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fictionadventurer · 2 days ago

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I run beneath the winter's icy skies while taking care to note the lovely scene so often it becomes a common sight and has no more enchantment for my eyes. Wrapped up within the veils of dull routine, to heaven's joy's I've given up the right. Yet when it seems my inattention bars my eyes from noting miracles unseen I stop to take a glimpse into the night and lose my breath to find the stars So bright

#fictionadventurer poetry #poetry #starfall #oh look another poem about winter stars #what a surprise #well look #i was outside last night #rushing inside because it was stupid cold #had been thinking about how taking note of the night sky to fight the dismalness means that it doesn't really hit the same anymore #but frankly at that moment i wasn't thinking about it at all #and then i happened to look up and it was like i'd been hit by a freight train #so bright #the stars looked about four times larger than usual #close enough to touch #it absolutely stopped my heart #and i had no right to it #absolutely no right #to be given such beauty when i'd let myself be numbed by mundane concerns #it needed a poem #i've wanted to write a curtal sonnet #and it turned out that ending spondee seemed the only way to capture that heart-stopping instant of being crushed by wonder #(wikipedia claims that since hopkins no one has used the form seriously)#(usually it's in poems explicating the form)#(this is inaccurate because 'the seventh raven' has an entire pov in curtal sonnets)#(but the form still deserves more serious consideration)#anyway here you go i've done my due diligence as a hopkins fan

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