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Volta147 Nov 2014
Poetry that pulls ...
Me to the soils of the earth
Awakening my soul
Giving life, giving birth

Poetry you feel...
I can't see it, but it's real
An invisible emotional force
Raw and filled with discourse

A core of deadly silence
That holds..
Holds forever..
To my heartstrings
To my violence

Forced to observe ..
Never to surrender..

The center of the poet's being
Filled with fire, magma, depth and gleam
A depth that no other force can deter
It grips, aches, symbolizes ...stirs

We know it is there
We know it is true
The core inside the core
Is the core inside of you

Poetry that holds vast ...
Shapes our futures, shapes our pasts ...
This is the strength of verse
To engage, to immerse

In such a way that reality crumbles...
Thus it keeps us rare, keeps us humble

Providing sanity...

                                        ..truth?

This is the prevailing darkness, the revelations, the reproof.

Pull me to myself. Keep me close to my identity.

Don't    let     me    slip    away . . . . . .
Volta147 Nov 2014
Break my heart into pieces and spread it upon the barren lands…
Let my yearnings, dreams and sorrows scatter upon the golden sands…

Like a seed planting all that is good …
Giving hope to the hopeless, and grace to the true…

Take my inspirational song and dance …
And serve it while the droplets prance…

Impart it to the nightingale, the songbird noble and true…
Let her sing with my lyrics of passion, all day and all night through…

Tame the envy and jealousy, rebellion and fear…
And convert it to the blue skies clear…

Where the cirrus my fragments enjoy…
The treasure no man can destroy…

Throw my words into the wild winds West…
Send them to the weary ears and souls of zest…

Bring them peace …
Though my life may cease…

Scatter my heart upon the barren lands
Volta147 Nov 2014
Zoe
As dawn its fragrant scents appeal,
In the knife of life I lie,
By bitter wounds my heart be stilled,
She pierces my soul ...and pierced I die.

A thousand breaths, a slow demise,
Tempests and storms engulf her soul,
In the womb she dies and cries.
They await the death of the legacy born

The curse, the gift, marveled and feared,
As the earth and sky shake and break,
Hair fine, the color of earth and silk
Her eyes green as the wooded land’s heart

To live in death and die in birth
Doom and destiny to never part

If ‘tis is fate’s account of breath
Her soul will forevermore be still in death
"Zoe" is a name meaning "Life". It becomes a contrasted/ironic title for a poem revolving around death on the brink of life. But is also more metaphoric that literal, as death (or anything negative or evil) tries to rob us  of our new beginnings every day.
Volta147 Nov 2014
Darkness sets …an anguished cry escapes, echoes and fades.  
Like a wave, breaking on a boulder; cursing the wind, skies, and moon.

This is Whisper.
Whisper is death.
Whisper is affliction.
Whisper is …silent.  

My name is Brink; yes that is my full name. I was born of Whisper, born from a demon possessed and hungry with power.

She is the mother of the silent abandoned.

I am, and I am not.
I live, and I live not.
I die, and I die not.
I am the core of nothingness that resides inside every being.
The on that brings them to the brink of their destinies.
I unify.
I break apart.
Yes, I am a contradiction.
I am a raging cry, but a gently whisper.
An inner agony.
A pained reflection.
Whisper is my guardian.
I am an island, surrounded by her jealousy.
I do not have many friends.
Whisper paints the bark with her aqua hues, and hence paints the rocks with the bark’s despair.

Darkness sets …an anguished cry escapes, echoes and fades.  
Like a crack in the edge of darkness, an unsettling symbol of destiny
This is Brink
Brink is destiny.
Brink is purpose.
Brink is …impulse.
My name is Whisper; yes that is my full name. I was born of the Greater, and the essence of Brink.
He is the son of the forthcoming doom.
I am, and I am not.
I live, and I live not.
I die, and I die not.
I am the core of nothingness that resides inside every being.
The one that brings pain, affliction and prosperity.
I whisper.
I scream.
Yes, I am a contradiction.
I am a raging cry, but a gently whisper.
An inner agony.
A pained reflection.
It is my purpose to defend Brink.
I am a force, surrounded by evil.  
I do not have many friends.
Whisper paints the bark with her aqua hues, and hence paints the rocks with the bark’s despair.
Brink’s heart beats, and breathes life whilst emitting an ominous truth, and hence his heart is the essence of truth itself.

