Official Poetry Thread

[Tick]

When one wanders through the dark recesses of one’s own mind the twisted thoughts of perversion eclipse any fictional idea ever written.
In the darkness we see far more than in the light. The imagery can manifest to reality and then the danger really begins.
Trapped in a vortex of deception the things we think to be illusion are the things we set in motion to destroy.
Unknowingly we hide behind the mask of sanity while the madness spills onto everything we touch.
We fool others primarily because we have fooled ourselves and the lies we perpetrate are the truths we conceal. Only when it crumbles down around us do we recognize the lies in disguise.
 Beware of the well that leads us to hell, as we calmly devour our daily bread.

[Lucien]

Decided to write after have not done so in quite a while. This is fresh and unrevised.

Where were those old notes you used to play...
The ones that shined so brightly,
Yet on paper, white as the sun,
The notes were black, even in day.

Yet I felt them differently, colors vivid and bright...
Many of those images were quite unsightly, however,
Though there were many dark things one would run from,
Even at midnight there is a moon with a silver ray.

Those old notes, black and colorful, it is said...
Did not flow through the same river as the others,
And against each other they fought with howling ferocity.
Death was impossible, yet they constantly bled.

You were not alone in your endeavors...
Many friends surrounded you, but not that other
The ferocity of the music could not be reflected in images,
But they remained unaware, and as such were severed

from the truth

[Ben_Jamin]

My feelings in this moment in life:



Reflecting past occurrences
Ripples echo
Daybreaks
wonders dream
Visions break the waves       

Soar betwixt the skies         

Kaleidoscopes combine
Colors blend in dance
Spacious atmospheric
Shades contrastic
Grade

Sparks of random thoughts
Ignite my mind to
Converse throughout
The atmosphere

Lying in the comfort
Particles conspire
Comets collide

Kaleidoscopes erupt
In flames you see me scorched
In the ashes ...

[JayOctavarium]

Something I wrote like a year ago


Take Me Home

Exhausted this existence
all I’ve known
all I’ve been shown
all I have
all I gave

I just want to go home
where ever that is
to all ive ever known
however long it takes
I wanna go back
undo my mistakes
Don’t leave ,me here
broken and alone
living in fear
please, just take me home

[Ben_Jamin]

Here's on I just did, I would like some criticism.


Streams glisten their stories
On the current
Memories reflect,
Is he whom I've become
Led astray, the life I lived
Enduring the hardships.

Stars so bright
Ignites a circuit
Illuminate
Secrets shadows

Witness to the bloodshed
Victims cry and plea
A sinister puppet
The future of our greed.

It shouldn't matter, anymore
Our lives will bloom
We are one
We are all
We are nature
We are Earth...
Precious innocence
Fragile purity

Society sings disharmony
It's been spoken,
Its history


What have we become
Leeches unsecure
One slip then we die
Drown in our turbulent streams.

[Lucien]

-
Some sort of ending
In the back of your mind
Tearing your guts
From inside

What is this bleeding
This lethal sensation
A lack of light
A malicious creation

Deadlines to be reached
Too many lights
That long walk alone
In the middle of the night

Time is a panther
Stalking its prey
The overcast sky
Here it remains

Yet there is beauty in night
Heightening of senses
One of few ways
To see through different lenses

How different is that sensation
Our instinctual relationship with the unknown
Than that of our instinctual relationship
With a hungry, stalking panther?

As time, there is sorrow
In reality, there could be death
And yet we fear time

As time, torture
In reality, flight

As time, blindness
In reality, sight
-

[Podaar]

COMMUNION

Spring's smoldering ice calls
To Autumn's steely sky
Cast your thunder
Release the rain
Quench the fire
Ecstatic pain

Meet me halfway
At the peak of summer
Under blazing Solstice
To dream like a lover
And find our solace
A few degrees warmer

Fall's churning storm calls
To Vernal's fiery frost
Stoke your flame
And sere the tears
Melt the chain
Euphoric fears

Meet me halfway
At the peak of summer
Under blazing Solstice
To dream like a lover
And find our solace
A few degrees warmer

Mute magnetic song calls
Ardent Equinox eyes
Unbind the past
Bid it farewell
Drown your fast
Gorge at the well

Go--meet halfway
At the peak of summer
Under blazing Solstice
To dream like a lover
And find our solace
Seasons from Winter

[Lucien]

What is this void surrounding me
This unbreakable mass

This silence

What is this air around me
This cutting wind

This snow

What is this fear I feel
This lack of emotion

This sleep

What is this light I see
This surrendering

This beauty

[Podaar]

What is this void surrounding me
This unbreakable mass

This silence

What is this air around me
This cutting wind

This snow

What is this fear I feel
This lack of emotion

This sleep

What is this light I see
This surrendering

This beauty

Nice Lucien!

