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I
06:37
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Beneath the shade of bloodless moon
reflected light of sanguine sun
Fire in these veins thirsts for open air;
to ignite the dark and drown the moon
Liquid light of crimson gold
fills opaque and fading vessel
Tarry through time's reaction:
dark horizons withhold the sun
I find myself gone far afield
in service of gold, with skin of lead
I walk these fields of shadow before dawn
hunting blind eyed for light
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II
07:26
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the days arrive in smoky grey
breathing air of filtered light
a world of shells; hollow or masked
drawing sight from eclipsed light
the hours forged in gold tinged haze
solar flares
through desire and moon shadow
the road ahead
a journey taken as light through a veil
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III
09:12
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Borne away on winds I can't rescind
on pleadings terse for eclipse reversed
for lunar skin stained red instead.
How opaque the inherent drapery all must bear
bereft of hope to find
the corona's pale though lingering halo
traced around a temporal human face.
Now under moon snuffed sun
sprouting skin assails enfleshing vales surrounding.
My failing limbs impart frostbitten hymns
in tongues of stone.
But sing o' muse
of my upturned eyes imbued
with gold leaf steadily dripping off the vellum dangling dead
from the branches overhead.
These parchments house the sun's extinguished trails
illumined in gold renderings.
Their suffused glows thaw thickening snows.
Depictions of eternal suns
entice my sullied state of ice.
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IV
07:55
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In velvet skies adorned with drapes of light
moving slumber slow
whispers sung of hope afar descend to allay
the restless tides of my fallow heart
born away in time, awash in the glow
I'm lulled to repose through echoes of the winters din
with veils disposed and light left passage in.
My breath still labors in this frail faulted covering,
its burden lingers on.
With the memory that remains,
my eyes are raised to the ever-present sun.
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