Tithonus Dazzled by the Crowning of Aurora.
Francesco Solimena Italian, 1704
excerpt from Eos, by William Shakespeare, unpublished
Tithonus:
Eternal has the love forbidden tombed,
sweet oaths that influential Gods shall ease
my pains, that once immortal hath assumed
exalt the agedness my crime's appease.
Decrepit by the minds eye chemistry,
forthwith, the speculum, from which a gaze
was pardoned for immeasurable guarantee,
from which domain, the science it obeys.
Discrete, that to bewilder claim by breadth,
as if forever glides along its girth;
expectancy, no doubt shall measure death,
an infancy promoting one on earth.
Eternal do the bug bears of remorse,
combine the essense languishing beneath,
like Eden, had begun to over source
the certainty my Hell shall myelin sheath
Then Eos, the defining dawn of grace,
converge what arc to dark deceivings do
announce it though I doubt an ageing face,
enlightens it to flicker, - hence the woo!
Eos: (as Tithonus transforms into a cicada.)
I've wagered wars upon this soul of wine,
fermenting strangers further from the drift
of sentimental weakness, though the vine,
is severed, shall our parting be as swift.
Honorable mention
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