
sitting in silence,
waiting, watching, wondering,
to find nothing but myself
lost to further inquiry as a broken bit
helpless, lonely and devoid.

Where be you then, great unknown,
if not within all things that lead me
into further peril of your stillness?

Where be you then???

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Written on December 08, 2023

Submitted by Symmetry60 on December 08, 2023

Modified by Symmetry60 on February 07, 2024

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Scheme	AX XAB XXC DXCX EC FX XCCXFXXG CHXXX XXX HECX BHXXXXGB XXDXXX HCE X
Closest metre	Iambic tetrameter
Characters	1,653
Words	356
Stanzas	14
Stanza Lengths	2, 3, 3, 4, 2, 2, 8, 5, 3, 4, 8, 6, 3, 1

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Steven Dupere

With a book of poetry to boast, Waltz of Semantic Tongues, Steven has been challenging nervous canvases for more time than time can shake an eon at. This is a shard of that fallout. more…

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NubianFantabulous
This is all sorts of wonderful.
LikeReply 13 months ago
- Symmetry60
  Well, aren't you sweeter than cherry pie. Thank ya, Miss Phantasmagorical.
  LikeReply3 months ago
Kaytee
Whoa, this one is amazing. How do you keep that all brilliance to yourself? I love this one so much.
LikeReply 13 months ago
- Symmetry60
  Here's my problem..or one of them anyway. Often times when I create a piece I'll think, that's pretty good, or okay, or not good or damn good. When I wrote this one, I thought it came out great. I loved it, dot, dot, dot, BUT as I kept going back to edit and rearrange, I'd read it so many times that I began to not love so much. This happens to me a LOT. I am such a critic of myself that I literally, at times, will change a contest entry numerous times to another poem simply because I've sickened myself having re-read original entries too many times to count. Ugh!
  
  By the time the actual voting came about I was far beyond loathing this piece. I can barely stomach it now. I need to just write the damn things, enter them then go play in the mud. My problem is I'm such a perfectionist when it comes "most" contest entries that it becomes nauseating at times. I read this now and I want to vomit as I think, "What the HELL were you thinking!?!?" I need therapy, an enema and a Flintstones vitamin. :-P more »
  LikeReply3 months ago
- Kaytee
  Your work is amazing! I think we are our own worst critics. I hope you keep putting your work our there and just trust that it is good. Maybe some poems are better than others but I think we have different opinions on what is a masterpiece. Keep creating! more »
  LikeReply 23 months ago
lovingempath
Wow Steve! This poem is pretty heavy, but not too heavy for me to follow :). I think it's beautifully rendered.
LikeReply 13 months ago
- lovingempath
  I forgot to add the 'visually impactful' part :).
  LikeReply 13 months ago
- Symmetry60
  Thank you. I'm trying to make my contest entries a bit easier to grasp. I thought this one came out half decent but also knew it would get no votes. Thanks for reading and commenting.
  LikeReply 13 months ago
- lovingempath
  If I had been in the contest...This would have been a top contender for me. IMO...it's much more appealing to a 'vast' audience than your other poem; which would have a very narrow focal group...as good as it is. I am very surprised you didn't get votes. I didn't either, if that makes you feel any better :). more »
  LikeReply 13 months ago
- Symmetry60
  These are the types of poems that will, often times, flow from me like water from a faucet. I've written poems like this in mere minutes in the past...not all, but some. When the flow ceases and I start to struggle, I'll walk away and come back to it later to see if I can pick up where my pea brain left off. This one was a quicky and tore out of me like diarrhea on taco Tuesday.
  
  Ain't I a keeper, darling. ;-P more »
  LikeReply 13 months ago
- lovingempath
  LOL! The poems that 'flow' are more true to the soul in my humble opinion. I haven't been hit by any thunderbolts for awhile; but when I labor over a poem too much, it loses a little something.
  LikeReply 13 months ago

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