Gone is the glory

Shrouding the room

Keeping alive the

Memory entombed

Captive in stares

Stiffened to defy,

With the lightning

Fusing the fervor

Inside effulgent eyes

Quickening the Lives

Brewed in the brume,

Trickling into icicles

Of what once grew.



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vocabulary



brume -n poetic, heavy mist or fog

[C19: from French: fog, from Latin brūma orig. winter solstice]



effulgent - adj shining forth brilliantly; radiant.



shrouding - vb ( tr ) to wrap in a shroud; ( tr ) to cover, envelop, or hide



fervor - n great intensity of feeling or belief; ardour; zeal; passion

06/07/2016

Posted on 06/07/2016
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