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of chiaroscuro; light amidst darkness, just as stars pierce depths of night sky, without which, midnight’s firmament would seem an eerie void, looming above, threatening to stifle us while we dreamed</p><p id="6bac">Before, and after the cliché — linings silver, through dark terrains of travail, veined in obsidian cliffs of unbearable impasses; hope, despite arduous obstacles, grace like moonlight, grazing liquid lips of life’s lake</p><p id="b043"><b><i>© Melissa Coffey August 2021</i></b></p><p id="a970">I chose two pairings of “mirror etherees” for this poem — to resemble lopsided diamonds. If you’d like to know how to write a poem in etheree form, and their many lovely variations, please read my own prompt below:</p><div id="a5be" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/syllabic-poetry-meet-the-etheree-dda98f5822c8"> <div> <div> <h2>Syllabic Poetry: Meet the Etheree</h2>

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Silver Glimmers: An Etheree

Contemplations of chiaroscuro

Photo by Shlomo Shalev on Unsplash

The oyster shell, swirled and pearled inside, after the bounty is plundered; reflected radiance and eddied fogs, exhaled upon walls and ceilings of a sand grain's aquatic chamber; the dreaming of a pale pearl’s becoming

Intricate tracings of wandering snails, mercuric hieroglyphics; read, like strange nocturnal tales by the winking eye of crescent moon; gleaming delicacy of filigree, laced, across parchment of pathways after rain

What delights bright, lie in contemplations of chiaroscuro; light amidst darkness, just as stars pierce depths of night sky, without which, midnight’s firmament would seem an eerie void, looming above, threatening to stifle us while we dreamed

Before, and after the cliché — linings silver, through dark terrains of travail, veined in obsidian cliffs of unbearable impasses; hope, despite arduous obstacles, grace like moonlight, grazing liquid lips of life’s lake

© Melissa Coffey August 2021

I chose two pairings of “mirror etherees” for this poem — to resemble lopsided diamonds. If you’d like to know how to write a poem in etheree form, and their many lovely variations, please read my own prompt below:

More “Form” Poetry — The Flamenca:

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Etheree
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