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The Mad Poetess' Laboratory {Trial ii.ii}




Trial ii.ii: Oceanic

By: The Mad Poetess


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Purpose:


Thaw the tundra

and its deluge

will bring you closer to the

poetry.


Hypothesis:


Third times the charm

(or so they say);


This genus of ink

shall finally bring these poems to

fruition.


Materials:

  • Spring (the season)

  • Tundra

  • Inkwell

  • Ophelia's petals:

- Rosemary (for remembrance)

- Pansies (for thoughts)

- Fennel

- Columbines

- Rue

- A single daisy

- Violets (withered)

- Quill pen

- Parchment


Procedure:


  1. When spring arrives in late May, bring the inkwell into the garden

  2. Allow the Tundra time to melt

  3. Once the ice has melted, add Ophelia’s petals: rosemary (for remembrance); pansies (for thoughts); fennel; columbines; rue; a single daisy; withered violets

  4. Dip quill into ink

  5. Press quill to parchment

  6. Write poetry


Observation:


Ink runs itself

illegible

across the parchment


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There is a stanza writ aslant an inkwell,

Therewith fantastic potential did the

quill come.

There on the couplet,

Clambering to hang, an envious line

Broke;

When down she

Fell in the rabid ink. Her feathers

Spread wide;

And raven-like, awhile they bore her

Up:

Which time she chanted the sonnets

she never had the chance to write;

As one incapable of her own distress

Till that her garments, heavy with her

Ink,

Pull'd the poor wretch

to her drowning.

 

Image Source:

Blue ink gif [image] Available at: https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/191121577923638579/ [Accessed 28 Mar. 2021]

 
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