Accursed Lust

Freya Pickard has invented a poetic structure she calls Freyan Verse:

Freyan Verse consists of 5 stanzas, each containing 7 lines. The seventh line of verses two and four overlap with line one of verses three and five. … Lines one and seven of each verse contain just one word. Each poem is designed to be read both vertically and horizontally. You can read each verse separately, and, you can also read the poem as a whole.

Being very much a fan of unusual poetic forms, I thought I’d give it a try myself…

passion		love
fruit of the living		a transcendent consciousness
an ephemeral delight		of the world’s spectacular mystery
too swift consumed	drink	kiss by kiss
and all the more treasured	perilous perfection	its infinitely varied tastes
nectar of the jealous heart	the scarlet that stains the soul is	divine and wasted on mortal
blood	is	life
a tear spilled from the vein	is exquisite in the anticipation!	gift of time in excess
rivulet of pleasure raw	yet bountiful in regret; accursed	gift of eternity
tantalising; intoxicating	elixir	robbing the years of meaning
oh! the naked neck		stripping the days of vitality
incites a cruel and terrible		existence is constant
lust		death