I don't have Microsoft Word so I'm just gonna use this blog post as my draft while I write my poem :(
Dying Embers
Part 1: Dragons
Time: -9078.13/64:24 GCT
I awaken, to the midst of night: the cold, the deafening, darkless night,
And as I lay, my gaze drifts to, where a million embers line my sight,
And, shining, cut the shadows through, to light my eyes far in the distance...
"Oh," said I, in wonder quite, "how I truly wish I knew
What lights the bounds of my existence."
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Now as I watched: all the twinkling lights; did hold me - a captive - with their sight,
And as I stared, pondered, wondered; how with those embers I might unite,
To my shock, in fold a hundred, rapidly I felt my body grow.
Till, at last, great wings of might! Of neither flesh, nor blood, and
Yet now, in reach, lay the stars, aglow.
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I spread my wings, and to my delight, saw a thousand metal scales take flight,
Glistening blue, drifting nearer, near the burning embers of the night.
As I came to see them clearer, I bore a floating nest of metal
But, within, my nesting site: cults, Kyarr, plagued my feeder,
So, among these, I chose to settle.
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Time continued, passing mite by mite, around this ember that burned so bright-
My scales grew more, my wings in flight
Spanned from Sol to Ceti,
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[encounter with gaule dragon]
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[mutual expansion, peaceful]
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[skirmishes]
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[offended]
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[starting a fight]
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[closing reflection while locked in battle]
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Part 2: Spoils of War
Time: -000.04/83:07 GCT
I awake
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Part 3: Dying Embers
Time: 000.01/92:23 GCT
I awaken, to this home of mine, in amber glow of fireshine,
"like the final embers of some dragon's dying breath"
Re: Dying Embers (draft) Posted from Tau Station (Sol) by AuroranMelody at 207.92/38:789 GCT
If you see this post before the poem is done... please politely pretend you didn't :)
Re: Re: Dying Embers (draft) Posted while traveling from Sol Jump Gate (Sol) to Alpha Centauri Jump Gate (Alpha Centauri) by RuthlessCombat at 207.98/17:748 GCT
I see nothing, I know nothing...
Re: Dying Embers (draft - please don't read yet) Posted from Tau Station (Sol) by AuroranMelody at 207.93/42:584 GCT (edited by AuroranMelody at 207.93/42:869 GCT)
Rhythm Notes:
Part 1:
4, 5 / 9 (over 3)
4, 4 / 9
3, 5 / 9
1, 2, 4 / 7
9