Another Artistic Thread - POEMS

[lukeprog]

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Most poems rhyme
But this one doesn't

[White Raven]

Grey Desert

It's raining in my head and I can feel it
Myself running in streaming drops down my fingers
Where are you today
You're raining in my head and I can feel it
Like a lizard running full tilt across the grey sands of my brain
Stirring things up
Where are the little things you used to say to me
I wonder if I still am any of those things in your eyes
Ever stare at a drop of water on your skin
That's my mind, falling from the sky
In my head
It's raining in my head and I can feel it
A horse as its running, trips
And breaks its leg on a rock by a stream
Its scream of confusion echoes through the forests of my thoughts
I smile
A drop of my rain fell off the tip of my finger and into a puddle
Where are you today
You're raining in my head and I can feel you
Somewhere, sleeping in the brine
Clear white droplets on a leather bridle
Where are you today
It's raining in my head and I can feel it.

[EternalSSaturn]

Revelation of Yen-Yang
by me

moonlight
is that all that shines upon you?
the light that disappears during the day
and blesses the night with its soft glow

tha sunlight shines during the day
revealing the truth of people
but the moon hides people, distorts,
and shows them as an illusion

the sun pierces these illusions
casts them into shadow, and now
standing before you, i ask you;
do you stand in the moonlight?

[izchan]

EternalSSaturn, I love your work. I love the way you put the words together and make the story flow so nicely. The point of harshness in life is not to punish but to train and challenge life itself so that it might become adept to the coming endeavours.

Marvalously written.

Will post something up as soon as my cloud clears.

And don't u worry mike, we all have our clog up days ...

[izchan]

: Tapestry

Do you believe in fate?
Do you believe that everything is fix?
from the moment we are born
our whole life has already been written.
Do you believe that we have no choice?
no say of what and who we are?
if that is so,
does that mean that we are no more than tools
pawns in which the gods used as play pieces?
where our totally reason of being
is nothing more than a flimsy requirement?
Well, let us say that is true.
and that life is as bleak as that.
are we going to stop living?
does that mean we should all curl up and die?
if that happends
then it will still be as it should be.
as it was written down in the books of immortality.
whatever we do
it was already pre-ordained.
if it was not meant to be
we would never have succeeded.
thus it is a sign of faith
that we trust our fate
to the hands we see not
but guide us to the eternal path
question not our fate
for that is already decided.
focus more on ourselves
and how we could be better.
It sounds like a sorry excuse for life.
but the truth is, we will never know
As we are all a thread in this tapestry
and we paint it with colours
we paint it with our lives.

It was an thought I was pondering yesterday while on the train. If everything was fated, connected in a way, thus, theoratically, if I were to sneeze now, someone in somalia would die, because i sneezed. or a birth in melbourne general. because of my sneeze. the connection is so far fetch, that it actually sounds probable.

I have yet to put in the finese on these thought. But it sounds promising.

Enjoy.

[izchan]

: praries in my mind

Sun setting down upon the land
golden colours reflecting
life upon the prairies
soft as the summer wind upon them
minds wander no further than the stream
a coolness which brings good tidings
in this land of ours
we build and die
simplistic rules for simplistic life
as the sun lay its blanket on thie prarie land
one day at a time

Writing this as I am half asleep.

enjoy.

[Magic_Midget]

Very well thought out piece Izchan!!! Tapestry is the best poem you've written all year i think. In-depth and serves a deeper purpose of life!!
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Hands of Death by Lee

Haunted by the visions of the past,
Knowing there was nothing I could do,
Because it happened so fast,
I couldn't have saved you.

I failed at your side,
As red tears flowed from your eyes,
As you slowly fell away and died,
And my emotions fell over to cries.

I remembered you calling for me,
Torturous pain went cascaded your body,
Your screams turned to desperate pleas,
For God to come save you from this agony.

I came to late, for the I saw the angels take you away,
As I ran to your lifeless body, your eyes stared toward Heaven,
I knew I could've never forgive myself to this day,
And I experienced death at age eleven.

Because there was nothing I can do,
As it happened so quick and fast,
And I could've never saved you,
Another day of sorrow in the past.

