Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms And Lava

Gliese 710

“Tome of Stars” is a 100 sonnet journey, equal parts art, therapy journal, and exorcism, both a celebration and an elegy, a single narrative arc tracing the birth and death of a relationship. All poetry by Stargazer. The verse and accompanying synthetic art and music are public domain, CC0, with no restrictions on use. Nothing is monetized. See below for links on how to access the print, PDF, audio, ePub, video, and music files. 
Website: https://www.tomeofstars.net/

The third section of “Tome of Stars” is “Sporogenesis”, a haphazard chronicle of the years 2011–2020. It marks a shift from the cataclysm of “Senescence" into a period of withdrawal and emotional hibernation, its eleven sonnets seeking to reflect the padam of the collection’s bharatanatyam-inspired structure.

In “Oasis”, the poet explores the persistent urge to inhabit imagined realms with imaginary constructions of his lost beloved, a ghost sustained through memory, dream, and language. The sonnet reflects on the tension between the speaker’s conscious awareness that these inner constructs are false and the emotional need that drives him to create them, nonetheless.

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Lyrics

I know not what wrong weaves from all I write,  
Still striving to stitch verse with hope, not woe.  
Your silence tempts my pen to scream my plight, 
And to your ghost my deepest feelings go.

In deserts long confined, I glimpsed a stream,  
Imagined you were drinking there beside.  
Mirages mangle when we wake from dream, 
And thirst consumes as reveries subside.

Forgive me, love, for living lies of you,  
Forged phantom of my heart’s malnourished need.  
Your absence birthed a canvas, visions grew,  
And frantic hopes forced fantasies to breed.

While wisdom warned, my reason I betrayed,  
Forsaking truth to hold your haunting shade.

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Internet Archive
Book of sonnets:
https://archive.org/details/tome-of-stars/

Music:
Item 1, Anthesis: https://archive.org/details/Anthesis/
Item 2, Senescence: https://archive.org/details/senescence_tomeofstars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://archive.org/details/Sporogenesis_TomeOfStars/
Item 4, Anemochory: https://archive.org/details/Anemochory_TomeOfStars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://archive.org/details/Quixotosis_TomeOfStars
Item 6, Scripture: https://archive.org/details/Scripture_TomeOfStars

Bandcamp:

Item 1, Anthesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anthesis-item-1-of-tome-of-stars
Item 2, Senescence: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/senescence-item-2-of-tome-of-stars
Item 3, Sporogenesis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/sporogenesis-item-3-of-tome-of-stars
Item 4, Anemochory: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/anemochory-item-4-of-tome-of-stars
Item 5, Quixotosis: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/quixotosis-item-5-of-tome-of-stars
Item 6, Scripture: https://stargazer-elentirmo.bandcamp.com/album/scripture-item-6-of-tome-of-stars

Oasis

[Verse 1]
We were broken hearts in borrowed skin
Trading laughter for a life of sin
Skipped the nights, chased the bitter dawn
Thought we'd last, but the magic's gone

[Chorus]
What have we become?
Wayside flowers, always on the run 

[Verse 2]
We sold our dreams like they were cheap
Made our promises in whispers deep
Stumbled through this endless haze
Told ourselves we’d find our ways

We kissed goodbye in a fading light
Tattooed our hopes in the dead of night
Built a future on shattered plans
Fell apart with trembling hands

[Chorus]
What have we become?
Wayside flowers, always on the run

[Bridge]
Stars are dim, faith's on hold
All our stories left untold
Yet we rise, from ashes wear
Searching souls, still unaware

[Chorus]
What have we become?
Wayside flowers, always on the run

Melting

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