Writing Today's Poem [M -- As a Precaution]

[Raiha]

[color=royalblue]So you'll just give up?
Yea,
I won't be here for long,
I thought you fought.

You can't run forever,
No,
But you can't just,
Stop trying to live.

Easy for you to say,
You,
Don't even understand,
How I feel.

Maybe I don't,
But,
I want you to live,
What about your closest friend?

She's not an issue,
Neither,
Are you now,
Even when you once did.

I'm sorry I can't help you,
Well,
It doesn't matter,
Goodbye.

.....right.[/color]

[RioLaskand]

I can't see straight
I am drugged
to imperfection
my body racked
with plagues unseen

The pain goes on
for weeks and months
I am confined
to precious sleep

Not much do I get
for I toss and I turn
as my body fights
the coming death

For pathogens lurk
and my body falls
as my eyes grow dull
my skin is cold

My last breath will take
the rest of me away
my soul wrested free
from a disease-rotted shell

[Dagger]

Dip your toes in the wellspring--
This water will spread to engulf you.
Flowing melodically, it soars
On the strength of combined voices.
Song like a waterfall cascades
Down to your bones. There it vibrates,
A rhythm that covers your body,
And presses your mouth to move in silent accord.
These are the choirs of heaven descended,
Seas of fallen singers, all angels
Naked and wingless in the muddied snow.

[Raiha]

[color=royalblue]I wish I could promise,
That I'd find my way to you,
But that means...
I must die as well.

And I love this life,
And living in this world,
Far more than...
Even maybe you.

I'm so sorry I can't change,
To love you enough,
The right way...
So I light canldes.

Pray for your soul to find,
That everlasting peace,
That never comes...
Until someone cares to ask.[/color]

[Guest Elucidation]

this is an interesting thread... XD
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Underneath the sky so blue
I yearn to learn just what is true
Below the clouds up so high
I play the day away with die
Near the sea so full of life
I strain my brain to drain the strife
No where to run, no where to hide,
No time to think, nor question why
The world is the way it is
With trouble, work, and rowdy kids
Evil doings, rain and rough
Responsibilities and stuff
As ignorance slowly takes its toll
There could not be a better world.

[Raiha]

[color=royalblue]Painful feeling,
Spreading through the body,
Starting low,
Then crawling upwards.

Inside me,
Wreaking its course,
Without malice,
Only a degree of agony.

It takes,
And breaks away,
Always present,
But I can't fight it.[/color]

[Dagger]

It's odd to think that gender can inflict
this kind of pain. Lying curled in bed,
arms wrapped around my shoulders--
it's light outside, but I won't arise for hours.
A dull ache, a blind worm in my belly,
its gnawing and my tears.
I wonder briefly how much worse
birthing is than this,
and resolve at once that children will not spring
from the knotted hurt within me.

Two Tylonels and a long nap later,
I stare cagily at my plate. To eat
or not to eat? [i]That[/i] is the question, Hamlet.
Ham itself sounds dangerous to me, and
the worm won't sleep for at least another day.

[RioLaskand]

I'm tired, I'm passive
I was happy, I was active
I will be yours, I will be free
I want to be one with life

You're busy, you're lovely
you were hurt, you were scarred
you will be happy, you will be content
You want to be....well....

That's for you,
and this is for me
it's my words, not yours
I could be right
I could be fake

This will not change
my life at all
I look inward
to us both
and see truth

For my eyes pierce not
the flesh alone
they pierce the soul
but not enough

I cannot see
your true life's end
my eyes can't see
if you will come
but I can wait
for that is all
my eyes can see

[Raiha]

[color=royalblue]I saw you again today.

I wasn't angry,
Merely wistful,
Of the attention I once recieved,
From you.

You looked tired.

But that's normal,
For someone who never sleeps,
For fear of dying,
In their repose.

So what did I do?

I looked away,
And walked on,
Like I've been forced to,
For months now.[/color]

[Dagger]

[i]"And thus, my Love! as on the midway slope
Of yonder hill I stretch my limbs at noon,
Whilst thro' my half-clos'd eye-lids I behold
The sunbeams dance, like diamonds, on the main,
And tranquil muse upon tranquility;
Full many a thought uncall'd and undetain'd,
And many idle flitting phantasies,
Traverse my indolent and passive brain,
As wild and various, as the random gales
That swell and flutter on this subject Lute!
And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic Harps diversely fram'd,
That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
At once the Soul of each, and God of all?"[/i]

[Raiha]

[color=royalblue]Race the course,
Don't bother falling,
Because they'll run you over,
And not even care.

When you fall,
Onto your face,
And feel the blood run,
Down your pale face.

And now that,
You've been embarassed,
There's no point to,
Stand up and face it.

Because everyone,
Watching you,
Secretly hopes,
That they never fall flat on their face either.[/color]

[Dan L]

The things we gather- the scented filth
All to fade away, thrown away
The empty pleasures of life
Gone amid the sorrow

The comfort of darkness to cloak our shame,
One day ripped away, left naked
The Darkness in the Light,
Ever consuming

Amid love cocktails and magic remedies,
We look for something real, unfading, free from decay,
A touch of eternity,
Out of this world

The simplest things last, all else is passing,
The rock is solid but the machine is empty,
Destined to nothing,
All in due time

[Raiha]

[color=royalblue]The explination,
That some have offered me,
Makes a freaky sort of sense,
But is still not right.

The reason,
That tortured love their torturers,
Is becasuse they come to love,
What can be depended on.