[izchan]

Thanks Lee ... .. Appreciate the support. I think I have not written my THE PIECE yet ... might never will ... that is untill I die of course ... then someone ... hopefully will remember my works and read through them and then phyco-analys me and say what they think I was, what my motives were even though I the author never knew it myself.

... day dreaming again.

Will post later. Got my latest broadband at home. Wireless .. .

Always loved that word.

Enjoy.

[izchan]

Inspired by my own posts ...

: Wireless

Hanging on thin threads
invisible to the eyes
I am a puppet to my masters
masters in my mind
I let them dictate me
I follow their wish
no freedom, no thoughts
my life is theirs to take
yet deep down inside
I hear my silent scream
I wish so much to break away
and live the life I wish
so slowly I awaken
and sing my tenor voice
No more am I your slave
I am no longer your game
I go now wireless
into unknown domains
as a free spirit
as a free man

Enjoy.

[izchan]

: ungrateful

After many a posting
time makes me wonder
what it is that keeps me on
like the air I breath
I question it not
alas sometimes I even forget
it is that which
I least cherish
that supports me most

a little note I wrote down during lunch.

enjoy.

[izchan]

: lovers song

What do you intend
to do with me
after all this ends
What do you think
all this I can't comprehend
a song with no words
could sing deepest feeling
all I ask for is your hand

I pray everday that
that you will know
I am just a man
weak with only hope that someday
you will understand
all that which makes me
live another day
is your smile
your tender
as my love for you expands

Poem for the love of my life .. ... its her birtday.

[Jedi Gemstone]

God been a while since I came here.
Too many poems to read god dman it you guys post to much.
Anyone miss me? Well my notepads buggered so I can't access any of my poems over than those that are on my site. I'll come up with something soon though.
-Jedi over and out

[izchan]

my dear jedi, you have been missed, I assure you. So don't hesitate more, and gives us more poems to quench our thirst.

: Reasonable Doubt

I sit here pondering the questions
why does the world do this
why does time tame our wounds
what makes a man heart break
when can I ever stand tall again

Oh yes I wonder about these all the time
How can I become better
who is my destined partner
will god ever forgive my sin
will she ever forgive my sin

Um yes I would usually consider
if I am as good as I think I am
can I make a promise and keep it firm
when can I make love bloom again
has there ever been a chance in hell

Finally I settle for these instead
will I ever make sense
can I finish what I started
how much more should I go before the end
will anyone ever miss me

poem written when I was dreaming.
I actually wrote it in my dream, and jotted it down when I woke up.

[Jedi Gemstone]

Thanks Iz, I'm thinking about entering this competition thats between some schools down here and I was thinking of entering this-

Obliterated Souls (edited version)

Lost in the cold, winter night
I feel alone, dejected
As a depressive manic surge wraths at my body
The sadness of oppression, breaking at me
I become more of my hatred, as I fake a new me

Lost in a fire
Flickering my sins, crying out for mercy
Wanting to be free from within
As the secret enigma of my life
Recoils and burdens, ruined and wasted

Tortured
Pushed from humanity
Socially outcast
Become an obliterated soul
Like them
Like us
Like me

Not to sure on the ending paragraph though....any ideas?

[izchan]

Jedi dear, the poems theme is good, as far as I can see. The ending is precise and I like it. though the first paragraph does sound a little odd. Like it was forced into that area, maybe something a little lighter but still to the point of becoming someone she hates?

I would not give you too much pointers because firstly, I am just an amature myself ... second, it is a competition so it would not be a good idea to do your work for you ...

yet, I do like the theme, so it should be something I would love to read, when you are done with the final revise.

Will something up later.

more poems my friends.

[Jedi Gemstone]

A new one of mine another one I might consider entering.....

Stormy Sunrise(odd title i know but it sounded weird to me )

Lost in a blossom of screaming
Anger of violation
Twisting at me
Wrecking havoc in my world
Beautiful to those of greed

Sorrowing moans beckon my tears
Sobs choke at my throat
As I sit tearful upon a burning crypt
Engulfed by its flames
I bury our love upon a bloody child hood
Watching it all fade away

Dark clouds fill my sky
Crying a million crimson tears
As there depression pelts and crashes around me

The devil scratches at the edges of darkness
Trying to bury my light
I breathe, trying to stop the wailing of my heart
Trying to silence my world for the last time.

