Thursday, August 9, 2012

We, the Dreamers

Hey there. I am again to writing...sorry if it seems like I have simply been rapid firing things at a wanton rate. I have four months left in 2012 and it seems to be my most productive year for writing. My only regret is that I feel inadequate with my stuff as of right now. I am planning to do a string of structured poetry again in order to give me a bit more discipline on my respective original works. I dunno...but if any wayfarer happens upon my stuff, please feel free to give me pointers or advice on furthering my advancement. Thanks!

It's kinda like my own free verse/ structure
it has 20 lines, 4 stanzas with a rhyme scheme of:

A,B,A,B
I

C,D,C,D
I

E,F,E,F
I

G,H,G,H
I

We the Dreamers

Signs of a better world,
mustered by an overwhelming fortitude.
The rays of Sun allowed the petals to be unfurled.
And we blossomed from the chains of servitude.
A blank slate.

The waif that wandered into the bitter cold,
mustered the courage to find its way home.
By a hearth and crackling fire to grow old,
the hardships faded into the unknown.
The gift that was late.

The lovers cradled each other,
against all odds their love would endure.
Never would they waver for another,
forever drawn into romance's allure.
They danced a steady gait.

Defeat something unwilling to accept,
their victory shown in gilded streamers.
All promises are intended to be kept.
For we are the dreamers,
those that live to defy fate.


Swan Song

I like to dabble in the thoughts of final acts. Could you hope to create something beautiful out of your last living moment? And even so, would your life be able to speak of the beauty of your time on Earth?


Swan Song

Muted voices hid our acts,
tenuous bridges o'er our hearts.
We are the children,
the ones that dare to dream impossibility.

We oft cling to tentative likeness.
Immortality is naught but fabrication.
When first we begin to walk,
we learn to step backwards with indolence.

From the base clamor of the newborn child,
we learn to seal our true voice within -
a husk that masks identity.
We are the swans without voice,
grasping for ourselves in a conformist sea.

Castles that formed in sand,
were as the schemes of mice and men.
All things must one day end,
but must they be stifled by an unwillingness to go?

Graciously accepting mortality,
they refuse to believe in the bonds of fragility.
Their voices are hoarse,
from crying muted exclamations of delight.

From the fallacy of those believed impervious,
we learn our mistakes are not made alone -
shared within each identity.
We are the swans without a voice,
straining to form the words too late to speak.

The amused sky line,
allowed the stars to shine their brightest.
Heaven hung over,
listening patiently for the call of the returned.

A stone that told that anchored an invigorated heart,
fueled it with the will to continue.
Flames refused to be extinguished,
burning with a determination to rejoice in glorified song.

From the grandeur of enlightened selflessness,
we raised heads in vigorous chorus -
sharing the boundary of heart and soul.
We are the swans without a voice,
hoping our song will echo beautifully through the clouds.



Born to Die

Before you all pass this over before thinking people die. I suppose I write about people dying a lot. Too bad, I suppose. Anyway, I have quite a few new things to post as of late. I wish to move to a better site, but I haven't got a clue where to go...so someone do help me find a new, more trafficked site?


Born to Die


Before we say farewell,
allow last rights scribbled in hope.
Eyes don't have to grow dark,
among a life that refuses to fizzle.

The holes of conundrum cratered faith,
looking to the heavens in inquiry.
Cries echoed into the firmament,
"If is the longest word."

Dancing within a masquerade of conformity,
they swap masks with one another.
Never once can you truly know
those that claim to pull the strings.

Speaking verses that confound the senses,
is this the way we shroud periphery?
The shadows don't merely have to be blindly fumbled through.
Is this waltz spinning chaotically through labyrinths?

Mazes exist to test your limits.
Underneath the rubble a soul can shine brightly,
fighting passed the encroaching end.
A story doesn't have to end meaninglessly.

Foundations crumble with a refusal to bend.
To break is to give in to fate.
Speak insolence through the iron willed,
"Today is not the day we go."

Now we can see the path stretched in obscurity.
Phantoms dance in the concealed notions,
the jesters that play upon your journey.
For every step foreword, infinity pushes you back.

When the night shows the curtain's fall,
questions riddle necessity with the otiose.
There eyes look for answers within that which cannot live nor perish,
never knowing answers lie with the ones born to die.




Saturday, August 4, 2012

Pale Flower

A love poem.

Pale Flower

The moon could shine,
and fail when reflecting your skin.
The petals of a rose,
could look dilapidated against you.

If I touched your face,
will it's fragility shatter under my touch.
Would I be left holding air,
wishing your form lay within my arms.

Your delighted laughter,
has enthralled my senses.
But when I whispered your name,
would it fade into the wind?

I long to feel your heart's beat,
to hear it fade into mine,
and melt into placid warmth.
A utopia in comforting embrace.

My fingers could thumb passed your chin.
Laying in quiet prayer,
in hopes you wouldn't crumble
beneath my entropic caress.

The moon stares in contemptible envy,
its reflection upon the water.
Casting hateful eyes,
it weeps in jealous rage.

If rain fell against your visage,
could I wipe the tears away.
Might I shield you from the moon,
keeping your mirage to myself.

Your pale reflection spoke,
that the bodies on the horizon cried,
craving for you to return to them.
But your voice spoke no.

The glint in your eyes,
put stars to shame.
Stolen away in my arms,
we can disappear into the night.

But as I felt your warmth,
your features faded with their decadence.
Please, don't away from me,
just let the skies wait a minute longer.