On a side note, I'm really pleased to see someone posting in this thread. I thought I'd broke it!   

[Lucien]

 

I'm going to attempt to post in here more often.

[Ben_Jamin]

As you know I like to free writing.

[Lucien]

-
This bloodthirsty monster
The evil god marches through the forest
Distant from the sky
Away from the light

Time could not end his life
Neither could any with a plan

There in his sight
Some quaint soul
The monster contemplates
To his home they go

Some grand scheme
This dancing army of evil

Another life ended
Nothing the future could hold
-

I don't know where I was going with this. Just a few pictures in my head listening to the second movement of Prokofiev's Scythian Suite (LOOK IT UP RIGHT NOW).

[Lucien]

For a moment, the light was gone
There was the repulsive monster
He had already won.

For my wings had left me
To a sky of more deserving beings
No remorse towards ignorance.

And so I stood there,
Ignorant to the truth
And let the monster destroy my soul.

It would come back,
The further in time I pushed foward,
Yet the yearning and ifs keep me back.

I didn't have to be ignorant,
I could have called the wings back down,
I could have run away.

And so the wings and the light are far
I cannot reach them yet
The sky is far from me.

Darkness still scars me.

[Ben_Jamin]

In silence
Our minds transcend
Dreams speak
Imagination
Regression
Retrospection
Our hearts desires fulfilled.

In memory                                   
We relive our past.
Or is it our future?

Scenes reflect regret
Igniting futures desires
Are these lovely frames
A part of our intent?

We travel through the wormhole
Vivid lucid scars
Retracing our part in life

Nothing else can be said
For our future has bled
Keys enhance our dread
Why have we fled?

[Ben_Jamin]

Pt. Dos

I reflect through dreams
Are they, what I believe them to mean
Am I alone?
Am I spiritually prone?

The dangers of flying lucid
Vivid scenes reenact
How should I react?

I shall move on foward,
Cliche as it seems, to dream
Dreams spoken
This is how I've written.

[jammindude]

Fifteen in the queue
This is my third time trying
Troubleshooting sucks

[Lucien]

This day I walk under a frozen sky
I cannot understand this beauty
But the presence is so powerful
A warmth washes over me

Surrounded by this beauty, my pace slows
Time is no longer static
I realize this beauty I had been shown
Has completely revived my soul

The simple sights around me
Kept me warm that day
Not unlike the blankets of the sky
The best sights to see

[Podaar]

Very nice, Lucien! Vivid, and adept at conveying feeling.

I'm going to take a chance and post another one of mine. This was a valentines day poem I wrote for Mrs. P. I really like it, and she absolutely loved it.

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VISITATION

a feather floats above
purest frost turning on nothing
playfully brushing away dust motes
to gain its share of afternoon rays
in our contented room

it luxuriates with my mood
enhanced by sun-warm jeans
and echoes of her scent on the pillow
lazy comfortable memory
of its leave-taking

her sweetly strong embrace
from wings that smother trepidation
and tenderly accept my wonder
while her laughter coaxes
grateful tears to stain linen

the feather twirls -- drunken fairy
on a current of longing
that springs from my heart
smiling source of my well-being
I quietly anticipate
my Angel

[Ben_Jamin]

Pretty good stuff guys.

[MetalJunkie]

Her delicate fingers run through my hair
My mind is lost in this intimate embrace
No words are spoken
Two souls merged into one.

This passionate contact I desire
I enjoy it more than her
But I live in the moment, not caring
Because I know it will be brief

We're strangers to each other
I know she's done this before
With countless others
But I do not care

Her delicate fingers in my hair
And my love for this embrace
Is why I always pay for shampoo service
When I get a haircut

[Lucien]

 

[Ben_Jamin]

Hahaha,  that's great.

[Ben_Jamin]

A soliloquy
She hums
Lost phrases
He calls
Ghastly tones
Haunt the air
Silence echoes a whisper.

Till we lay down
With you my love
Forevermore
Resting in pieces
We're burned apart
In flames we breathe

Weeping
Scathing,
Calluses form
The blisters betray their host.




Lying in my bed, I see through my dreams
Vivid scenes enlightening
Fairy tales hold true their morals
The palace of the jaded queen.

[Ben_Jamin]

Genocide
Coincides
as an annihilation
We were one
once in harmony.

-Losing our sense of purpose,
Our ways are the truth-

Nature says otherwise.

Lives in tune to Our mother
Realize the lies,
the mist that blinded our eyes.

A heart that will
uplift until
these sinister
beings
succumb to....

No one knows
the things we will do
yet, the world understands
how She will purify.