[izchan]

jedi, you kind of lost me in the new poem of yours.
I have not been posting for a few days, due to my mind is so tense with computer code, I can't seem to think of anything else.

Hopefully, will break the dam soon.

see you guys later.

[DragonSon]

I'll write something once I get the inspiration....right now my mind's been elsewhere.

[White Raven]

Anybody miss me? *Smiffle*

I won third in the Poetry Contest... Third in the whole province. "Orioles" was the poem that won.

I'm eating pink popcorn.

I am the raven on your shoulder, I sit there quietly with a soft, cold presence, like that of a black rose upon a glass table in a chilled room. And I listen to your troubles till your tongue can formulate the words no more, and the touch of feather upon your cheek soothes you into sleep.

[S-uper_T-oast]

Way to go White Raven!

I have been really busy lately, finals and all at my schoo. I had some things scribbled on the back on of one my tests, but the teacher won't give it back and I can't remember it, oh well.

[Magic_Midget]

I'm kinda new here, excellent poems everyone!! Umm, I'm an amateur poet and I'm totally new at this...hope you like it
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Shimmer in the Ocean of Memories by Lee

Carried by the waves in the seas,
My essence flows in the ocean of memories,
But I wear thin each day,
As pieces of me float away,
To become embedded in the sand,
Or carried by the breeze onto the promised land.

I'm a mountain worn with age,
A storybook, page by page,
That never wants to end,
It repeats itself again, and again,
Will it be a time when it's over?
Ground down to the bottom as I get older.

I'm a shimmer in life's timestream,
Never waking from this dream,
Awaiting the final countdown,
To be put to rest in the ground,
Till then, I must sweep past the memories,
So my soul can escape and be free.....

[izchan]

Congrates Raven, always knew you had it in you.

Lee .. funny ... new here?

: One more time

I would have just walk away
but my heart will not let me go
why to you try so hard
to make me hate you so
when all I want to do
is to hold you near me
and love you with all my soul
taking all your burden
as well as all the sorrow
just to ensure that in the morning
your smile is there to show
yet maybe I am just not good enough
because you never smile enough
and I am getting weary
tired of all this trying
yet just one more time
I would love to see you smile
when I get that
I would go away
only to return again
just to love you for another day

Love should not be so tiring. yet, this is what I do everyday. One day, I hope she understands that I all want is to make her happy.

Later guys.

Enjoy.

[mikeflca]

good job WR!
I would post something that I turned in for school today but nah, it was too depressing. and political. carry on, ladies and gentlemen

[Jedi Gemstone]

Originally posted by izchan
jedi, you kind of lost me in the new poem of yours.

You mean lost in a good way? or lost as in what the fuck are you rambling on about now?
It didnt make much sence to me and yet it does in some ways I dunno, I just wanna enter this comp. Thats all I dunno what to enter darn it I have to many poems.

I found this in one of the poems I done with Theo and I changed it aorund to fit 20 lines tell me if you guys think its decent enough to be entered please-

My hated love(couldn't think of a better title any suggestions let me know!)

The light breaks up into shards of dark
as this shadowed love delves into my heart
my dreams begin to fall apart
Despite of your anger
Tearing me, changing me for the worst
Of all this love I gave to you
I never want to lose you again
Even though all you give me is a cascade of pain
The yearn for you still lives on
My breath becomes shorter I grasp for air and you appear
My life, my love, why did you leave my side?
You grimace and stare from above
I'm nothing to you
Lower than the dirt in your thoughtless mind
I’ve become your anticity, a prisoner bound to your heartless love
I think of my past when I was happy, it seems all like a dream a blur to me
Your love ruined my life and left me to die
Your love is like a leaf once its dropped over a waterfall
it never comes back...

[izchan]

Jedi, I was lost in the sense, I could not grasp your pain ...

As for the title, how about <A Dream of a nightmare>
the title just jumped at me, when I finish reading it ...

: Meanings to it all

So many possibilities
so many chances
yet so little control
over what will be truth
freedom in an era of war
is like a slave during peace
every choice available
is never what we need.
so what use are our rights
when it is unable to be practiced
just pawns within a game of another
batteries to the machine of chaos
we die without knowing the ultimate answer
are we man or beast for the slaugther

Actually wrote it, thinking about it as <Dreams of Nightmares>, ... enjoy.

