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Dec 2018 · 323
Forever
Ciel Noir Dec 2018
Forever goodnight
Forever goodbye
Dream your dreams
Upon the sky

Forever speak
Forever sing
Beyond the blue
And graceful wing

And light the way
Our secrets told
Forever known
Forever gold

Sing your songs
In heaven above
Forever hope
Forever love
Dec 2018 · 243
Ocean Sky
Ciel Noir Dec 2018
Made us real
Warm
Alive
Mother Ocean
Father Sky

Write our letters
In the sand
Hold the ocean
In our hand

World our home
Turn and turn
On we grow
On we learn

We return
By and by
To the Ocean
To the Sky
Nov 2018 · 160
Love
Ciel Noir Nov 2018
I know how much you love the stars
How much you love the light
I know that you are always searching
Reaching for the sky

Safe in your arms I feel your hope
I feel your peace inside
You make me feel just like a bird
Like someone who can fly
Nov 2018 · 120
Hope
Ciel Noir Nov 2018
If you don’t know
There is still hope
She lives in shadow
The unknown
Shadow of faith
Shadow of fear
She turns to joy
When you are near
Nov 2018 · 484
Light
Ciel Noir Nov 2018
The Moon and stars
They shine so bright
Deep in the night
I keep their light
How beautiful they seem to me
I wish that everyone could see
Nov 2018 · 125
Under
Ciel Noir Nov 2018
We hide what we don't understand
And bury it deep down below
In darkness under land it slumbers
Hidden numbers
Where the Sun won't go
Nurtured by our hiding hand

And there it learns to live in darkness
Deep below it learns to grow
The buried shapes deep down beneath
So many rows of dragons' teeth
Lo and behold, we did not know
The darkness only makes it whole

As time goes by a form takes shape
Some hidden shadow faint remembered
Learns to move before it wakes
And as it dreams the whole Earth quakes
Rivers rush and mountains tremble

And one bright day it all breaks free
Once more to greet the fiery Sun
And all the shadows rise as one
To take wing, take flight, to take form
A form which we have always known
And never understood
Nov 2018 · 100
Enough
Ciel Noir Nov 2018
If there is only so much stuff
Then there can never be enough
And this is why we're all so rough
You can't survive if you're not tough

We scratch and scrape and strike and steal
Do anything for our next meal
We don't care if we **** each other
Fighting brother versus brother

There is only so much here
Crushed beneath our greed and fear
Humanity becomes garbled
War ants swarming on a marble

When we have trampled all our grace
There is always more in space
Mountains and oceans and dunes
Diamonds as big as the Moon

Wonders and riches untold
Moons of silver, stars of gold
All the elements on Earth
Strewn throughout the Universe

There's so much space, there's so much stuff
The journey will be very rough
But if we're clever, if we're tough
One day we might just have enough
Nov 2018 · 274
Hide
Ciel Noir Nov 2018
When the truth                                                            ­    
shines too bright                          
and to see                              
   blurs our eyes
                      we weave a
                               veil of lies
                                   and we hide
                                                            ­     from the light.
Nov 2018 · 140
Angels of Death
Ciel Noir Nov 2018
We paint ourselves with angels' wings
The Sun our halo melting, gleaming
We eat other animals and wear their skins
Shepherd, can you hear them screaming?
One by one, they're heard no more
Destroyed by greed and fear and violence
Let us leave them in peace before
We leave this world at last in silence
Nov 2018 · 1.5k
Vote
Ciel Noir Nov 2018
Vote today
Make a choice
Don't let them take away your
Voice
Nov 2018 · 334
Sundown
Ciel Noir Nov 2018
Shining bright
Sun writes fire on the horizon
Sparkling lights
Diamonds chase the golden dragon
Starry night
Oct 2018 · 1.0k
Sail
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
Seal our soul and paint it gold
Dream a poem without words
Into what the future holds
Who will know what they will learn?

