Shadowfall

In foam-crested wavelets the ocean heaves

Rolls, billows, surges to the heavens from the deep

 

Shadowfall – edge of darkness

Shadowfall – frail fit of green

Shadowfall – winds of madness

Shadowfall – the narcisscene

 

Comprized of atoms

Composed in time

Exposed to nature

Sublime

 

Shadowfall – winds of madness

Shadowfall – the narcisscene

Shadowfall – heart of darkness

Shadowfall – Gaia’s scream

 

Away

Away

Turn away

Away

Away

Darkness falls

Turn away

 

Shadowfall – heart of darkness

Shadowfall – Gaia’s cry

Shadowfall – sheen of sadness

Shadowfall – empires die

 

© Ian Lilburne 2017

 

The opening verse is an adaptation of a stanza from Virgil’s Aeneid.

I first read a variation of the couplet ‘Comprized of atoms|composed in time’ in an article on climate change in The Guardian (alas I didn’t note the name of the writer) but subsequently learnt that it refers to Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura.

‘Edge’ and ‘heart of darkness’ allude respectively to the 1980’s BBC TV drama and the Joseph Conrad novel.

Narcisscene is mine, a neologism.

 

A LOST VERSE

Cyclones, tsunamis

Lightning, hail

Earthquakes, volcanoes

Awesome all