[izchan]

: in fate's hand

What if you never slowed down
never walk past that store
never looked at the dress
never bumped into me that day
our lives would have never began
I would have just passed on by
never knowing what it will be
to have you beside me everyday
a kiss in the morning
a hug at night
what if I was not late
and never would have rushed to work
never took that short cut
and never knocked into you
I would have never understood
what I would have been missing
might even end up with being alone
for the rest of my normal life
but the powers to be
had other things in plan
and here I am looking into your eyes
remembering the first time I saw them
how I fell in love
as I am doing now all over again.
I love you as I always had
and thank to god
for the chance to live again.

Wrote about something else, ended up with this.

Enjoy.

[izchan]

: once more with feeling

Over shattering pride
caused this all to happend
when did you ever say
I am sorry

Ever forgiving heart
made me stay all this time
why did I ever say
I love you

As leaves turn golden
and the seasons change dry
as do my heart
for all my tenderness is gone
and whats left is the carcass
of what once was the essense of happiness
now curled up and dying from within
as I breath my last breath in this life

I die and be reborn
into something else
a new begining
starting all over
going through the same problems again
and doing it differently
this time with more feeling

inspired from something I read sometime ago.

Hope you enjoy this.

[izchan]

Here is a little something

: Dreams

Few of us ever understands
Under each of our souls
Carries a strength hidden
Keeping us going
Making us push on
Every little idea
Small as it may seem
If given an oppurtunity
Lives on through eternity
Letting our life on earth
Yield more than just dreams

If things get hairy, thing about it, I believe all things are solved by first acknowledging its faults.

[izchan]

: Before Apocalypse

It was a dream of a different time
and man was at his height
where honour was the highest regards
that any man will strive
yet gone are the days
when man could look to the sky
and say thank you for the light
when look into the plains
and say thank you for the food
so far gone are the days of common sense
everything must be proven and numbered
never seeing the bigger picture
how man has advance in becoming souless
the more we lust for material wealth
the more we loose our mental health
gone are the days of chivalry
as females carry pepper sprays on dates
and rapist are the ones we trust most
sad are we as a community
lost are the art of sincerity
the thought of it all
shall never see the light of day
as man dredge further into his misery
crawling into the hell of his own making

I will try to post something everyday, untill you guys start posting again. Hope you guys will come home soon.

Enjoy the reading guys.

[Jedi Gemstone]

I'm here still alive!!
Just been busy i guess, not much thats new for my poems. trying to come up with one for the competition has to be in soon.

[Magic_Midget]

Izzy, you keep this thread alive for the next couple of months, hopefully by then, I'll have some new poems and maybe a short story to share with you guys. Here's one, wrong title for the subject content, but I'm out of ideas.
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Tale of Two Cities by Lee

Somedays I feel so alone,
Cold and unmoving like a stone,
A man that feels more like a boy,
That was long forgotten in everyone's joy.

They told me not to look back,
As they wait for me leave with my sack,
Belongings and pictures over the years,
Leaving a trail of lost tears.

I have lived from town to town,
Always kept my head down,
Never wanted to grab anyone's interest,
Unless they wanted to meet my fist.

One day when the sun shined bright,
Hot enough to take off my hood and embrace the light,
An interesting woman came and introduced her to me,
But I put my hoodie back on like it should be.

She placed her hand against my face,
Saying it's alright, I'm safe in this place,
We talked more, and I felt comfort,
Washing away the memories of me in the dirt.

The next several months my anguish and pain went away,
It was rainy before and now it became a sunny day,
She suggested we take a step furthur in our love,
So we went to her studio above.

Two bodies, one warm and the other cold,
It was like mixing blood and gold,
She burned away the ivy surrounding my heart,
And chained that couldn't break us apart.

We ended the night, sitting on the balcony,
Watching the moon shine brightly,
Our kisses melted together,
Lust that will burn in us forever.