Spark the darkness like a storm
Silent sail a tide unbound
Hold our soul and keep it warm
Even when the Sun goes down
Oct 2018 · 129
Who
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
Who
You who bring the stars to life
And bring the worlds to wing
And blow a cool blue Moon into
A thousand shining rings

You who bring the tides to rise
And bring the world to bloom
As shimmering the glitter rings
Fall back into the Moon
Oct 2018 · 494
Silence
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
I sit in a pew
And someone tells me what to do
I sit in silence
And try to drown out all the violence
Do not be afraid
If you believe you will be saved
I bow my head and smile
I haven't believed in God for a long time
I wrote the last two lines in a dream.
Oct 2018 · 974
Another Mind
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
I think my thoughts
But deep inside
There is
I feel
Another mind

Which sends me messages
In dreams
Some wells are deeper than they seem
Oct 2018 · 512
Dizzy
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
I am not standing on top of the world
I am bound to it by gravity
The only thing keeping me out of the sky
It's a thought that makes me feel
Breathless and dizzy

The stars do not circle like birds overhead
We spin round and round in the sky
The Sun does not set in the West at night
The Earth turns away from its light

The Moon does not pull me with strings from afar
It changes the shape of spacetime
It warps not just me but my reality
Lights the world up with cold sunshine

We all fall forever toward the Sun
In a sky only painted blue
Hidden deep in the light
The stars shine just as bright
And they always shall shine on you
Oct 2018 · 104
Europa
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
I want to dance on the silver Moon
I want to look at the Earth
I want to fly far across the sky
And see what I can learn

I want to glide under miles of ice
In a quantum submarine
Diving and finding the kind of life
This world has never seen

Now what is that up on our left?
An ocean dragon with two heads
And on its shining scaly sides
A hundred eyes four meters wide

There's something moving on our right!
Sinuous shape black as the night
It seems to shimmer in and out
Shaped like a delta, shaped like doubt

A great shell rises from below
What lives within? Nobody knows
A Fibonacci spiral hides
Some mysterious beast inside

Deep in the darkness more silhouettes
Unearthly and obscure
So many more we have not seen yet
Of this we can be sure

We rise for the night back into the light
Of glittering golden rings
We dance on the ice of the silver Moon
And think about everything

The moons form a line all across the sky
And the Earth is in Scorpio
I admit I've never been that high
But one day I would like to go

I want to dance on the silver Moon
I want to look at the Earth
I want to fly through a bright black sky
Too beautiful for words
Oct 2018 · 422
Paradise
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
Looking up at the same stars
Some are near and some are far
One green star in their constellations
Beyond their wildest imaginations

Whole worlds spiral in its wake
Following the path it takes
Through the coldest darkest places
Trails a frail pale blue oasis

Here is water, here is air
Do they know what else is there?
Here is lightning, here is thunder
How I wonder how they wonder

Imaging us with precision
Watching us on television
All these living moving beings
Do they know what they are seeing?

Crows and cranes and lions and lizards
Bulls and bears and wolves and wizards
Phoenixes, foxes, and pharaohs
Swans and eagles, harps and arrows

Soaring, singing in the night
Bright blue bird of paradise
Ever under one green star
Do they wonder what we are?
Oct 2018 · 200
I Will Be
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
When I die, will I be like I was before my birth?
I will be the Earth, my love
I will be the Earth
And then what shall I be when Sun and Earth shall become one?
I will be the Sun, my love
I will be the Sun
And what then when the Sun shall lay her veil upon the dark?
I will be the stars, my love
I will be the stars
And what will I become when all the stars no longer shine?
I will be the sky, my love
I will be the sky
Oct 2018 · 222
Skyfall
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
A cloud falls
Makes the trees grow
Makes the flowers bloom

A cloud falls
Dressed in rainbows
Silver as the Moon

The Sun shines
Makes the sea fly
Up into the sky

The Sun shines
Dressed in rainbows
Bringing us her light
Oct 2018 · 220
Shining
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
O if I could share my soul
My inner light with you
But I know we share one soul
And this is your light too

