Lost to your Art
Decible/experimental form "Instructions for Disappearing"
So
🖌️
You want
To fade
🎨
Pass into
The ether
It's easy
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If you do it
Right, I would know
A lost page in
An endless tale
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Each and every night
Heavy lids decline
Light reflections fade
I am once again
But a memory
⊹₊⟡⋆🎨🖌️⋆⟡₊⊹
To follow suit, simply
Strip away all human
Activity, replace
Mimicry with innate
Inclination, masking
With authenticity
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The mind cannot comprehend
If it has no reference
You must become a centaur
Live naked in the streets like
Our greatest philosophers
The odd, undesirable
Go on unidentified
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Give in to curiosity
Give voice to ecstasy and fear
Chase butterflies, and wingèd things
Catalog life's dirges and hymns
Unburden yourself every day
The release lets your soul take wing
Tears wash away evidence of
Internalized monotony
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Invisibility is a state
A regression, blanking the canvas
Patiently in anticipation
Of inspiration, living ouvre
Disambiguated heart, remade
Spontaneous theme generation
Medium and artist, a conduit
Open flow channel siphoning self
Lost to the muse, drawn in the process
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World building, rewriting the universe
Painting invented colors on your face
Possessed by the all-consuming drive to
Create. Painstakingly craft and recount
A fictitious galaxy's history,
Nigh, very reality. Sacrifice
Yourself on the altar of immersion
Every neuron devoted to this most
Sacred calling, be forever ensconced
A toiling haunt to your own ideas
K.B. Silver
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This entry to the "Instructions for disappearing" prompt challenge is written in the experimental form I created, The Decible. I am partial to syllabic poetry, and so I arranged the building stanzas of increasing syllables in a way I found aesthetically and rhythmically pleasing.
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A quick overview of what a Decible is and how to write one:
The Decible poem is composed of ten stanzas in total.
The first stanza begins with one line, increasing one line at a time, ending at ten lines.
Each stanza increases the number of syllables per line, from one syllable in the first line until you compose the tenth stanza with ten lines of ten syllables each.
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This is the other most recent Decible I posted:
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K.B. Silver
K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.
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It's like a whisper from the void. Your form The Decible breathes like a living thing.