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Sep 2018 · 1.0k
The Pit
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
this is a pit                                                              ­          and into it
we throw our garbage                                           and our ****
       our grease                                                           ­      and grit    
   our slime                                                            ­and swill
  and all the people                                     that we ****
flotsam and jetsam                           film and oil
compacted into                              fertile soil
beneath the steep         and jagged *****
     there grows         a single flower








hope
Sep 2018 · 96
Table
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
I'd flow right through the table but for
the electrons
in my hand
it's all so
strange
I can't explain
I wish that I could understand
Sep 2018 · 175
Lily
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
Lily bright
Sparkle with exotic spice
Sweeten the twilight
Sep 2018 · 767
The Dark
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
shades and shadows all around
watching when the Sun goes down
all the darkness of the night
  leads us to  an inner light
                       understanding     who we are                              
            written out      between the stars  
       in the lines     upon our hands
reading patterns in the sand          
  in the crystal            in the yarrow
in the tea leaves             in the Tarot        
   answers in the            form of riddles
      something missing            in the middle              
                         priestesses            and necromancers          
     asking oracles            for answers        
        we believe            we see a spark
  but we are shining in the dark
Sep 2018 · 199
7
Ciel Noir Sep 2018
7
we see a face
a solid                          shape
handful                     ­                 of stars
no time         and empty space         no place
              no words             to erase doubt               no way              
without a
 trace
Aug 2018 · 1.1k
Rose Tree
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
I dreamed that I was
high up in an oak tree
white flowers like roses
on my left hand side
woven up like a vine
among the branches
I was
so still
peaceful inside
Aug 2018 · 139
Spirits
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
If there are spirits
What are they made of
Are they really anything
To be afraid of?
Aug 2018 · 499
Freedom
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
Some say that freedom is
Wild emotion
Animal lust
Running through the forest
With no shoes
No words
Then none who is free
Can say what freedom is

Some say that freedom is
Language
Logic
Rising above emotions
On the wings of the mind
Then none who is free
Knows what freedom feels like

I say that freedom is
The ability to choose
Between these states of mind
At will
Or even
To combine them

Only then can we truly understand
Freedom
Only then will our whole soul be
Free
And know what it feels like to
Fly
Aug 2018 · 475
Other star
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
Other star
Bathes me in her eerie light
Casting strange shadows
Aug 2018 · 135
Mirror
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
Behold the wish to look upon the self
Behold the wish to see what others see
What does the mirror see?
Vanity
What does the mirror see?
Empathy

The mirror of the Sun is the Moon
The mirror of the Moon is the sea
What does the mirror see?
You and me
What does the mirror see?
Heaven
Deep
Aug 2018 · 159
Further
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
If you got this far
You can go a little further
Just a little further
Day by day
And day by day
Go further and further
Still a little further
Till you go the whole way
Aug 2018 · 368
79
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
79
..                only                                          
­               star fire                          melts              together
       ­   say my only                       say                  forever
       bright    electric                    shining          through
  ­   only              shines                so bright        as you
   opportunity       and                 treasure
  rush and rule and ring               and                record
casting down            their               crowns together
say my                          only                say forever
Aug 2018 · 19.7k
By Any Other Name
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
I took          a trip
I took                a look
That tree could read me
Like                      a book
And                 open me
Like a             library
Cipher      in the
Sanctuary
Deeper
Still deeper
Inside the place
Where           secret
Knowledge         hides
The twin snakes ladder
Necklace              chain
Make life        by any
Other           name
Aug 2018 · 290
Sphere
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
the way
the                   wave
the                          sphere
God's                   ­       shape
only                         power
God                     has
no face
Aug 2018 · 396
Zenith
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
I look up
To a soft and smoky sky
Single shining star
Aug 2018 · 575
How Deep
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
here

a word

there

a thing

here a feeling
there a scale

here a thought
there a tail

here a whisper
there a wing

O how deep that dragon sings

here a letter
there a number

page by page
it takes shape

sharpening
in its sleep

waking

from its

dreamless

slumber
Aug 2018 · 336
Silence
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
If just for a moment
We could all just stop
And breathe
And let the world go on

