#tempels sonnet | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

definegodliness · 10 months

Text

When we will choose to fly

In each 'goodbye', a hushed, 'till when?' In that which we cannot exscind: The ‘us’ in ‘we’, preserved, predestined To meet among the stars again.

Where wanes renounced, the future found In life — by time, turned uncertain, Prevails the faith that we are bound To meet among the stars again.

Eyes closed doth seek the cosmic curtain Where perchance we'll see it lifted: In dreams wherein we live, nor die, So, hold on, where once we drifted.

Where some transcend, we'll choose to fly To meet among the stars.

--- 15-6-2023, M.A. Tempels ©

#poetry #spilled ink #writing #dark academia #romanticism #romantic poem #romantic poetry #creative writing #sonnet #tempels sonnet #soulmate #soul connection #rhyme #fixed verse #poem #tumblr poetry #poets on tumblr #love poem #love poetry

55 notes · View notes

cruxymox · 3 years

Text

i have not seen an angel in so long all eyes and wings surrounding my unrest i pull my heart out of the wooden chest so i will fall throughout the night’s grand song

angelsight - one proof of insanity setting my heart on fire is another i try again to find humanity so i will fall throughout the night’s grand song

you as blanket upon me and smother i curl and smoke - to the chest i return in dark wood smooth i close electric eyes and hope to dream of angels with that burn

one loose copper wire will be my demise so i will fall throughout the night

#smittenbypoetrygame #tempels sonnet #poetry #poem #that metallic angel thing again

70 notes · View notes

smittenbypoetry · 3 years

Text

Pop up prompt:

(From May 3rd till May 16th *this prompt has been extended by a week)

Challenge: Write a Tempels sonnet

The Tempels sonnet is written in iambic octa- or pentameter, and follows the following scheme:

a b b A - c d c A - d e f e - f A

The capitalized A-line rhymes with the first line, and is a repeated line. However, in the sonnet’s conclusion you remove the last two syllables of the repeated line, distilling it to its core to increase impact.

Examples:

Perhaps I’ll dream of trees

Her dancing spell

Helplessly addicted

her laugh, her voice (by @petrow.*)

*Fantasize the chopped off two syllables at the end of the last line, because at the time of @petrow’s writing that specific condition hadn’t been established yet.

--- Tag your poem #smittenbypoetrygame, and I will reblog it here. Be sure to use one of the first five tags to do this, else there’s a chance it won’t show up when I search for it. If I haven’t reblogged your poem within 24 hours, please send me a message and I’ll add it to the queue.

Good luck, have fun!

#poetry prompt #smittenbypoetrygame #writing prompt #poets on tumblr #tumblr poetry #poets #writers #creative writing #fixed verse #rhyme #tempels sonnet

59 notes · View notes

becomingpoet · 3 years

Text

Once, long ago, I met his kind:

The kind of man who walks with wind,

whose eyes conceal the sun within-

its radiant harmony never far behind.

I was caught in his light, defenseless,

overwhelmed by his molten skin

and the sacred rhythm we kept, now blessed,

its radiant harmony never far behind.

His eyes electrify soft skin

and encourage chemical souls to blend.

Yes I’ve met his kind before-

Sunlit muses walking among men-

The song we sing haunts the breath of the wind,

its radiant harmony never far.

#tempels sonnet #becomingpoet #poetry #smittenbypoetrygame #belated but I wrote it and it shouldn’t die in my drafts #the meter is off and the rhymes are slanted

51 notes · View notes

definegodliness · 2 months

Text

As eyes shone true

It's strange to drift in quietude… Of jarring noises, none remain; Replaced by you; your smile, your eyes. It's strange, for my ineptitude; My geode heart, benumbed by pain — My shame — has cracked inside: I died. Yet I lost naught but petty lies. Your truths remain: infinitude, As stars illume forever's plane. Your eyes —your eyes!— illume the skies Where once in darkness I would hide; Where once no heartstring could persist. Here, you wear white — you are my bride, And share a life so dearly missed.

--- 28-2-2024, M.A. Tempels © "... a Keats sonnet."

43 notes · View notes

definegodliness · 6 months

Text

Hyaline

The night arrived In dark of moon, obscured, As mournful clouds processed across the skies With solemn silence lasting in their wake.

Awash in black I sought to be assured Of life! — beyond my closed or blinded eyes, Unable to discern reality.

