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Shadow Dec 2019
'Twas on a starry night,
She was sitting by the pond
brushing Her hair in delight
the galaxies were of Her beauty fond,

but jealousy was the moon's  
for she could not bear Her sight,
Her halo of charm, Her amazing calm,
Her radiance and diamond eyes,
Her rose red lips, Her elegant dress
woven with vivid dyes.
those were what made moon mad
and she was also rather sad
her place was taken after all
she could do nothing but await Her fall.

So our jealous moon devised a plan
a plan more wicked than anyone can!
she hid in the pond and snatched my love
took Her away to the world above,
went around the stars and then the sun
and left Her there for Her time to come.

But the sun saw sadness sealed in my lover's eyes
so he flew as fast as any star flies,
he knocked on the moon's palace gates
and told her that God decides our fates;
she had no right to take Her away!
so the moon, ashamed , befell his sway.

So she returned my love with sorrow
and flew away for a better morrow.
this is my first attempt at writing a story-like poem so please let me know what you think :)
Shadow Nov 2019
The night is long
filled with crying stars
and weeping moons

The night is long
the black abyss of the sky
consumes me and my desires

The night is long
I am left bereft of joy
bereft of hopes and aspirations

The night is long
the demons are screaming
and I wail in corner of my room

The night is long
and my lust for morrow to come
is everlasting...
Shadow Apr 2020
Broken and abandoned,
The house has stood empty
Between woods and meadow
For twenty years.
From the side yards
Vines cover the shattered windows
And sagging porches.
Within, the house is empty,
Yet not.
Dust, filled with ghosts,
Creeps and roams in corners,
Then settles.
Lost in memory,
Bedrooms, kitchen, parlor,
Wait in silent reflection
Before gathering garlands of twilight.
In the attic,
Threads which once were curtains,
Sway on the dirge of a breeze.
Within the gate
Grass rolls like so much
Green fire.
Shingle by grey-weathered shingle,
Dreams gather
In once loved rooms
As the sun sets.
Shadow Dec 2019
Blood the moon in blackest night,
does greet the raven’s cry.
Darkness bears its wicked call,
to this deep and empty sky.

Sorrow rings the call of death,
no other sound now heard.
Beckoned to the last lament,
of this heinous wretched bird.

Beams excite this dance of thieves,
bones beat the skin of drums.
Writhing in the fertile drink,
tankards pour red velvet ***.

Flames twisting in the winds of rage,
scream the woeful song.
Sacred are the nocturnal beasts,
to gather in this throng.

Chieftain of the danse macabre,
to lead them from the grave.
To interject gross loyalty,
as the devil’s most ****** slave.
Shadow May 2020
What more is there to say
When your hopes crashed at bay?
When you're as somber as a cloudy night?
When your worries drown you in fright?

What more is there to say
When your friends are fading away?
When your life's monotone?
and your cover's all but blown?
When you can no longer smile?
When your eyes are screaming pain?
And all your efforts are in vain...
Sorry this poem isn't really up to standard, I've been very blue lately.
Shadow Mar 2020
I have lost all of myself
I seem not to know me wholly
I feel grinded ,smashed with
a hammer ,I feel stuck between  
two mountains ready to conjoin
I have lost love of nature, love of
the flowing rivers, love of stars
glowing a million light years afar
I have lost the common feel of
Spring and it's sweet scent flowers
I feel as useless as a stone
I feel like a music with out a tone
I have lost my way, I have lost my
slay , I feel like a flawless knight
I feel like a night stripped from it's
stars, I feel like a day with out a light
I have lost the feel of my beloved
I have lost the way to the lips of my
Beloved, I have lost her touch
It feels now like a touch of chill
I have lost the ecstasy in her
I have lost my soul, I have lost my
Flaw, in this punitive , this pang
This Agony, I drink them like ale and
Be weary and drunk in these dreary
Times, and find pleasures in the
Wonders of my illusions.
Shadow Aug 2020
The darkness closed in
Silently
Without a single hint or warning

As the day shattered and fell
Haphazardly
On the cold forest ground
The daytime sounds
One by one by one
Slowed down
Until all that was left
Was the unspoken chatter
Of shivering leaves

Pulling up my favorite chair
I sat at the table
By the west window
Watching the remaining light
That clung to the horizon
Slowly die away
With each loud tick-tock
Of an old grandfather clock
Which proudly stood in the corner
Waiting to proclaim
The fast approaching hour

I don’t know why
But it always seems to me
That unlike the mornings
Where the sun’s light
Slowly spreads through the forest
Waking the sounds
That had been speechless
Throughout the night

When the darkness comes
It comes quickly
With the sound of a hush
Setting my dreams free
From the prison of my pillow
Faster than the speed of night
Shadow Jan 2020
Tonight I can not sleep
All of my thoughts are of tomorrow
My existence is filled with your desires
Time is asleep and awake
in the night's embrace

The air is still,
The night is silent,
The gates to the skies are open,
My imagination flies like wild birds in the sky

It takes me where the moon is singing,
To the place where stars light the torches of castles,
To the place where monks build monasteries,
To the place where, behind the curtains, they bring the daughter of morrow's sun.

