Lightbringer

Lightbringer (feat. Casey Lee Williams)

ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN

TERMINUS

Ashen Rain - Orden Ogan

“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.

This sonnet explores the speaker’s self-aware reckoning with his long-standing tendency to deify the woman he loved, casting her in the role of savior, goddess, and mythic figure, and his effort, however conflicted, to return to a grounded, human perception of her. The poem navigates themes of projection, disillusionment, grace, and enduring affection, set within the tension between the sacred and the profane. Though the beloved remains luminous and transformative, her divinity is now deliberately framed as metaphor rather than ontology. The language moves from confessional regret to philosophical insight, and finally to a kind of devotional realism, as the speaker attempts to honor not only the ideal he has constructed but also the mortal woman behind it.

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Lyrics

Forgive the burden anguish laid on you,  
A fool, I named you savior of my soul.  
Convinced your star could all my storms subdue,  
I failed to see no part can fill a whole.

Cruel time’s harsh hand has hewn away the stone,  
Exposing human flesh, both real and true.  
Flawed gem, no goddess sits upon her throne;  
Soft blemished beauty blends to fashion you.

You’ll ever burn with brilliance, sublime bliss,  
A curse and blessing woven into one.  
But now I seek the substance of your kiss,  
A woman’s vibrant heart beneath our sun.

To walk, to talk, to touch each day and night,
Your mortal glance still renders darkness light.

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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

Incarnate

This is a new interpretation of one of the oldest known English Christmas carols, translated into Nynorsk — the traditional Norwegian written form. Adapted and performed by Ylva Vedis, with music arranged by Hallvardsson. The lyrics stay true to the spirit of the original: a message of hope, peace, and quiet faith beneath the northern winter sky.

The Swan Song

Within Temptation