While we wait in solitary confinement
The lost wonder under shades of grey

"It's been far too long...
It's time to show them all...
How this life is all a dream...

Are they ready to recieve?"

[jammindude]

Take me down to Hai-
ku City where the grass is
Green and the...dammit...

[Lucien]

Where, the scent of rain
Deeper into the forest
Time falls from the sky

Sky, cannot be seen
The clouds fight ferociously
Blood spills on the earth

Earth, covered in light
The other half finds beauty
Cool breeze at midnight

Night, where the wind flows
Let your instincts guide you home
From the grassy field

Field, top of the sky
Under it there is no light
Forest, guide us where

[Tick]

Differences

We enter into this world with a pure and innocent slate
The stuff that happens in between will often seal our fate
The poison slowly creeping in, the twisted ways of man
Although he rarely has a clue, he always has a plan
Before you know it, it’s too late you’ve sold your soul for good
And even in your darkest hour, you wouldn’t change if you could

The differences between us, is what tears us all apart
The place that you now find yourself was molded from the start
Although you think you know the way, the path is never clear
What started with such promise, has quickly turned all fear

We act as if were civilized, but is it all an act
There’s anger brewing on the streets, and nothing seems in tact
We always seek solutions, for the problems now at hand
Although we try and find one, it’s only sinking sand
And now you lay on down to sleep, say prayers you think you should
The light of man has fade to black, please excuse me if you would

The truth is that were made the same, yet we tend to think apart
The answer doesn’t come from man, it’s found within the heart.

[Ben_Jamin]

I love that. Perfect timing too, I'm dealing with personal issues within my ownself. A self-reflection, Soliloquy.

[Lucien]

Hear the snow fall
Watch the sky burn
Smell the sulfur
Taste the acid rain

Silently
The wolves howl
As they watch
Their world fall
Back and forth
The tide turns

Fox at my side
The evil culprit
This little windbreaker
Tore apart the world
Set it aflame
He is my friend

Purged the world
Nothing left
Just the earth
Just the sky
Trees will return
Grass will thrive

I am not lonely
He is my friend

Not too sure what I was going for here. Reading back, it sounds like I have some sort of evil demon fox pet that destroys the world

[Lucien]

All around me there is silence
Except for the wind of the old machine in front of me
And the wind that we so desperately need to feel

[Lucien]

The bear hibernates, there is no light
The wolf is confused, no movement in sight
Many creatures wander here, quickly become lost
Pure silence, nothing escapes this cold-hearted frost

[Ben_Jamin]

A lady in corsets of lust
Sits beside the carrier
guilts highest bidder
She sways her hips in rhythm   
As the spotlight hits her beauty         
Gentlemen ask her name

                                     
Caught in lies       
diamonds pierce my eyes
Pearls they shine       
Imprisoned in her eyes           

Unholy                     
Boldly
Lonely
Divine love
Banished from above

[Prog Snob]

This is great guys. 

I actually wrote a sonnet for the girl I was dating earlier this year. I researched the "correct" way to align everything, where the rhyming words should go, etc. So here it is.

Years of sorrow plague my somber mind,
Bleakness fills my heart from past despair,
Echoes from my past grow worse from wear,
Dashing blues amidst grays hard to find.

Lost is my crimson soul bereft its bind,
Forever beyond the pale seems all unfair,
Inside the smoke and mirrors unwelcome stare,
A life unsavored from the unkind.

Crystal beauty blue arrives with a siren call,
A pleasant warm aura resurrects myself once broken,
Endless conflation of felicity anew.

It is she the Christmas angel in love I fall,
Melodious promises pierce through almost unspoken,
All I have desired and impassioned for I've found in you.

[Tick]

Road rage
The angers rising swiftly to the surface
The canvas is a vast and open road
No one seems to care or have a purpose
The narcissistic bad intentions flow

Feeling like your souls under possession
The demon has his place inside you now
Wanting to become the hands of justice
To send the selfish bastards through the ground

Chorus:
The blood inside that boils may soon spill over
To cover those of selfish careless sin
Will they learn a lesson or become one
Some beginnings don’t happily ever end

Thoughtless they don’t care it’s all about them
The cost of who may hurt is no concern

If this ends up badly through a guard rail
A guilty laughter rises from within

The price that’s paid is heavy for transgression
The innocent will suffer as they grieve

Chorus
The family now must bury their own loved one
Sparing others from the pain they bare the cross
The choices that we make are often not about us
We paid the price but could not count the cost

[Lucien]

This storm surrounding me, that hates, fears, and resists
The storm that I thought would never die, begins to falter
Maybe now I can solder some real ties
As the world reveals its wires
Maybe I'll show off some of mine
Now to break the storm outside