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Sestina: Paean's Sons

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The hearts of hills speak often in a hush--
Whisper they of love now lost, now carrion.
Without fear, uneffaced, these hills, sans dissemblance,
Raising mouthless voices in greater laud,
Dance now into languor. Thus imbued,
The lightest tintinnabulation raised a paean.

Once the Sons of Adam sang a paean,
Standing in the winter cold and hush;
Leaves no longer scattered, wind frostily imbued.
Trees' unhealthy branches: bones and carrion
Lifted to the skies. Adam's laud
Endless, cold, in frosty air, such dissemblance.

Do not let the bite of frost impinge thee: shun dissemblance
Pointed, falling out of sorts to dirge, from paean.
Stand, instead, now shameless and bring laud
To leaves and fallen garments of autumn hush.
Backwards comes the winter and her carrion.
Backwards comes the autumn bite imbued.

Imbued, says man, and feels his heart imbued
With hearts of hills, a thousand strong. Dissemblance,
Oh, deceived. The summer wind came not for carrion,
Baking dry the bones. Now summer's paean
Says nothing of the trees, held to this hush;
Unified is the rebel summer's laud.

Spring has held her head above the laud--
The hills thrive under leaf-buds long-imbued
With Paean's retribution. He will hush
The peace with chaos, pull from spring, dissemble,
Unabashed at last. This mighty Paean,
Dragging from the life of spring this carrion.

The hearts of hills beneath him reek of carrion.
Sons of Adam whisper not their laud.
Languor takes them o'er, not for this a paean.
Paean came to heal, left the land imbued
With languor. Languor! Sonorous the hills' dissemblance;
Spring without demesne, softly, hush.

Hush the laud of winter, spring, now hush.
Sons of Adam reel from Paean's new dissemblance.
Trees with roots of carrion, speak languorously, now, unimbued.
Sestina for DFC day 13. This, a painting of what judgement falls when men forget to whom they belong.

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