What is Human

I wrote this to highlight the struggle with changing ones social role...among other things. It is a view on being a human, and how life is fleeting, and too fleeting to be wasted on climbing ladders.



What is Human

Born in the flesh we die in,
we can't change ourselves like suits.
But surely we change our minds,
as frequently as we change shoes.

When lacing all laces,
strapping all straps,
please realize, life isn't a two faced
nor a sickly trap.

From diapers to canes,
finger paint to forgetting our own names...
we lay searching for a reason,
from the cradle to the grave.

E plurubus unum,
is a confusing lie
that leaves us with a fleeting sense,
we belong with eac hother until the day we die

Regardless of past deeds,
we will always bit the hand,
that reaches down, gifts, and feeds...
only to anger when we have naught.

To the dark we all gather alone,
searching finitely for meaning.
But meaning is the same, despite what we believe,
we are merely searching for life's sweet reprieve.

Friday, August 3, 2012

Sands Mask Democracy



I asked a question to people, "What is Freedom?" They gave me answers that only reflected in the fact that they do not know what freedom really is, nor understand what it's like to be stripped of it. TRUE, I do not know personally, but I will not take my limited freedom for granted. "THEY" represents...well..a lot of things.

Sands Mask Democracy

What is freedom?
Can we believe the callous lies,
that taper the wistful dreams?
Children grow into hypnotized zombies.

They sit behind desks claiming peace,
yet flags still lay in smoldering remains.
The ashes were danced upon to the songs of hate.
Detracted wills, spread ignorance.

Soldiers occupied a foreign land.
Their remains boxed and package,
like the mass producing machine.
Boxed and shipped out, their return broken.

Orphans asking for food,
go ignored beneath your skyscrapers.
Money can buy weapons and flashy comfort.
Glass and metal built on tears of famine.

Did you forget the look in their eyes?
The ones you trampled upon,
reached up with agonized looks.
They were kicked down by your militias.

Body armor dispersed instead of bread.
The value of full bellies less than bullets.
Shell casings lay riddled in the earth,
starving babies crying for food piercing beyond gunshots.

Oil shipped in barrels,
drained from the earth in a wake of bodies.
The lifeblood of war sought more victims,
as the rich grew richer, lives became less plentiful.

If they refused to take from the needy,
they were branded as traitors.
A collective clouded greed in democracy.
Intentions are only as good as what you can take.

Overthrowing tyrants masked new dictators,
hoping to grub in black gold.
They toppled regimes with expedited promises,
yet sons return in caskets.

We all know the mission is completed,
people fearful to live are truly at peace.
Uncle Sam's guiding hand has ensured freedom's march,
as he lined his pockets black.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Daybreak

I have kinda gone back to my doomsday style writing... mah b. I have been working on some hopeful nice things, but the words haven't come together just yet.


Daybreak

The night rises against a stark back drop.
Spare them the excuses and justification.
When the bombs fell,
there was no such courtesy.

Children cried at their mother's breast,
begging for the scraps of nourishment,
and being fed by resignation.
Their bellies are bloated, hunger for truth.

We are enslaved,
by the repetitious cycles.
Vicious fervor they all cried,
"Torment, Torment."

Feet wore blisters as protection,
from the ground of mines
that brought embers to their pilgrimage.
A journey without peace.

Shelter was the comfort,
that was found within the lining of a coffin.
Powerlessness lay at the wife's feet,
tyranny as a widow maker.

Equality put heads to a stake,
their mouths screaming for atonement.
It's always so fair to everyone,
save some, more fair than you.

Crumbled schoolhouses,
where children no longer played
were left to corrode in the sand.
A new era of ignorance on the horizon.

When the sun finally rose,
shown only the smoldering remains of hope.
A silence that rolled hush through deserts
once alive with temperance and faith.

Tears were all that was left to shimmer,
in the burning sunlight.
Scathed by the brightness of luster -
innocents disappeared into the glare.

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

The Pariah

Yes, I wrote a new thingy ma jig. I hope someone enjoys it or not, who knows~


The Pariah

Spare me your partisanism.
Your sectarian egocentricities,
are insignificant cries of martyrdom.
Understanding is a truth you hope to hide,
kissing self worth with blind faith.

Like red ribbons,
your tears are shreds of duplicity.
Your path is crossed with scapegoats,
the lambs you lead to slaughter.
Is faith the satire you hope to masquerade?

Awash in the glow of sacrifice,
a self preservation shielded by shrouds
forged in the blood of pilgrims.
Where are the chains that were meant to bind you?
They are shackled by victims of trust.

Asking for forgiveness is the final betrayal.
Do you believe God will forgive holocaust?
All of the tears fall to the salted seas,
the final resting places of conviction.
Is redemption truly a lie?

You decried your creed,
stepping upon the bones of certitude
as the fade into irony.
All of the glimmering stars,
fell like the ones you lead into sunset.

You may abhor adjudication,
but is it fearing the same judgment you passed
upon those bowed in prayer to difference?
Lies are merely hidden truths,
and even the blind will one day see.

Idealism is the cover story,
utopia is easy to believe in
when death is the release to paradise.
How many machinations must you scheme,
before you pass your own sentence?

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Breaking the Mold



I read through some of my older posts and someone thought it'd be interesting to see the "what happens after" story behind the poem "And so the world burns." My ideal, was to say...what happens is what you want to happen, a throwback to the old Terminator line, "No fate but what we make." However, I tinkered and tried. Enjoy...maybe? Haha. I tried to keep it, largely simple...so ya know.

