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Poetry On the margins of the First Draft #20

Poetry fragments on a vintage-style open book background with a raven and black cat illustration. The left page reads 'On the Margins of the First Draft' and features the website name 'ofstardustandthebeasts.com' in gothic script. The right page contains handwritten reflections about love, poetry, and the soul, with ink splatters across the parchment, creating a raw, emotional, Victorian-inspired aesthetic.

The final piece of Margins of the First Draft — a quiet farewell in the form of poetry and a thank you to those who inspire, create, and keep beauty alive through art.

I’m a little sad that this is the last piece of this section.
Hopefully, I’ll create more in the future.

This project came to life only because, for a few years, I couldn’t create anything at all — after burning myself out under the weight of all the responsibilities I had hoarded.

One day, I sat behind my computer and opened an old document full of forgotten poetry.
And that's how the idea came to me:
Don’t refine. Don’t erase the original.
Just add something to it — something that is more of me, now.

And perhaps on one glorious day, I can do something like that again.

(Authors Note)




20. Nothing

I will just die doing nothing”

You have inspired the art of other people

And that is tenfold more…

Than having died

Doing nothing”




Poetry on the Margins #20 A little note

Music can definitely change the world into a better place,
softening the harsh, cruel reality that we all tend to experience at one point or another.

And sometimes, you find inspiration in the weirdest of places.
I don't think anyone knows it better than a musician looking up to another,
or a writer looking at a person they admire.

Perhaps, one day,
I can do that too —
be an inspiration.

P.S.
All I wanted to say
was that you mean more to me,
and to so many others,
than you could probably ever fathom.

A vintage-style open book. The left page reads “On the margins of the First Draft” and features a raven and a cat by a candle and skulls. The right page says “Thank you for finding these words & staying for awhile. Please subscribe to be notified upon new arrivals” in a mix of elegant and handwritten fonts.

Links to more of my work:

If you like reading stories: Six-Sentence Stories, Short Stories, Romance and All That, Dead Poet

Or poetry : On the margins of the First Draft

and more reflections than poetry: On the Margins of the Second Draft

My band "Chaos in Spring" can be listened to on YouTubeSpotify and other streaming services.

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