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The Wanton Rapture Blazing

"The Wanton Rapture Blazing"

I hear you in the ribbons that sing
tied to poles of gallantry where charged
with acts of misadventure love carried me
to your walls, I wrote on them then, as I do now
to trace each mark, each a scar on the other's groove penned,
a key for the turning buried deep in a forgotten heart 
revenge does not exist there, it lies in state numbed 
on the boundaries where ruined territories whisper, best buried 
never to be found again, what judgement made you misadventure,
to seek me here, standing on the other side of inside out exposed,
with my runes tempting futures with an inner fortune split 
and rendered aligned with waning moon, we call to each other like loons,
you seem to be full of the Icarus waxing lyrical, billowed you, approaching
the all seeing I, your valentine downfall, the wanton rapture blazing 

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
Valentines Day



“Bayonne”/ Elysian Fields
https://youtu.be/6XSekP_8Gp8















Inspired by Petrarch’s 
“To Make A Graceful Act of Revenge” 
https://petrarch.petersadlon.com/canzoniere.html?poem=2

Petrarch
(Francesco Petrarca, 1304 -1374)
Philospher, Poet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch





LYRICS/ “Bayonne”, Elysian Fields 
https://genius.com/Elysian-fields-bayonne-lyrics








As the undertow is pulling me down
With your cross examination
I'm receding in the teeth of your plow
But I won't dig my own grave


As you're twisting every word that I say
There's a snare in the forest
Under brush where you want me to play
But I won't dig my own grave

Copyright © Lady Labyrinth | Year Posted 2022

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Unseeking Seeker Date: 2/27/2022 8:00:00 PM Thanks for sharing this "To Make a Graceful Act of Revenge" Login to Reply Lady Labyrinth Date: 2/27/2022 11:18:00 PM Graceful is surely better than brutal.

Lady Labyrinth Date: 2/9/2022 11:42:00 PM Petrarch, Poet/Philosopher (1304-1374) - "To Make a Graceful Act of Revenge". Login to Reply Lady Labyrinth Date: 2/9/2022 11:42:00 PM "To make a graceful act of revenge, and punish a thousand wrongs in a single day, Love secretly took up his bow again, like a man who waits the time and place to strike. My power was constricted in my heart, making defence there, and in my eyes, when the mortal blow descended there, where all other arrows had been blunted. So, confused by the first assault, it had no opportunity or strength to take up arms when they were needed, or withdraw me shrewdly to the high, steep hill, out of the torment, from which it wishes to save me now but cannot."