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Under a Witches SkyAnd lo there he said: "I am darkness rising"
— ‘an apparition bleeding into a dreaming sky
Distilled in the timbre of windswept voices,
black feathers enchant earth in fevered-song
Magick ebbs & shimmers thru earthen veins,
seething like a migration of hungry wolves
Silvery eyes peer, drinking the ether of souls;
watching the spirit world fold into the mists
And where Shadows and Witches conjure,
— myriad talons beshrew Winter’s prayer

For eons I hath wandered in forgotten lore  
— a sleep walker thru ash & fire, hunting ..
Beneath Moon solemn and drifting,
I covet thy ghostly figure velvet, undressing
Pools of
The Man and the MoonHer mouth corners hung themselves
and I began to wonder if that was the death of them.
A simple, quiet death;
without broken fingernails lining the walls
with the stripes of a despairing end.
I began to ache with the questioning in my heart
with the echoes reverberating in my capillaries
of her face scorching sunshine in her smile
right before it crumpled
and nothing was left but a frowning moon
set firm in its resignation to an upcoming eclipse.
Dandelion QueenI dream of the ocean;
that paper-thin line where
the current swallows the stars
and the water churns violet

(you tell me to be
quiet,

dandelion queen, we've
heard all these words before)

tonight
I will sleep heavy
and wake a few hours before dawn,
only to forget my name

my wave-weathered heart will cry,
I will cry (my biggest fear
is drowning in too many
of my own weighted words

you tell me to be
quiet
so I can hear the world breathe)

I want to go home
SpeakeasyI can feel you like a phantom,
sensation without touch,
like breath in winter
or a misty mountain morning
that stays with me
until the stars fall in evening.

Your eyes contain the secrets
your lips would dare to betray,
but your body tells the story
and I am trying
to read between the lines
of your paperback smiles.

A grazing touch, a covert glance,
the memories remain
as skin grows warm and red
beneath lying fingertips
that claim incidental contact
a thousand times a day.

Of course,
it's not the kind of thing we say
when we are speaking
without talking and feeling
without touching
and thinking without knowing...

       all of the things
Overgrown ColorsRed like blood on a rose.
White like bone and stars.
Black like reclusiveness.
Green like dead air.
Orange like the savage instinct.
Purity like a god's heart.
Red like thawing hatred.
White like a frozen, severe cry.
Black like the night's deprived shadows.
Green like the wind in the grass.
Orange like the light in the shadows.
Purity like the sun rising.
So discharging through the moon in a wheeze is like luminous white, dispersed red.
We Can't Be Together.Every kiss you plant on my lips,
Takes a little bit of my soul away.

You're stealing the passion,
You're invading my heart,
And killing what emotion I've left untouched.
Stop this.
I can't love you.

I've tried to before,
Oh my god,
Have I tried.

Tried to unlock the doors to myself,
Tried to open up,
And let you in.
But as soon as I took one look,
Negativity took it's opportunity,
And struck the hot iron I'd been molding.

Every word you mutter
My knees falter under
You're killing me

You're my kryptonite  
I'm your paradise
But in this odd peace that seems to be approaching
I can't find happiness.

We aren't meant to be together
But this
WindowsHere am I, repeated,
and beyond waits everything
but everything is more
than I can bear.

I am not built for altitude
nor looking far afield;
groves and granite-sided mountains
stop my gaze

like rest for every tired wing;
a cover in the coldest time
snugged up beneath my chin.

Windows nothing more,
but safe lies there behind them
as the chambered hours pass;

safe sleeps there behind them
on the soft side of the glass.
He doesn't write poetry anymore.He doesn’t write poetry anymore,
even if he still collects it, reads it, saves it, treasures
faded verses from his wife the way connoisseurs
savor vinyl over metallic rainbows on disc.
I don’t mind not knowing, but I can’t stand not asking.

The record needle hits the groove wrong;
he stumbles over words that aren’t there,
rummaging for an answer he doesn’t really have.
He doesn’t write poetry anymore
and his confusion is strangely endearing.

But there’s a lyricism to his words that I love,
poetic lines inserted between the daily grind
of character names and who said what;
voiceless boys in white a
with thanks to frosttwo roads diverged in a soulless dawn
and you pull over,
idling on the shoulder of route 50.
it's a polaroid morning and
the world is as grainy
and sleep-heavy
as your eyes,
and one million miles
is not far enough.
it plays back, filmstrip,
blurred along the length of
optic nerves,
and here you are:
facing a choice between
on
and
out.
and this?
this loosejointed, hollowbodied
weightless ache--
this is what
gone
feels like.
Dry Spell   I am immobilized by time.
by the idea that it is somehow slipping,
  fleeting,
        evaporating
              through the cracks of
      my fingers and high

             above my head.
  I am terrified by the incessant notion
that no combination of thoughts,
    words,
         silences,
              or actions
   could possibly satiate it.

I realize only now that it can never be filled:
     all which is tossed into it is swallowed in haste
              or stretched
                       so far
           that it dissolves into non-being.
 I find that I am caught within its furrows
much like the words it devo
BoyfriendI thought you were good.

You WERE good.

You played with my hair.

You held me when I cried.

You were a gentleman.

You made me laugh.

You kissed me.

You loved me.

I loved you.

It was then that I learned the truth.

The dirty, rotten, stinking truth.

About you!

You cheated.

You played with her hair.

