''O Sacred Muse! How You Inspire Me So,'' a Villanelle (2nd draft)
O sacred Muse, how you inspire me soto write lines of a greater madness,
to sing of ethereal heights they never know!
From deep inside my soul, where ravings grow,
you transport me to pinnacles of gladness,
O sacred Muse (and then inspire me so!).
And so I go, from that which I best know
to wilder things like ecstatic happiness,
to sing of ethereal heights they never know.
Then write I songs of a more manic glow,
and forswear ditties of forlorn sadness,
O sacred Muse (when you inspire me so!).
For all know that gay lines do better flow,
and make a more pleasing sound of sweetness
to enhance ethereal heights they never know.
So, now, for this mad swan do God's breath blow
stronger with thy gifts, thou fairest goddess,
O sacred Muse:—for you inspire me so,
and sing of ethereal heights I well know!
Poetry by Ngoc Nguyen
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Written on 2020-07-21 at 15:17
Tags Goddess Madness Muse
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