Paradox

Hold onto your spirit my old soul

my young nights floating in sky,

with black clouds moving to light stars

do war drums still pound against your sanity?

Signs of victory in labyrinths you'd found

but blazing sparks still burn your brown books,

with ghosts on roads of mourning nights

can you bury your doubts in dust again?

Hush! Your valiant shadow stands tonight

at crimson doors of agony from past in pain,

thorns born of wailing scars vanish gloriously

do blissful crystals wrap your sizzling grains?

Onyx hollows drooping your visions in black

brush your dancing chaos in topaz dusk,

numb raging coal shifts in hammocks of paranoia

can you find light through falls in snowstorm?

My old soul, your symphony of valour in halo

blooms in drizzling dark wisps of apathy,

sparkling buds in wings dripping at twilight,

fly along, your mind rains stars on this dawn.

This is an example of Lipogram poetry composition from which the poet systematically omits a certain letter or letters of the alphabet. “Gadsby” by Ernest Vincent Wright is a novel of over 50,000 words all written without a single letter “E”. This is a Lipogram poem without the letter 'E' (also without the letters 'J' and 'Q'.)