Midnight SunA Poem by Italo FerranteThe atavic dispute between Darkness and Light, Night and Day.
One more time the black-browned Knight
Whose ebony armour no light reflects And whose starry eyes no shadow cast Here comes to knock on my open door Thus he enthralls me with his gloomy stare In his dark complexion I lose myself As though crawling upon the remains of ignited bonfires or Wading through the sombre cinders of a forgotten blaze Stardust spills from his glaring eyes Two stars torn away from the firmament Glimmer like two pearly moonstones Their abode remains the canopy of Heaven For they long to shine once more Upon the fading of a fair day Sending away the last vanishing sunshine Till glowing for the victory of their Queen Majestic in her milky vibrancy whilst she Illuminates the obscurest recesses of after dusk The Knight kneels down to implore me He begs me to unclose the gates of slumber To contemplate the Night slowly falling from above Diana is not to give in to the light, bidding The whole Realm of hers to reunite Against her despised kinsman, Apollo He will not defeat her indefatigable lunar army He will not sweep away the holy moonshine of hers The battle begins, Dark or Light? Morn or night? Fire, Air, Earth and Water blur Into one undefined element: Chaos Thus Mount Olympus crumbles away An ancestral feud bids the Earth to stop Its due course of rotation and revolution The ground trembles as the atavic dispute Comes to the final dismiss Diana, the Queen of Darkness, shines high and triumphant Two brighter stars stand out from the prying eyes of Heaven The two missing bodies return to their astral Home Parting from the pitch-black visage of the valiant Knight Who finally dissolves into ethereal evanescence The King of Light, Apollo forfeits the heavenly throne No sunlit clouds will ever shake the stardust off the Heavenly Vault No scorching day shall melt the chilled breath of the sleepless Night There's no such a thing as the grand splendour Of the one and only Midnight Sun Casting its moony glare upon Me © 2017 Italo FerranteAuthor's Note
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Added on August 5, 2017 Last Updated on August 5, 2017 AuthorItalo FerranteItalyAboutBudding writer, ambitious reader and contemplative thinker. Interested in: English Literature; Creative Writing; Visual Arts. Loves: The soothing musicality of the English language; Reading.. more..Writing
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