OctPoWriMo 2015: Day 16: Ondina's Paradelle

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Ondina's Paradelle

O Stormy Sea, wash over me

O Stormy Sea, wash over me

Take this shipwreck of a life

Take this shipwreck of a life

To a parallel dimension

Where I may meet my love

I crave his delicious kisses

I crave his delicious kisses

Although I know him not

Although I know him not

I long for him with all my soul

Only his love can save me

Sounding with a crunch, I hear footsteps approaching

Sounding with a crunch, I hear footsteps approaching

I hide away my dream from wicked souls

I hide away my dream from wicked souls

I have not abandoned you, Beloved, remember your Ondina loves you

In her shadow you may rest, until she can return

Long not, Beloved, know your Ondina may return with delicious kisses

Take my life, crunch all wicked souls, have rest with him

Hear her footsteps sounding, approaching to a parallel dimension for you

Where I may meet my loves in shadow, hide away from my abandoned soul

O stormy sea wash over me, until she remember although

Crave, only his love can save this shipwreck of a dream 

~Ondina Rvaga Zecor~

Notes: 

The Princess Ondina is a character in Team Netherworld's serial/novel in progress, Fetch. The story is a paranormal romance with sci-fi elements which honors the late H.P. Lovecraft, as well as other writers of the Cthulhu Mythos genre.

I'm not sure about that last stanza, but my brain just short-circuited. I can do no more!

~Wanda~

The Design is simple:

Stanza 1: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4  

Stanza 2: 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8

Stanza 3: 9, 9, 10, 10, 11, 12

Stanza 4: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 

For the most difficult piece of this poetic puzzle, the final stanza of the paradelle does not repeat like the preceding stanzas, rather the final six lines must contain every word from the first three stanzas, and only those words, again using them only once to form completely new lines.

At First Light

First Light

You first came to me

At first light when the snow fell

Stay through the darkness

~Aurora~

Aurora's Notes:

Our team sometimes creates poems on behalf of our characters. These characters come from the work in progress "Fetch," a paranormal romance created by Team Netherworld member Rose LeMort.

This poem is written from the perspective of Pepper Baiij, a forty-seven year old spirit medium (specifically an empath and "spirit anchor"). While attempting to assist the fetch Gerry Clifford, she ends up falling in love with him and he with her.

A "fetch" is the apparition of a person whose body is still alive but is badly compromised, so they effectively function as a spirit.

Gerry first appeared to Pepper on the night that an arctic front moved in. He was badly frightened by a group of entities which operate as a unit and seem to be playing a waiting game, biding their time until Gerry's compromised brain reaches a certain state of deterioration, at which point he believes they intend to absorb the essence of his soul.

Pepper allowed Gerry to "anchor" himself to her so she could try to keep him safe, although she knew that by doing so she was risking a heartbreak of a kind she had sworn she would never allow herself to feel again.

The next day when Pepper woke up, she felt Gerry beside her. It was a day of sub-freezing temperatures and snow. Pepper needed to drive to her son's house and Gerry came with her. He became convinced that he and Pepper were both spirits in some area of hell, but that they could help each other. In working to try and comfort Gerry and help him see that he is not in an actual hell, she finds herself falling quickly and deeply in love with him and hoping that he will stay with her.

Cross-posted to:

Fetch

Poetry of the Netherworld