Writing Today's Poem [M -- As a Precaution]

[Mitch]

[color=black][size=1][font=rockwell] Nice little poem there, Sara. That last line of it all..it seems oddly familiar to me. Maybe I saw it in your blog somewhere, or something. Who knows? Here's what I wrote last night. It's nothing special. It was raining out and I just went with what was on my mind then. [/font]

[b][u]Rain Storm But No Bird[/b][/u]
it's raining a storm outside
seems the rain bird came back to my side
never thought i'd see again

raining a storm outside
i went out just awhile ago
went out saw the cold
and i was looking for my rain bird

she never came
i stood out there
cold and alone
then i came back in

looking out my window
it's still raining a storm outside
seems my rain bird's left me alone
left me soaking until the summer comes gone

but it's raining a storm outside
i see it right now
from my window
i've got to look
i can hear the rain bird calling me like it used to
wish i could catch its beak and be there

she still hasn't come
something's different
to think i thought i knew
to think i knew when the levee breaks
she still hasn't come

i'm tapping my window-sill here
thinking where and what she's doing
but now
i've got to go away

i've got to get away from this window
i've got to shut off the lights
got to just listen to the lone sound of pat-pat

that's when it's calling me
rain bird that's when it's calling me
i know you're out there

it's raining a storm
rain bird
it's raining a storm
but i have to go
i can't stand sitting here
right here by my window-sill
i can't stand it any longer
got to just listen to the lone sound of pat-pat[/color][/size]

[Sara]

[size=1]Yah, I typed that up while blogging one day.

Another oldie, song lyrics..

Tough girl, grew up too fast
Your fairy tale kingdoms couldn't las
You've lost so much
But I'm one you could win
You look away when I say your name
Why does love cause you so much pain?
If you'd just let me
I would be your friend.[/size]

[Mitch]

[size=1]This poem I just wrote a bit ago. It really happened in part. It came to me while I was walking, I was looking at the ground, and I saw the heart and the word, and it just stuck in my mind. So as I was walking, I kept saying in my head [i]I was walking, just along[/i], keeping the thought in my mind. And I then wrote this when I got home. It's not amazing or anything, but it's something, hehe.

[b][u]Just Walking[/b][/u]
I was walking
Just along
Cement and sun
Nothing else around
I was looking at the ground

Came on it and almost stopped
Almost turned around
But I was walking
Just along
Cement and sun
Nothing else around
So kept going

Four letter word was scrawled there
I was looking on the ground
Guess something else was around

Heart was drawn on the cement
Wanted to erase it and lament
I came on it and almost stopped
Four letter word scrawled there

I was walking
Just along
Saw a girl
Saw her twirling in the sun
Wanted to know her name
But the planet hit the sun

I was walking
Just along
Saw a daughter
And a father
They were hugging the stars
Wanted to know their names
But the stars hit the sun

I was walking
Just along
Cement and sun
Nothing else around
But I had to look at the ground
See it there scribbled white and down

Heart was drawn on the cement
Wanted to erase it and forget
Four letter word scribbled there
Wanted to know her name
Was sick of charades
Wanted to erase it and forget
But the cement hit my foot
So kept going[/size]

[Sara]

[size=1]My heart is warm with feeling
I close my eyes and smile
A promise kept[/size]

[Heaven's Cloud]

[color=indigo]I fell out of a dream
last night
when the moon sat low
and heaven?s star
caressed the sky.
In that dream
last night
I waited for you
softly speaking
slowly breathing.
And though I waited
last night
you only appeared
to say goodbye
to speak goodnight.
And when we kissed
last night
you left me cold
lost an lonely
waiting to rediscover myself.[/color]

[Sara]

[size=1]
A million moments needing voice
a million thoughts I cannot say
a million breaths that won't be mine
if I keep mum another day
a million tears I will not cry
it hurts a million times to show
the million deaths I quietly died
the million times you didn't know
a million years have come and gone
since I last heard your voice
and never is a long long time
and maybe is a choice
a million heartbeats give away
a million dreams thought of
three little words I cannot say
but you and I and--

silence again
I smile and know
the pain is too real
the feeling too close

the end has drawn us nearer
the last will tear apart
the tears will fall
like rain to grass
and wash away the broken heart

how many days will there be left
I prayed i'd last forever

a million questions beg for 'yes'--
a million silent answers. [/size]

[Heaven's Cloud]

[color=indigo][b]Red to Grey[/b]

The blue-orange glow
of a thousand candles
sends spinning vinyl memories
cascading through my tears.
The yellowed-black sky
of an autumn's eve
taunts the treetops with a breeze
adding darkness to my fears.