And so Light shown

And so the light shown,
hands had joined in unison.
The cinders and ash that fell,
no longer suffocated their hearts.

The permeation of greed,
filtered unnoticed between fingers
laced within others,
equally desperate for hope.

And so apologies were spared,
we all knew it was undeserved...
like a wrath that hanged heaven
upon splintered gallows.

The smoke was only so thick,
and it blew away with voices joined.
A song that rang in the skies,
mended the lives torn asunder.

And so flames licked at the wisps in the sky,
growing higher as guns were tossed to fire.
But for once history showed,
songs rang higher than scathing heat.

The craving for blood died with their fathers,
and follies no longer beget folly.
The pursuit of knowledge was a means to save themselves,
a beacon of the possibility of a future.

And so light began to shine,
the past was merely a blurred scar,
Their eyes stared brightly at the skies -
with faith, history doesn't repeat.

A Rainy City, and a Sad Man Muses

This is based off the same narrator from A Lament for the Slums, and Rats. Pretty much, this story focuses more on his thoughts on his surroundings and how he view them both ethically and philosophically. First story, detailed an outward progression of events. The second, explored coping mechanisms...this one, I hope to show his feelings. I mean to make it a bit more conversational...even if it is with himself.

**NOTE: This is not based on a real place...it's just the city of nightmares. For instance, you'll notice thunderstorms in the cold and such.

Again, I tried to simplify it...I don't want to alienate people


A Rainy City, and a Sad Man Muses



Jesus Christ. You'd think that the sirens would quit yapping in the dead of night. Or maybe, the 5.0 would finally tire of writing body lines in chalk upon the concrete. To be honest, I can't remember a day where the sounds of gunfire echoed the streets and the decrepit denizens didn't duck for cover. Personally, I didn't give a shit. If a stray bullet had my name on it, if my number was up... I'd be no more than another cadaver that lined the streets. Personally, if the pigs stepped up their game, there'd be far less bullshit to deal with around here. The riff-raff that littered the corners and alleyways were always looking for trouble; I'm sure the pigs would love that. Who wouldn't pass up the chance to see some young gang banger or crackhead's brain matter all over the masonry. I sure would.

My own internal thoughts were interrupted by a distant rumbling that signified a coming thunderstorm.. It was raining again.. I guess in a city of tears, all God can do is cry. But I never really cared for any of that philosophical shit. My hands fumbled about in my pockets, as they do desperately everyday. I thumbed over a cold metal casing and made the check that indeed, it was my lighter. "Great.." With my right hand, I found a coveted cigarette butt, and pulled it from the lint infused pocket lining, to my lips. A rather visible crease ran through the paper casing, and it twisted a bit; the entire damn thing seemed to ben bent nearly in half. But, if it smokes, it smokes. My finger flicked on the lighter... a spark. Again, my thumb flicked the gear to no more than a exhausted click. Just my luck..

With an angry flourish, that most likely marked me with as an infantile lunatic to passers by, I tossed the cigarette to the ground and stomped it. "Fuckin' piece of..." You sure learn to count your blessings in a place like this. Most of the time, you can be thankful for not catching a bullet to the chest...or being beaten to death in a back alley for twenty bucks. This was my blessing. One last cigarette, and God didn't even have the shred of decency to grant me a single spark to light it. So now, as my foot moved from the remains of the cigarette, shreds of tobacco clung to the soles of my tattered boot. It kinda reminded me of the bums, so strung out that they begged the pigs to arrest them just for a hot meal... that's to say they weren't too busy fucking each other to beg. But who am I to judge, everyone has to have some pleasure in the monotony of life.

My shoulders were stiff, and the rain had begun to cascade from sorrowful clouds with such an superfluity, it made my clothing more cumbersome. "Agh, just quit yer bitchin' already.." Of course, my odd curse at the heavens threatened to drown me. Giving up, I shrouded myself with a stained hood and ran down the side winding streets, even more drab among the orange hue of street lamps. At least the derelicts rarely drifted outward in the storms. It seemed to have a purifying effect on the slums...a kind of holy water against hookers, pimps, an dope fiends.

Click! One lock, then the padlock...and then a creak as the doorway opened before the tenement I called home opened. I thumbed about in the darkness, illuminated temporarily by a streak of lightning that danced about the window panes, to find the light switch. It wasn't much help. The light was a dim vomit color that flickered and buzzed, as if a thousand moths had crawled into the crevices to writhe in coffins before they died. Probably did, too. I can feel sorry for them, they'd be about as stuck as me. The water that dripped from the coat pattered against the floor in a slow hum drum before the incessant irritation caused me to simply drop the cloak to the linoleum floor with a damp thud. Admittedly, the burnished wet mass hid the cracks and stains on the tiling quite well.

Even as I dropped the last of the encumbrance from my body, the effects of the dampness still bore into my bones. The cold made everything stiff...almost as if rigor had set in. A roach scattered helplessly beneath the cabinets as the kitchen lighting flickered to life. I couldn't bring myself to stomp the life out of the poor thing...all it wants is a chance too. But like me, so long as it was here, it had a better chance against a can of Raid. Am I a cockroach, only fit to scrape by until inevitably being crushed underfoot?

The refrigerator was stained in the color of yellowing teeth and smelled much like rotten cheese. It had been here since before I got here, and it'd probably sit and continue to rot when I was gone. Looking into the icebox, was like staring into the void of space itself. If it weren't for a scrap of mold clinging to the plastic, it truly would be vacant. The frigid air and acrid smell had become almost unbearable, so I allowed the door to drop from my hands.

