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Mother Phoebe
Clear welkin molds around pillars and pendulums
As a familiar hue
Peaceful blue
With the rise of earth and fall of sun
Black velvet is pulled over the pallet’s eyes
In eerie glow and glory
Phoebe rises once more
Slowly, the mortal and ever immortal should see
Her mass in the sky, a collied beauty
Beshrewed are these dragging hours
More parlous than a hind’s eye
But just as moving and still
As silent and boisterous
As guilty and innocent
As mysterious and known
Vestal Phoebe with the world in her womb
Will rub her abdomen and coo
If we feel the closeness
Realize the darkness
And deja vu
She lingers time, or so she tries
But she feels the bulging pressure
Phoebe reluctantly pushes and dwindles away until the fade of day
Freed darklings from the night until the loss of light
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Sorry, some of these words are confusing. I had to write a poem for school using words in my novel, and I was reading "A Midsummer Night's Dream" by Shakespeare. So here's what some of the words mean:
Welkin: Sky; Gateway to Heaven
Collied: Darkened ("'A Darkened Beauty'")
Beshrewed: Cursed
Parlous: Dangerous
Vestal: Virgin
So yea, hope that helps :) I know this poem sounds very...adult-like. But I thought keeping the Shakespearian words gave the poem character. Hopefully everyone can tell the message of this poem, because I'd really hate having to explain that!