Of ancient shrines
Of Ancient shrines rise Prometheus
where buttressed walls crumble in the minds eye
we take our dance of cosmic chance
Colder shades then open seas in praise of life we seek
we leave it to microbial dust and enrich the mind
in symbolic rhyme
Where beauty walks a shadows edge dissolved in empty space
back to the garden of nature an age of innocence is born
like wounded faun we’ve weathered storm and awaken the
minds of men
Supernova vortexes evolve in double helix spirals of the solar wind
from protozoan revolutions
we are stardust once again
and universes are we
where up is down and in is out and all of us set free
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Submitted by sunrasmoondog on June 07, 2022
Modified on April 18, 2023
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Scheme | AXA XBX AXXC BACDD |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 626 |
Words | 118 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 4, 5 |
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