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DFC 2016 Day 7: Daughter Universe

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The moon shed more tears
    on that arduous night,
although she would never
    admit it.  To see
her daughter in love with a
    child of the light
compounded her heartache, for
    he, too, loved me.
Oh, son of day, verisimilitude
    may yet insist
that sun and moon and you and I
    can never coexist.
Thus fate contrives to separate us in this
    world of ours,
but I will build a boat of dreams to cross the
    sea of stars.
ProjectDFC Day 7: The Bar Form.  A 12th century German form of octets, where the first four lines carry a different meter or rhythm than the last four to create a sense of two songs coming together in one stanza.  Chosen meter is up to the poet, but must remain consistent from the first through all following stanzas.  The rhyme scheme is ababccdd.  I broke my lines up out of personal aesthetic preference.

For my Light. :heart:
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ShinyScribe's avatar
A boat of dreams to cross the sea of stars... such a beautiful ending. :heart: