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Mar 2019 · 233
Amity
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Good to have might, good to be bright
But being nice is better yet
For to be nice is always right
A thing you never shall regret

And it is wise to share your heart
To tell the truth, to speak your mind
Be humble, be honest, be smart,
Be brave, but most of all
Be kind
Mar 2019 · 107
Kaleidoscope
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Poetry
Fills the empty places
In your soul
Takes the mirror
That you broke
And turns it into a
Kaleidoscope
Mar 2019 · 114
Crown
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
The Queen of trees
Wears a crown of flowers
Lush and soft and sensuous
Cradling the Moon pale and full
Against the deep black sky
Mar 2019 · 132
Lights
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
All these lights
Shining different colors bright
Cast the same shadow
Mar 2019 · 334
Brave
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Sometimes it is brave
To fly away
Sometimes it is brave
To stay
Mar 2019 · 286
Apple Tree
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Apple tree
Through the sweet fountains of blooms
I could see our Moon
Mar 2019 · 136
Heaven
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
If I went to heaven
I would believe
It was a dream

Maybe dreams
Make heaven
Real
Mar 2019 · 80
Hidden Within
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
words have feelings hidden within
they can crash and clang like cymbals
glitter and twinkle like crystals
tingle and prickle like thistles
whisper and hiss like the wind
Mar 2019 · 133
The Long Night
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
There once were dragons
A flaming sword
Fell from the sky

There once were dragons
They fell to the cold
The long night

There once were dragons
And to this day
Their children fly

Recognized
Beneath their feathers

Nevermore
Mar 2019 · 349
Red Rainbow
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
I saw a rainbow
Just before sunset
So high
If it were whole
It would have crossed the sky
It was green
Yellow and orange
Red
Red and red
Mar 2019 · 103
Diamond Heart
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
One day
The Sun will fill the sky
With its blazing
Diamond heart
Mar 2019 · 61
spirals
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
we find
                 spirals drawn
                                 all over the world
                                             but however did we know
           the spiral is                     that the spiral is
     center of            god                 the shape of
     at the                                          our home
          perhaps                             spirals are
                 everywhere we look
Mar 2019 · 79
more and more
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
the more you steal
                                           the more you have to guard  
the more you give
                                           the greater the reward
the more you doubt
                                           the more you have to prove
the more you gain
                                           the more you have to lose
Mar 2019 · 760
forgive
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
forgive
the way a tree
forgives

it never judged you
to begin with
Mar 2019 · 577
Vengeance
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
↘                                                                ­                            all in the
                                                             ­                               name of the
                                                             ­                                 same god
                          we think                                invoking
                   we're balancing                          justice we
                        the scales                                   assail
                                                    callin­g                                
                               ­              for vengeance                    
                                                even blood                        
                                   ­                                                                 ­    ↙
                                                           ­                        against
                                                        ­                       the enemy        
                                                   ­                               we rail
    vengeance                                    until they                    
→    pushes the                            are who we                    
    pendulum                              ­       become                                              
                               vengeance
                          doesn't balance  
                               the scales
Mar 2019 · 259
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
.   sentences   signals        
   eloquence   evidence      
    transcript   transmit      
   syllabi   impulses

Mar 2019 · 182
Read
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
I am lost in
book land again
I need to do things but
I just want to read
Mar 2019 · 220
Shine a Light
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Shine a light
Don't let the darkness
Fill your heart with fear

Through the dark
A candle flame
May shine a million years

Shine a light
And you do not know
What you will inspire

One day
A single candle may
Light the whole world on fire
Mar 2019 · 349
Cygnus
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
there are poems
I do not share
with the world
many of them
are songs

I do not sing them
for anyone
I hold them in my heart
like a swan
Mar 2019 · 181
3.14
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
you
can                  go

around                              it
but you  can  go  thro­ugh it
about                          three

times                  as
fast
Mar 2019 · 248
Clear Water
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
I never knew
How peaceful the sea was
Until I sailed
Through a storm
And found myself once more
On clear water
Mar 2019 · 96
Understand
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Nothing is more
Exhilarating than
The moment you begin
To understand
Mar 2019 · 117
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 · 127
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 · 184
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 · 281
Threads I
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Weave my thoughts
Words like threads
Speak
I am your marionette
Mar 2019 · 394
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 · 350
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 · 668
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 · 104
Sanctuary
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
I have walked the wide world
Searching for sanctuary
And at last I found it
Within myself
Mar 2019 · 89
Slow Dance
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
The willow
Sways with the wind
The Earth
Slow dances
With the sky
Mar 2019 · 122
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 · 100
Hearts
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
If you try to fill your heart
With hearts
It will never be full
Mar 2019 · 87
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 · 190
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 · 105
Magnolia
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
Dark twisted branches
Reach up to the sky
Carrying beauty and hope
Like sacred fire
Mar 2019 · 115
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 · 445
Understanding
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
I would rather understand
Than be understood
Knowledge is power
Mar 2019 · 103
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 · 76
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 · 92
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 · 73
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 · 223
Orbit
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
we are always
falling             toward
the                               Sun
but               ☉                we
  never                            get
   any                   closer
to the light
Mar 2019 · 142
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 · 72
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 · 180
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 · 160
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 · 241
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 · 276
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
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