Sleep didn't find me tonight. Normally, the gentle rumble of thunder and the gently rolling thrumming against the windows lulled me to slumber. Odd. "All God can do is cry..." I wonder if he looked down upon his creations with pity or scorn. But, if we were made in its image, I am sure God is most likely in a corner somewhere, flat lining with a rusted needle stuck between his toes. A spring caught me between the ribs as I tossed to watch the water drip down the pains. Even the inane white noise produced by the monsoon outside failed to silence my thoughts and lull me to reprieve. Lying awake was a hell in of itself...but I can't help but be thankful, for whatever the fuck in was worth. In this world, one learns to count their blessings. Next time I get a chance, I'll count the rain as one of them. But to be realistic, I'd trade that damned water for a long drag from a cigarette anyway, at least that way I may be able to sleep a little better.



Thursday, July 19, 2012

Flowers by a Bedside

I know it's a little...simple. But it popped into my head and I had to write it down.

Flowers by a Bedside

There's flowers by the table side.
the petals had long wilted,
their lingering aroma dissipating in stagnant air,
leaving only tough skeletons.

Now only the waning Sun,
cast the embers of life back on the blooms.
So slowly they drifted from the table,
to lay upon the cold linoleum.

And as the clouds rolled on the horizon,
the world still spun on axis.
The blooms had hidden from sight,
to shroud themselves.

They were once a single entity,
now they lay scattered,
too old to find one another
too brittle to revere hope.

The light flickered away,
and they silently slumber
in the coffin of fragility.
Never seen, but abandoned forever.

But morning went and came again.
They were gathered and left neatly in a bowl,
to watch the machinations of the world around.
Hoping for eyes to open, that never will.

Monday, May 21, 2012

...of Troy

This should simply be obvious..

It's another storypoemthing.

...of Troy


The air is of a sweltering stink.
Everything you've done is for naught.
Heedless voices called to arms stubbornly
sullying something that was beautiful.
Will you beg for it to fade away?
The shouts of dying hearts echo through your ears,
uninhibited by your desperate pleas.
Worlds tear from their axes at the mention of you name,
and onlookers stare in contemptuous envy.
Rest your weary eyes in dreamless sleep,
and hope the sea will drown your tears in salt.
At evenfall, time sits still in memoriam.
Yours is the face that launched one million ships,
far off in the distance,
can you see their banners raised?
Or is the haze of obsession,
binding blinded eyes with impossible dreams of utopia?
Don't you see the faces of the dead?
Or are their screams muffled by the indulgences of fancy?
For years they could storm,
hoping to see your walls as ashes upon the ground,
can't you see they fight to take you?
Drunk on glamour,
would you believe even gifts can be dressed lies,
and sharpened by vengeance,
for the greatest of treacheries,
is the one gifted in the form of peace.

Nos es totus par

Yooo....postedy post..


Nos es Totus par

In death we lie equal,
separated only by cracking head stones,
but coiled together,
in the light of our twisted souls.

Crushed by enclosing walls,
of life's crumbling palace-
left outside its lofty stones,
to feel oblivion's embrace.

The spectral digits,
fondle a fractured soul,
that holds desperately to titles,
hoping gold can buy just one more second.

But the casket is closing,
and gems can't barter freedom,
from the commitment of mortality...
all remains is what never will again.

Darkness falls,
laying an indiscriminate veil
over they eyes of the poor
and kings alike.

The shadows embed
their claws in pasty skin,
dragging away meager possessions,
casting them into the roil.

The curtain calls to rise,
that all will kneel,
relieved from encumbered servitude,
set free.

Two entities once separated,
can be defined together,
by ashes to ashes,
dust into dust.

From the Earthen Embrace

I thought and thought some more on this guy...
AN ADDENDUM. IF YOU SEE RANDOM TYPOS LIKE HERE, WHEN IT IS CLEARLY HEAR...IT IS INTENTIONAL. SOME THINGS ARE THERE ON PURPOSE. WHEN IT COMES TOO STORIES, I'M PROBABLY TOO LAZY TO CORRECT THEM.

From the Earthen Embrace

From the Earthen embrace,
their spirits now soar,
far above the shackling surface
of pain, suffering, and bleak possibility.

The cruelest angels ripped away,
suckling babes from mothers' arms,
even when their love refused to bow-
against the void of death.

Silence can breed darkness and cold,
feeding on the misconceptions of fear.
Who would dare hide warm tales of yore,
with the last promises of Sunlight.

Do you wish for others to suffer?
Why is it you scream their names?
DO you wish to call them back to pain,
or will you simply forget them if you didn't.

Blaming oneself,
is the mark of desperation,
hoping to find answers in pale wanting,
was it truly too soon?

From the Earthen embrace,
they now roam free -
night is no longer haunting
and despair can no longer intoxicate.

Never could promises slake,
the thirst and reverence of their names...
you can swear to hear a wistful voice
on the empty breeze.

From the Earthen embrace,
life was cut from the loam,
and the pain of loss,
won't let a spirit garner peace.

But no matter the scorn and cries,
or the screams that echoed the skies-
nothing can bring them back,
even if the Earth could reach to Heaven.

Grains of Sand

I love this poem...don't ask why. HAH.

Grains of Sand

Pray all the sanctity
of the abode remain hollowed
as you lay into darkened slumber.

The shadows that lurk among the tapestry,
are dancing and snickering,
silent jests at your horrible delusion.

