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Big wet splashes hit the ground and pavement,
A well needed wash for the world.
All at once the leaves and grass are slick,
Boughs heavy from her cleansing gift.
We pollute, we litter,
Dig up and cut down,
But nature, she is forgiving, and grants us this.
The smell of fresh damp soil reaches me
so familiar, and i smile.
We are loved and cared for no matter our crime.
A mothers love.
Still, in the distance, the last shadow of thunder echoes, lest we forget her great power.
Written by [((lost))]
Lonely. Watching.
At the end of centuries we stand.
Waiting.
We fill our lives with sand.
Written by [itoe]
Our Memories,
much like the petals from the rose you once gave me
are worn now.
No longer filled with life, lust, and colour.
Nothing but a pale reminder of what once was.
Petals long forgotten, but ones that still remain.
Unlike our love, cold and pushed aside.
Colourless, lifeless memories of us.
Figments of my imagination chasing me through the darkness
and the shadows of my distant life.
Painting, hidden in shame.
each brush stroke filled with love,
now meaningless.
Much like us.
Incomplete.
Written by [light.]
Little miss moppet
sat with a poppet
sewing her up inside-
she fixed her right up,
and made her heart tough,
so the next one wouldn't make her cry.
Written by [Akayume]
1
There is no simple pass
In the mountain.
The mourners must climb
Up the stairwell---
2
Winding up, winding down
The steppe is harsh
So is the sound.
I am not there,
But was with the needy,
That need. Always need.
3
The waters are flat,
The cat is quick to
Descend into the water.
I follow, cautious
Death takes it’s time.
I take mine.
4
The cat stops--
And lest’s the pace of
The waves pick up.
Death takes it’s time.
And now mine.
The sun is dim
It will not look when
The existence dives.
Written by [Ethan Leon]
My desire is a forgiving master:
my glamour a nirvana.
--enduring my presence a duty
Take Note:
I give no gift,
but that of my darker styling--
I’ll give you a collar of iron,
I’ll give you shackles of gold.
I’ll beat you with whips--made
from the flesh of your beloved.
You’ll take me as your lover
but I’ll give only pain to you--
The waving of my hand will be
your only concern, the
shaking of my glorious head a curse.
My glamorous glance will be
your only want. Bow down--
--I’ve come for you.
And the earth will cry with
ultimate pleasure, at my
conquest. And-- Take Note:
Of how the
world ends with a showcase--
--of my beauty.
Written by [Ethan Leon]
As I see your face I hold my head high
To walk past you and let out a sigh
Thoughts of you swim in my mind
As small tears start to unwind.
I think to myself there’s no chance in hell
For our hearts to love and compel
I try to rid my mind of thoughts of you
With thoughts of something wild and new.
But as I turned to see your face
My heart starts to beat at a very fast pace
As you look at me and start to walk
Your lips move as if to talk.
As you approach with arms in the air
Your fingertips brushing through my hair
As your tender arms close there’s something amiss;
My heart skipped a beat as we have our first kiss.
Written by [X-TheDarkened-X]
I walk on water, barefoot on ice
Turn my head, and the world is burning
The bombs are coming closer
shaking society, blowing life away
In a world where people are diagnosed
when society is sick and dying
In a world where diversity is killed
when all we can handle is two sides
In a world where fiction becomes fact
when knowledge is the enemy
If only shooting holy books
could destroy the ignorance
If only burning holy buildings
would turn the roots into ash
Written by [St. Wilgefortis]
Keys
Mightier than the
Blade
Sharper than the
Arrow
They can destroy
Only the deepest secrets
The vaguest mysteries
Around the mind
Only the strongest barriers
The thickest walls
Around the heart
Written by [darkraven2010]
In verdant forests and flowered fields
Under the vast celestial sky,
In contentment and sleep’s sweet appeals,
There the blessed dead lie.
In the world above, the realm of the living,
Great deeds won great fame and wealth.
In endless toil were these men their efforts giving,
Searching for happiness and good health.
In the springs of fame they sought to quench their thirst.
Instead they drowned in their ambition and desire.
The more they drank, the more they drowned, yet never sated.
Now content in Elysium, peace and serenity come first.
The men of Elysium have learned to quench their fire.
In the Elysian Fields lie the blessed, happy dead.
Written by [Aradon Templar]
When silence screams
Those in the city
will think they've gone deaf
We're so used to noise
That it's all we have left.
Imagine a world
Where we nod in consent
A place no one argues
And all are content.
Such places exist
where we choose to dream
in which things that we want
are just what they seem.
This place people hear
more than they choose
It's this place so unclear
that I'd rather lose.
Let's hear what is written
and speak what is heard
If we would all just listen
We'd not utter a word.
Written by [Drop Dead Serif]
A shattered glass upon hard tile
Like so many cut diamonds,
Like crystals thrown across the sky;
Stars,
Or tears trickling down a face.
I needed to sweep anyway -
It is unfortunate I have no shoes.
Written by [Tickle Me Emo]
Sleep does not come easily
To those internally distraught
Stress comes in multitudes
Disrupting inner thought.
But what brings about silence
To these strenuous deliberations
When never giving up
Trying to live up to expectations.
I still await the day
For everything to unwind
Freedom and salvation
And finally peace of mind.
Written by [tenshi-ryuu]
Everything is volatile like the wind
that rages like a storm all around you
but if your silence breaks the sound
and the peace and quiet sighs with you there.
The wind plays with feathers
And reaches your skin with care
Then everything isn't as volatile like the wind
That rages like a storm all around you
Then you are in the middle of the standstill
Nevermore alone
Written by [Drya]
Big wet splashes hit the ground and pavement,
A well needed wash for the world.
All at once the leaves and grass are slick,
Boughs heavy from her cleansing gift.
We pollute, we litter,
Dig up and cut down,
But nature, she is forgiving, and grants us this.
The smell of fresh damp soil reaches me
so familiar, and i smile.
We are loved and cared for no matter our crime.
A mothers love.
Still, in the distance, the last shadow of thunder echoes, lest we forget her great power.
Written by [((lost))]
A plague so terrible I could die.
No feeling, no hope.
Help me spread my wings and fly.
To hold you, is all I wish.
And at last, I am saved.
Finally absolved of this disease.
My savior, nowhere to be seen.
And I am pushed to the brink.
Resolute, no longer.
My bravery stripped away.
But then you appear again.
My guardian angel.
Your light shines upon me.
And in the warmth, I am delivered.
The horizon is so far away now.
The horizon is so far away.
Written by [Zesty Taco]
A raindrop slowly trickles down my nose
The scent of earth is pungent in the air
Around me lies the image of repose
The soft breeze like a heartful song of prayer
Oh Silence, with your peace and quiet grace
May you forever beautify this place
Written by [Triola]
I am dark yet lovable
I wonder what type of death awaits me.
I hear the laughter of my "friends".
I see my black hole of a heart.
I want everyone to be friends.
I am dark yet lovable.
I pretend to be happy.
I feel my own pain.
I touch the hearts of others.
I worry I'm not good enough.
I cry when people care about me.
I am dark yet lovable.
I understand I am hated.
I say I can be what I want.
I dream of being happy.
I hope we will all be friends in the end...
I am dark....yet lovable..
Written by [UnLEAsH THe CrOW InSidE OF Me]
A tall lonesome tree stands
in the dark woods feeling alone
because he is massive
and all the rest of the trees are small.
His loneliness spreads like wildfire
and there is no water to stop it.
He is alone, inside his head.
He feels like no one can
understand what he goes through.
His loneliness spills like blood
running like rivers through the forest
with nothing to soak it up.
He is empty, he is nothing,
he is not like the others,
he is different,
he sticks out like a person
with cuts in their skin
when there is no one around
to help them mend,
like a person who thought
they could make it but couldn't,
all they did was break it and
it came crashing down on them.
He is alone.
Written by [xXPandaXx]
How strange is it
That we were so distant
But a meeting brings us back
So close, in an instant.
Together with you
I always felt so awkward
Yet so composed and right
I thought that we'd move forward.
It's hardly your fault
I'm too scared to deal with romance
I'm too used to let downs
That's why I never took your chance.
But I still remember that night
We spent under a darkened blue
Now you've ruined the fireworks
They only make me think of you.
Written by [aero'din-eth]
Inexplicably mesmerizing…
So much like the others,
Yet so striking
To extract inspiration
Where nothing was before.
No other will share
That precise, exact experience,
So much like another's,
Yet subtly different.
It is singular, irreplaceable, irrefutable,
And cannot be recreated.
Written by [Tickle Me Emo]
Have you ever tasted the wind
As it flows over you and to the
Sea? Bitter and sweet like a tear
Falling from your cheek. Have
You ever noticed how the wind
Changes, How it moves through
The leaves? Like a soft caress
From a feather. Have you ever
Chased the wind hoping to find
Something better, something that
You cannot see; with what you
Know as joy and surrender? Have
You ever flown into the sunset
Longing to touch it just for a moment?