If just for a moment
We could all be still
Our silence would
Be like a love song
Aug 2018 · 599
Oak
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
Oak
does a tree care if you cut it down
to make a house
                a hundred books
                a boat
                a crib
                a trebuchet
                a bow and arrow
if you dig it up to build a street
                                          a church
                                          a home
                                          a mall
                                          a wall
                                          a well
                                          a garden
If you burn it to the ground
                                     for fun
                                   for spite
                              by accident
                         to stop the fire
                      to **** the dryad



all it thinks about is Sun
                             and Earth
                             and dirt
                             and rain
                             and bud
                             and root
                             and wood
                             and leaf
                             and acorn
would that there were
more of these thoughts
Aug 2018 · 151
Who Knows
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
Who knows                                                
You know                
              You know
                                              Who knows
Aug 2018 · 248
Laniakea
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
.             . ☆ .   2  cascade                
             .            1 a glittering           . ☆ . 3 of galaxies    
             .          4 spilling                           . ☆  .     5  through
            .           6  immeasurable                               8 dark      
          ☆                                7 heaven   . ☆  .        9  hollows  
               ☆                                    ­                      10 and hidden
             ☆                                . ☆ . 11 sanctuaries  
                                          . ☆ .    7               x                  7                 . ☆ .
             7                           ­          x                  7                   . ☆ .
Aug 2018 · 432
Stella-Luna
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
The Sun
Has won
We love
The Sun
Aug 2018 · 238
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
some
☠☠☠☠
may☠say☠we
☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠
have☠climbed☠to☠such
☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠
great☠heights☠we☠did☠it☠alone
☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠
­we☠all☠stand☠on☠top☠of☠a☠pyramid
☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠☠
made☠☠☠of­☠☠☠☠skulls☠☠☠☠and☠☠☠bones
Aug 2018 · 221
World Tree
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
The blossoms fallen from the sky
The world softly snowed under
And deep beneath the silent tide
The dark Earth dreams and wonders

Then from a buried cherry springs
A green and tender stem
Slowly but surely wakening
Once more to bloom again
Aug 2018 · 492
Formless
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
.      The shape oƒ what we love and fear
                                 Hides s∅meplace we may never go            
                      And all the t☈uths we hold most dear              
                  Are things that we ₥ay never know                                      
                  But in the midd↳e of your mind                                
                    A darkness brightεr than the Sun                                        
                      If you shall ⑀eek then you shall find                
                             The ⑀hadows of the Formless One
Aug 2018 · 830
Dream
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
If life is a dream,
Then who am I?
Can I be seen?
Do I have eyes?
Can I speak?
Do I ask why?
What strange stars
Light up my sky?

If life is a dream,
Then what is death?
Where do we go?
What comes next?
When I wake
Will I forget?
I'm not ready
To wake up yet
Aug 2018 · 249
Heaven Knows
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
We all drink
From the same well
Hope or fear
Time will tell
What's in the water?
Heaven knows
This is the way
Our garden grows

We all fall
Into the well
Some fall fast
Some fall slow
Some together
Some on their own
What's in the well?
Heaven knows
Aug 2018 · 134
Chaenophryne
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
Luminous
In an ocean deep and black
I will bring you light

Come and see
Give your life force unto me
I will bring you night
Aug 2018 · 318
Evenstar
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
Evenstar
Did your valley
Bloom?
Did you blush in
Spring?

Evenstar
Did your forest
Dream?
Did your ocean
Sing?
Aug 2018 · 133
Joy
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
Joy
To what heights
Could we fly had we no fear
And with how much joy
Aug 2018 · 122
Feather
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
A spider
Sailing through the sunny sky
Riding the weather

Floating down
Gently falling to the ground
Terrible feather
Aug 2018 · 210
Doubt
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
Where did we come from?
Why are we here?
Some say
One day
Humanity just appeared

But who put us here
On this warm spinning stone?
Some say
One day
We'll find out we're not alone

But who made the maker?
How and from what?
Some say there was none
Some say one always was