You kissed her.

You loved her.

You made her laugh.

I saw you – don’t you dare deny it.

I saw you giving her that love.

That same love you gave me.

I break up with you.

You don’t even seem to care.

Did you ever love me at all?

Or was it only ever her?

Much later, you’ll realize what a mistake you made.

I
PocketLeftover religion in the pocket
Of my trenchcoat
A key that unlocks nothing
A penny, a scrap of paper
With half of your name
Written in black ink

A song that is usually in my head
In the shriveled carcass
Of a long-dead dream
In the pocket
Of my trenchcoat
With the lint
You Don't Know ItYou don't know it, but you kept me sane
I nearly went over the edge
With a knife in one hand and a gun in the other
But you grabbed me
Pulled me back on my own two feet
Emptied my hands
And when you realized that I couldn't stand on my own
You hugged me
Like a mother would do for her child
Like a friend would do for, dare I say, another friend

You don't know it, but when you saved me
I felt free
I felt wanted
I felt needed
I felt, dare I say, loved

You don't know it, but when you showed me kindness
I fell in love
In love with your kindness
That same sweet kindness you saved me with
It felt like I found a new home
One that I could be, dare
Pull Her Hair/Stare At The StarsThe ghosts have crashed their ship
on the other side of town,
you can see it from the second floor
all the way over here.
You can see the white clouds
rising from the wreck
and a nova of heat, a big bright
nova of warmth pulling the moths and wolves
out from the woods (with their noses up and searching).
You can smell the yearning like bees
leaving the hive, like the grizzly brown bears
on the jagged white mountains (concrete and imposing).
They call it fear,
but I see these ghosts
scrambling up into the sky
and I like to think it's
something different entirely.
SisterSister

A sister is like a soul mate;
Someone who is always there
to guide me through fate.

A sister is,
a part of childhood that I cannot erase;
A sister like you,
is one that I would never replace
because you always know how to
put a smile on my face.

I know I can depend on you
to always be there for me;
This is one hundred percent guaranteed!

I've had great memories with you
in the past;
and I hope there are many more
to come,
in the future.
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It always comes backIt goes,
But it will always come back,
It may be the only thing,
That I can count on,
When nothing else is certain,
This is all I'm sure of,
I wish I wasn't,
I wish I somehow knew it would stay away,
But by the time I'd fooled myself,
Into believing that it might,
It would have crawled back to me.

The depression wants me close,
It wants to live here with me,
Make me dependant,
On the knife that fights if off,
Then lets it in,
I do it all in vain,
Maybe I should let it consume me,
Accept it,
Give up on it leaving,
So then I can put down the knife,
Let misery be my one and only constant.

Or perhaps it's always there,
I on
Now we're walking awayNow we're walking away,
Because we're not sure of who we are,
We never got the chance.

I can see it in you,
See someone who has been through something,
Truly difficult,
And I'm almost jealous,
Because you're so much stronger,
Than I can ever be.

I know I'm breaking,
I think that you do too,
What you must think of me,
As I tear myself to pieces.

Now we're walking away,
Because we never listened,
To what the wiser had to say.

I know she's had it easy,
Everything has been handed to her,
She earned nothing,
I'm almost jealous,
She won't break,
Because she has everything.

For a moment she can see me,
I know,
Because I watch

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My world does not exist

:icongot2bheard:

Today,
You told me,
My world,
Does not exist.

I shook,
My head,
I refuse,
To believe you.

It hurt,
To hear,
Your words,
Lack of faith.

But it makes,
No difference,
My world,
Is real.

You say,
Otherwise,
I don't,
Care.

I have,
Such hopes,
That I,
Can leave.

Stay,
Inside,
My own,
World.

It's there,
When I,
Hear the,
Music.

And,
When,
I imagine,
I'm gone.

I can't,
Dream,
Anymore,
I see only black.

Allow,
Me this,
I need it,
Badly.

It's my,
Only,
Freedom,
All that I have.

Today,
You told me,
My world,
Does not exist.
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~DSteffi Nov 12, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Nice poem. I have my own little world, too. It comes and welcomes me whenever I watch anime, read a really good book and when the earphones are plugged in and the volumes are up. Mostly, my world comes to life in the latter. And no matter how much parents or anyone for that matter say that we should wake and live in the "real" world, in reality, they themselves have their own worlds. They know it and they just do not want to admit it.
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All the effort is pointless if you don't believe in yourself.
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~got2bheard Nov 12, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
indeed
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Mood: Affection ~worldoftheundertaker Nov 11, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
mum is always telling me too I should wake up and stop hiding in my room, while the others are having the time of their live.
I hate it when she tells me to stop dreaming of a world that is never going to exist.
Reality is a bitch, I refuse to see it.

Don't trust parents, they don't know better and never will, because they forgot so many things in life ('cuz they aren't artists or articsitc people, people like you, they will never understand).
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~got2bheard Nov 11, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
yeah. Thankyou. If I say it exists it just does
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Mood: Sadness ~jackiezjj Nov 11, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
><~
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~got2bheard Nov 11, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
indeed
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*dadona777 Nov 10, 2011
what happened..?
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~got2bheard Nov 10, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
mum told me there's no world inside my headphones, I refuse to believe her
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*dadona777 Nov 10, 2011
ahhh
that's really stupid of her
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~got2bheard Nov 10, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
yeah. And who's to say there isn't.

It's another place
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