Written by [pegasus1000]
All the desert rocks must learn
The orange sun loves none and burns.
The stabbing rays, the cloudless days-
All that lives is burned away.
The burn needs not a pluming hat
Of smoke to be its tell-tale cap.
It dresses not in rippling swaths.
It doesn’t rasp with sparking coughs.
The desert heat, the silent sneak
Descends on you without a peep.
The only sign, the serpentine
Vapors twist in swaying lines.
Soon you’ll sink into the dunes,
The desert’s sand constructed tombs,
And all the hope you think you spy?
The orange sun loves none and lies.
Written by [M!]
Has it been to long that i can only rest without resting?
Would my eyes lay upon a sight that my heart breaks?
Can this be really the lost hopes of so many now dead lay?
Could I simply snatch it back for those broken promises towards the damned?
Can heaven and hell really exist for my eyes now lay upon it
The cursed and the saved in war around it
The damned and the deemed slain below it
The heart and the soul fighting over it
I wish not to believe and instead return to my days
laying helplessly upon the sand in the shade
reading of my poetry with a heart of her flutter
but all dreams lost when I remember where I lay
My soul damned to the torment alone
My heart broken with nothing to hold
My eyes weeping because my soul
Lives deep in this hell below
Alone in my room for so many year
that I cannot tell if I am really here
Daydream and night terrors all seem alike
I guess all that's left is what, in my eyes a fright
Had I only listened and done as told
maybe my world would be with you to hold
having not money but you as my gold
being not rich but priceless in your soul
Nevermore says thy raven who torments my door
No longer says the demons who beat against my floors
Never again I say without forgetting my past
I lost her and not I've alive but dead at last
Bombard my way the journey is long
is it really worth the risk
you're mine I know it in my mind heart and soul
and because I'll risk it
battle off the hatred and lies
deflect the horror and the cries
forget the tears shed between you and I
just grab you and never let you out of my sight
"PUSH ASIDE!" MUST I? This journey cannot be done
only a few hours and already I'm done
my arms heavy and my head light
I cannot continue this horrible fight
I cannot finish what i did not start
you were taken from me I did not let you be take
How come my heart burns for what cannot be mine?
Why oh why can i not relieve you from my mind?
Beat me senceless and throw me to the wolves
tear off my limbs and drown me
let me bleed internally
burn me and let me scream
I'd rather die then allow you to storm my mind
you're simply too far for me to be cryin'
The tears I shed cannot be shed no more
just take my life and end my terror
I have never felt such pain until I lost you
until the day God stole you
our lives together and now apart
my love travels through worlds to your heart
I pray god take me from the hell you put me in
allow me and my love to be together again
Lucifer and I cannot be friends
and you and I will never end
Take my soul as I drive so fast
release me of my fear and of my past
I will not stop I will not break
Never so alone as when I died on this day...
Written by [Βασιλεία Κορληκe Κουμωρη ΛιτΒιθις]
Hello, my name is Light
When you act in spite of fear, I'll be here
For I am courage, I am a solemn surrender
to faith, an embrace to remember
My Heart is stationed above the highest cloud
In towers well kept from fear and doubt
To reach me is a journey and a test
To climb high and hard towards your rest
Hello, my name is Darkness
I am the crowned king of your darkest abyss
I am the cold breath that gives you Power
I am the reaper of your fated hour
My Heart is stationed below the lowest dungeon
Far beyond Earth's layers, incaged and
imprisoned within your darkest dreams
Where the current of all your desires streams
Light:
"I am the torch one seeks in shadow
I shall not abandon you
But first you must find me and to find me
your Heart must first be wise and true"
Darkness:
"I am the lust that you desire
I shall not abandon you
You've always had me, but to keep me
You must rid yourself of your virtue"
We are all that you'll ever need
to guide you through your destined way
But to combine us you must take heed
For trip but a little and you will fly astray
To unite us means a sacrifice
of fear and doubt and all you despise
Of courage, trust and your solemn cries
For your true self to appear before your eyes.....
Hello, my name is Light
I give you strength to overcome your fright
Take my hand and enter my land
If you wish to comprehend...
My whisper can be your greatest enemy
My comfort is your caring ally
First you must decide to accept me
Before you can add me to your cry...
Hello, my name is Darkness
I give you strength to crush your distress
Take my hand and receive my Power
If you wish to set your fated hour
My enchantment is your worst enemy
My mastery your favourite ally
But beware to share me with another
For then I will make your Heart bleed and cry...
Written by [Melocrie]
How do I think of you night and day?
How do I let you be in my mind?
Sometimes I love you that much I can say.
But sometimes i just want to leave you behind.
Things are bad now, but we had a good past.
I wish we could just be together once more.
I don't know what happened, it all went so fast.
There was a big fight, then I walked out the door.
I packed all my bags and got in the car.
I didn't really want to just get up and go.
I didn't know where i was going, I just wanted to go far.
Just leaving you didn't really go with the flow.
I wish you would just come and live with me.
That way we will forever be.
Written by [xXPandaXx]
I've given up on easily
Been forgotten by simplicity
Bound together by these threads of honor
Tangled up together with gaudy veracity
Haughty truth so shamelessly
pretending flair and pompously
refusing to be bought; a peculiar
stain on such old-fashioned honor;
Armor, like a glove, like silk, lace, air...
Don't talk to me of summers,
or autumn leaves so red;
Put away your silly love songs,
and your chivalry so fine
It's not mine, it can't be mine,
but thank you for your time;
This darkened doorway
is all that I
may stand in.
Standing for the open sky,
waiting for a long good bye,
you're so simple, you're so sweet
Stupid, stupid, and naive...
Don't talk to me of summers,
or pale winters closing in;
I'll have no more silly love songs,
or pointed silences
I am humming in the shadows,
there is laughter in the dark;
And if it ease your mind,
trust me, I am fine
Tangled in the gaudy jewels that
aged uncertain gold decides to hoard,
contemplating cutting ribbons,
the only blade to hand: a sword…
Written by [little flag]
Do you think you can control me?
Do you have any idea "master",
of who I really am?
Of what I really am?
You summoned me during the time
that your feelings poisoned your mind
You cried about everything
but acted about nothing.
Now look at me and grab my arm,
do not worry, I won't do you any harm.
At the gloomy corners of your thoughts,
I lay in a bed of thorns,
following every step you take,
turning your love into hate.
Who I really am?
What I really am?
Around your lips, see my name dance
but it's too late for a second chance.
I am a sweet evil, an innocent sin
that pierces your brain like a pin.
Now look at me and grab my arm
Do not worry, I won't do you any harm.
You've already done enough
without my help for that.
Who I really am?
What I really am?
I am your Misery.
Written by [Lifebringer]
It will never go away, its all gone haywire,
Even if you wanna stay, they already started the fire,
And I never wanted to be here, after I found out that you just don't care.
Maybe I'm crazy, Its only me I'm talking to,
You can call my lazy, but I still wont go see you!
Cause you can't always see all that has happened to me.
Not all of my scars show, Not all wounds heal.
You just don't know, all the pain I feel.
I didn't hide them, you just did not look...
Written by [Danboo]
Faceless ghosts that dance within
Outsider’s eyes that seek out the sin
A poison I can’t help but see
It’s in this corner they yearn to be
Honest answers in my design
But I am speaking to your lies
I pray for something to help me feel
This broken place: the last thing that’s real
So much sorrow and distaste
To look ahead at yesterday
A spiral promise that drags me on
Another pain freezes the sun
Hidden darkness shines within
The light I need becomes nothing
Where everything I loved at last
Becomes forgotten; turned to ash
A vagrant hope leaks from my heart
Placed over demons in the dark
Another ghost that seeks to end
The place within that I must defend
Written by [the loved wolf]
What is love? An intangible dream,
saut after by fools never to be seen.
But if that's the case then I must be
the biggest fool you'll ever see.
What is love you ask? My foolish dream.
Written by [blood_fairy21]
When I fear it, it comes for me,
When it comes for me, it’s all I know,
When it’s all I know, it starts to hurt,
When it starts to hurt, I start to scream,
When I scream, I start to change,
When I change, I begin cry,
When I cry, I know that I’ve lost,
When I know that I’ve lost, the beast comes to play,
When the beast comes to play, I give up,
When I give up, He gets his way,
When he gets his way, my mind snaps,
When my mind snaps, I lose control,
When I lose control, He breathes again,
When he breathes again, I choke and die,
When I choke and die, he’s alive,
When he’s alive, He’ll start to sneer,
When he starts to sneer, It builds into a laugh,
When it builds into a laugh, He is complete,
When he is complete, His stomach will start to groan,
When his stomach starts to groan, you can’t get away,
When you can’t get away, You begin to fear,
When you begin to fear, He smells your fear,
When he smells you fear, It’s too late,
When it’s too late, even your prayers can’t save you,
When even your prayers can’t save you, You will see,
That fear itself is quite true, and it will hunt you down too.