On a pallete rest
my hopes and fears
in hues of green and bronze,
my courage and hate
mingle with them
fade in pink and brown
yet nothing is as vivid
as my shame
streaked from red to grey.

I see magenta flush porcelin
as you stand in the breeze
watching the salt sea beckon gulls
as it makes love to the shore.
Auburn-steel slinks down your neck
with a feline purr
my body spasms with the tide
are you real or old mans lore?

On a pallette rests
my truth and compassion
in scores of the brightest gold,
my lust and envy leer at them
in tints of ivy and snow
yet nothing is as vivid
as my shame
streaked from red to grey.[/color]

[Sara]

[size=1][i]Will you still love me[/i]

I hear it sung
And look at you and wonder

Tonight, so close
I can almost touch

A song plays in the distance--
It's tomorrow.[/size]

[Mitch]

[color=black][size=1][font=rockwell] [b][u]I'm Cold Tonight[/b][/u]
In the forest there
The wood and the trees
Found you found the cold breeze
I feel cold tonight

I really feel cold tonight
The wood and the trees
Seems I could die
Just freeze

You can't see out here at all
I feel as I walk
That I could just fall

I feel as I walk
That I could just roll up
And die
That I could just fall
As I fly

In the forest there
The woods and the trees
I'm standing here
Walking to nothing

I'm putting it all together
Putting it all away
Feel like I could die
Just freeze today

I'm really cold tonight
My heart isn't feeling free
I'm cold
And I feel the breeze[/color][/size][/font]

[Sara]

[size=1][b]Lyrics, excuse the eccentricities...[/b]

I've known you forever
Forever and a day
And I wonder now
If I always knew
It was gonna end this way

I've known you forever
But I don't think that I knew
Just how much I really did--
Just how much that I really did
Love you

And I know I think I loved you
And I swore I'd never lie
But I lied when I said never
When you asked me if I'd cry

And you know I think I loved you though I never let it show
I think that I've been loving you for all my life
And I never said [i]I do[/i]--
Why's it so hard to let go?
Baby....Maybe....I think I love you.

I've loved you forever
Forever and a day
And I wonder now
If I always knew
It was gonna end this way

I've known you forever
But it's as plain as day
Forever wasn't long enough
And it's over now
And I'm gonna cry

Again.[/size]

[Mitch]

[size=1][center][b][u]WIP:XXXXXI[/b][/u]
Was a dreary night
As I rapped on the door
The manager stepped out
Let me in to implore

Was a dreary place
As I walked in
Dark except for a few lamps
Dreary place indeed

"I would like a room,"
I said, my lips cold and soon
I shuffled out my wallet
The crisps touching my hand
The manager tucked them away
His face was snippy
I didn't know what to say

"You say you need a room
To stay?"
Indeed I did
And so I nodded
I took my wallet
Once again

"You won't be needing that
To get in,"
Said the manager
Indeed I wouldn't
And so I nodded
Put away my wallet
Once again

"This's on the house
My dear Sir Wain
Here's your key
And please, do stay,"
Said the manager
Handing my key
Smiling through
His decayed teeth

Number fifty-one
Read the key's glove
"Thank you
Indeed
I shall be staying
For I need sleep,"
Said I

"Right up the stairs
To the left
You shall find your room,"
Said he
I nodded and so went

Fifty-one read the key's glove
Left up the stairs and there it was
Through the oil lamps
Dismal and lit
I did see the door
Upon it did sit
Number fifty-one

Dimmering there in the light
I did see the door
Upon it did sit
Number fifty-one
Just as the key's glove[/size][/center]

[Sara]

[size=1][b]249[/b]
Wild Nights--Wild Nights!
Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!

Futile--the Winds--
To a Heart in port--
Done with the Compass--
Done with the Chart!