This tomorrow is a dreamy charm,
This tomorrow which won't let me sleep,
This tomorrow which is seen on the curtain of my notions,
This tomorrow when we'll meet,
This is the tomorrow of hugs and caresses
This tomorrow, this tomorrow
Shadow Mar 2020
The tick tock of the clock,
voices,
the sound of the dancing pen
resounds in my head.

what am I doing?
what am I to do?
on this lonely night
with this blue hue.

everyone is silent
the world is asleep
yet my moments are escaping
like sand held in hand.

Time has stopped
yet the clock still ticks
my patience is gone,
yet still, I have to carry on.
Shadow May 2020
Goodbye!
Goodbye! (thus will say the shadow:)
I shall dance over the threshold of life
happy and grateful
Shadow Aug 2020
In realtity I don't really know what to say,
it is raining outside and my wold is grey.
I love you and yet I want you gone,
I want you here with me, yet this game's no longer fun,
perhaps one day we'll move on
perhaps I'll write to you one last time
and say that we are done.

I don't hate you, don't get me wrong,
you've done so much for me,
without you I wouldn't last long,
but I've grown older now,
I've grown stronger and smarter,
Hey I'm even wiser now!
I know what to do and when,
I know how to feel and why,
I know what to say and how,
I've learnt from the depths of your embrace,
and I feel that it's time that I move on.

I love you, and I hope you love me too.
As much as it pains us both,
we must let go of eachother
lest our love turns into hate.
Apathy, I am who I am today because of you,
so thak you :)
Shadow May 2020
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago
Shadow Aug 2020
To be a woman is a great adventure;
To drive men mad is a heroic thing.
- Boris Pasternak, Dr.Zhivago

Dr.zhivago is perhaps the most beautiful book that I've read, everyone should read it atleast once in their lives.
Shadow Sep 2020
Is darkness the absence of light?


Is good the absence of evil?


Can there be good without evil?


There cannot be light without dark in the same way that there cannot be good without evil - you need one to see and understand the other.
There cannot be sound without silence for without these intervals of no-sound you would have pure noise and that would be incomprehencible.
Next time that you are hearing someone talk, the song of the birds, the sound of steps or the noise of anything - try to focus on the intervals of silence and you shall see that if they were not there, between each word and each step, you would hear nothingness. But what is nothingness?

In order for there to be nothing there must be something, right?
This realisation, as many of you can understand, can and must be integrated in our view of life.
Shadow Jul 2020
I miss sleeping on the rooftop of grandma's house and lying down under the clear night sky,
I would stare at the shy moon and she would sometimes stare back.
I remember the stars winking at me,
The cool breeze would caress my face until I was asleep,
The crickets would sing their lullabies,
And my mother and aunts would chatter the night away.

I remember how happy everyone were,
I remember days where worries wouldn't plague our minds,
I remember their simple smiles,
Their resonant laughs,
I remember those simple days,
I remember you...
To where did you run away?
Who took you and left dismay?
Shadow Jul 2020
I want to disappear into the soul of the earth,
To escape and run away...
Away from the human world
Away from the commotion
Away from the ignorance
Away from the crowded shops
Away from the faces that cry pain
Away from the eyes don't see beyond the surface
Away from the voices that bite at your ears
Away from the deeds that **** your soul
Away from everyone
Away from everything
Away from the shouting,
the weeping,
the toxic positivity,
the shallow conversations.
the hollow humans,
I want to leave.
Shadow Jul 2020
You were always painful ,
Your ending was always bad,
Someone didn't love the other,
And someone was attached ,
You gave us sleepless nights
And your promises were empty
But the most woeful thing will be
"We almost had a thing."
Oh how I pained the both of us; teenagers are always foolish when it's the first time they fall in love, if it's love.
Shadow Aug 2020
I feel like I must confess,
I owe it to my readers...