Written by [Akeatia]
Dare to dream of far off lands,
Dream of deserts, covered in sand,
Dream of rainforests, trees high above,
Dream of finding your one true love,
Dare to dream of lies or the truth,
Dream of never losing your youth,
Dream of battles, dream of a spark,
Dream of light, a light in the dark,
Dare to dream of fighting and sadness,
Dream of people, forced to madness,
Dream of warmth and heat and flame,
Dream that your life is just a game,
Dare to dream of hate and mistrust,
Dream of all that’s true and just,
Dream of drowning, drowning in the sea,
Dare to dream of dreaming, yes dare to dream with me,
Written by [Werewolf13]
I’m walking on skyscrapers again,
I know the feeling, like I did last time.
But the poet’s still speaking Greek,
And the birds are eating snakes,
God can I sing?--
“--Hey bungalow Bill,
What did you kill?”
And did you kill it for me?--
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Ive heard it’s around--somewh
Like a goddamn cat, I think--
--that if it lived I’d kill it.
What did you kill?”
And did you kill it for me,
Say ‘yes’, please--
It's not Greek, Speak!
Annoyed with the time, I
Spent there on my knees.
Why have one martyr, when I can have
Three--Crucifi
Hey, bungalow Bill, kill the next--
--one for me.
And then sing.
Death
Death is painfull, so stay away from knifes,
Death is not for lovers, so dont die,
Death is not for me, so dont even try,
Death is never clear, so be carefull,
Death is never fun, so stay away from strangers,
Death is never pleasing, so dont get caught up in the hype,
Death is never fair, so get use to it,
Death is always occuring, so dont forget it,
Death is never what you expect, so expect the unexpected,
Death is not for you, so please dont give up,
Death is forever, so dont forget that.
Destiny
me at nights,
My destiny speaks to me each morning,
still I have not understood what,
"Destiny is",
My destiny keeps me up at nights pondering,
about "Destiny", which I have heard so much,
about. Yet I can not find the answer to my,
own destiny,
Seeing my fellow human it would appear that,
most of them have found the secret to this,
destiny. But, some like myself are still in,
search of our destiny,
My destiny suddenly comes to light when I was,
near my end through the path of life. And, it,
was at that point I became aware that my task,
throughout my life was my destiny,
My destiny has been visible in my actions, in,
my words during my life. The failer to make,
contact with my destiny was none other, than,
lack of understanding,
Destiny beckon at me with these words, "If
you had known the meaning of the word destiny,
you would not have toiled so much."
That is your destiny.
The Truth It Can Be Hurtful
Though the truth it can be hurtful it is not spoken without ruth,
The truth cannot defame me if of me the truth you say,
And if the truth taints my character well that too is okay.
Then the dislike I'd feel for one like you i barely could disguise,
For lies can be defamatory when used in such a way,
Any respect to a malicious liar i would find hard to pay.
But out of the truth it can be said respect for one does grow,
And though you may not like what's said about you at least what's said is true,
And to the one who speaks the truth credit is always due.
And those who cannot accept the truth mentally cannot grow strong,
And though for some the truth is poison they'd rather live a lie,
The truth lives on forever and the truth will never die.
Night
Embracing warmth enfolding
Fear becomes our Hope.
Life's Staged.
The cast is getting rather grating and I fear,
That my mask may slip and shatter,
Leaving my like a naked butterfly with no pattern.
I don’t want to look boring, or bright,
Dark or light, against,
Those blinding curtains hung around the world.
I wonder what would happen if everything fell off,
If everyone was left alone and on stage,
In nothing but a smile and forced,
Look of life behind the mask.
To entrance and entertain the audience.
Shadows
Always sprinting by.
Shadows in a corner,
Caught up in a lie.
Shadows in a corener,
Always fearing life.
Shadows in a corner,
Always meeting strife.
Shadows in a corner,
Someone now is there.
Shadows in the corner,
Know life is never fair.
To Whom it May Concern
But you just wouldn't listen.
This happens every time
You get paranoid.
You push everyone away,
Hide every ounce of humanity
Left in you.
You cower in your corner,
Expecting the blows
Of hate and wrath.
But they don't come.
No, of course not.
"Why?" you ask.
Because it was all in your head.
The phrase "I told you so,"
Comes to mind.
I'd never say that.
No, I'd never say that
Out loud.
I'm irrational enough
To still love you.
Even though you removed every bit
Of me,
I still love you.
You had the nerve
To believe I'd hurt you
Intentionally, but
I still love you.
You were so overcome
With your "self-preserva
To listen to me
When I told you the truth.
And yet...
I still love you.
Champion
And help everyone
And be everywhere
And do everything
And make a difference
And change things for the better
And fight for what’s right
And establish what’s good
And enshrine what’s valuable
And
And
And I want to be the best that I can be.
That I’m a fool
That I’m young
That I’m naïve
That it can’t be done
That I can’t do it
That I shouldn’t do it
That it’s pointless
That it’s meaningless
That I’ll die
That it will be in vain
That I don’t have the capabilities
That I don’t know what I’m doing
That
That
That I’m not fit.
Just that I wanted to do it
And that I would fight to get as close as I can to it.
And if you help me, I’ll be even closer.
That was all he said.
Mr Big stood up. He went to the podium and cleared his throat. He spoke:
“Thank you, lad. You may sit down. That will be all.”
You Were Here
That was all I needed
Now you're gone and I don't know why
I can't find the reason
So I searched, I looked inside
Could have been the screamin'
To be imperfect
And it's not easy
To feel so worthless
It's not easy
To ask for help
And its not easy
To face yourself
I can't stop thinkin'
I'm all alone and I'm going crazy
Look what you created
I want you back and I don't care how
Won't you please come find me
To be imperfect
And it's not easy
To feel so worthless
It's not easy
To ask for help
And its not easy
To face yourself
Kansas
the eerie dawn mocks
a cage I see not, nor a shackle nor wire
but rather a child who makes her mud and cries over stains.
and the ring in my skull from the frank slap of truth
(I have domesticated myself)
the fists of revolution clench in my defense
but how do you destroy a hidden wall, a pane of plexiglass?
Force reverberates, volleying back to me
the ring persists
I am as tame as a bear or a kitten, what day is it?
Domestic, complacent, the words of failure.
Essence of Love
Seen through eyes of mystery and happiness
Behold as i gaze upon beauty and untold wonder
As i stare into time and space
Listening to my spirit as it calms
Washing over me like a tidal wave
Serenity, blissfulness, graciousness;
Only a few words to describe my true inner core
Love compels, love conquers, love divides
Shapes, molds, and sculpts into something greater
Forms unrealistic principles and forsaken dreams
Love only knows love and never knows defeat
The Bird on the Wire
Electric pulses through tiny fragile feet.
(she feels the world beat)
The sun peeks through a crack in the system,
Everything mixes to build an arc of colour only the painter could dream of.
Umbrellas and rubber boots.
Fluttered feathers shake away the cold.
(she watches the world grow old)
Vehicles stop, then go. Stop, then go.
Traffic lights blink directions for the street.
(she feels the world beat)
The screen declares a corruption in the system,
Everyone mixes to build a society only the businessman could dream of.
Copy machines and potted plants.
Her humanity and spirit unfold.
(she feels the world grow cold)
Love's Hope
A song of better times
When men were strong and brave
And women were divine.
The mountains touched the sky;
The sea lapped at the shores;
And sure as sun will rise
My heart, my love, is yours.
Though dark the days now be
Still, my memories shine.
I live now for the day
When you'll again be mine.
And till that day may dawn
I'll wait to hear your call.
For when my name you speak
To you, I'll give my all.
Again my love I'll see
And day will forever reign
For in your arms I'll be,
No longer torn in twain.
So sing to me, my love,
That hope may yet live on.
Should I see you not on the morn',
I know I will anon...
My Life
I have to go to school every week day
At seven in the morning
That is so not okay
When they get old they die and rot
I knew a baby named Sherrie
That the world forgot
Most of the time it's sad
I don't have much money
And that makes me mad
With the pitter patter of rain
Elftown - Our Beloved Community!
Committed to her greatness, we will see her through.
When she's trouble laden, 'tis when she needs us most.
Our commitment only strengthens, the louder we will boast!
Our community we love so dearly, we'll not let her down,
There is much to rejoice in her, even if we sometimes frown.
Membership's an honour, a privilege absolute.
We do remember this, as we stand up and salute.
As we travel around the world, mostly on the net,
Our fingers are her soldiers, so the world cannot forget.
As we spread the news, to all corners far and wide,
We do so with honour, as we also do with pride.