Damn and forsake!
Words that creep into your thoughts,
ironic confessions of the macabre,
If you abhorred your intentions,
would phantasms feel that insecurity?

Grains of sand,
spin mockingly in an hourglass,
unscathed by time's skeletal caress.
Sleep well in your obsessions,
thine eyes need not see the truth

Fleeing from nothing,
the shades drink in the light,
and you breathe out abysmal silence,
internal shivers of an old man.
Fear slithering up your spine,
is the death throes of the old.

You're sealed within a dark cist,
and laid to rest in ashen robes.
Cries for mercy fall on deaf ears,
as slumber hushes the warmth from your breath.

Grains of Sand,
dusted on the eyes of the weary,
ushering a mind onward to peaceful rest-
enthralled and encompassed by desperate ravings,
that all things can be eternal.

Condescending Eden

This would be an old poem I have decided to edit a bit... for the most part, it is the same. I had a lot of influence from religion, clearly.


Condescending Eden

We are the rekoners,
the heralds of misinformation;
leading your souls astray,
an exodus of souls.
We can stumble from golden gates into the pit.

Entranced within the eyes of a serpent,
we're condescending Eden,
expending the knowledge once coveted,
hoping ignorance can wash away memory.

Your father's forsaken,
are smitten by the snake's bite-
drawn into that virulence,
like wounds swollen with poison.

The patriarch witnesses,
our subtle betrayals.
Your lusts and avarice,
follow you from the shades of light.


Friday, May 18, 2012

4 Kids in Needless Distress, Salvation

Oh yeah, back to me and back to posting thingamajigs. This poem definitely has all kinds of meanings without actually dictating them out. Have fun figuring it out. ^^

4 Kids in Needless Distress, Salvation

The cloudless hue,
was but the enveloping
mist that surrounded us.
Are we the ones judged to be taken?

Bright lights,
hide intentions too sinister,
motions and thoughts that we can't understand-
voices in our minds we cannot decipher.

It's cold,
too cold for the tears
that well into my eyes,
blinded by the fear of that radiant halo.

With the great wheel of fire,
we went as they,
subjects all,
to the implacable wills.

We aren't mere pawns,
tools to your dark transfiguration.
Or puppets to be twisted
to your inquisitive abominations.

Left,
hollow and forgotten-
as madmen with tales of lunacy and perverse fantasy,
But we speak truths you won't here!

Why can't we remember!?
All that remains is a scratching paranoia,
a dark scream echoing in our minds;
nightmares bathed in blinding lights.

Dreams of pale faces in eyeless sockets,
creep inward to silence lost memories,
cryptic tendrils
saw anamnesis never spoken aloud.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Guilt

------> Blah <------ Guilt

Opening your chest with a ruined vice,
mirror the pain in my eyes,
show that wounds of flesh cut more shallow,
than words dipped in poison.

I stepped on your throat,
to quell the pleading echoes,
that expounded my faults,
as I ripped my last shreds of dignity apart.

Watching resolve melt away,
was hearing an inner voice speak, "you were wrong."
Like a whispering demon,
it perched on your back with weight unbearable.

If only the words had come,
but they stuck in the back of the throat,
all I wish is to plead, "forgive me."
but the words die back to their rest.

Guilt is the rainy cloud,
that walks your footsteps quietly,
the chip on your shoulder that bleakly
never allows your mind to rest.


Cradle a Grey Rainbow

I want to convey a sense of blah... here's hoping?

Cradle a Grey Rainbow

If I gave you a crayon to color the skies,
would you still stare blankly at me?
Or could you smile just this once,
and save me from despair and helplessness?

Outstretch your arms and wipe colorless
streaks throughout a cloudy horizon.
Show me the error of my ways,
and color in a grey rainbow where only tears fall.

Openly embrace a failing heart,
a rip it out to see your grey emotion
drip like paint from a brush,
you used to fill the firmament.

Cradle within your arms,
like a crying baby,
your under developed insight,
and show me the truth under your straight face.

Stab at the dark with drab hues,
are you trying to paint over the heartless void,
that beats a withered drum within your chest-
and put on the facade of a broken smile?

Spin about to blur away hues,
and the lights can fade into the darkness.
Resonate with the voices of numbness
and cry an unfeeling symphony.

Cradle a grey rainbow,
and hope for the colors to return to your world.
Pray for the drab to fade away,
while you frolic in the monotony of slate.


Monday, March 26, 2012

Embers Cast by Torchlight.

I like imagery..

Embers Cast by Torchlight

I own the night,
the veil of black over your eyes,
the grain of sand in your tears...
a dream of horror.

In the fields of twilight,
you are stalked
by feelings contemptible,
overflowed by prejudice and sin.

Like the stars that fall from the sky,
you disperse into ambiguity,
a wish cast upon faltered hope-
that was to never be born true.

Under a bloodied moon,
you shred your faith,
in a tortured sanctimony
of blasphemous sacrilege.

And with the encroaching dust,
antiquity blows your ashes away-
whispers of yester-years on the wind.
And no rain falls for your fate.l

Birdsong(A Sonnet)

This is my Shakespearean sonnet, Birdsong... If anyone reads, I hope someone enjoy it. It's scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Birdsong

With the voices of birds softly singing,
could you be sure the world was still turning.
Melodious like bells gently ringing,
their pitch will carry with gilded yearning.

And when the birds sing, would you please listen,
then attempt to catch melody; fleeting-
their sparkling words to forever glisten,
alight with wings abreast and slow beating.