Rowing in Eden
Ah, the Sea!
Might I but moor--Tonight--
In Thee![/size]

[Mitch]

[size=1][font=rockwell] I believe the poem you posted is a Shakespeare one, or somewhere near there. It sounds familiar. [i]Again[/i]. Hm.[/font]

[b][u]The Dark Side[/b][/u]
A scream gaped into a mirror
horror renching into inaudible blurrs
dark encompassing shouts of indrid distrust
a dry desert of apathy blown away in the dust
shedding skins of shuddering create
dieing promises decomposed of untimely faith
drowned emotions wettend with overpowering hate
a tsunami of mixed and blended emotions decaying in a deep grave
secret gaps of shuddering, torn enslaves
blood soaking into a second inbred skin
shuffled cards all pooled into one brim
sin so deep and grim of spoiled fruits
beaten lies forced so suddenly shoved in a hat
a slow growing shamed and bittered sour root of unseen torture
a curled paper pushed tightly inside my mind
an unceasing repercussion of insanity soaked into a damp towel
wounds infected hopelessly tearing inside molding with missuse
embedded fears shocked in a buttered shell of displace
my soul traumatizing abnormally in its very lace
torture so deeply netted, vesseled all around my mortal form
all these feelings conflict inside of me
deep inside my imperfect substance
a substance of abuse and continuos reuse
I've dug out the dark side of my being
my deepest enemy[/size]

[Heaven's Cloud]

[color=indigo]Under the hills of Carolina
A hugger pudge did dwell
and every suday evening
he would toll his iron bell.
The deep melodic sound
carried through the land
singing through the rivers
and dancing on the sand.
Every sunday the hugger pudge
rang his iron bell,
until he turned one hundred
when to the earth he fell.
And though he could have gone to heaven
he chose to fall to hell
and there he sits, tolling for souls
his old iron bell.[/color]

[Sara]

[size=1][b]Mitch:[/b] That one was Emily Dickenson. ^_~

old songs last the longest
and promises ring true--
a lifetime's fears are laid to rest
by faded yellow silk[/size]

[Mitch]

[center][size=1][font=rockwell] I [i]knew[/i] it sounded familiar.[/font]

[img]http://www.metalkings.com/aggressor/fallen-angel.jpg[/img]
[b][u]XXXXXI[/b][/u]
Was a dreary night
As I rapped on the door
The manager stepped out
Let me in to implore

Was a dreary place
As I walked in
Dark except for a few lamps
Dreary place indeed

"I would like a room,"
I said, my lips cold and soon
I shuffled out my wallet
The crisps touching my hand
The manager tucked them away
His face was snippy
I didn't know what to say

"You say you need a room
To stay?"
Indeed I did
And so I nodded
I took my wallet
Once again

"You won't be needing that
To get in,"
Said the manager
Indeed I wouldn't
And so I nodded
Put away my wallet
Once again

"This's on the house
My dear Sir Wain
Here's your key
And please, do stay,"
Said the manager
Handing my key
Smiling through
His decayed teeth

Number fifty-one
Read the key's glove
"Thank you
Indeed
I shall be staying
For I need sleep,"
Said I

"Right up the stairs
To the left
You shall find your room,"
Said he
I nodded and so went

Fifty-one read the key's glove
Left up the stairs and there it was
Through the oil lamps
Dismal and lit
I did see the door
Upon it did sit
Number fifty-one

Dimmering there in the light
I did see the door
Upon it did sit
Number fifty-one
Just as the key's glove

I opened the door
The key's clang
Evermore

I opened the door
To number fifty-one
Something coagulated
Touch to my feet
On the floor

All my thoughts
All I am
Touch my feet
On the floor

I opened that door?
The key's clang
Evermore

Fallen angel sat corner-tied
Blood was all over-side
Touch my feet
On the floor

The angel they named?
As I set the door?
He they call
Velinor

His skull was in tore
Wings flimsy-sore
Blood his fore
He they call
Velinor

Eschewed on his skull
I do squint as I stood:
XXXXXI it did read
For my eyes do not deceive
Condemnation his was perceived

Heaven through hell
The chiming of the bell
Through seas and dogs
For what is fog
Doom is to God

Condemnation his was fifty-one
Just as that of the key's glove
From that it is of
He they call
Velinor

When shock became
Left my veins
My mind was not
The same

I, Sir Wain
Had entered
Hell's bane[/size][/center]

[Sara]

[size=1]Nevermore
And I wonder what sort of man he was
And was he afraid when the clock struck twelve
Or was he one acquainted
with the night

And when he walked, was he alone
Death stopped for her, did it visit him?
When a fly buzzed in the room
and he sat sorrowing

And many ages far and away
in that kingdom by the sea
And the heartbeat grew louder
and proud men grew prouder
and snow fell softly

Promises and promises to keep
I shan't be gone long
You come too
And madness takes its weary toll
And the fear grows--wild nights
Premature, maybe

Or just unwanted
Unlooked for
Parting is all we know
Unwilling to explain

Out, out--[/size]

[Samgee Gamwise]

Dropoff

Slipping down the slope
Not seeing where It goes

I stand back and hope
Do I catch it? Dare I? no

It falls, It falls, down It goes, not to return
Its twisted contents spread upon the floor

Could It be stopped?
Can It stand still?