We take her past the moon, way beyond Mars,
For she is only worthy to shine among the stars!
The Great Wizards of Elftown
Just remember why Elftown is so very grand!
Closely are related, you elves with them do bond.
You unicorns dance with a gracefulness supreme.
You dwarfs conjure up each a greedy scheme.
Vampires, you defy death, feasting on blood to live,
Ducks, you are friendly, will take all there is to give.
Dragons, powerful and mighty, demand you are respected.
Orcs, although warriors, more often you are rejected.
Halflings, friendly, too, merriment you seek.
Humans, you are wannabes, strange and often weak.
Little magic buttons pop up all around.
When we think we've seen all there is to see,
A new amazing feature the Wizards bring to be.
There's always a nasty bug that rears its ugly head.
The Wizards quickly zap it. Presto, it is dead!
Ah, the Wizards, their magic is the most,
Take a look around, raise your glass to toast!
So, what makes Elftown such an enchanted land?
Why, indeed the Wizards make this place so grand!
Miss Fisher
Her face is so squishy and silly to see
She walks with a gait that's tall and straight
Such a sad fate for her to carry a gate
She's does things so willy but forgot about nilly
Oh she's so silly but what's this, not from Philly?
And her smile is not unlike the crocodile
Put her flaws in a pile and you'll be there a while
On such I shall not dwell therefore I cannot tell
Though this one time when she fell we laughed and all was well
I wouldn't trade my squishy friend for anything
My girl who smells so Fishy is my everything
Angel to Angel
One I would do anything for
I see him in my dreams
And my heart bursts at the seams
I see him when I'm awake
And give him my heart to take
He always knows just what to say
And in my night, he brings the day
He is my star shining bright
Against the empty blackness of night
My beautiful rainbow
That I watch from my window
And he is the song I sing
That makes my soul take wing
I look into his eyes and know
That what I feel for him will only grow
Because he makes me smile
And my heart aches all the while
There are things that can't yet be changed
But to be in his arms, I would give anything in exchange
I want him more and more as time goes by
And I miss him so much that I want to cry
But I know he'll be back
There's no doubt about that
But can you blame me?
I love him desperately.
I want to be able to call him mine
How many times have I said that line?
But I do all the same
And my own heart is to blame...
Raining Memories
This is the kind of weather that makes me want to make love to you all night long.
To quote Kenny Chesney: ‘I hear you laughing in the rain.’
But you’re not coming after me.
Lightning ’bout to strike me
As a not-so-friendl
I don’t have to cry
Because I know someone up there is doing it for me.
Tell me, was it raining when you decided to think of me?
Funeral
And a cold heart to madness.
Lost to autumn’s sceneries,
Where life left me breathless.
‘neath the tearfully fading sun.
Though death kept safe distance,
I feel the end has now begun.
For Geert
let your feelings go,
let it all come over you for awhile.
for I know I've ever owned your heart's key.
that is the only way I can help as I should.
for it makes my little heart bleed.
and always will,
but I fear that the time to say 'goodbye' has come,
even if I don't want us to be done.
...help me to let you go.
MURDER
as big heavy footsteps get closer and closer,
I can almost feel his breath as he gains on me.
As I trip over hefty logs and fallen trees,
the footsteps get closer.
where to go,
I feel as though I run in circles.
Tree roots and vines entangle themselves around my feet.
I fall,
there is no one to catch me.
I am trapped,
my blood drips down my face.
No one can hear me,
no one can help me,
I am doomed.
"Thud" goes my heart.
The Visit
The radar screen pulsed,
Her heart followed suit, meeting the pulse with an accompanying beat.
NO SIGN OF ENEMY VESSELS, SIR.
Walking over the deck, the Atlantic winds caressed her face.
A newfound friend stood close,
Sharing the breeze and a sombre smile.
"Beautiful day."
"That...it is." A contented sigh.
He left to visit the pier.
She stayed behind.
But who?
Sam...
...It can't be.
She grabbed the rail to steady her legs.
Sam.
My name's not Sam, grampa.
An innocent giggle fades in the wind.
The Tripping Song (formatted for The Daily Poem!)
She would never say those words to him again,
No matter how much she needs, she wants;
She will never let him in again.
So she goes home with strangers and brings strangers home with her,
Working her body to forget the years she had something she stood for.
And if she still talked to anyone, she'd say she's waiting to be found.
She doesn't know who she is anymore, but she'll be damned if she wants him to tell her
Because what he thinks, no longer means that much to her.
She's on her own,
She's finding out
What her life is
'Gonna be all about.
Of the night; but they didn't pay the rent and they didn't hit that numbed-up spot.
Some nights it's a guy, some nights a goth chick. Time begins to pass
And she doesn't even consider a preference.
Safety's out, too, it's so passe
It's for women who remember they want to live to see another day.
She stopped checking the machine; there might be a message from him
But his voice just serves to remind her where she's been:
And she's not there anymore.
She's not standing where she was before.
And if she still talked to anyone, she'd say she's waiting to be found.
She doesn't know who she is anymore, but she'll be damned if she wants him to tell her
Because what he thinks, no longer means that much to her.
She's on her own,
She's finding out
What her life is
'Gonna be all about.
She's young and free and everyone who shags her still tells her that she's hot.
But it's just the body, it's just drinking and sex,
She'll get better on her own, she doesn't need her ex-.
She doesn't need someone new, she's fine on her own,
She doesn't need sleep and she doesn't need a home
She doesn't need arms and she doesn't need help from above,
She has no use for a partner and she certainly doesn't want love!
And if she still talked to anyone, she'd say she's waiting to be found.
She doesn't care who she is anymore, she doesn't even care who knows,
She's all laissez faire, c'est la vie and "Isn't that the way life goes?"
She's on her own,
But she's not figuring out
That this is what her life is
all about.
Now, this is what her life is all about.
This has become what she is all about.
His Name Was Not Important.
His lips, they did not speak.
His arms, they were wide open.
My heart was growing weak.
Appeared outside my door.
We talked, he left, I got confused,
He'd left me wanting more.
How strange and frightening.
Was this new sensation love?
Or was it stomach lightning?
His lips, they did not speak.
His arms, they were wide open.
My heart, no longer weak…
Hope
Be it naïve,
Hope doth linger,
As doeth the eve.
All is consumed,
By darkness and fright,
It wills the fight.
A ray of light,
In the pervading darkness,
Gives all a chance,
To seek the heart.
It does not give,
Through fire and rain,
And will not cease,
Or die in vain.
Hope is eternal,
The last of the light.
It seeks not to envy,
Nor evil or spite.
It wishes to live,
Though death doth fight.
But cometh the morning,
The death doth fly.
Time Twists to Fit
Between the sea and sky,
Frothing at the edges
Like the white foam.
Pulled like the sand
Into an hourglass,
Drifting on the dunes,
Bobbing in the waves.
Through the salty spray.
Feel the fact of time receding,
Wearing you away.
Will you tarry here,
Drowning in the waters?
Drag yourself to sodden shores,
And lay yourself to sleep.
The dunes shall drift,
And swiftly shall you swallow,
The dust of centuries,
Hold promises of peace.
.
.
.
.
.
Ribs of wood,
Reaching to the heavens,
Buried in the grains of sand
Blowing from the bay.
The balmy breeze that once caressed them?
What wave will overturn
The secrets etched along their sides?
Will they rest in some museum,
Contemplated by the masses?
Or will they be forgotten,
Lost beneath the lonely beaches,
Worn by waves of time?
Missing
I knew I'd be missing out.
One little slip
And that was it
For us.
You say you aren't missing
anything, but here I am wishing
that you would miss one thing.
If anything could remind you of me,
Then perhaps I would be missing out
on missing you, and There would be no doubt.
The Angel Of My Life
Drifting on wings of golden white,
Comming to save me from pain,
Going straight to my waiting heart,
You come to me,
Keeping me company,
Making me happy,
Just by being there,
You make me smile,
Just by being with me,
Without a reason as why,
Leaving me so sad,
I finally give up on life,
For days I prayed you would return,
For days I hoped you would come back,
But it wasn't meant to be so,
You never came back,
I tried to go on,
But I never could,
It was then that all time seemed to stand still,
I thought I felt her touch,
But it was nothing more than a gentle breeze,
That hope turned into praying,
That praying was answered,
As The Angel Of My Life was back.
Uriel
Like a gothic Christ in his
Holiness.
Was a part of;
And write a canticle of depression
In the evenings--
--to have my head rolled like a
die from my shoulders.
Counting the stones I grow tired,
And lie down amongst the corpses.
Larger obelisks,
and positioning them under stars.
In the morning--
I go home, and there--alone--
--I wail.