They speak secrets long lost to the ages,
testaments to nature's sealed mysteries.
It hides clandestine whispers of sages,
and images of rusted histories.

Combing through a thick disparaging throng,
elated by the transient bird's song.


Voices of Hunger (A Sonnet)

This, is actually the first Sonnet I have written since I was, I dunno...sixteen? Anyway, composing sonnets are fun, and so I attempted a version that I had not dabbled with before. This, would be the Italian sonnet. It has a ABBA, ABBA, CDE, CDE rhyme scheme. Anyway... I did not write in in true pentameter, I believe, but seriously - who uses that anymore? Anyhow... without further ado, I present Voices of Hunger. I drew this from history~


Voices of Hunger

Was it a question? They only cried,
when bread rotted and helplessness arose.
Or was it uttered when their voices froze,
with the soft lament, "Had God ever tried?"

When would the unrelenting pain subside?
Staring blankly at the circling of crows,
while caskets are piled into lengthy rows.
Would you watch as children's prayers all died?

A war waged for hungry bellies to feed,
bodies burned with no mountains laid of grain..
Famine emblazoned a relentless brood.

Powerless, with people begging in need,
watching each expire with guilty pain...
survivors left to die in search of food.

Some Haiku

I have been writing some actual poetry lately(structure, I mean)... Enjoy some random Haiku.


Summer Downpour
Thunder strikes blindly,
a fearsome shout of the Gods,
calmly fading; still.



Flooding
Dark waters rising,
swallowing homes and profit..
A new day dawning.



Lotus
Reflecting in pools,
ripples dance within beauty.
poisoned, devious.



Dewdrop
Nature cries with salt,
blanketing dawn quietly,
tears wept in silence.

Promising Clouds

So, finally, I am up to posting some new writing... This is one of my free verse poems... I thoroughly enjoyed writing it..and I liked it.

And yes, I was watching the skies as I did.

Promising Clouds

Promising clouds,
a distorted dream-
was no more reality,
than fiction.

My mind lies awake,
alight in abysmal thoughts..
hoping for Sun rays,
to fill my sleepless conscious.

The sky's eyes shine,
like mirrors into the soul,
of generations long passed,
flown back into the arms of the world.

And was it the spotted grey
of the inky night firmament,
that forced my thought to flutter..
away into the starry twilight.

Even the roaring waters,
brought peace to my soul,
flowing with the escapist's view
of free thought to the shackled.

Breaking out of a concrete mire,
to swim among the nestling breeze.
Solace was laying my eyes shut-
to dream of promises made to clouds.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Whispering Breezes

Hello, hello! I have not written actual formed poetry in so many years(2) it feels as if I have lost nearly all touch with that basic ability. Time to start counting again. xD This will be a collection of a few poems. These will be all Cinquain.

Whispering Breezes,a cinquain

Paltry,
like other days.
Anxious secrets dance,
Spoke beauty in the words now hushed.
So sweet.


100 years

Ramparts,
break against swords.
They seiged to no avail.
Arrows deflected against shields.
Stoic.


Springtime

Flower,
gentle pollen.
Blooming with the Sun's rays,
petals dance with placid whimsy.
Freedom.



The First Question

I found myself thinking. And I know, it's far too literal to be me...but hey, I don't care- we all have days that we just want to get to the point and ask, "Is this all..?" I suppose.. we'll never know.

The First Question

My lord,
is this all that I may see?
Are our lives no more than a test,
set up for us to fail eternally?

But what choice have we?
To believe in the bleakness of hopelessness,
that our tomes, and knowledge
fade away with our final breath?

What lies beyond the swirling abyss?
Is it hellfire, damnation, or sacred fortresses-
that stand stoic and proud,
keeping out the ever present and creeping oblivion?

I can dream,
to be adorned in fine silks,
the sterling silves and gold -
reflecting upon and ever burning Sun.

Deepest burns the fires of life,
stalwart and proud like the raging flames of hell itself,
refusing the to bend its knee
to a future bleak with the promise of unmaking.

What are the mysterious of the depths?
Are they cold and unwavering,
with truths so black-
tomorrow is promised only by the shadow of never?

And if I choose to walk a path of light,
does it mean I'll only be welcomed into the dark?
Can I scream to the skies, please listen,
"Is this truly the end we all work toward?"

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Black Gate

This is a poem that, may I just be honest... is heavily dark and heavily influenced by my weird obsession with death lately and also how it relates to seasons. Enjoy or don't.. It's all good.


Black Gate

Come and take my hand,
grip my soul amongst your vice
and tear it apart a little more.
It's like your frantic dance of guilt.

Unravel my seams,
with words that cut like ice..
Caustic, your voice burns my will,
dying in a casket of malcontent.

O' Blackened gate,
would you open your eyes,
and shower your darkened gospel,
so I may rest eternal
in your protective embrace.

May guilty conscience,
end in the waning summertime,
to drown your fairy tale
in rainy sorrow.

Write a forlorn ending,
with pages stained with tears.
Your fantastical images swirled away.
to face harsh reality alone.

Blackened gate,
would you open your arms
and petrify us with withered touch-
so we might go peacefully to oblivion,
away from reality in denial.

Quiet rest beckons menacingly,
a gental touch of a skeletal finger,
drumming in final judgment,
the weakness of mortality.

And I'd watch you wither,
flesh cerulean with grey ice..
Beauty forever preserved
in ever decaying time.

