A fugue, in simple musical terms, is when a piece has two (or more) melodies that "compete" with one another, so to speak. I don't often try to explain elements of my poetry, because I think it often takes away from the experience of the reader, but I'm not sure how common the term is if you haven't had a music class, and it's pretty important to be familiar with for this.

Even though I'm using Swirling Tides for this poem, I don't think it quite falls under the same umbrella as some of the other, more brooding pieces I've posted lately. There's not really concrete rules, more of a gut feeling thing for me (as a way of letting people know what they're getting into ahead of time, if they are recurrent readers.)

The poem itself... I dunno what to really say about it's inception this time. I had a couple phrases laying around, a couple came to me today, and they seemed to weave themselves together after a while.

I'll take my blank as a sign not to ramble this time, so thanks for reading. Hopefully some more pieces like A Distant Sky come back to me the further into this summer break I get, I really enjoyed writing that one. This one... eh. Sometimes the words need to be written more so than I want to write them. I doubt that makes sense to anyone but me. Til next time.