Empathy
Stab each one of your hopeless lies
Sorrow bleeding from my heart
Rip your ignorance apart
Seal your lips
Shut your eyes
Lick your fingers
Suck the life out of my lungs
Cremate my soul
It will only hurt you more
Orange Silk
And my house is full of fairies wandering.
And all the elves
That used to play down by the riverside
Have come here to escape.
Cement is drowning my city
And my world…
But my fairytale creatures have a last secret refuge,
Just before everything shut down.
With the shielded windows.
And the orange silk curtains.
Communionator
she walks like a queen,
but no noble blood
is her's to wear.
the weary come to her,
with aching hearts of confession.
She hears them,
She loves them,
She forgives them of errors.
they start to sing,
thinking her a goddess
with blessings to spare.
the withering come to her,
with hearts fearing damnation.
She hears them,
She loves them,
She relieves them of terrors.
I'm Sorry But This Just Isn't What I Anticipated.
First names, last names,
Folding, counting, crushing cranes.
Between daylight and rain, the sane and insane;
Stalling the moon while watching it wane.
Between selfish, soulless, pen, and knife
The greatest sex of my life,
Lay banjos and washboards
Hoards and lords and no rewards
Kissing, killing, climbing, cursing, cliquing
Tearing anew the wounds we've been licking.
Annoyed and deceived, cast out then retrieved.
We learn here
We live here
I live here.
Adhere to this fear.
Maybe There's A Part Two
To the fools that hide
Beneath and behind
The fog that sits thick and think
If you yell it'll stick
Satisfied, sorry, selfless, and sick.
The lights will fold in.
Smaller still.
I know they will.
Devil's Highway
Dirt, dust, heat
Mar the vision.
Walk, water, walk.
Nothing, nothing
Endless hell.
Walk, walk…
It must be worth it?
Just keep walking.
Walk, stumble… walk.
Mouth so dry,
Clothes like sandpaper.
Water? Drip…
One fell already.
Get up, man.
Walk, trip, crawl.
Look for lights,
Any lights.
Migra, city,
Lights?
Water.
Water, water, water.
Walk, walk, walk.
Heat, heat, heat.
Unbearable heat.
Devil’s skillet.
Water?
Walk.
Another one drops.
Leave him be.
Not too far,
Just a couple miles…
Where a few steps kill.
Walk, stagger, fall.
Get up.
Crawl.
Heat.
Water?
Lights.
God or Border Patrol?
Wake up Dancing
Grab your coffee along the way
tap your bare feet on the floor
can you feel your body ask for
more for rhythm of the dawn
in your head you hear the song
of smiles that are enough to place
the bright sun down beside you
and dance along
with the morning's joyful song
that's how it feels
to wake up dancing
Frankie & Larry
So black and haunting, like a cruel old crow.
You say you need me and I'll believe it
Whether it is, maybe, or isn't so.
I seek the truth,
You keep me honest, you pull me through.
Too old and worn to fold.
The snow's too cold to mourn,
So far and close -
Fighting back demons, searching for ghosts.
We all have our demons, though I've met more than most...
She'll stand by him,
Even when she can not stand the journey.
For he's persistant in his passions,
A rapturous mind let loose again.
I'll bring the light as we head down this tunnel,
Find a way to set you free.
Release the coils of your rashest choices:
Waiting for you to call on me.
Though it's fright'ning, and I don't want to go.
You say you need me and I'll believe it,
Whether it is, maybe, or isn't so.
You seek the truth,
I'll keep you honest, I'll pull you through.
So loyal yet so torn.
Come in out of the cold!
I'll hold you close -
You find your damn monsters, I'll hold out for hope...
We can all see her burning,
That doesn't mean that she's stone or cold-hearted
And he knows just how to rev her up -
He'll get her started.
Let's make it complicated,
(No one said we had to be in love).
Together they'll confront the darkness:
For we'll always be found, but let it try to unwind us.
I'll take you away, fly you over the oceans -
With your broken little raven's wing,
You'll let me know.
Tourniquet
here I lay dying where did this become so cold
Am I so unimportant; am I to lost to be saved?
Now here I stand again, blood stains on my hand
my soul and heart dead around me
I tried to dull the pain,
but all I got was a distraught heart
Oh how I want to die!
I’m dying; I’m bleeding, praying for salvation
Your light, is this the answer to my cry,
is this the end of my crimson regret?
My wounds cry out for the grave,
screams for the end, oh how I wanted it to end.
My God return not to me my tourniquet, my suicide
but why oh why do I want to die!!!
Your light, you caress the balm for my wounds,
you voice the silence of my suicide
Your embrace the end to my shed inner tears
I’m done dulling pain,
I am to lost to be saved
My God return to me deliver me from damnation.
My God my tourniquet, staunch these hideous wounds once more
end the tears of sorrow shed for me,
end the blood end the regret my lord my God my tourniquet.
silent cry
I wasn’t born in love,
nor was I rejected in hate,
it’s who I am and that’s all I can take
to carry out my painful end
but why must you make me promises
only to trod me over again
My armors rent and torn
my skin cracked an shorn
my blood flows down there’s
nothing to do no not now
Why do you hold me so only to rend me again?
You gave me reason to live
why then now do my wounds call for the grave?
I’ve bled crimson shame
so that all in all I might remain
But you’ve stopped me now
why then have you thrown me out?
Into the void less darkness
left out in the cold
unforgiving winter of my own soul
Why can’t I talk to you?
Is this your way of venting to me?
If so then so may it be
Just wish I could talk to you
Just wish I knew what to do
Oh how at times I just want to die!
I can’t see you now;
I’ve fallen to the black waters below
I can’t see you now;
do my cries fall on deaf ears?
My hand outstretched with none to receive it,
as I careen into the abyss
The bleak abyss of my erstwhile balm,
my crimson sin, my tempted suicide
As I cry out in the night with no end in sight.
Power Outage
As the darkness fell.
The power was out.
She sighed then light a candle.
And waited.
The flickering candle, was dying.
She listened to the wind.
Then started to cry.
The candle was out.
As she cried with the storm.
She'd light a candle.
Mother to Daughter
You scream at me.
You never hit me.
You never held me long.
I love you.
No made how loud.
No matter how painful.
I learned long ago.
That words are words.
And you use them a lot.
But I love you.
You're never home.
Always gone.
Grew up alone.
I hold it all in.
You're always whining.
Always complaining.
Yet, I love you.
You're the best.
The only one.
And I'll always care.
For you are my mother.
And my mother you shall always be.
And my love for you shall always be.
Now it seems the leaves are flying
As the summer sun is leaving,
The grass beneath my feet is dying,
All trace of summer blown away.
Red and gold, the wreath that crowns me,
Majestic fires that warm my heart,
Yet my fingers feel the cold.
Make my heart a little stronger,
Give me the warmth I took for granted,
Winter knocks upon my door!
Love
my chest pounds with what is love.
An unmistakable rhyme and rhythm.
Listless and restless in its pursuit of ultimate satisfaction,
and i have found it.
I have found that of which poets write and singers sing,
Lyrical and written,
carved into the fabric of every being.
It is love
and love is moving and strong.
Love is power and passion.
Love is a psychopath.
I shall hold on to love.
I shall keep it under lock and key in a crystal case so everyone can see,
so everyone knows that i have found love
and love has found me.
From Genesis to Genocide
The beginning of a day
New life and new death
New failure and new success
Twined together with the dusk
The end of a day
Where death becomes mourning
And success sacrifices life
Together both are needed
Together both are resented
But there's a time when both end
The twilight
Where there is no joy or pain
and there is only air
And the it starts
New life and new death
From dawn till dusk
The world waits on
To capture one moment of peace.
Upon the Height
Afraid to fall
Upon the height
I heed the call
Weak and broken
Hope to all
Upon the height
I heed the call
Tears and laughter
Held in thrall
Upon the height
I heed the call
To live, perhaps
Perchance, to die
For sometimes
When we fall, we fly
She Sings
Across the littered desert skies.
She sings a song of hope forlorn
Apart from wandering withering eyes.
Of gracious emerald eyes that gleam,
A song that flew just like a dove
Into the ever-waking dream.
An age when eyes at last may rest,
A time when need and want will cease,
A time when life and hope are blest.
The grainy noise above the clash.
All eyes will turn to her as before,
When the world begins and ends in ash.
And blinded eyes must look within.
To find the truth that newness sends,
She sings the song that starts again.
Descent
A tragedy of a shattered soul,
I'm squandering my sanity.
I fall through the barren wastes of my mind.
The descent is what defines me.
There you will find my insanity.
Where the terror of my mind becomes the solace of my flesh,
There you will find my self.
Lost among my darker thoughts
I'm drifting through reality
Depriving my self of the fate of my fall.
The descent is what defines me.
There you will find my insanity.
Where the terror of my mind becomes the solace of my flesh,
There you will find my self.
Adrift in the sea of fear.
I've lost my self to find my way.
