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Seabound Stars

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Published: Dec 18, 2012

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Literature Text

She negates nebulae, calling comets to dive
beneath breathless waves while she begins sectioning stardust
inside her rib's ravines; harpsichord hipbones
plucked for promises with faulty fingertips. Cyclones
rain rage at gaunt galaxies. She postpones
her haunting to tangle my tether, this is the hardest
leaking lungs have labored to allow her to thrive.

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Salted fingertips pluck at his
seaweed hair, trying to mimic the
sound of the ocean at
sunrise. The boy with
sea-scape eyes, black and dark,
scared but cruel
stands inside the ocean's heart at sunset.

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Unending folds of sky are stolen; by his sea-soaked hands
and he wrings its last breath. Her most beloved constellation
begins speaking with the flickering of heartbeats. He stops.

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The last of your kind,
with the solar flare of hope.
I am a black hole.

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She shields herself beneath his froth,
tamed fingers reach forward to grasp at light,
as if the sun had a body she could hold.

He places her cosmic hands
into the watery cluster of his
and asks, 'How do I catch stars?'

'Hold your breath - hurl your wishes

against the sky. Watch them shatter.'

For #ProjectDFC's December Form Challenge

I haven't written in a very long time. I mean a very long time, but I did promise *kiwi-damnation I would try to participate. Also, since I'm lazy, they're all going in one deviation and I like these enough to put in my gallery[for now], but not in their own deviations. December 4th, 7th, and 17th. I'll add more whenever I can muddle through some of the other forms and not cry because forms are so difficult for me.

I also seem to like the sea and stars lately.

Edit: Added Days 15 and 19.

December 4th: The Alliterisen
^{The Alliterisen (Complex and Rhyming), a form created by Udit Bhatia, is a simple seven-lined poem with a specific syllable pattern and two alliterations per line.}
My base syllable count was 12 because I take a long time to say anything apparently.

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December 7th : Pleiades
^{A seven line, 1 stanza poem formed by Craig Tigerman. The first words of each line have to start with the same letter as the title.}
I didn't follow the rules on this form because of reasons.

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December 15th: Pyongsijo 'Si Jo'
^{The melodic Korean form pyongsijo, otherwise known in the west as merely ‘Si Jo’ features 3 lines of 14-16 syllables each with pauses mid-sentence. Each line addresses something different.

1st Line: Opens, presents the situation, problem or theme.
2nd Line: Development of the story, a turn and elaboration.
3rd Line: Concludes the poem. The first half of this line contains a twist or resolution of the theme.}
Added on December 18th. So. Difficult.

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December 17th: The Haiku
^{A haiku is a Japanese style of poetry that has 3 lines with syllabic counts 5, 7,5 and are usually seasonal or about nature. They are also about the human condition and how this is related to or made insignificant by nature.}

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December 19th: The Indriso
^{The Indriso is an Italian form that is similar to the sonnet except its structure features two 3 line stanzas (terzains) and two 1 line stanzas. It is meant to have a melodic flow like a song and combine this with the punchy one line statements.}
Added on December 19th.