Where does It go?
When we turn, and It is no more

Where did It go?
And how did I let It go there?

:drunk: [COLOR=red]I rant[/COLOR]:drunk:
Alas, fare thee well

[Mitch]

[size=1][center][b][u]The Army Of Ants[/b][/u]
An army of ants
I came upon
Walking in and walking fro
Hear them ho! hear them ho!

For fire springs
For it is known
An army of ants
They walk to and fro
Perhaps a black one
Catch this red's toe

These armies of ants
Walking to and fro
Dance! dance!
For these ants
To and fro! to and fro!

I knew one and I knew them all
He has danced and I have withal
An army of ants
I knew them well
I came upon them
And they dance like hell

What ho! what ho!
I hath been bitten
Perhaps on the eye
I can't see: but have
An army of ants:
That is what I have to hide

They dance like hell
They dance to the bell
They dance and dance
And no one can tell

They jest
They sigh
They bite like I lie
I hath been bitten
What ho! what ho!

Hear them stammer
Hear them might
I taste war to-night
Spiders, flies, tasty delights
Bite! and bite!

Ants, ants, ants
They dance they dance
An army a one
For all for a bite the thumb
I hath been bitten! what hell!
For these ants
They dance well

In some larvae sort of rime
Pheromone dance: runic of rhyme
These armies of ants
Perhaps they squirm:
I hath been bitten! I am alive!

I hear them?they stammer
Hear them?they might
I taste: and it's something
It's war to-night

[b][u]Blown Away[/b][/u]
I was driving
Just to nothing
On the shores of the bay

I came: for the 'gulls say
Drove right there into that lake
I was never the same

I was driving
It was to nothing
On the shores of the bay

Decided to fish
Let my problems just
Blow away

But, alas, I came: for the 'gulls say
Drove right there into that lake
Was never the same

'Gulls hark 'gulls sing
But you?you should never believe
I came: for the 'gulls say
But you?you should never believe

I've been driving from forever
To evergreenmore and morever
On the shores of some November
Where the fish speak and say
Couldn't catch any though all fell away
And I came: for the 'gulls say
Fell to what's called the windy September
Should never let them say forever

I was driving
To nothing
On the shores of the bay
Deciding to fish
Blow it all away

'Gulls said that I came
Drove right in the lake
I've never been the same

Under this aquatic wet
Hopefully I'll drive?I'll forget
'Cause I've come to evergreenmore
And morever
I've been driving forever[/center][/size]

[Heaven's Cloud]

[color=indigo][center]The faded shade
washes over broken glass
cascading rainbows of grey
on the lean, green grass.

As ants dance
in the stream of red
they converse with the demons
that inhabit my head.

As all the lights dim
And the room fades to black
I turn towards the clouds
and never look back.

And what I've known
will progress to white
and I'll know if I chose
the path that was right.
[/center][/color]

[Sara]

[size=1]It's been three weeks since I last felt your touch;
I start to wonder why I used to care.
All that you were to me now seems so far
Removed, and put away like children's toys.
Was it all real--or just a bedtime wish?
I gaze now out the window looking far--
Hoping, even praying for another
Whispered night of summer wind and moonlight;
Wishing for your touch against my skin.
Nights were never cold or chill with you[/size]

[Mei]

[color=green]Hmm...very lovely indeed, I think I'll finally post one...

Wandering over the ocean
Choosing a way to go
It's filled with waves,
Big and small, but I won't give in

I'm still sailing, on and on
Dodging rock and wave beyond
And I won't give in, no I won't
But will you...Please don't..

Hehe...I know, it's...er...ick.--[/color]

[Heaven's Cloud]

[color=indigo][center]
The suggestions that you made
embroider what I am
they shape shadowed lines
tattoo a broken man.

With a eulogy of life
you put me to sleep
and lace all my dreams
with demons I keep.

I suffer through your breath
as you taunt me with a kiss
your acidic tongue
brings me overwhelming bliss.

