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Mar 2019 · 105
ordinary
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
there are trillions of suns
and diamonds are just carbon
ordinary things can shine so bright
and so can ordinary people
Mar 2019 · 105
Aquila
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
though it lives
high
in the sky

it comes back to the Earth
to sleep

even the eagle
has a home
Mar 2019 · 152
Prison
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
I have built a prison of ideas for myself
caring                                                 about
the things other people think about me
letting                                               myself
be led into situations I do not agree with
worrying                                             about
things I do not have the power to change
and I                                                  wonder
when will I                                   set myself
free?
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
life    is     like    a    tall      tree                    we    see       other     trees
     growing         high                                   above      the      water  
              in a          rising          river           and     we    wonder
                    so            deep        that       our    questions            
                            no           one       has dared   to ask              
                               found the roots below the water
                               now we know it is the same tree
                              changing growing new branches
                              as others are lost within the river
when the great storm           from the sky                                 rise
                                comes down              and makes the river
Mar 2019 · 271
Threads I
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Weave my thoughts
Words like threads
Speak
I am your marionette
Mar 2019 · 386
Follow Your Heart
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
If you follow your heart
Wherever it leads you
One day
Along the way
You will meet the other people
Who followed their hearts
To the same place
Mar 2019 · 282
Sharp Places
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Sometimes a poem
Sparkles like a broken mirror
And you can see reflections
Scattered like blood diamonds
Of the sharp places
In someone else's soul
Mar 2019 · 645
Volcano
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
A volcano may peacefully
Pour out new stone into the sea
A meter at a time

But when it has no outlet
It waits
And waits
For many years
And then all at once
Its fire and lightning fill the whole sky
Mar 2019 · 96
Sanctuary
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
I have walked the wide world
Searching for sanctuary
And at last I found it
Within myself
Mar 2019 · 85
Slow Dance
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
The willow
Sways with the wind
The Earth
Slow dances
With the sky
Mar 2019 · 103
Afraid
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
A long time ago
I climbed up a hill
In some dark forest
And shouted
I am not afraid anymore!
But I was afraid
That someone would hear me
I know myself
Much more today
I can admit
That I am afraid
Mar 2019 · 93
Hearts
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
If you try to fill your heart
With hearts
It will never be full
Mar 2019 · 81
Storm
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
It is raining
The sky is grey
The wind is blowing leaves
Off the trees
Scattering white petals
Down the street
But the Sun is shining
I promise
Just a little further
Than we can see
Mar 2019 · 154
Chimaera
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
I see the world
When I look in the mirror
I am a melange
I am a chimaera

In a world where each
Has something to teach
I am a collage
I am a pastiche

Influence connects in
A million directions
Reflected reflections
I am a collection

Beholden, allegiant
To so many regions
I am not original
No
I am Legion
Mar 2019 · 90
Magnolia
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Dark twisted branches
Reach up to the sky
Carrying beauty and hope
Like sacred fire
Mar 2019 · 106
Narration
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Are you reading this in your own voice?
The voice of
Someone you love?
Maybe you are imagining
What you think my voice sounds like
But who am I?
Maybe my words
Do not make a sound
In your mind
Mar 2019 · 350
Understanding
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
I would rather understand
Than be understood
Knowledge is power
Mar 2019 · 85
Expression
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Sometimes it isn't about
Whether other people like my poems
Or understand them

Sometimes it's just about
Being able to
Express myself

In a way that I can understand
Mar 2019 · 66
Center
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
There is always something
At the center of my mind
The longer it remains there
The more deeply it's entwined
It reaches out, connects to
All my neurons one by one
Until the thought of it
Lights my whole mind up like the Sun
Mar 2019 · 88
Mosaic
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Every poem is
One tile
In a mosaic
If you read them all
You can see
The picture that they make
Mar 2019 · 69
Ride
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
There must be thousands of stories
About people who ride dragons
I think I know why

The dragon represents
The deepest darkest part
Of the mind

If you are clever
If you are patient
If you are kind

You can ride the dragon
All the way
Into the sky
Mar 2019 · 180
Orbit
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
we are always
falling             toward
the                               Sun
but               ☉                we
  never                            get
   any                   closer
to the light
Mar 2019 · 136
Show
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
There are things
I do not show
You can see them
In my shadow

Parts of me
I can't escape
Where my shadow shows
My true shape
Mar 2019 · 67
Stardust
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
We understand stars
And wonder at dust

It learned how to laugh
To lie and to lust

It knows how to deify
Knows how to trust

How great must a mind be
To understand us
Mar 2019 · 166
We Are
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
The darker the night
The brighter the dawn

The deeper the shadow
The brighter the Sun

The larger the cosmos
The smaller we are

The deeper the darkness
The brighter the stars
Mar 2019 · 153
Life Is
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Some people think life is
a game that you can play
a ladder you can climb

Some people think it is
a series of tests
an amusement park ride

Some people think it is
just a chemical reaction
they're probably right

I think that life is
a mostly true story
we all get to write
Mar 2019 · 227
Faerie
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
There is a cloud outside my window
It looks like a dragonfly
Or a faerie

In reality
It probably looks more like a creature

I have never seen

Wings lit up like jewels
By the light of
Some other Sun
Mar 2019 · 264
Animals
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
I wish that I could understand
Other kinds of animals
Know what they think about
How they feel
What their songs mean

Most of the time
I can barely understand other people

But I can still dream
Mar 2019 · 148
-
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
-
Words are nice but
There are other ways to speak
Mar 2019 · 87
Pastoral
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Today has been
A beautiful day

I walked down to the island
In the middle of the river
And climbed a tree
It began to rain

The Sun was high
It started to shine
And a low little rainbow
Came over the horizon