I've fallen so far, but I've rebuilt my soul.
The descent is what defines me!
There you will find my insanity.
Where the terror of my mind becomes the solace of my flesh,
There you will find my self.
Hurricane
means to wash away the smell of him.
Oh, those memories built on rainy nights,
cold mornings and Autumn's oblivious rainbows,
shining on the smell of blackberries and nutmeg,
apples and pears fermenting in fields beyond our reach,
and that bull named Hurricane who lay
screaming for us to jump that fence that day.
Heart's Desire
Through space and time,
Through ages past,
And those to come,
The moon never shown brighter,
The sun never felt warmer,
When in thy presence,
My heart it doth glimmer.
Yet thee ice never freezes,
And thee pain never seizes,
Unto mine own heart,
Through thee,
Happiness never ebbs,
Sorrow never grips,
Oft my mind wanders,
To thoughts of thee,
To memories of thee,
Oh how I wish it could be.
You can't tell fairytales anymore
You can't tell fairytales anymore
The Djini's lamp is also gone, smashed down to the core.
You can't tell fairytales anymore
Small are now the boots the Puss once wore
Now it is chase away from here because of TV
Once upon a time, Fantasy was free
Now it's locked up downstairs by cell phones with 3G
The pea is no longer there to makes the Princess sore
You can't tell fairytales anymore
Ranpunzel's hair are now gray and with the age hoar
You can't tell fairytales anymore
The Hunter handed over Red to the carnivore
Now it lies dead alone with reveries' debris
Once upon a time, Fantasy was free
Now it's calling out for help inside of the TV
~My Love is Yours~
My love is yours.
Take it now,
Or it will stray,
With unsaid feelings,
Lost from light.
For love is kind,
And patient with you.
The Bible said so,
And in this I trust.
To be with you always,
I pledge to be.
Without you by my side,
I shall die,
For, my dear,
My love is yours.
Ash
Glad I am still your friend
You know wounds heal eventually
Still pretending, I descend
I try to protect your eyes
I wish as I am dying
You would see me otherwise
The way I was with you
Me as a burning ember
Not smoke caught in the floo
Remember me still alight
Or don't remember me at all
See my coals burning bright
Or let my ashes fall
Of our kalis in any way
You have enough to bind you
Without my gift of decay
Your wants must come first
So alive I try to be
I have to feed your thirst
The way I was with you
Me as a burning ember
Not smoke caught in the floo
Remember me still alight
Or don't remember me at all
See my coals burning bright
Or let my ashes fall
As the pain drenches me
Yet I can never feel
The fire soothing me
I pour out my sympathy
I block you from knowing
The fire is out in me.
It's deep inside of me.
I sit here and think could this be?
I feel like a fool
Not knowing if you will be cruel
Please promise to hold my heart
And never let it break apart
I can't explain this feeling
I think I've fallen in love
You make me want to believe
That you'll never leave
You have became my reality
You have been my dream
Don't let us loose what we've got
Because, I love you a whole lot
Could this be what we've been looking for?
I've found my happiness
Now that I know you exist
I think I've finally found the missing piece of me
Could this be?
of feral pain
A savage beast
so savage slain
Blood soaks the earth
and falls like rain
On high gods laugh
and say again
I don't remember
I don't recall much lately though
I guess that just comes hand in hand
with this... emptiness...
I feel warm...
Lazily I open my eyes..
I'd rather stay dreaming
In my dreams seem to be the only place I am at peace anymore
In my dreams things are...
I hear myself whimper...
I throw my head back
Toward what would be the sky...
But I can't cry out..
Not here...
The pain of being here, next to Him is too great
But leaving hurts even more
But I leave anyway...
if only to cry out in the night some more...
Nothing will change it
I can only cry...
For Chelsea
I sail far from this place.
Adrift on a boat
That floats over
This ocean of unknowing
That separates
You and I.
Gales deep within me
Propel me towards you.
What unknown
Troubles and treasures
You hold, only you could know.
And perhaps I will be just
Another victim that
The Chill Sea claims.
Yet amongst the hidden tempests
And mental storms,
I want to know
More about you.
My eyes never waver from yours.
Through my apartment window,
Staring out at the dark city sky.
The lighted buildings shimmer
And I smile to myself,
Wondering who you might be.
Haiku
in his eyes I see
glimpses of paradise
With deepest slumber,
Fairies come,
With thoughts of wonder,
In the night,
The sweetest visions,
Of pure delight!
that you may see,
As the fairies dance with glees,
All the things you want to be.
As by moonlight, you are kissed.
Gently rocking, gently sleeping,
All the while, their vigil keeping.
Of feather down,
Bright are the stars,
In your fairy crown!
Quite what it seems,
As we wander,
In fairy dreams!
You abandoned me.
The listless ghost
Of who I should be.
I hurt of my volition
Seeking to injure.
I cause my condition,
Force myself to endure.
Why can you not stay
Once in a week?
Why must you stray
Until I am weak?
I leave you alone
When you need it.
But you are gone
And only feed it.
Solitary, you hurt more
Than you truly must.
I hurt more than before
When I had trust.
Why do you betray me,
Leave me on my own?
What is your priority
Above calling my phone?
For your direction,
I will cry.
For your indiscretion,
I will die.
I’ll bottle it up and never let it show.
I like the way it hurts,
I can’t describe the pain.
Should I feel remorse,
should I feel shame?
I feel empty and hollow,
in these deadly sins I plan to wallow.
They’ll blacken my heart,
let my soul die.
I’ll play my part and never ask why.
I’ll act dumb and like I don’t care, but what it all comes down to is what I’ll ware.
To their funerals,
I’ll be there.
To watch the mausoleums,
I’ll sit with the crows, their bones will feed them.
My skin will turn and spirit will burn.
But when it all ends I shall sit with my friends.
Basically what I’m trying to say is not everything is here to stay.
When it’s all said and done,
when the dark swallows the sun,
I won’t be gone long at all, I’ll be back,
and all things will fall.
Another from the sky,
It was a small glowing ball,
Another shiny from so high,
It was a star,
To fall somewhere and leave a scar...
She touches her reflection, the mirror a surprise
Her wet eyes find her dry ones and she gazes steadily
The face inside the mirror not what she thought it would be.
She finds herself a stranger, this new image unexpected
The strength she sees inside herself is hardly recollected
Especially by her, and and truly not within this moment
While her head hangs low with cheeks still damp with the tears of her atonement.
But in this very instant she sees the reason for her power
A Goddess lives inside her, ready to rise up in this hour
Within herself she sees the need to release all of her fears
She glances into the mirror and swiftly wipes away her tears
And from this very moment she knows she only has to live
To do the best she knows she can and to give all she can give.
And so she takes her first step and heads into the night
She's the only strength she'll ever need, she now makes her own light.
Though you are so far away?
I know I see you.
Every night in the moon,
And in my dreams.
I see you in every stranger's face,
And in every ray of sun.
I hear your voice,
As though across a deep ravine.
You call to me,
As though in a dream.
But I cannot reach you;
You are far across the sea,
Fighting a war that cannot be won.
But though you are thousands of miles away,
You haunt me still.
I have little hope
That I will see you again,
But instead I wonder.
I wonder do you see me?
Do you see me in the moon,
And in your dreams?
Do you see me in every stranger's face,
And in every ray of sun?
Do you hear my voice,
As though across a deep ravine?
Do I call to you,
As though in a dream?
Or am I just another woman to you?
To be used and tossed aside,
As one would a tissue?
Or is there perhaps some small hope
That you think of me
As often as I think of you?
So I will ask again;
Do you see me in the moon?
without a glance my way
my heart sings out in glorious rhymes
all horribly cliche
just what I feel today
is muted by my fear's command
to submissively obey
and every night I pray
that you will see my pain, my blight
and help me find my way
the way it does decay
For it continues to obsess
over your blue eyes this day
for at the sun's last ray
I will give in, my heart will shatter
and slowly fade away
Icarus Rising.
Statuesque Women.
Midas’ Touch.
Stone Cold Truth.
Medusa’s Frigid Gaze.
Crushing Melodies.
Siren’s Call.
Lightning & Thunder!
Zeus On High!
Mountains Aflame.
Hephaestus Forging.
Souls Burning.
Hades Clapping.
Heroes Dying.
Fates Shearing.
Gods Fearing.
Titan’s Hour.
Apocalypse’s Clarion.
Typhon Devours.
Prometheus’ Pyre.
Hyperion’s Blaze.
Terra Trembles!
Gaia Stirs!
Mothered Birth.
Atlas Cursed.
Cronos’ Eternal Hunger.
Law Torn Asunder.
Atropos’ Edifice Frays!
Chaos Exalts Decay.
