<center><h1>I build a universe of quiet ore</h1>*.
original poetry
& images
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by 
@d-pend</center>
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<h2>I build a universe of quiet ore</h2>

<h3>I.</h3>

A rough and blasted edifice of stone
to enter in the still, small hours alone
I build with careful hand, and steady glee
to ponder, or to sit soul-quietly.

I linger in the midst of crumbled time:
her broken arch, her portaled portico
whose poignant, unsurpassèd silent rhyme
entreats me but to feel, and not to know.

<h3>II.</h3>

Voice of the still hours,
will you bathe me with warm words?
Will you soothe with half-solace
born umbrella'd, half-heard?

Will you cast a whispered umber
over dusk of my tongue,
and rend sun asunder
whose light-stream I've sung?

A pittance of your patter-lack
for a speck-besotted mind,
I beg that utter prescience:
to know, and not to find.

<h3>III.</h3>

I build a universe of quiet ore
whose boulder and whose speck I smile upon,
soft-taken from the all-inviolate core:
by many spurnèd, though the same may fawn
in dream, or sudden disbelief, or death—
in living less convincèd than in dearth.

I gild an atmosphere of quiet breath;
adorn with air my calm, new waiting earth.
In the sudden hush, I banish thought;
I conjure mirror-walls, bestir the hearth
of morning in my palace loving-wrought.

<h3>IV.</h3>

Afar, in the east—
I pray to glance, at least
by floral beams sweet hue
of the smolder of old rue.
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<center>Original material by Daniel Pendergraft
First published to the STEEM blockchain.
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Feb. 15, 2020
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<sub>Images are digital composites
created using free domain photographs.</sub></center>
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