O' Blackened gate,
would you open your heart,
and take me away too.
So I might say farewell to flesh,
and paint memorial in everlasting beauty.

Neo Purge

This is a new rendition of "And so the World Burns."
I call it Neo Purge, because it is a new rendition to a poem about Nuclear Holocaust... it seemed fitting, but hey who knows right xDD...

Anyway, I hope peoples appreciate the difference in the writing style and structure. ^^

Neo Purge

And so the world burns.
The children of men spolling over
a cup of tears too full of grief-
so slow to trickle into nothing.

Cruelest angels sang in discord,
a mockery to the prayers
of sullen faced religious men,
that dropped to their knees in reverence of calamity.

The sun set too early,
doomed to never rise again.
The break of day brought only fear
and the scathing light of erasure.

"The wrath of God."
They spoke in merciless despair.
He never answered their pleas.
Walking on water was merely a parlor trick,
in a land where there is no hope.

And so the world grew quiet
shrieks of children died out,
muffled in a mother's arms-
that smothered innocent smiles with regret.

A frenzied choir sang,
the envious song-
of a bitter sentiment
jealous of the dead.

The religious men resentfully cursed,
a deaf lord,
refusing to bow rebellious heads
in reverence of a forsaken lord.

And so the land is hushed-
a barren strip of desert lay,
no children left playing..
soot lay etched in horrifying silhouettes,
remnants from where the world burned

The Trees Lay Barren

This is an iffy poem for me... I intended it to be awkward, but I don't exactly know if it'll pay off. I like it, but at the same time- am fearful. I hope it's cool and such~ I guess, find the meaning? There are clues.

The Trees Lay Barren

A wind sapped the breath,
of a quiet notion,
a secret yearning
for summer's sweet caress.

Without poem or prophecy
the young blooms wilted,
gone from this cruel realm too soon.
The world wept their loss.

Children slept shivering in bed,
hoping to dream away a nightmare
that had birthed itself into daylight.
The horrors of imagination born to reality.

The leaves had all fallen,
ushering in the unforgiving frost.
An army of bannermen set to fight-
to keep the blossoms of hope forever dead.

The moors run black with ichor.
And though cold stifled faith,
a tyrant's blood boiled red,
and armies rose to fight.

Warmth faded from their memories,
children grew never to know the Sun.
All was gone to frost,
burning buildings the only insolation.

The world of men ripped itself asunder
and great fires consumed the spring blooms
as they rose from slumber
perishing in the light of a second Sun.

Children dug passed floral roots,
razing the land to suckle
a coveted black gold,
from nature's dried teet.

But soon they all choked,
on a smoke that burned away their lungs.
There was no longer any bread,
or grain to harvest in perpetual winter.

And the Sun no longer shined,
as if refusing a cry for life.
And so all corroded into naught,
leaving only the trees that lay barren.

Friday, March 2, 2012

Without?

Pt: 2 to Within?


Without?

Your silence stabs blindly through my soul.
A resolution had been quelled,
and now only insurgent flash fires roiled,
scattered about confused minds.

Duty overcame nostalgia
rightfully you over a cliff
and into eyes that thought
impossible schemes, feeble minds only fathom.

What lay within your fantastic machine.
What secrets had you kept from us?
Is our fate sealed with you judgment?
Without speaking, you answered a quiet, "yes."

There is no future,
only a truth of impending disaster.
Our quiet war had been won,
before the dream had begun.

But will we go quietly into the dark?
Can we fight the void?
With my voice, still from screaming..
"Open your eyes!"

Is there a will to find a way?
Or am I grasping at straws,
praying for an answer?
With no trace of salvation?

Within?

This is a poem in two parts. I wrote this a long time ago and then re-did it with a new twist. As the original, this is about something that I love with intensity... those who truly know me can follow the clues and figure out what it is. And I do warn, it is short... but makes a point.

Within?

Coursing in the veins,
is an alien notion, unknown to me.
Your eyes stare- glossed and blank,
no more living than ghost.

What sees beyond those eyes?
An unthinking puppet, with strings invisible?
What spirit lay within an empty shell,
who are you?

My legs quiver under the weight
of my wavering willpower.
Is my mind capable of turning a gun,
to smite the thing that was once you?

What heart beats behind that casket?
Is it devoid of the compassion and pride
that once pulsed with an unrelenting duty?
Fading to black - I see no shreds of your dignified insolence.

Parallel with my shivering visage,
your words cut deep my senses..
Would your crusade now perish with the words,
"Everything Dies"?

And in frantic desperation,
I claw to grasp back what you stole.
You clutched, stalwart- the missing link.
The only key of which we can save ourselves.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

You can get away with anything~

Hah.. I got into a conversation with my boss yesterday about serial killers and such... uhm odd, I know. I wanted it to seem kind of like a mix of my usual with some conversational tones. I guess I went for a story poem thing.

So Long as it Looks Accidental

My lady!
You came as a spectre in black,
your fingers cold like the chilled air.
Your breath was like ice forced into veins.
A gentle drug in conscious guilt.
"Poor thing! She was such a beauty!"
The maester spoke to the coroner.
"They said they found her head opened in the alley below."
Because you see.
"This wasn't the first time, oh no."
"Just mere days before they say they found the body of local Ms. Stacey."
And what a shame her small children would never be the same.

But they can tell you this for certain.
All the girls stepped lighter, indeed-indeed.
"They looked over their shoulders, scoping for me."
Because you see, as he sat alone on a park bench,
he took note of his prey by peering over the edges of his newspaper.
"Who would suspect! That all these little girls hurt themselves."
And then the maester. What if there was foul play?