O if I could share my stars
And let them shine on you
But we are made of the same stars
And you are shining too
Oct 2018 · 809
Sacré-Noir
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
interdimensionnel
  infini                     éternel
                 ça gravite                               fusionnelle                 
une orbite                                    arc-en-ciel  
tous les ondes                                    rayonnant        
tous les mondes                               scintillant           
                    éternel                     comme espoir       
dans le ciel sacré-noir
Oct 2018 · 1.1k
Archipelago
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
We all live on a little island
In a vast and endless sea
Our words and wonders warp into
A rippling soliloquy

And when the Sun goes down
We see the other islands all aglow
Like candles in a chandelier
Our little archipelago

The brave ones sailed their ships away
To see what they could see and learn
And some of them brought back strange tales
And some of them did not return

And still we stand upon our island
Singing songs along the quay
All wandering and wondering
And throwing bottles in the sea
Oct 2018 · 135
Moon Dance
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
The way the blossom turns toward the Sun
The way the ocean dances with the Moon
The way that nature bends into the One
This is the way that I am drawn to you
Oct 2018 · 735
Nevermore
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
If we should set the Earth on fire
And build our own funeral pyre
If we should melt the ice and snow
And drown the world
Where will we go?

A firebird on burning wing
The oceans deep no more to sing
The stars to never more be seen
Never more blue
Never more green

No more pandas
No more geckos
No more music
Only echoes
Never more a foal, a calf
Never more a smile, a laugh

There must be something we can do
It's up to me
It's up to you
For we who burn the Earth like churls
Can never buy another world
Oct 2018 · 231
Hold
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
Where does my mind go
When I sleep
And what company
Does it keep
Down in the deep
Who holds its shape
What creatures haunt
That strange landscape

Follow the shadow
Through the night
Hollow the halo
Only light
And weave my mind up
When I wake
A dark form rising
From a lake
Oct 2018 · 154
Judge
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
How can I judge someone else?
I could never know their soul.
And how can I judge myself?
I could never be impartial.
I cannot judge humans
Nor can I judge other animals
And so when all is said and done
I cannot judge anyone
Oct 2018 · 766
Hourglass
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
tick tock tick tock                                 second hand
just another                                       grain of sand
tick tock tick tock                       seconds pass
which grain                                   of sand
will be                                   the last?
spilling                    falling
like a fountain
sand
turns
    back    
   into a mountain
  all until  the glass is filled
and there is     nothing left to spill
tick tock tick tock                 seconds pass
like a river                               smooth as glass
tick tock tick tock                             second hand
where the water                                meets the sand
Oct 2018 · 837
Dragons
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
A dragon deep inside, it's true
I know you are a dragon too
And when we do what dragons do
I feel that savage part of you

All woven up in twisted seam
Waiting in darkness deep, unseen
So civilized, that's how we seem
But we are dragons when we dream
Oct 2018 · 114
Rainbow
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
We shine our own soul on the rainbow
Weave the Moon a painted halo
Faint and pale glow in the night
We write our beauty on the light
Oct 2018 · 905
Bluer than Blue
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
Shorter wavelength,
Bluer hue
Shouldn't violet be
Bluer than blue?
We can't see ultraviolet
So instead
We pick up shorter waves
As blue and red
We think of color as a wheel
But color is the way light feels
It looks so real
But in our heads
Bluer than blue is blue and red
Oct 2018 · 97
In a Cloud
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
Soft pearl grey
Dark I cannot see the stars
I am in a cloud
Oct 2018 · 1.7k
13 Questions
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
Do they wonder
Do they feel
Do they ******
Do they steal
Do they whisper
Do they sing
Do they have eyes
Do they have wings

