Moth Bitten Beauty

By lupus tenebrae

 



You were gone
like half crescents in tandem
and leaves to branches, bare
like the minimal form of beauty.

You taught compassion
in delicacy and stardust
as surely the heavens sent you,
for your visage is greater than I.

You were inspiration,
a canvas brought to life
in shallow, underrated breaths,
appreciated by connoisseurs.

I wished to hold you,
but you were something sacred,
a living tattoo, and fleeting symbolism
upon the contrast of the sky. 

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Copyright 2012 lupus tenebrae
Published on Saturday, April 14, 2012.     Filed under: "Love" and "Poetry"

Author's Note:

*Repost* A little something from the archives, it was the first time I found something so delicate.
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  • carlosjackal On Wednesday, June 14, 2023, carlosjackal (3010)By person wrote:

    This is lilting and oh so lovely yet also tragic at the same time. Wonderful work.

  • blue On Tuesday, October 8, 2013, blue (1454)By person wrote:

    There are just poems that cannot be taken more deeply, each word so intimately known they must surely had been with us all along.....this is heart-work, is blood-work, is the very essence of what gives real and true and wonderful poetry its life and sustains its effect long after the reading is complete. And the title, for me personally could not be more appropriate. Time and again your work shines brightly through the darkness we too often find here. Thank You. ~b

  • A former member wrote: beautiful and sentimentally heart fluttering. a gorgeous classical feeling piece of poetry. glad i found it. i ache. thanks.

  • A former member wrote: Can´t touch this. So beautiful and dark...and profound..wish I could write like this.

  • blue On Sunday, April 15, 2012, blue (1454)By person wrote:

    I can't touch this..... this is... too close. ~b

  • NikesRain On Saturday, April 14, 2012, NikesRain (1298)By person wrote:

    absolutely gorgeous... it whispers like a precious daydream and has the feel of fine silk... such a loving and lovely expression... this is to sigh for

  • Devilish On Saturday, April 14, 2012, Devilish (2662)By person wrote:

    WOW!! damn .. damn.. Scholar

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