A noise; a sigh so soft, suffused with ache Caressed the drapes, and thus my gaze, allured, Beheld her love, confined in Spectral guise.

She reached with glassen fingers, mine to take: One touch to spark her luminosity; One kiss — that clouds, consoled — might free Her ghost.

Come morn I read her obituary And wish I'd been there When it mattered Most.

--- 19-10-2023, M.A. Tempels ©

A Keats sonnet

49 notes · View notes

definegodliness · 1 year

Text

18-1-2023, M.A. Tempels © “... a Keats sonnet.”

89 notes · View notes

definegodliness · 1 year

Text

Light & Shadow Play

Though sun ray gold may barely reach The alcove, earthen — shrub and trees — Here, soft moss grows in violent green.

Thin sallow leaves allow the breach; A willow’s veil, wind-swayed at ease; A mesmerizing shadow play.

These phantasmagoria, seen In wond'ring what our Earth might teach, Allure a pond'rer to his knees.

Absorb the human I have been; That my death-flogged soul, here, might stay Among lively golden shimmers.

Till twilight strikes my judgment day, Or until a future glimmers.

--- 6-1-2023, M.A. Tempels © “... a Keats sonnet.”

#poetry #spilled ink #writing #dark academia #poem #spilled thoughts #emotion #creative writing #tumblr poetry #poets on tumblr #keats sonnet #fixed verse #rhyme #alt lit #writeblr #writers on tumblr

96 notes · View notes

definegodliness · 2 years

Text

Tempels Sonnet (Template)

(Preferred) Meter: Iambic Tetrameter

Rhyme scheme: a b b A* - c d c A - d e f e - f A**

* The capitalized A-line rhymes with the first line, and is a repeated line. ** The last repeated A-line loses its last iambic foot.

I incorporated the repeating lines, because I love rondeaus and villanelles. I found the introductory stanza to be most satisfying with an ‘a b b a’ scheme as it has a sense of completion on its own, which fits it as the head of the poem. After that the body follows in an ‘a b a b’ scheme, interrupted by the repeated line, which I left out in the third stanza so the poem’s ‘reason’ stands out, and because it gives more power to it returning in the conclusion. However, in the conclusion you remove the last two syllables of the repeated line, distilling it to its core to increase impact.

Example:

Obsidian constrained

a - A faint glow frames the bolted door, b - Illuminating chosen dark; b - A knock resounds and I would hark A - If I would dare to dream once more.

c - Am I a fool for staying lost; d - Afraid of what my pulse dictates? c - I know my heart can’t ail the cost A - If I would dare to dream once more.

d - Could it be hope that now pulsates e - In rhythmic booms; within my room, f - A rhythm's premise, bright and true, e - Fractures the obsidian gloom.

f - This light, I know it could shape you, A - If I would dare to dream.

#Tempels sonnet #tempels sonnet template #for my own archives #i tend to invent shit and then forget all about it #even though i like it a lot #and this i love so much #wanted to share #but also have an easy search option for the scheme #would you believe it was invented in may 2021?#that's almost a year ago #time flies #i had forgotten all about it until i wrote obsidian constrained #talk about winter sleep #oh well #I intend to write some new ones in spring and summer #shape a little collection

20 notes · View notes

definegodliness · 3 years

Text

--- 10-5-2021

91 notes · View notes

definegodliness · 2 years

Text

Shrines and libraries

Your eyes, and I --- Awash in love, pure and hot enough To seer that gaze into The fabric of my very soul; And in my mind, erect a shrine To timelessness. I keep thinking about Your eyes, Religiously, ritualistically At haphazard intervals. Subconsciously, However, once experienced, Deliberately Caused to be profound, And ocean deep, as I know how Covertly easily Time steals our memories, Or paints them Into pictures, unclear, and far from the Initially registered reality. I fight this fact of life, fiercely. You --- Were real. Your eyes I did see. Your gaze I did meet. Your love, I did feel. You --- Were real. I visit and revisit Your shrine in my mind; write Poems about the veins in your Wrists; the freckles I kissed; The sharp lower canines That made you look feral. So, your Elfish eyebrows, and taunting smile. I write of the way Your hair would fall down, And how your scent would intoxicate me When carried by the steam, And augmented by the heat Of the shower. I incorporate the eye openers Of soft spoken conversations In testaments Of when the entire universe made sense. I shape sonnets For your hips, and hands; Rondeaus for your voice; villanelles For the heart that beats In your chest; I divine the nape of your neck; All, as manifests to closeness. I record you in rhyme As to not forget. As I know How covertly easily Time steals our memories. I accept That I no longer exist in your brain's Hemisphere. I accept You have No need to remember me. Yet I hope you dream, And that somewhere, subconsciously, There is a version of me that as of yet Still may exist for a while... Not as a standing monument to eternity, Yet as fog rising from a forgotten grave; A shape-shifting ethereal pall; A shredded niemendal; A phantom smile, Insignificant, Yet kind.

