Poem: "The Hunt for Azure" (Part 2 / 3, "Ad Meliora")

The Hunt for Azure

Ad Meliora Part II

By: Eve Estelle

Released upon the world,

From your grasp, into the fire,

Given wings of faith to fly;

With your blessing, from the smoke,

To the august heights of heaven, I

Seize this gift of flight and seek

The star that bears my name above;

Still spring it may, my ship, a leak,

For yet this vessel's fault is fear --

Courses deep through every vein,

Staggered ascent -- I cannot steer,

Behold my thoughts, my inner fear;

But onward, forth through la bête noire,

Vict'ry comes to us, wherefore

Find me in my broken chain;

Thy leave is light!

Author's note: "Ad Meliora" is the collective title for a three-part series of poems. Check out the others below!

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Part I: "At Song's End"

➤ Part II: "The Hunt for Azure"

Part III: "A Star on Fire"

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"Ad meliora" is a Latin phrase meaning "(onward) towards better things."

la bête noire = French; literally, "the black beast." Bête noire is figuratively used in English to mean "something that one particularly dislikes, avoids, dreads," etc.