To tell you the truth,
I never really know what to write about,
I could write about a summer day,
Or autumn and it's dismay,
I could paint the colours of spring,
Or the bride who lost her ring,
I could write about the lovelorn youth
Or the pain that laughs can sooth,
I could tell tales about the moon,
Or the serpent behind the dune,
Perhaps I'd write about the sky,
Or about wanting to cry.

In all honesty I don't know what to write about,
I could write about not knowing what to write about,
But I just close my eyes and let the hand write what it will,
I trust the pen,
I trust the hand,
I trust my readers' taste :)
They had us in the first half not gonna lie
Shadow Aug 2020
I don't know what I want you to be
I just want the night to end
And the day to pass by in a flash.
Yet I still want to be stuck in time
I don't know what to ask of you,
Perhaps if time went faster
It would wither our worries away
I don't know what to ask the Day,
My head is a jumbled mess
I just want you to come quicker
Please
Shadow Aug 2020
You often visit me at night,
But I've seen you in daytime too,
With the morning petrichor,
With the beat of my heart,
Or at times with certain names,
Names that set my mind aflame,
You come with the smell of music,
Or the taste of certain memories,
And I've always welcomed you with open arms,
But it weighs my soul down...

You are a blessing and a curse,
Without you I'd never appreciate the life I've lived,
However when I am with you,
I am left with tearful eyes and a heavy heart...

Dear nostalgia
Please come at regulated times,
My heart can't break a thousand times a day.
Do not weep that those days are now far gone, smile about the fact that they once belonged to you and you can create your tomorrow in their image.
Seriously, who weeps about their own happiness? Be proud of what you were and what you can become - and do become your highest self, even if it takes you a lifetime.


I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes
Shadow Aug 2020
Too often do we dance and fool our youth away, too often do we attempt to love without knowing how, too often do we write letters that end up in the hearth, too often do we get agitated by the song of the simple bird, too often do we hate and forget to pity those whom we despise, too often do we cage the blue bird in our heart, too often do we lie, not to the world but to ourselves, too often we ponder, speak, and forget action behind, too often do we ignore ourselves, too often do we ignore each other.  

Too often do the authors try to paint the world with colours of big words and elegant sentences, yet as beautiful it may seem to the eye, the world they paint is far too artificial, far too unnatural, far too normal.

We do it all too often; we hate without reason, we believe without proof, we forget that hate is the work of the unloved, we live our lives as if they’re shows for everyone else, we become bitter wolves with venomous fangs and poisonous tongues, we rip at each other, with words, with thoughts, with deeds of every kind.  

Too often we forget our humanity behind.
Shadow Mar 2020
It is too simple
to pet a stray dog
then watch it run under a car
and say it wasn't mine

It is too simple
to admire a rose
then pick it and forget
to put water in the vase

It is too simple
to use a person
for loving without love
then leave him standing alone
and say I don't know him
anymore

It is too simple
to know one's flaws
then live them at great cost to others
and say that's just the way I am

It is too simple
the way we sometimes live our lives
for after all life simply is
a serious matter
Shadow Jul 2020
Thank you for being patient, I like to lose myself in what I read so it will take longer for me to finish, but once again, thank you for being a portal to a new world.
Shadow Aug 2020
Wandered here and there
But not to find anywhere
Those lovely days
When I heard the cuckoo’s call
For which I gave a reply,
He kept on cooing over and over
That raised my frenzy and joy.

Lovely were those days
When I played on the dew laced leaves
And blushed the little blooms in glee
And in a rush to catch the butterflies
That took the flowers' daily surprise.

What lovely days were they,
When I played with the chatterry rain
That slid down the roof like shiny pearls
And filled my little hands with joy
To splash on my brother’s face
Who made me cry for what I did.

Will I ever get back those days
When I sailed my paper boat
In the little puddle in my yard
And had a fight with my brother
For plunging it before it reached ashore.

I wish if I could get back in a lovely trail
Alike the little moon high up in the sky
To the days foregone where I had it all
Of love, care and those naughty fights
That still linger on so close to heart
And never to part those lovely days again.
If only we could return to the bygone days...
Shadow Jul 2020
Hi, here's a few things I think you should know about a friend whom you haven't met yet:
They have hazel eyes that change colour depending on the lighting,
They like to go on walks and get lost in nature,
They read a lot,
They write sometimes too!
They like to look at the night sky,
They are still lost in life,
They are still searching,
They will not guarantee you happiness everytime you're together but they will always do their best to help you find your right path.
They like to read while sitting on the grass,
They like sitting on grass,
They don't laugh often but when they do it's genuine,
They like the songs sung by birds,
They will not be the "perfect" friend
But I promise you, like almost all other good friends, they will change your life for the better, even if just slightly.
Shadow Aug 2020
It's been three weeks,
and still you do not leave,
Is there trouble within your heart,
Or is there a message I must perceive?

