NaPoMo Dickinsonian Oracle and Writing Exercise #28 and #29

In honor of National Poetry Month, and for those interested in its NaPoWriMo incarnation, Brightly is proud to bring to you the Dickinsonian Oracle's Oracular Writing Exercise.

Here is the NaPoWriMo DiOrOrWriEx procedure:
(1) Pose a question to the oracle (just for fun. Maybe you'll get a decipherable answer).
(2) Read the oracle's pronouncement and writing commandment.
(3) Write a bit of poetry.

The Dickinsonian oracle wishes you well:

To do a magnanimous thing
And take one's self by surprise
If one's self is not in the habit of him
Is precisely the finest of Joys -

Not to do a magnanimous thing
Notwithstanding it never be known
Notwithstanding it cost us existence once
Is Rapture herself spurn -
(E. Dickinson, 1729)

The writing commandment:

Write a poem describing the one magnanimous thing you'd risk your life doing.

And the other writing commandment:

Write a poem with the working title "Rapture Spurned." Make it rococo; make it baroque; include insects under glass. If this is too cozy, write a poem entitled "Rupture Spurt."