Nemesis - A Poem

My second tribute is to William Blake (1757-1827), the poet, painter, imaginative, mystic & intellectual visionary. A seminal figure of the Romantic age, he has been deemed a major poet & an original thinker.

The prompts I have chosen from his poems are:

Dark secret love 

Crimson joy 

(Poem: The Sick Rose)

Seize the fire 

Immortal hand 

Dread grasp

(Poem: The Tyger)

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Spilling poetic ink 

for William Blake; 

Letting words spin & link, 

as verses arise & awake! 

Nemesis.

A dread grasp

of an immortal hand,

doth seize the fire of gloom,

deceives in pitiless ploy;

A burn of betrayal,

hard to withstand

writ on the faithful plume

of her heart, t'was but a toy;

A dark secret love,

of sinister strand

blackens the bloom,

poisons petals of crimson joy;

A deadly duplicity,

is quiescent quicksand

nemesis rages in doom,

profound passion, it doth destroy.

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