We travel through the night
Floating gracefully on tender wings
So easy to be thrown astray
Distracted by the blinding lights
How strange it seems
That people are like moths
How far we fly just to see the world
Ever dancing toward the moon
Yet sometimes they get lost,
Just to be burnt by a candles flame.
Of the whispers in my ear
Do not escape. Some words Nonsense,
Some words a philosophers plight.
But all just words whispered at night.
Meet is the only place they agree
The Sea wishes to fly, And to be free.
The Sky wishes to move, And to be enjoyed.
Their colors flow together as if one.
The sky thinks it is in the sea.
And blows with all its might.
While the sea jumps into the sky.
As if it were to fly.
forcing the sea and sky to part again.
But when the wind blows and the sea leaps up to fly
The two become one, if only for a moment.
Though I grow weaker still upon seeing you
You, a vision to behold indeed
I dare not but hardly breathe your name
and as it tumbles forth across my lips, caresses
like fingertips, like mercy, like soft heaven.
You, whom I have adorned with many endearing titles,
It is naught but for adoration that makes the least of which “god”
And I, who am I if not your servant?
For oh! How you pleasure and torture me alike!
In your wickedness I find solace, your injustice I truly crave
Certainly it is unfair for me to love you so vividly
To you I am the definition of insignificance
So easily discarded and from thus, called in return to your side as you please.
Yet I, knowing all of this and more, I return
Loyal servant, faithful lapdog, enduring plaything.
I am mortal and therefore weak.
How's it go?
Pass a round,
The story's told.
Screaming, shouting -
Bust a lung.
Have a beer when you are done.
Crush the ice and squeeze the lime,
Another glass makes it all fine.
Something's missing in this life,
Crash and bash -
An evil tone.
Falling,
Drowning,
Where've you gone?
You left your spirit on the counter.
Crush the ice and squeeze the lime,
Another round makes it all fine...
Another round and you won't mind.
Submission
I look to the sky
I remember what He said
to my frail female form earlier in the day
He asked
"Is it really because of the sky
Or, rather, because we must look up
to see it?"
Even in this form
with the wind around me
with the balance of nature deep in my bones
in my spirit
I still seek to serve.
and even in a pack
There is dominance
and submission
I am submissive
to Him always.
To look up
at Him
to look up
at my moon goddess
to serve
always serving
always
In Your Arms
In your arms I feel safe,
In your arms I feel warm,
In your arms I feel the love we share for each other,
In your arms I feel I can stay,
In your arms I know you will let me pursue my dreams,
In your arms I feel protected,
In your arms I feel a bond that binds us through time
In your arms I know I am yours, and we shall last a lifetime and more to come.
ripped from my arm,
unconscious, subconscious,
my hands pried them with every will - while
I dragged out everlasting thoughts of you,
here, in my arms, in my dreams.
Everything fell to the floor,
the phone was disconnected and
dangled
Daunting, angry,
beeping and speaking as if I were there,
still talking to you
after we'd long hung up.
I threw the covers off my mattress,
sat straight up, mumbling,
back down, sleep,
let the cold air sink into my skin,
wishing it were you
and not the wind.
And you look away.
I smile at you
Yet you have nothing to say.
I love you
Or at least I used to.
So I shall keep my distance
And close my eyes so that
I can remain blind to the
World that lays so
Dimly before me.
So I shall cry at night,
As long as no one sees
Me do so then I shall
Be safe from my own heinous
Nightmares and hate.
When your pain becomes
Too much to bear on your own
And you crumple under the weight
Of your own inabilities.
When you fall of a mountain side
And hit every rock on the way down,
In order to distract yourself
From your own inner pains.
After you single handedly ripped
Out my heart and mutilated what
Was left of my empty soul.
Job to care for you when you
Stand with a shovel with a rusted blade
And ask me to help you dig your own
Shallow grave so that you may hide
From the wretched world we live in.
And I shall pray for your redemption,
And I shall remember you as you were
But I shall never care about the
Person that you have let yourself become.
Blur the line; part one
Smear the image of
Reality and make-believe
With a single thought or
Notion of something so
Unreal and yet so
Real that it seems to
Make the most sense in
A world that is most
Certainly not reality.
Think and what we know
In an effort to distinguish
The difference between
Who we are and what we
Think we are.
Tattered fragments of the
Bitter reality we cling to
And the hopeless dreams we
Love and cherish so much.
Ourselves in order to place
Trust in others.
So much of what was meant to
Be in an effort to recover what
Was doomed to fail in the end.
and create this un-recognizabl
Heap of flesh we call a world
Which is not reality nor make-
Believe but only what we see
And think and do and smell and
Hear and want but our feelings
Which used to be most important
Mean nothing when faced with the
Real truth that nothing is real
And nothing is true, everything is
Mixed into something that is neither
Here nor there nor anywhere in between.
This sick and twisted idea
Formed from broken dreams and
Sad realities,
A world that only proves our
Pathetic inability
To face that reality is truly real
And that pretend is nothing but
Pretend in the end, and that the blur
Was created by us in the end
Like smearing make-up on the skin
We lost ourselves somewhere along the way
And the image that stared back at us,
Made us sick and twisted and cruel
And corrupt just like the world that
We have forced ourselves to live in for
All this time, wasting away as our
Minds shut down and begin to reject
The harshness of the things placed before
Us and we begin to become something that is
Neither real nor pretend, neither good nor bad
Neither this nor that
And slowly that thing which we have let ourselves
Become is tearing at our insides and turning
Our flesh to mush, our bone to ash, our organs to slush
And our minds to nothing, our memories blank
And our concept of what is real and what is not
Fades away like the moon that casts an everlasting
Shadow on our blackened withered souls
Which remain to be the only things in-between?
And she risked her sanity to take the chance,
Looking into herself for the answers,
But the mirror burns upon her glance—
A pale reflection of what she’s known.
The unicorns of her childhood
Returning to a past unshown.
Sixteen years ago
They served her well on purple page,
Glowing bright in mystic grace,
Now their dance yet hides their age
Careless creatures prancing in a frozen, rhythmic pace.
Can they cause the soul’s windows to break and shard?
Gentle tinctures for the fragile heart.
My history’s flooded with pain and woe,
Yet those golden hooves remember rays of hope,
With times of peace and tender smiles
- Wisdom granted to an eager child.
If anyone is listening
A sudden snowstorm.
And everything.
Is frozen. In the blizzard.
I'm alone.
The world is at a standstill.
Frozen white. Like death.
The damn tinder won't light.
If only I could curl up in your warmth
I repeat -
The Hollow Hills
Who haunts the Hollow Hills?
I trace his steps
I feel his breath
I watch him as he kills
Who stalks the Shattered Halls?
I stand alone
As dry as bone
But he wanders through the walls
Sloth
Me flip
Me soar
Me beam
My breath
The air
The steam
My head
My heart
My dream
And stare
And sigh
And scream
Thunder and Blood
What I'm certain it is
You sit in your bubble
All wrapped in your bliss
And blow me sweet kisses
From wistful, bent lips
It touches my chest
It bites and it nips
And it drives me
Mad
Because in your eyes I can see
What I never had
Torn from company
Bereft of wonder
Now all I have
Is blood and thunder
The path for blood
Till thoughts are cold
And thick as mud
Of love, forgotten
Of hope, far gone
Memories hindered
By trinkets that shone
Then reality hits me
With a sickening thud
When I realise all I am
Emma
And of the things that you do
If only I could see you now
I found you waiting for me
I could have died when you first saw me
But when I woke you were not there to be found
And now I'm scared of sleeping
But you'll not find me weeping
That's only because I lay here alone
I wish I could talk to you
And let my love flow through you
But I'm just too scared to pick up the phone
I remember the time we spent there
And the strawberry smell of your hair
The biggest word we knew was fun
There was a girl there at the right time
She was a candle in my night time
But compared to her you're the rising sun
I balance equations in my sleep,
I write poetry on steamed windows,
I sing songs in the soil,
I tell stories to my plants,
I wake up in my dreams,
With a headache on my lips,
And tear drops in my hand.
I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.
If I knew it would be the last time that I see you walk out the door,
I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for one more.
If I knew it would be the last time I'd hear your voice lifted up in praise,
I would videotape each action and word, so I could play them back day after day.
If I knew it would be the last time, I could spare an extra minute or two
to stop and say "I love you," instead of assuming, you would know I do.
well I'm sure you'll have so many more, so I can let just this one slip away.
For surely there's always tomorrow to make up for an oversight,
and we always get a second chance to make everything right.
There will always be another day to say our "I love you's",
And certainly there's another chance to say our "Anything I can do's?"
I'd like to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget,
Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike,
And today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved one tight.
So if you're waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today?
For if tomorrow never comes, you'll surely regret the day,
That you didn't take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss
and you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last wish.
Tell them how much you love them and that you'll always hold them dear,
Take time to say "I'm sorry," "please forgive me," "thank you" or "it's okay".
