03-13-2025, 11:54 AM
(03-13-2025, 10:49 AM)Poet-dude-ig Wrote:Diligence is repaid with diligence.A Frigid BugI have convictions entombed in glaciation, ... glaciers bring life to hundreds of millions around the world. I like how the subject of the poem is fulsomely glorified
Yet springtime melts my frosted obstinacy. ... not only beneficent, but also merciful, like Maximus.
I weave a cocoon of icy expressions,
shielding me from greater evils than Helios. ... an expert poet AND a Renaissance man
Hidden behind silk and chrysalis,
I am a moth and a butterfly in the same very moment. .... and also a complicated genius. This is getting interesting
Inside, I am the library of Alexandria, ... the reference took some thinking. Nice one.
But alike, I am susceptible to flames.
I rise from the ashes, not a phoenix, ... one of my favourites.
But a burnt, misshapen bug bringing no more frigidity. ... this could be a reference to the gold bug, a creation of inestimable value in Poe's story. Phoenixes are relatively useless, being things of the imagination entirely. The parallel is not quite right, though. The library didn't go up in flames to become a gold bug. But like the great god Vishnu, the subject reappears as different avatars purely out of choice. Because he has a low boredom threshold. And he’s a god.
(I'm also open to title ideas alongside feedback <3 )
A great poem, your tribute to the narrator.
As an aside, an accountant friend told me that SOX problems were a big thing in the aftermath of Enron and the Sarbanes Oxley Act. This one is less so. There is hope after all, thought Scott.