0) Miracles From Poe In 'em' No.2 (Sonnet) (From Affine Tree) Poem by Otradom Pelogo

The years have sullied, though they have shortened my indignation
Questioning the integrity and strength of my appellation

By order and repute, changing my patronymic fate
Yet retroactively building by prophetic mandate

Sagacity upon pique, mask the chagrin of my visage
And thus a new praenomen for and old plebeian image

Petulant and pious, I'm now able to see vice as crime
I'm changing and prudently growing with the ferule of time

Ecumenical love is my resurrected epitaph
Of masses, scholars, prophets, upon a sublunary graph

Gone; days of unbridled youth, capriciousness and turpitude
Commuted for prudence, prowess; diversity the prelude

My habiliments are from the same cloth; from near and from far
Though changed many times, like the seasons of the floral parterre

'A man is born of woman, he lives, he dies' and then he's outré
Actuates the rest of his life with this new world he must convey

Sincerity was an annex to the complex; I'm not the ennui
Virtue, the ferule to passion and freedom for vivacity

The transformation sometimes brought a look supercilious
But only from those who find the new soul penurious

My gait after quiescence is still fervent, for the anecdotes are voluminous
Taken from enlightenment and darkness, yet sensual and Inordinatous

My avarice spirit has been balanced with a pertinacious work-ethic
And sustained with the lives of martyrs who went from humble to great to prophetic


Definitions

Indignation - Anger aroused by something unjust, mean or unworthy

Appellation - A name or title

Patronymic - A paternal ancestor

Retroactively - applying to a period prior to enactment

Mandate - An authoritative order or command

Visage - Facial expression

Praenomen - The first or personal name of an ancient Roman citizen

Plebeian - Common in manner or style

Petulant - Sudden irritation

Ferule - A cane or stick to punish

Ecumenical - Of worldwide scope or applicability; universal

Epitaph - A brief praise of a deceased person; (An epithet - A word

or phrase used in place of the name of a person or thing.)

Sublunary - Of this world; earthy

Turpitude - Vile depravity; baseness

Prowess - Superior strength, courage or daring; especially in battle

Habiliments - Clothing or dress

Parterre - Ornamental flowerbed

Outré - Eccentric, bizarre

Actuates - Put into action

Ennui - Weariness and discontent

Vivacity - Lively, animated, spirited

Supercilious - Haughtily disdainful

Penurious - Scarce or lacking; insufficient

Voluminous - Writing of great length or volume

Inordinatus - Not within proper limits

Pertinacious - Holding to a purpose or course of action

Prophetic - Something of God or a deity or divine inspiration