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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

Poet as PainterThe world
Your dusty palette,
The pen
Your muddied paintbrush:

Dip into
The impossible
Colour
Of imagination

And stain
The pristine slate
With an
Image distilled.

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.

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

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

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.

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Different PathsThe first has been chosen to stop the fall.

The second has been chosen to save us all.

The third has not been chosen to follow yet.

The third must remain in his cage and watch the sunset.

But what of the fourth when they hear their call?

Raise Your SwordSwords fly.

Warriors cry.

Songs of iron fly straight.

Calls of battle ring through the night.

Flags rose.

Roars rang out through the raging crowd.

"Raise your swords, ye strong men!"

Raise the banner.

Swords fly.

Do You Hear What I Hear?Doo doo do doo do!

Do you hear what I hear?

La la laa la laa!

Can you sing what I sing?

Coo co coo coo!

Can you dance to what I dance to?

Fwoo fwo fwoo!

Do you hear what I hear?

Hear Their WordsGo to them and heed their words.

Only those who can open their ears and eyes can see their heeding.

Men, women, and child are destined to submit to the haunting of their voices and grasp.

Every person who holds the hard shards in their hearts shall break this oath of promise.

Name your wish, they may be granted unto you.

All those who believe will hear them clearly, as a bird hears the rush of the wind calling their name.

So beware and woe to those who seek to disturb and destroy the chosen.

All those who believe will hear the trumpets raising their vocals from the heavens.

In time...we will all go home...listening to the voices that

I Am ThemThey call and they call and they call.

Can anyone hear them?

They run and they run and they run.

Can anyone offer them rest?

They pray and they pray and they pray.

To whom are they praying to?

Why do they keep wishing?

Why do they keep screaming?

Why do they keep hoping?

Don't they know it is meaningless?

Then why do they keep calling?

Do you want to know them?

Because...I am them.

And you may be them.

Do you want to know yourself?

I do.

Time To GoIt's time to move on.
I know it's hard to say goodbye.
But it's time to say so long.

Finish up your song.
Do not make a sigh.
It's time to go on.

It's time to say hello to the new dawn.
It is time to say fair well to the sunset's day.
Do not fret; it won't be long.

Love can come and love can be gone.
But let it not tarry on standby.
Love goes on and on.

Rejoice for this dawning song.
Be happy for the sunset's resting bye.
But do not tarry too long.

It's time to move along.
It's time to say fly on by.
Please now, come on.
This goodbye will not last long.

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by ~khgirl153, Nov 22, 2012, 2:29:49 PM
Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Free Verse

Where are you?!

I haven’t seen or heard from you for almost a year!

Where are you?!

Don’t you know that I’m crying out for your return?!

Who do you think you are?!

You were close to death when we last spoke!

Who do you think you are?!

You could barely speak or smile like you used to!

Why did you do this?!

Did you grow tired of me and go back to her?!

Why did you do this?!

Did you abandon me like everyone else has?!

What are you thinking?!

You have made countless love declarations and swore your heart to me!

What are you thinking?!

Did you only seek me for temporary solitude like the others have?!

How could you?!

You promised to always be there for me!

How could you?!

You promised that you would come back!

When did you plan to tell me?!

You didn’t even tell me that you were going to leave like you have in the past!

When did you plan to tell me?!

Were you planning to just leave me behind like the others have?!

I will have no more of this!

No more…

No Moreby ~khgirl153

Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Free Verse

©2012-2013 ~khgirl153

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~khgirl153 Dec 12, 2012

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*nightshade-keyblade Nov 23, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Dang, you OK there, Belle?

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~khgirl153 Nov 23, 2012

This is just something I needed to get out. But I'll be okay. Thank you.

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*nightshade-keyblade Nov 23, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

All right, long as you're sure. You're welcome!

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~totochan93 Nov 22, 2012 Writer

About time. I hope the message gets through.

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~khgirl153 Nov 22, 2012

Thanks.

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~totochan93 Nov 22, 2012 Writer

No problem.

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