For all who dare attempt to walk upon these shores or sail these ere seas…

Welcome to hell.
This poem is a conversation between destiny and force. Destiny is represented by an Island called Brink (as in reaching the brink of a new discovery), where forceis represented by a surrounding sea called Whisper (a silent screaming death *Irony). They are also represented as mother and son. A strong-willed force protecting new discoveries and new destinies. An idea that however many things there are in life that try to take your destiny from you, it will be protected. What is your "Whipser?" What protects your destiny? Perhaps ...Whisper and Brink are the same thing ... Be passionate about protecting your dreams :)
Volta147 Sep 2014
To Her Delight
The Songbird and the Sirens

She’s been walking by the river bed,
Waiting for a stranger to...
Ask her for a dance or two...
But to her dismay...

She’s accompanied by sirens bare,
Waiting for her to sing,
But she sadly cannot indulge them,
For she’s waiting for a King.

Silently she objects,
Her thoughts drifting away.
She moves with subtle elegance,
And undisputed grace.

Along the silence waters
She strides with uncertainty
Silently chanting:
“Oh, where is he?”

Sirens: “Where is he?”

“The one who my heart yearns for”

Sirens: “The One that her soul seeks.”

“Night and day, I pray”

Sirens: “She prays for a King.”

“I want ...”

Sirens: “What is it you want?”

“I want to sing.”

Sirens: “Why can you not?”

“I need – a – king.
To hold me in the winter nights
And in the summer glaze
I’m waiting for a gallant knight
To fall upon my gaze.
True of mind and fierce of heart
He is the one for me
Thus my serene sisters,
I cannot sing.”

Troubled is she...
Dazzled is she...
Unsettled is she...
Haunted is she...
She is waiting for a stranger to...
Ask her for a dance or two...
But to her...

DELIGHT

The light!
Opening in the east
The sounds...
Of trumpets
Filling the autumn breeze

Voices and choices
Swirling and twirling
Asking her to dance

She sites:
“My feet cannot stop me,
Nothing can stop me!
Tonight is the night,
That I...
Will find...
My King”

(Female dancers)
“Now she is set
Nothing can stop her
(Male dancers)
“She has woke up
From her slumber”
(In harmony)
“She is determined
Willing to find her
One and only
Love!”

But alas...

Darkness settles
Like dew
As she’s panting
And grasping
Sirens:  An illusion,
A fake reality,
Has been molded
Before her
Breaking her subtlety
Slowly she is falling
Screaming and crawling!

**The Nightmare....
This is poem transfigured into a musical, but still with poetic/lyrical quality
Volta147 Mar 2014
Here I am*

Here I am
A *whisper
                         in the breeze
A gentle flower petal
Being blown by the wind

Here I am
A soldier
                               Larger,
Though I’m smaller                                                  
A song….
A melody…
Carried by the wind

Here I am
                                    A tale told
Of a story                                      
True and bold

Here I am

...waiting...

For the ground
To start shaking
And the voice of the angels
To come….
And carry me away…

So I’m walking through the opal forests
With a song on my heart
And I’m singing to the angel’s chorus
From the light I will never part

So mystery
Be my destiny
Here I am
Kneeling

To my **King
Volta147 Mar 2014
Silver shadows plague my mind
The harmony I'm trying to find..
Is no where to be found..
It's a dark and unsettling parade
The plot, the characters, the set and the play
The masquerade of my life.
Their just spinning faster
I'm running after
A ghost in sapphire glass..
A teardrop of diamond
The lost and the violent
A sentiment of wrath
And I'm fighting harder
I'm sinking deeper
In the sanity I bear..
But the grand illusion
The resolution
I wouldn't if I dared..
So I'll dare to live my life
To give my strife
A run for it's money
'Cause I..
Am a soldier of tomorrow
I'm not a victim to my sorrow
And I will find a way..
A way..
To happiness
A creed to a new life
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