--- 13-4-2022, M.A. Tempels © (Niemendal, noun: a trifling thing; nothing. Often used to describe a meaningless romantic pocket novel.)

182 notes · View notes

definegodliness · 3 years

Text

Entertaining extremities

I am not wired to cherish extremes; I overthink, till I haven't a clue, Considering various reference schemes, But from the moment I saw you ---

I knew.

Before, there had never been certainty Within the fright of my mind's misty moors; No truth had ever sparkled so bluntly As that bright,

‘You are mine and I am yours.'

Suddenly, everything gleamed crystal clear; Absolved, I was, from disquieting doubt; My being, ridden by existential fear, By your love arose toward the ninth cloud.

Now, long after you left and broke my heart, I still cannot fathom we'd ever part.

60 notes · View notes

definegodliness · 3 years

Text

Sonnet zero (as in worthless)

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's, oh --- What's the use? Word, nor rhyme, nor metaphor Matter anymore.

All these tokens of affection, Unread, by reader, intended...

Created without raison d'être, Outlive their deliriously established purpose.

Irrational by Design; fantasized in semi- Conscious Survival mechanisms.

Reality Cannot exist,

Yet the desperately clung to dream can't be Conserved or maintained either.

What is left Is the tension between Vacuum and seal ; A status quo Of postponed Nothingness.

I shall compare thee To something, some Other day... If and when Living / existing May once more Make sense.

#poetry #spilled ink #writing #poem #free verse #emotion #creative writing #tumblr poetry #spilled thoughts #dark academia #alt lit #poets on tumblr #writers #writers on tumblr #words

64 notes · View notes

definegodliness · 3 years

Text

Divine intervention

Elysium’s hymns, soft in her embrace, Nigh persuade My damned soul to surrender Its earthen stronghold for infinite space If not her heartbeat echoed Its splendour.

To be so close to her love, free flowing, Transcends ev'ry sense Of dead or alive, As the All Begins shrinking and growing Like a whelmed heart pounds To try and survive.

Then, hallowed water, rejuvenating, Trickles From her lips in Deepest kisses Spilling elation; never abating In bequeathing empyrean blisses.

She embodies the light of long lost skies; My divine intervention, humanized.

#poetry #spilled ink #writing #light academia #dark academia #poem #writers #love poem #love poetry #romantic #romance #romanticism #romantic poetry #creative writing #tumblr poetry #rhyme #fixed verse #shakespearean sonnet #sonnet

76 notes · View notes

definegodliness · 3 years

Text

Loveless paths, dead ends

The visions of prismatic paradise Are safeguarded by the subconscious mind, Still sensed alive in the realm of closed eyes Rapidly moving till it’s you they find.

For a while scenes, fantasied, may flash by In redesigned unforgotten futures To visualize other paths to try; Different lifelines sewing Different sutures.

It is useless.

Every newly flicked switch Puts on a light bulb soon to short-circuit; Lust nor desire sustains the flame which Welds fast these pieces...

They no longer fit.

Then, every considered future's dismissed; Tossed to relive the day when we First kissed.

70 notes · View notes

definegodliness · 3 years

Text

Wonder’s embodiment

Youth: inchoate establishment of will, Free and unbound by external senses, Experiences, and deductions; still Beholding all --- through The clearest lenses.

Youth: the mind favors Awe over verdict In Subconscious mental leniency, Until life's rules of engagement Turn strict To guarantee The brain's efficiency.

To stay alive, The mind lets less ‘world’ in; Indifference is inevitable, Subsequent to this survival instinct That causes the curious eyes to dull.

It's strange, the way she eludes this Deemed truth; Staying wonder attuned, And full of youth.

57 notes · View notes