{"id":6784,"date":"2026-08-14T16:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/my-muse\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:11:24","slug":"my-muse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.danilrudoy.com\/en\/poems\/my-muse\/","title":{"rendered":"My Muse by Danil Rudoy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cMy Muse\u201d by Danil Rudoy<\/strong> is a 2008 English rhyming poem from Love Is Poetry<\/em>. A black-and-blue room is interrupted by the Muse in red; her arrival restores courage, artistic purpose and the urge to live, while her disappearance returns the speaker to silence and mourning chords.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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My Muse<\/h2>\n
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I sit and ponder random things
Extracting music from the strings.
The room is colored blue and black:
These hues, I think, I\u2019ll never lack.<\/p>\n

You knock on my forgotten door
And bring me all that I adore:
Composure, courage and the urge
From self-destruction to emerge.<\/p>\n

My Muse! You make me freeze at once
And wait for your approving glance,
Since all I did before you came
Had neither worth, nor use, nor aim.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re dressed in red from head to toe\u2026
You soar above \u2013 I dwell below;
You talk to gods \u2013 I laugh at kings;
You have no flaws \u2013 I have no wings!<\/p>\n

You know me well enough to take
Away the evil and the fake,
And give me all for what I ask,
Although it\u2019s not an easy task…<\/p>\n

The silence has to be destroyed:
You look exhausted and annoyed,
But I\u2019m afraid that if I speak
I\u2019ll make you more fatigued and sick.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t pretend to be polite:
I take a pen and start to write
Portraying your immortal heart
In every form of human art.<\/p>\n

You know how much I cried and prayed!
I need you now! \u2013 you need to fade!
I can\u2019t destroy this old routine
And stop the fall of guillotine.<\/p>\n

You vanish, turning into smoke,
Some incense I cannot evoke,
A tasteless fog, a vapid mist.
The red is gone: I end my feast.<\/p>\n

The silence all my bliss absorbs
And I return to mourning chords.
The room, again, is black and blue:
I write a requiem for you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

2008<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Publication<\/h2>\n

\u201cMy Muse\u201d appears in Love Is Poetry: Rhyming Poems About Love Life<\/em><\/a>, in the opening movement, The Marriage Market<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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In Love Is Poetry<\/h2>\n

The poem establishes several forces that recur across the collection: love as artistic command, the beloved woman as a measure of value, rhyme as emotional discipline, and the movement between exaltation and collapse. Its color architecture is unusually strict. Blue and black frame the speaker\u2019s solitude; red belongs to the Muse; when red disappears, the opening colors return and the poem closes where it began.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Critical reading<\/h2>\n

A detailed critical reading of \u201cMy Muse\u201d<\/a> on Prose & Poetry follows the poem\u2019s color architecture, sound, apostrophe, paired rhyme, disappearance and final requiem.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Related reading<\/h2>\n

Continue with The Gamut of Truth<\/em><\/a>, Poetry by Danil Rudoy<\/a>, Love Poems by Danil Rudoy<\/a>, and Rhyming Poetry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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Text and citation<\/h2>\n

Copyright \u00a9 Danil Rudoy. The poem is published here as the author\u2019s canonical text. Short excerpts may be quoted for criticism, scholarship, teaching and literary discussion with attribution to Danil Rudoy and a link to this page. Full reproduction requires separate permission.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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