https://operationnull.com/feeds/tags/poetry.xmlTag: poetry2026-09-06T13:34:17Zhttps://operationnull.com/shape-god.htmlbdunahu2024-02-12T00:00:00Z<p>Updated June 30th, 2025</p> <blockquote> <p>An abiding ash snares its feathered lord;<br />the first bears shelter, the second shadow.<br />Darkness thrashes in envy, a callous cord;<br />life seldom slaughters the serf of gallows.</p> <p>In sacred wellspring bearing a kingdom,<br />lowly ancients bargain poison and vice.<br />A madman need savor his wisdom;<br />to take lore for sight is a witless price.</p> <p>Wanderer impaled by most faithless knife<br />tarnished talons adrift the bleeding red,<br />from the icy fibers of self-suffered life<br />our king --- war-maker! all-hater! --- has fed.</p> <p>In burst fetters terror comes to bite,<br />and thus conclude the coward's futile plight.</p> </blockquote> <p>Further updated to add some context: this is a shakespearean sonnet... they are a little tricky to write, and in opinion the kind of thing that needs to be edited over multiple sittings. Meter is also an important part of these poems, which requires a certain amount of syllables per line (usually 10), and every other syllable must be stressed.</p> <p>That's called <em>iambic pentameter</em>, which I only loosely followed. Making these is a word puzzle!</p>