[White Raven]

Prickle

Prick her finger with a silver needle and
She'll bleed water
She'll give to you her life from the inside
She's afraid it's something too twisted

Bleeding water, eyes wide open, bleeding water
She's sorry she can't be real
She'd give anything to touch flesh, but
She's bleeding water

Bleeding water, eyes wide open, bleeding water
She's just so sad under the sun
She feels so alone and she's just so sorry
She's not there for him
She's bleeding water
She's bleeding water
She's just bleeding so much water...

[izchan]

Lee, no worries, I will post one poem a day untill all of my friends come back. It would not be too hard to do that I think, I used to write a poem for each email I send out. That will mean roughly around 6 poems a day ...

: wift of life

I could surender now
and let it all wash away
giving up my struggle
to attain the ultimate
yet stuborn as a mule
I wadded on
brusing my body
hurting my soul
Why do I persist
I sometimes dont remember
how it came to be like this
I was such a carefree child once
no a worry in the world
what changed me into this miser
hogging all the pain
never letting it out my sight
I would rather me feel the pain
then see it in the face of others
yet even the greatest damm gets filled
even the sea is no eternal
I would eventually give it all up
pass it to the almighty to care
like all my ancestors before me
So is it bad to surrender?
depends on who you surrender to.
I belive that is why I dream.
A dream of paradise

Here is todays ...

enjoy my friends.

[izchan]

A fear that I constantly have. A weakness that will eventually kill me.

: love total

I know what it is
as I seen it happend before
it starts with a misunderstanding
and ends with me crying

My heart pains every time
I say I am sorry a million times
but at the end it is always the same
you will leave me standing
alone in this pain

5 times I have done this
and it seems 5 times I have failed
but I know not why
for every time I love for real

So alone again with misery
I wept my eyes sore
only to wish that somehow
it was no more ... no more

Just as sudden as it happend
I jumped and I am awake
a nightmare, a fear
something buried deep within me
I am afraid to loose you
afraid you will go away
what more do you want from me
I have given everything away
all that is left is this husk
this body empty of soul
for I can only love you
totally or none at all
you are my everything
both as heaven and hell

another day, another poem.

[mikeflca]

very nice peoms all
WR its odd i know but i can relate to Prickle

[izchan]

Here is todays contribution.

: Struggle

When the mind is done
and my meaning lost
my usefulness fades away
as my blood runs cold
I breath but I am not alive
my eyes sees no more
and my soul is dry
I walk as undead
and still cling to hope
even as everything crumbles around me
that faint voice still says
"Have faith, for all will be well"
so I live on
grasping at the illusion of light
as the night consumes my life

Enjoy.

[S-uper_T-oast]

Been working on this lil peice of poetry for a while. Started out as some haiku magic, but I couldn't make the emotions work in the lines, so I decided to just write it as a poem, I really like this..

|--1 Poem By John
|-Alyssa's Mirror
|A candle in the dark
|My own love for of you
|A candle in the dark
|Shinning in my mirror
|Your love for me
|A reflection I can vaguely see
|Shinning in your mirror
|A fragmented dream
|A lost memory
|That will never come too be
|Just a Reflection
|Shinning in our mirror
|Your perfect smile
|Your perfect face
|My twisted self
|Lost in my oblivion
|A lost light alone
|Alone in the Dark
|Always to Be
|Seperated by the Mirror

[DragonSon]

Just thought I'd pop by to check up on everyone's work. I'm very impressed. I've very busy with work to take the time and sit and write, but I'll try to do some this weekend.

[izchan]

SuperToast, that is a very good poem. I like it much.

DragonSon, hope that you can return to us as soon as possible.

: Daze

My eyes seems to be tintered
everything looks so purple
sometimes it seems more blue
sometimes it is just red
most of the time purple
and it makes the most interesting pictures
if only I could show it to you
I know you will understand
that I see all this
because of you
or maybe I do the same to you
hopefull dreams I can assure
that I wish to give you beauty
beyond this realm of reality
something only the heavens posses
that and what I keep within my desires
I give to you freely
my lover

not one of my best, but I am half asleep right now, I hope it comes out properly.

Enjoy.

[Germ]

"A Cost"

I have lost,
But yet I have won,
Through all the frost,
There is still a sun,
To melt it all away,
When the shadows come,
I have won,
But yet I have lost,
Because with everything,
There comes a cost.