Every day,
The pain will come down,
And they can always rest assured,
That it will come again.

So naturally,
They love what they know,
Will always happen again and again,
Depended upon its terrible pain.

And love,
Becomes their own true desire,
And the one who inflicts the pain,
Becomes the object of desire.[/color]

[Dan L]

We were less than friends,
But you were unique
You stood out froom the rest

You showed us life,
Tried to teach me to die,
To look up to the skies

You told us where he was
And showed us how to find him

You left in the darkest hour;
Took the light elsewhere
All was built up now is lost,
Left in despair

You fell a great depth,
But rose to higher still
Before the day was done

Then faded into madness,
Lost sense of control
To find it once more

Your words shone light to a few
Even those hiding in darkness

You left in the darkest hour;
Took the light elsewhere
All was built up now is lost,
Left in despair

And now you return again,
Expect to go back again,
But it's not to be

________________________

(Been busy..)

Walk beside the water, safely, Son,
Come across a mob with hacksaw, run
Caught up with you now, drove your friend away
Son you best be prayin that you're gonna be safe

Now you're in their hands, there's no escape
Just for fun they make you walk the cold knee deep
Tried to fight, for your rights, didn't get far
Boy, in this country you ain't nothing no more

(Didn't want you to see this kind of crap so soon,
The world's an ugly place when you take a look.
There's a good side to everyone but bad side too,
And everyone's a bastard when they're over you)

Don't know where they'll take you, what they'll do,
Could leave you in the water or cut you in two.
But a man is a man, don't let them have power
Look death in the face, screaming Hallelujah

[RioLaskand]

Why can't we agree
to fight alongside
the banner of what
we know is true

We bicker and fight
and no one will lift
a finger in work
just screw up
and blow off their team

I can't practice
or work hard
when my team
throws time to the wind

Why can't they listen
they only mess about
and accomplish nothing

our team is weak
they take our claim
we break and fall
but all care none

We must be strong
divided we break
and divided we stay
to this very day

[Dan L]

[i]Angel white faces glanced hither,
Concealed by darkness within,
My life formed out of their words,
The ones with invisible power[/i]

[Bio]

[size=1]
The Lark of which the rain shall call,
The Rave of fiery seas
Gigas for the open plains,
Staccato in the breeze
[/size]

[Raiha]

[color=royalblue]Bow down,
Before she who is your Mistress,
Who holds the keys,
And the leash.

Connecting you,
To her slender hands,
That are beyond strength,
And all reason.

With a single tug,
She makes you dip and sway,
Down to your knees,
Over on your back.

And there is no escape,
From she who calls herself,
Your Mistress,
Your Goddess.

She who can not,
Be broken by words,
Nor actions,
Nor feelings.

And all she will do,
Is control you,
To give herself satisfaction,
Because she is as broken as you.[/color]

[Bio]

[size=1]Cut a figure in the air,
The dancing blades of promise
The swift and lonely,
Last and only
In this forsaken land of malice[/size]

[Raiha]

[color=royalblue]All encompassing,
In a world full of wet,
Pounding,
Pouring.

Washing over,
Around your soaking slender body,
Dreaming,
Dying.

Then light,
Registering on your delicate retinas,
And,
Amazing.

You are,
Back where you once started,
Still,
Showering.[/color]

[RioLaskand]

We are cut short
our words concise
can you hear
what I say?

I say what I mean
I mean what I feel
I feel the weight
of my own expectations
crushing me

You've distanced yourself
I can hear it
I hear what you mean
unless I am wrong

I could be wrong
your words confounding
my life corkscrewed
over overreacting thoughts

I can't seem to say
what I really want to speak
I am frozen by your voice
and cannot speak again

Why can't you hint?
why can't you say?
I want to know what's wrong
or just what's wrong with me

[Raiha]

[color=royalblue]She's quiet and calm,
Blonde and slender,
But definetly not weak,
Smooth and shy.

She's beautiful and succint,
Cool-eyed and graceful,
But always alert for,
Any coming danger.

She's my good friend,
My younger sister,
But wise beyond years,
And any age.

She's always good,
Company for me,
To laugh with,
To love with.

My Ahatti.[/color]

[Dan L]

Silence- she brings out the worst
and He keeps it out.
As my mind is emptied of it's doubt,
it is filled with hope.
He is tied down, overcome, thrown out,
his possesions rid of.
And the good things meant to last
fill me once more.

[Dagger]

Winding round the hours as how a hand revolves,
Spinning smooth and bladelike
To encompass every hour.
So she sits, her hair untied.
It's dark as the secrets that lie beneath a lake:
Above which stands the waterfall,
Cascading down to pierce its hidden waters.
This is one who veils her thought with words,
Who calmly weaves a glamour through the eyes
Of each admirer.
Thread the needle, pierce the skin,
Sew up a shattered heart
And then lay it down to sleep.
That's what she does, the administering angel,
Curtained all around by shining darkness.

[Charles]

A while back, I decided that this would no longer be a sticky post--and for one reason or another my decision was ignored. Nevertheless, I decided to allow this to remain and not press the issue. But, at this point I've decided that this thread serves no official purpose to the site as a sticky thread--so I'm going to un-sticky it--permanently. Honestly, we're too free with sticky threads at this point and I feel that they detract from the overall importance of worthwhile reminders.

So, people can do one of two things: continue posting in here, thus keeping this archive of poems active on the front page. Or, they can create their own poetry threads. ^^;;