Are they golden
Are they grey
If they know us
Can they say
Would they understand our questions
Will the search be neverending?
Oct 2018 · 343
Far Away
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
Far away we dream of you
In a sunbeam, in the blue
Far away we seem as one
How deep you dream
Beyond the Sun
Oct 2018 · 109
Who
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
Who
I know who you are
And I think you're wonderful
Soul became a song
Oct 2018 · 123
Inside Out
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
We've become
Strong enough to turn the world
Inside out
Oct 2018 · 242
Creatures
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
We try to act like we know
Why we do the things we do
The more I watch the way we act
The less I think that's true

We try to act superior
Feel smug, look down our nose
But we are all just animals
With tools and books and clothes

That's not to say there is anything
Wrong with me or you
I think it's quite incredible
What animals can do

But we are little creatures
On a rock made out of stars
Let's not lose our head in the clouds
And forget what we are
Oct 2018 · 626
Galaxy
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
many stars
spilled like seeds across the sky
waiting to become alive
as we are

what am I
staring out into the sky
bright enough to wonder why
only stars
Oct 2018 · 3.3k
Airplane
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
That little airplane that I see
Is full of people just like me
As I look up do they look down?
Bright patchwork quilt, a candy town
Green squares for lawn and gold for sand
I bet they're glad it's time to land
For pilots, just a break and then
They shall return to fly again
Oct 2018 · 1.2k
Brave
Ciel Noir Oct 2018
I’ll tell you, I am not ashamed
I was afraid to get on that plane

I was so young and full of doubt
I think I almost chickened out

And yet within that doubt I found
Understanding, common ground

With someone who showed me the way
Afraid
I followed
Someone brave
Sep 2018 · 141
The Rain
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
How far away
       God is in the sky
Particles and waves
       God is in the light
Rainbows and rays
       God is in our brains
Circles and serpents
       God is in the rain
Sep 2018 · 510
Starlight Star Bright
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
Sometimes
Only sometimes
I wish I could fly
Rush like the weather
And dance on the sky
Ride on the shining night
Where the wind sings
Sometimes
Only sometimes
I wish I had wings
Sep 2018 · 207
Empathy
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
Empathy
Shaking the monotony
Of soliloquy
Sep 2018 · 154
Mountain
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
somber grey
rough matte texture of mountain
just another stone
Sep 2018 · 275
Clean
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
Every time someone forgives me
I forgive someone else
And so on until we
Wash the whole world clean
Sep 2018 · 370
Diamonds
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
♦  
♦   ♦  
   ♦ The  ♦    
♦  Hidden ♦
♦  Diamonds  ♦
♦  No one knows  ♦
♦I mixed them in with♦
♦The♦rest♦of♦the♦stones♦
♦But you can see from♦
♦ Where I stand a  ♦
♦ Constellation♦
    ♦In                ♦  
     ♦The        ♦    
    ♦Sand♦  
♦   ♦

Sep 2018 · 119
No More
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
One day there will be no more
                                                               hope
One day there will be no more
                                                             fear
One day there will be no more
                                                                 smiles
One day there will be no more
                                                                                 tears                  
One day there will be no more
                                                             joy
One day there will be no more
                                                                strife
One day there will be no more
                                                                 death
One day there will be no more
                                                             life
Sep 2018 · 130
Hope and Fear
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
There is hope and there is fear
Can't have one without the second
If you don't know but you care
Then hope and fear both loudly beckon

There is hope and there is fear
Both of them are always here
One helps you run, one helps you cope
But if you have a choice, choose hope
Sep 2018 · 175
More
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
Some people are happy just to have dinner
Others eat cake and wish they were thinner
Some people are happy with just one love
Others need everyone to lift them up above
Some people are happy just to sleep inside
Others mad at their mansions because of their pride
Some people are so grateful for what they've got
That it makes even a little seem like a lot
Others may seem to have the most
But they always need MORE
Like a hungry ghost
Sep 2018 · 99
Serpent
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
Not long ago did someone see
A golden serpent in a tree
A raven took the snake away
But evermore its shadow stays
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