Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

— Edgar Allan Poe

    • Scaldart@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      I’m still such a sucker for deliberately metered verse! I enjoy modern prose poetry for its incredible ability to create vivid visuals and spark the imagination, but when I write I tend to stick to more structured formats. I’m a syllable counter, a rhymer, and a meter-er for much of my personal work. Lol. Call me old-fashioned!

        • Scaldart@lemmy.worldOPM
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          1 year ago

          Yeah, I stick mainly to poetry. I haven’t truly published anything, but I am an avid user of Poetizer. I usually share my work there, but it’s more of a way to cloud-store my poems with a convenient sharing link than it is an actual platform.

          I like your approach to writing. I’d say that having those two separate outlooks on your content come together to form a more unique whole. Do you ever have any issues combining them? I can, for example, imagine writing lines that are particularly striking but wouldn’t flow within the sound of a piece I was currently working on.

          I’ll have to share some of my stuff here, eventually! I’m anxious to see what people think! But in the mean time, I really want to focus on helping this little community grow and thrive!