I walked home
Listening to Beethoven
On my headphones

The raindrops on the trees
Looked like diamonds in the light
And on the other side
I saw another rainbow
Much higher in the sky

And now the sunset
Has painted all the clouds
Gold

I think that tonight will be
A beautiful night
Mar 2019 · 909
Dandelion on the Wind
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
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Mar 2019 · 121
Mystery
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
There are so many things that I don't know
And I accept them as a mystery
But there's no telling how far I would go
To have all of these truths revealed to me

And where the waves are higher than my sail
Still deeper is my curiosity
My kingdom for one look beyond the veil
On which we paint our own reality
Mar 2019 · 120
Nomad
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
I am a nomad
my mind is my home
I take it with me
wherever I go

woven together
with poems and songs
deep in the wherever
a place I belong
Mar 2019 · 158
Mind
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
A rush of electricity
Which moves me like an avatar
A whirl of wound up energy
Ricochets round the reservoir

Staccato static symphony
Sound of the soul sparkles like stars
Voltage vibrates inside of me
The lightning in the leyden jar
Mar 2019 · 92
Calm
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
O how warm
Is the Sun upon my face
Calm after the storm
Mar 2019 · 250
Wanderer
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
I am        confused         I try  
     to ask        search        to find       
looking        for       meaning  
                  in the sky              a direction                    
                            where I        the      wanderer                              
        ­                    should      answer        on the                              
run        in the dark       night
Mar 2019 · 1.7k
physics
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
mathematics

using symbols

to paint a picture

of the shape of god
Mar 2019 · 78
Still the Dark
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
You can paint a face upon the dark
But it is still the dark
You can give a name unto the dark
But it is still the dark
You can lift your heart up to the dark
But it is still the dark
You can wrap your arms around the dark
But it is still the dark

You can hide your eyes and shun the dark
But it is still the dark
You can try to fight against the dark
But it is still the dark
You can sing a song deep in the dark
And learn to love the dark
Seek truth and be strong and know the dark
For it is full of stars
Mar 2019 · 82
We Become
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
When we learn
     That we are
          Somebody
               We become
                    Cut off from
                         Everything
                              Other than
                                   What we are
                                         ☥ ☥ ☥ ☥ ☥ ☥ ☥
                                    But one day
                              At the end
                         We will be
                     Nobody
                That is when
          We become
     Everything
Everyone
Mar 2019 · 619
darkness
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
darkness                   darkness                     darkness

darkness                       darkness
one
                darkness              bright light                   darkness          
        in  the  center        
    shines on us    
darkness             all             darkness

     darkness                  darkness                       darkness
Feb 2019 · 174
Center
Ciel Noir Feb 2019
One night
Long ago
I looked up into the sky

And for a moment I saw how

The electrons in the atoms
Orbit the nucleus

The Earth, the planets
Orbit the Sun

The stars and the nebulae
Orbit a black hole

All follow their way
Around the center
Even on the smallest scale
Even on the largest scale

Everything is drawn to the center

It was the closest I had ever felt
to God
Feb 2019 · 230
Violet Light
Ciel Noir Feb 2019
Silent mind
A voice inside said to me
I AM IN ALL THINGS
Feb 2019 · 192
English
Ciel Noir Feb 2019
My language is
A magpie's nest of
Shiny skyjacked mechanisms
A labyrinth, a mishmash
Of clashing competing components

Here and there
I wander the world
And recognize the shape of something
We took home
A thousand years ago

Melted and reformed
Bent and woven
Into our own
Piecemeal makeshift chrysalis
Our stolen home
Feb 2019 · 116
1989
Ciel Noir Feb 2019
A wall once wove all through the town
Fraught fractured freedom fenced and furled
And on the day the wall came down
It was a good day for the world

There is a little row of stones
And in some places that is all
That stands between the sundered lands
Knit back together in the fall

And you can walk across the border
Without knowing that you've crossed it
Where the guns and guards kept order
Checkpoint Charlie, Friedrichstraße

Only thirty years have passed
But it's not the same place at all
Tyranny is not built to last
We all know what happens to walls
Feb 2019 · 73
I Believe
Ciel Noir Feb 2019
I look and see God far away
I look and           see God near
I look and see                      God everywhere
       Its shape is                            a perfect sphere  
And though I do                            believe in God      
And though                      in God I trust
I believe we don't        understand God      
And God does not understand us
Feb 2019 · 175
Kaleidoscope
Ciel Noir Feb 2019
My soul
Is bright
Like a kaleidoscope
Shine a light inside
And find
A labyrinth
Of rainbows

My soul is dark
Like the midnight sky
Look deep inside
The darkness
Is shining
It is full of
Light
Feb 2019 · 106
Gold Dragon
Ciel Noir Feb 2019
Gold shines the dragon
It is made of fire
And where it burns
The velvet veil of night
These are the stars

Gold shines the dragon
Deep within the sky
And in the bright ocean of day
We see
The dragon's golden eye
Feb 2019 · 103
Shape
Ciel Noir Feb 2019
On the outside
I am the same
But deep inside
My soul is
c              
h          
a    
n
   g
      i
        n
             g
s      
h  
a
   p
       e
Feb 2019 · 100
Flock
Ciel Noir Feb 2019
Little flock of birds
Silhouettes across the Moon
A handful of sand
Feb 2019 · 56
Illusion
Ciel Noir Feb 2019
I am the dragon
I am the bear
I am the hunter
I am the hare

I am the phoenix
I am the Pharaoh
I am the compass
I am the arrow

I am the mountain
I am the scorpion
I am the river
I am Leviathan

I am the Sun
I am the night
I am illusion
I am the sky
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