Perhaps my mind isn't done with you,
But my conscience left you behind...
And I've been pondering deeply
About thoughts of every kind.

What is that you want with me?
Why do you appear each night?
Are you troubled or sad?
If so, why do your eyes glimmer so bright?

You smile your mischievous smile,
And at times you're very rash,
I don't know what to make of it,
And I know I'll be a abashed.

I think seeing you should do it,
It can put the questions away,
I can make my peace with you,
And sleep soundly one day.
Why do you plague my mind, we haven't spoken in five months, why come now? Why bereave me my peace of mind?

Who am I kidding, she'll never see this.
Shadow Jul 2020
I never really got to thank you enough
For this, for caring, for being such an amazing friend, I never got to say thank you enough.

I remember losing myself in the ocean,
In the flower fields,
In the mountain range,
And in the universes that reside in your eyes.
I remember my heart fluttering at the sound of your chuckles,
I remember your voice that used to sooth my bleeding heart.

I loved you... and sometimes you loved me too.
I still have a little light left in this sepulchre of a heart,
I still see you there at times...
"Love is so short, forgetting is so long..."
Shadow Jul 2020
When you're feeling low.
The gods will give you a second chance at life, sometimes.
It's all in you to go find it.
You might find it in a paper cup.
In a bowl of soup.
In a can of sardines.
In a broken treebrach.
On the internet somewhere.
Sometimes in yourself.
When you're feeling low.
The gods will give you a second chance at life, sometimes.
Sometimes you cant find it anywhere.
People will talk down on you.
Only if you really find it.
People will talk down on you.
But if you follow the truth.
It all won't matter in the end.
It's better than not finding the truth.
And not be ridiculed at all.
As these regards last longer than life.
Come on, let the world see your beautiful smile :)
Shadow Jul 2020
A romantic would love you,
Someone from the 19th century would too,
A kind old man would love you,
A child's pure heart would love you,
My grandmother would love you,
And I love you too, sometimes...
But please stop chirping so much at 5 am,
I'm trying to sleep.
Shadow Jul 2020
You are loved
You are valued
You are strong
You will get through it all
Shadow Aug 2020
No one really ever sees you,
No one really ever realises your might,
No one really ever cares to ponder about you,
No one really ever realises how interesting you are,
They all see you as just a shadow,
But I am here,
I see you,
I understand you,
I am you...
Speak with the shadows, they get lonely sometimes.
Shadow Jul 2020
I met you in the most peculiar way, my greatest friend, and so I don't regret doing what I did, of course many would not believe it; some of the simplest things in life are the most difficult to imagine and understand.
11:20, 7 July 2020
Shadow Jul 2020
The world is quiet here...
There is no God to offer salvation,
There is no music to calm the soul,
There is no Love to sooth my suffering,
There is nothing but darkness here...
My world has been so quiet lately.
Shadow Mar 2020
Hi beautiful,

Love lives here, and we’ve got a room to spare.

Signed,
Forever Yours
Shadow Nov 2019
The night is starry and blue stars shiver in the distance,
The lonely moon weeps in her solitude,
and the spikes of grass dance in the melancholy breeze.

The red rose holds the morning dew with her crimson petals
and the little bird cries amidst the branches
of a once verdant tree

Trees sulk
Stars shiver
Moons weep
Birds wail
And for I,
I sit still, so sedentary...

In this forsaken tomb I shall reside
forevermore...
Shadow Mar 2020
A roiling sea of jet black clouds
Masked the sky speckled with stars
Waves rise and take their form
Then crash back down on bone white sand
Wind howls, up palm trees
Forbidden treasure glints and gleams
Billowing sails catch the wind
A rickety boat rides the waves
Its tossed and turned
And pummelled and pounded
Right back down to soft white sand
Two black boots
Jump on down
A crinkled map is clutched In hand
An x splashed on in ****** red
Will lead the boots to jewels and gems
Shadow May 2020
The Truth was a mirror,
that fell far from the sky,
and shattered into pieces,

Each person took a piece of it,
and saw themselves in its reflection,
thus they thought that they possessed the Truth,
whereas the Truth lay in the hands of everybody.
It is together that we shall find our truth.
Shadow Feb 2020
Shifting shades that lack precision,
eye evading, vaporous vision,
fleeting flickers underexpose
ghostly glimpses that discompose.

