A simple verse.

[Cloudbringer]

Armisael:

Very powerful, very nice.
Good to see you, as ladyz said. Understand entirely if you have other things to do now, though! Do pop by and let us know how things work out if you can. Will be thinking of you, good wishes winging their way to Melbourne as I type.

Well, I'm more a prose person (in what I write) than poetry- so I won't toss anything into the ring. Goodness knows, I've written quite a bit to the forum already!

Cats purring, Babies crying
Noise all around
a Man stands in the Doorjamb
trying to make it all end
He's looking, hoping, pleading for silence
He walks, runs, sprints away
Looking for that place
a place of loneliness, of nothingness
He decides he's had enough
a Shotgun in his hand
provides a Permanent Solution
of a Temporary Problem
one last Noise. . .

Then an Infinity of Silence.


I have more, but I won't bore you with them now. I usually write to relieve stress, to convey my moods, or just to put my feelings into words. I was in a good mood the day I wrote this. I was in my grandma's house, writing for a contest for a 4-H project. Wrote this then burst into tears. No reason. It won. They asked if I needed to talk to someone. Hmmmm. . .

BK

BK beautiful, f*cking beautiful, deep and with substance.
better then any of the mindless drivel I keep coming up with. Don't ever stop.

I don't think enough people have seen BKs poem yet so bump.

*sigh* If I wasn't going to spend Valentine's day alone I would've wrote this to my girlfriend:

It's a love poem that I'm making up as I'm typing right now. Hope you like it

When the sea is calm, the sun's warm set,
I see your warming smile,
My heart captured like flies in a net,
My joy swept far for miles.

Your grace and beauty strikes my heart,
I whisper your sweet name,
Like the sun and moon - we'lll never be apart,
My lonely soul - you tamed.

And when the stars are bright at night,
I see your face up there,
Fear dispelled with your warm light,
Dancing............in the air.

By Hell Lich Wah

[Moridin]

I've never claimed to be a poet and this is the only poem I have ever written. The day my wife moved out and I keep it as a reminder that that was the worst day of my life and I made it through it and everyday I should be thankful for everything I have and everything I am

Death
It takes so many forms
Which one will take me
A gun, a rope, nature
I hear it
Something beyond me
“Don’t struggle, I am here”
Which one is it
Darkness
I will never know

Why does this forum bring out the darkness in everyone?

Moridin I don't feel that this board brings out the darkness in us...we all had bad experinces and i find it great that we all feel we can share these experinces with each other.

[Yorick]

This is a poem I wrote that I ended up putting to music. (Moiraine actually has a copy)


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I liken you to a flame
shining so bright and burning with a passion
that lights up my senses
all too soon
fading
leaving me with your scent
drifting
hints of the moment
passing me by
I liken you to a flame
burning to touch
but
giving me light

I liken you to the ocean
wild and furious
yet enticing and uplifting
you follow me to northern reaches
lochs and black seas
to southern beaches
bays
and warm breezes
you pervade all my worlds
changing, rearranging me
The oceans depth is yours
many colours
playing up
and down

I liken you to the rain
breaking the drought
and washing away
the garbage
of old
leaving me
with flowing rivers of my soul
I know I should stay inside
in and avoid you
and so I watch
entranced
only to go out
get wet
and then curse your leaving


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Well here is one of mine, I am a writer and a painter but I am not that great poet.
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Black,
The color of pain and death,
The color of hate and gloom,
The color of a diing bloom,
This color which is the killing color,
Is a perfect cover,
Of any dead animal or your own mother,
I wrote this when I was deppresed.

Here's one I wrote for the Funeral of two friends of mine. It is actually a song, but don't have the tech to put my song on the net. Besides, I wouldn't want you all to start howling

It's the Miracle of Death
That puts our Faith to the Test
Our Friends are dead and gone
we have to carry on
and be our best.

We loved our friends
that much they know
they had their faults
but long ago

Jesus Died
For our Sins
and now the place
where they are in

Is where we all want to go.

We miss our friends
It's time to find
a place in our hearts
and in our minds

Of memories
Of days gone past
Of Friendships
that will always last

Our Dreams will never rest
That's why we have to wonder

The Miracle of Death

BK