06-14-2023, 08:52 AM
An angel is a chimera, usually. The typical human with bird wings. Or other strange brew.
The first stanza states that confusion.
The second stanza states contradictions, and a union of opposites, still somehow positive.
The third stanza starts with the winter moon over from the dark but obviously partially light parts above. Ends with a period. Then gives a long-lingering-flash-before-the-soul concreteness. The Dante reference used to cement it.
If you want to jazz it up with unique-sounding trickery:
Cherub, chimera,
whatever you were -
an angelic thing
skip the an
or fire breathing dragon
or dragon breathing
upon me, a mortal -
I remember your wings.
Things like that.
You could say:
I remember the wings.
To make it at-first-startling-subtlety-impersonal. A bit of sincere hesitation.
The first stanza states that confusion.
The second stanza states contradictions, and a union of opposites, still somehow positive.
The third stanza starts with the winter moon over from the dark but obviously partially light parts above. Ends with a period. Then gives a long-lingering-flash-before-the-soul concreteness. The Dante reference used to cement it.
If you want to jazz it up with unique-sounding trickery:
Cherub, chimera,
whatever you were -
an angelic thing
skip the an
or fire breathing dragon
or dragon breathing
upon me, a mortal -
I remember your wings.
Things like that.
You could say:
I remember the wings.
To make it at-first-startling-subtlety-impersonal. A bit of sincere hesitation.