Shadows speak in trembling tones,
mumbled murmurs, cackling crones,
bated breath while overcoming
stifled screams but not succumbing.

Befrozen blood stills hammering heart,
senses separate, perceptions part,
lost lucidity brings indecision
face or flee this spectrovision.

Shuddering skin turns pearlest pale,
hairs horripilate, portents prevail,
cold creeps craze a mind affrighted
spooky spectres come uninvited
Shadow Sep 2020
Only one who loves can remember so well.
- anton chekhov
Shadow May 2020
You say and sigh your youth away.
You make it misery for yourself,
and complain that you didn't live life to the fullest.
Just like this,
Your life slips by
While you mourn the memories you never had.
Shadow Mar 2020
In case you hadn't noticed
And if it was not explained
The world spins on its axis
It couldn't be more plain.

It often spins in circles
Leaving echoes there behind
Small arcs of light and shadow
Lighting up my restless mind.

It speaks in thoughts and whispers
Like wreaths of mist and smoke
A wreath of faith and science
Like wheels of spinning spokes.

These are the days we follow
A spiral staircase heaven bound
Winding through the cloud-banks
A long way upwards from the ground.
Shadow Sep 2020
To the degree that you condemn others and find evil in them,
You are to that degree unconscious of the same thing in yourself.
Everyone should learn about Carl Jung's "Shadow".
In fact that is where I got my name.
Us
Shadow Aug 2020
"When you don't know what you're living for, you don't care how you live from one day to the next. You're happy the day has passed and the night has come, and in your sleep you bury the tedious question of what you lived for that day and what you're going to live for tomorrow"

- Ivan Goncharov
I don't know what I'm living for, living like this torments me and I find it hard to carry on. It's all so meaningless...
Shadow Dec 2019
A poet is the gift to the world,
The one who takes a scene a vision
emotion and gives it wings to fly
upon vellum canvas.

A poet is a dreamer
who expands inside their heartbeat
Who lets fingers dance and readers see.
See the purpose of a moment spent.

A poet inside a human vessel
is a gift giver of a poem.
The one who floats where others dare not go.
Shadow Aug 2020
What can I say
There are no sounds worth making
No conversations worth having
No thoughts worth uttering
No ideas worth sharing
No words worth writing
because no one really listens
and our souls are slowly fading away
no one really bothers
none of this really matters
Shadow Mar 2020
There is nothing to write about
Oh but look! The sun is out!
But again that's so dull,
Maybe I'll write about a bull?
No no no, no one does that
Oh yeah I used to have hat
It was a wonderful olive green
I loved it when I was a teen!
But those bygone days won't return;
some of it's memories need to burn,
Though it used to be sweet
It was gone in one heartbeat.
So there's nothing to write about
And so every word is filled with doubt
Maybe I'll have something tonight
Or tomorrow, about a flight:

A one with birds
Amidst the skies
Amidst the clouds
Over the mountains
Over the shores
Atop the houses
Atop the hills
One with peace
One with war
My poems will take you afar :)
There's always something to write about, just let the pen do its job :)
Shadow Sep 2020
The universe,
every cloud,
every flower,
every beautiful and ugly thing,
Want you to live your own life,
To carve your own path,
Even your ancestors
Want you to walk the path of freedom.
Be patient, and when the time is right free yourself of your chains.
Shadow Jul 2020
Oh how beautiful it was to walk through the leaves of the sun.
Oh how beautiful it was to learn it was possible to love you.
Oh how beautiful it was to watch you form into someone you're not.
Oh how beautiful it was to watch you see nothing but love inside me.
Oh how beautiful it was to live in the days you still believed in me.
Oh how I wish I could come back to those days.
Oh how I wish I could crawl back to the you I once loved.
Oh how I wish I could just travel back in time, to save myself.
Shadow Sep 2020
Who goes there?
Who tries to enter this sepulchre?
How did you make your way inside?
I built my castle on the highest mountains,
I built walls around it so great that no being could pierce them,
I hid my heart in the most complex of vaults,
How did you get here?
Did you fly in with the wind,
Or did the moon bring you in?
Did the stream carry you,
Or did you outshine the sun and he let you enter?
How did you get past the tempest outside?

Who are you?
Why do you wish to tread the world of  shadows?
There's nothing here to see but the weeping souls of the exhausted thought...
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