Because you see,
if it looks like you're on their side- they won't suspect you.
And if it's just a tragic accident, they can't catch you.
But they called out the maester,
"Sorry sir, we may need to ask you just a few questions."
And so he'd look so shocked,
"It's just formality, we need you as a material witness."
They called it a travesty! A fall from grace-
he who was sworn to protect hid away savage delight.
Murder was it?
"Oh no! Oh no! Don't get me wrong! They just fell down."
All it was, was an accident.
"But how can you explain how many of them died so suddenly?"
the coroner spoke to the maester.
"Well you see, they were only accidents. A grave, unfortunate fate, indeed."
"Of course, of course."
"And not to mention how beautiful they were."


The Wilted Blooms

I guess this is the female version of Mortal coil??? ish? I dunno...

Wilted Blooms

If I sang you to sleep,
would you fall into eternity's embrace,
with a smile upon your lips.
Preserving the finale of your thoughts.

Fear not,
as the world would stop turning
when your palms finally unfurled,
their final strength flinging summer blossoms to the wind.

You seemed all but blinded,
as slumber crept its clammy fingers
about the fair skin of your throat.
Choking out the last of your voice.

But they'd ride banners in your honor,
a lament for the decay of exuberance.
And the wilted spring of your beauty,
faded into the cold winters.

O' the cruelty of fragility,
the mourning bosks all wept,
as the land sensed your subtle corrosion.


And for mere moments your face clouded my thoughts.
Garbed in white,
your whispers told of paradise,
where the light of life prevailed the twilight.

The fires of life burned forevermore.
But grief strikes dead,
the foolish hopes and dreams,
of a fleeting happiness everlasting.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Mortal Coil

So death has intrigued me of late.. so I have been pondering about it. As always, enjoy or don't. My motives for this one are unclear to even me. It's a little short... but...hey

The Mortal Coil

Lay me down in the softest linens.
Place two coppers upon my eyes.
Rest my weary bones
beside a crackling fire.
So my mind might think last of the light,
before night saps my very breath.

The ghosts of loss creep slowly
from my coveted resting place-
bringing sleep to a mind too tired to slumber
and a soul too tired for rest.

Lay my ship into the cold, dark waters.
And burn my funeral pyres,
to light the flames into eternity.
The smoke of death: it's too black to see,
to dense to breathe.

The dance of the macabre
had finally began in the sunset of life.
The dreaded rest had begun at last,
my eyes to flutter to sleep eternal.

And the hooded rider brought silence upon his back,
hushing the land in quiet mourning..
Dusk became its messenger,
and with it a muffled blanket descended sleep-
The fading of the light.
Some new stuffz that I have simply left in a spiral notebook and not even posted...

Painkiller

A needle in my veins
and the searing burn,
melted away into fluidity and cold.
And the pain seeped into the numbness of not.

Even the fires of lacerations
bled away into the white
as the absence of feeling
brought me from the brink.

A monotonous, droning siren
pierced into my consciousness to a pained wakening.
I was only alive as much as I could think,
a cadaver with a pulse.

The shadows spoke their serpentine tone,
but my voice uttered no words.
I was trapped within my own soul,
no more living than a flat line.

Profiles danced in the periphery,
and my fingers reached for their visage.
But they all faded away,
like rays of light in the breeze.

If I could feel the wind on my face,
or be blinded by the sunlight-
maybe the shadows would take form
and I would awake from the prison of mortality.

A Song of Sorrow

So...........

Fuck Tumblr. I do not like it in the least, and though blogger has less traffic - blogger fits my needs better. So I begin posting some new musings. Enjoy, maybe. Dunno how this came to mind. It's been sitting in my book for a while. As always, unedited.

A Song of Sorrow

A song of sorrow,
senses the beauty behind the tears.
There's no hope in your eyes,
a face strained with sweet agony.

But won't you dance once more,
to the sound of your dying heart's drum?
Or would you beg to die alone,
so despair swallows only one?

The deluge would drown,
away the rolling lands with your salted tears.
The heart you had just begun to feel,
crumbled away like dust in your palms.

And as you bled away
into a self loathing rapture clothed in black-
my hand was last to out reach you,
begging to return you to life never yet to live.

Healing the scars infused in flesh,
was to take the thorns of your affection-
to rub torture into open wounds.
You cried out for ignored remorse.

A song of sorrow,
that darkness laid eyes upon.
Hope became the end of suffering,
that was granted as we walked apart.

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Wakeless Dream

Alright guys, to kick off the new year, comes a newby.. The Wakeless Dream. I hope it's good.~ So, here it is..


Wakeless Dream

Darkness into the oblivion,
leaves falling to the ground
as tears of crimson.

The dying wish,
of beauty once adorned in white,
has been cast into the shadow
of eternal slumber.

A wakeless dream,
faceless creatures cast in white,
all lies, murmering echoes,
of a distant past.

The thumping heartbeat,
constant pumping of a mutilated scream.
To the sound of hooves,
marching to the steady drum of fear.

A sleepless nightmare,
fear and uncertainty plague the shallow minds,
of the cowardly child,
alone in a secular horror.

An innocence corrupte,
the infant's maleable mind,
hardened and insensitive
to the touch of madness.

Demons made flesh,
by the stories of war, famine, and plague-
that burrow into the mind -
filling it with chasms of terror.

Touched by a mere grain,
of sand,
has permanently been cast,
into the Abyss.