And if tomorrow never comes, you'll have no regrets about today.
I'm going to perform this crime
You were the only reason I had to lie
You were the reason I did it anyway;
and words before I die?
in a cascate is where I lay
Keep your head up high.
Please don't let me see you cry,
For I tried so hard not to let myself die,
And here's to my last good-bye.
of metal in a November rain
As curtains of glass-like pearls
fall, and spell out my name
on these same, rusty tracks
Passing frozen stagnation,
that, which time itself lacks
just one of those pearls
She'll say, 'I know you' and ask
where I've been all these years
in this short moment of bliss
For as she falls down the curtain
I know there's something I've missed
Women’s bodies in the mountains,
And I always find time in my clock
I look for god in the storm,
And I always find my dreams when I sleep
I look for eye contact in empty rooms,
And i always find the things I lose where I find them
Your smile in the rain,
And i always find your vacant expression in the sky
Your number in my calculator,
And I always, almost always, find you, in me, in you.
You need me.
You hold me.
You love me.
You protect me.
You cry with me.
You smile with me.
You laugh with me.
You are always near me.
You are forever with me.
as Joni sings to us, "it's down to you"
and your eyelashes seem brown in the morning shadow
and what they meant has never been more clear:
if you know your future, you'll lose the present
I become a magnet, I pull you closer
too close to stay safe, to listen to advice
why does your beauty grow the closer I get
and why is your soft hair such a safe place to hide?
don't ever let go, let us never admit to ourselves
this is where our disease reaches its peak
of a disease we cannot mention by name;
there is not a single future where our fate aligns
my stomach and the curve of your back, so close
such intimacy that it's hard not to admit
separated and rejoined, but painfully aware
that it'll never return, we won't have a new start
softly opening your eyes and putting a smile on your lips
I know I can never leave this now, never abandon this place
Moon Shine
In the silver light
Of an unforgiving moon
Whose cold reflection
Gives no comfort
In this hour
Of self intimidation
To hide
In the light
Of the seen
Pretending
The shadows
That I cast
Are truly me
Nor am I shadow
But the source
And the destination
Both
Reside in me
My hands
Outstretched
Can touch both
Sky and earth
But only as a conduit
Abstracts
“Before” and “After”
Twixt who I was
And who I’ll be
Neither exists
They belong
To memory and Fantasy
They are both a part of me
But they are not me
I am the present
I am the now
Forever
and all the names are burning
But by God the blaze is mighty
We're past the point of no return
and I'm too stubborn to stop fighting
the future, smug and coy
Pretending to be new,
tantalizing hidden joys
(It lies)
a swift knife blade in the dark
I have just one weapon left
defy the ambush, curse them all
making blades out of my heart
buffeted by the wind
We all know by now there's only
one way this can end
Against the pressure of the sky
despite the chains strung deep
through me to the earth
Raise up my arms, and facing God,
claim the right that's mine by birth
No future generation will remember
Still the words are said, no echo there
Spoken, spent, they fill the air
with all their past companions,
ancestors, of a sort, the dead ones
who preceded me, and ghosts
of those still yet to come
(I'm not the last, the present's never past)
Defiance, pure, my inch that will not give.
Fools, you have no concept.
Conquer that.
He sat beside me in a Polaroid dream,
And taught me the fundamentals of organic chemistry
Where happiness is made of hydrocarbons,
And falling in love is like the bright white
Glow of burning magnesium in an open flame,
He told me that I could never really find him in numbers,
And not even in test tubes or lab coats,
What he said to me made sense,
The kind of sense that doesn't have to be understood,
Because it wasn't about
Molecules or chemicals,
It was about you and me,
And people,
And skyscrapers,
And maps,
And love,
And so I always look for you in that
Sepia-toned science lab,
Where we never met,
And when they ask me why I fell so hard for him,
I will say
‘I guess it was just some kind of chemical reaction’
Written By [Indigo Girl]
Harbringer beleth
For a sentence of quarantines
A fate far worse than death
But do not fear
For I am on your side
I remain your companion
While those close to you have left
....
Be you a wonderer
At sea/ or on the land
I am as friend to kings
As is to common man
Nor crown nor coin
I answer to only souls
I am the only friend
Before the comeing cold
....
I am the doctor
Censer in hand
Beware of the fragrant smoke
It speaks of tarnished land
And when I rap upon
The outside of your door
Just remember that brother grim
is closer than ever before
I watched it grow, slow and steady,
between heavy rains and sterile sun.
I watched it turn and bloom and fade away,
I watched it mourn, yellow as the year was done.
Losing leaf and bark and limb,
from Autumn's wind all night and day.
I watched the leaves of green and red,
I watched them fade and turn to gray.
I saw them tease and tumble, too -
soft but exulting in their own right,
I watched a happy, painful moment
towards every short twilight.
clouds called fog into the trees,
the soil, was boisterous and moist.
The pines cradled the earth and sky,
the boulders, they rejoiced.
lost within the midday haze -
inching it's path towards something new,
but still, the path I sauntered so,
I found, there, the grass still grew.
Mothers are Drill Sergeants.
Yet the concern for you cannot be beat.
There watch you every minute of every day
They watch you work and watch you play
They are hard but they are fair
Because the love for you will never tear
They make you eat, they make you sleep
They make you wash your hands and feet
You curse them harshly all the time
Because they make you toe the line
Under their care you are protected
No move you make goes undetected
Though as time goes by things will change
You lose the hate and find it strange
All you feel is pure love
Like a godsend from above
All of the lessons and all of the rules
That you thought were just for fools
All will now seem worthwhile
When you find out that you’re with child
And you look at Drill Sergeant completely calm
And with tears in your eyes say thank you mom
I never did.
Striking, considering,
The similarities between
Myself and a baseball...
You step up to the plate;
You get to be the batter, and I,
I get to be the ball; hey batter, swing.
I'm flying out of the park
I think of, ponder, explore memories of
All of the individually excruciating
Times the batter, any batter, has
Struck my with that unforgiving chunk
Of wood and I remember sometimes it even
Ripped my seams and I fell out of myself.
I wonder how many more
Blows I can take before I fall into dust.
Why not... why not if somehow, someone in the
Outfield stretched as hard as he could
Over the fence and caught me?
Why not? When? What if were it instead,
But a fan and I were revered for that wrong placed upon me?
Is that right? To accept praise for surviving something big?
Like I said before....
You're hitting a homerun again,
And I'm not fond of baseball.
But maybe someone is.
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2008-11-08 [Linderel]: Probably in the queue, yes.
2008-11-11 [Linderel]: [Silver Moon]: Please do not include any notes outside the format.
2008-11-11 [Silver Moon]: ok sorry I will fix it
2008-11-12 [Mitsuki The Wolf Girl]: Hey [Linderel] Is it ok that I split my poem into two parts??
2008-11-12 [Linderel]: It is, but don't expect them to be featured right next to each other. :)
2008-11-12 [Mitsuki The Wolf Girl]: That isn't a problem ^^ I just want them both to be featured...eve
2008-11-16 [.:.:.Syrah .-x-. Anne.:.:.]: Indigo Girl "i" is a roper noun. :D
2008-11-16 [Indigo Girl]: I prefer it to be noncapitalized for the effect of the poem. Especially when I am writing my free or open verse poetry. Unless that is a problem?
2008-11-17 [.:.:.Syrah .-x-. Anne.:.:.]: that would be a question best suited for [Linderel]
2008-11-17 [Mitsuki The Wolf Girl]: Free verse is respectable, and there is a great deal of poetic lenience that follows it but it clearly states in the rules that Submissions must be in proper English. And the rules tend to be held to a higher respect than artistic opinions, especially when it comes to grammar.
2008-11-17 [*Phoenix*]: I would suggest changing it just to not cause problems....
2008-11-17 [Indigo Girl]: :) Okay
2008-11-17 [Linderel]: Yes, unfortunately we require that proper nouns be capitalised. :)
2008-11-22 [*Artsie_ladie*]: Just took out the 9 newline gap that had imposed itself into my poem. This happens sometimes when a page is edited a lot I've noticed. :P
2008-11-23 [.:.:.Syrah .-x-. Anne.:.:.]: Ayame The Snake "Laugh" shouldnt be capitalized.
2008-11-23 [Ayame the Snake]: oops...
2008-11-24 [St. Wilgefortis]: i finally got over myself and posted the same poem i posted a while ago, but this time with capitalized i:s and names.. X) i trust i'll be informed if i forgot to fix some of the words. :o)
2008-11-24 [Linderel]: Seems to be alright. :3
06:33:38 [Thunder God Cid]: Okay here's me trying to get over my self consciousness >.<
07:16:44 [*OGD*]: I don't know how to post a poem here, or if it is full.... *silly*
07:35:51 [Linderel]: Read the Daily Poem Format - the instructions are there. :)
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