Night fades to dark
when you draw me near
and your catatonic voice
is the last thing I hear.[/center][/color]

[zerocrisis]

Now that you are gone the days drag on
Sleepless nights plague me, dreams about you taunt me
Even as i write this my heart still lingers, i yearn for you
Happiness once, is now sadness forever
I loved you like no other and no other shall ever take your place

Dedicated to my Former Girlfriend ( love you always Shay)

[Mitch]

[size=1][font=rockwell] Nothing too good here..just needed to write some stuff.[/font]

[center][b][u]Lust For Kicks Isn't Worth What's In It[/b][/u]
She was every and once
All she wore perfect and such
Lip stick that was thick and sure
Perfume that was pungent and pure

This woman's what we call when it rains
This woman's what we call 'cause she's a dame
Perfection's never beauty what a shame

What she put herself through
No one even knew
All they ever thought
What is never true

This woman's got ribbons in her hair
It's brown and combed full and fair
You can't tell her she won't care
But she's beautiful they all stare

This woman's what we call when it's cold
But she never comes 'cause it rains
This woman's what we call she's a dame
But she never comes 'cause it's always the same
Perfection's never beauty what a shame

She may be every and once
Her hair may be perfect and such
Lip stick may be thick and sure
Perfume might just be pungent and pure
But she's hurting, only a few fear

Lust for kicks
Perhaps that's what she hears
They know they all say it
Even as she's right by them in the halls
She's been turned an object that calls
Desire toy that's all over and climbs walls

Never knew her no I didn't
Would see her walking but forget it
I'm happy that I didn't
'Cause lust for kicks
Isn't worth what's in it

You know this face all too well
She's some innocent girl
Popular and swell

But lust for kicks
Isn't worth what's in it
Perfection's never beauty what a shame
This high school dame
High school babe
Beauty's perfections
Always the same
What a shame

[b][u]Whisper's Voice[/b][/u]
There's a voice
In my head
It's whispers
And it says:
But I can't hear
It's about love
It doesn't hit my ear

That voice
In my head
It's whispers
I shake my hands
Try to feel its said

I wonder what's life
See everything die
I ask myself
Is it all in my mind

That voice
In my head
Its whispers
I say I wanted to be
Wanted to know
To see

Diffidence
Through bliss
I remember
And I cringe as I drip
See the thoughts collect
Watch the birds as they fly
I want to forget

That voice
Still in my head
I remember
Eternity forever
It's not true
Don't want to remember

[b][u]HOPE[/b][/u]
I was riding the train one night
Just returning to Boston to call it the night

I was standing near the front
Could hear the engine as the train tracked on
The trees were flying by as I sighed long
I was alone and cold

I sat there alone and cold
For so long so old
Then there came
The rustling of steps
They were heavy and certain
Like rain falling on a curtain

Soon there came a tap on my shoulder
Hard and tapped I looked over

The man's face was blank and sober
Cold and alone like a dead man's owner
Ghost as snow and white
Gaunt and promise to the night
I felt quite weird upon his sight

With a more gaze
I came to understanding
He had no face
All about him there were chains
He looked cold and alone
I didn't want to look at him
Didn't want to know

There was something though
I couldn't turn
I couldn't even scream or yell
My throat was dry
My mouth wouldn't say
I couldn't look away

So I stared
I stared and stared
I thought I was going to run
I was scared
But my gaze stayed
I could sense some fancy

Soon he moved his arm up
His finger coming out near my hands
Through the chain and wire
Something shown; something came to stand

It was metal and chrome
Beautiful and shown
I observed it
And as the trees rustled by
I let out a marveled sigh

It was a pendant of metal
As I have already settled
I stared at it long; unsettled

It shimmered in the weak light
The chain of it was long and bound
Its entirety was certain and found

On the chain the pendant rustled
The thing's hand moving up and down
It took awhile until it came face-up
And I could see the pendant's face

At first there was nothing on the face
Just like this thing's own
Soon, though, something faded in
It was cold, it moved across my skin

HOPE it said as it etched in
It was in very straight letters
Like on a tombstone's writing

I stared at it long
Wondering, fighting
Trying to understand the thing's want
To know what and why

I looked back at the thing
There and then
I knew why

I took the pendant from its hands
Felt cold and alone as it touched like sand
Put the chain around my neck and got into a stand

Was taken on as the ghost train echoed
As I was taken by thing's hand
I realized then it was just that the time was wrong
I can still remember the engine hissing on
The pendant's still in my hand

Right now I let out a long sigh
As the trees rustle by
I'm on a different train
But I'm returning to Boston
And the pendant's still in my hand
[/center][/size]