And though we don't know
We can still think about it
Some say
One day
We'll know
I hope so
I doubt it
Aug 2018 · 127
Yes We Can
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
We were led
By a man
One who said
Yes we can
We would give
Many things
Just to be
'We' again
Aug 2018 · 187
Moon Over Water
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
what if the
Moon is alive and she
is listening to us on Earth
and is looking up at a blue
crescent that fills her sky
wondering about us
from afar

does she see our city lights
dark against her starry sky

cryptic hieroglyphs
neon constellations

does she know
who we are
who reach
out to
her
Aug 2018 · 318
Electric Visions
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
Filaments
Fine and thin
The more of them
The thicker the stem
Branching connections
Point back to their source
Laid out in ley lines of force
Everywhere the lines converge
They canonize a demiurge
And so delineate, unfurl
Electric visions
Of their world
Aug 2018 · 157
Oxygen
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
The brilliant Sun above our heads
It lights you up in green and red
Flow with the water, with the air
You are so precious but not rare
In our hearts, in our skies,
In our oceans, in our eyes,
You are the one for which we yearn
But O! How bright your halo burns.
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
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Aug 2018 · 127
Zero Hour
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
No more trees
Zero hour
No more bees
No more flowers

No one knows
No more power
No more rose
No more Tower
Aug 2018 · 1.9k
Kitty Kitty
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
Hey little cat, pretty kitty cat
I wonder what it's like for you to think the way you think
When you pounce upon a feather do you think that it's a bird?
Do you understand the weather?
Do you understand our words?

Hey little cat, pretty kitty cat
What do you think you're seeing when you look up at the stars?
Did your mother ever tell you not to stare into the Sun?
Do you wonder where they came from?
Do you wonder what they are?

Hey little cat, pretty kitty cat
I wish that I could understand your crazy point of view
Chasing pretty birdies with a bell around your neck
Did you find out how they know
To fly away from you?

Hey little cat, pretty kitty cat
I guess I'll never really understand your kitty brain
I wonder how you see our crazy daisy little world
I bet you think we're pretty
I bet you think we're insane
Aug 2018 · 173
All
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
All
All the Universe is wonderful
All the Universe is like a dream
All the Universe is beautiful
All the Universe including me
Aug 2018 · 196
Crystal
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
I look into the crystal
And I see the sand in flames

A lake of molten glass makes

Grey waves on the oasis
I pray for rain
Aug 2018 · 143
Let It Alone
Ciel Noir Aug 2018
Let it alone
Let it through
This one isn't
Up to you

Let it alone
Let it be
It's alright to be at
Peace
Jul 2018 · 632
Hexagon
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
We have seen a great hexagon
On the sixth planet from our Sun

Silent those frozen razor bright rings sparkle crystalline

They say there are a million moons
They say that it rains diamonds
There is still much more
To know


Than what this world has seen
Jul 2018 · 347
Electron
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
We are all one shining soul
Made of shining stars
We are all so beautiful
Exactly how we are

The cosmos flowers and unfolds
An ever branching thyrse
Where each electron holds, enfolds
A little Universe
Jul 2018 · 723
Incarnate
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
Entangled
Tooth and nail and fang and claw
Bloodlust incarnate

Furious
Maelstrom of feather and fur
Silent vulture waits
Jul 2018 · 276
...................
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
we are not really there
are                            is
the                   no
wheel
Jul 2018 · 3.2k
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
one step   s   m   forward
two steps   e    i    back        
        my   e   d   right      
     your    k   d   left        
my slow          l    your fast
                    seek    y   e    the middle path
two times    e         one half    
    poetry         p    math        
   one    t   a    mind
   two    h   t    tracks
               seek ye    e   h   the middle path
Jul 2018 · 148
Night
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
Is there a world
Where the Suns always shine
Do they have a word for
Night
Jul 2018 · 133
Signs and Symbols
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
When we as humans come to see
Something abstract and undefined
We add it to the dictionary
The signs and symbols of the mind

When you see pictures you hear sounds
Signs, symbols reverberating
As if the letters speak aloud
Whose voice are you reading this in?
Jul 2018 · 3.6k
Same
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
A lot of people try to say
That people act so differently
Based on their gender, their birthday,
Their race, their nationality

And every time we think we've changed
We find that it's perennial
Same little boxes rearranged
What's up with these millennials?

We all say "We are not like you!"
They all say "You are not like us!"
This is something that we all do
Predictable, ubiquitous

But one day, we'll be seen as one
There will be no one else to blame
And they will look at what we've done
And say that we are all the same
Jul 2018 · 323
Infinity Repeating
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
who are we but  
shattered    s t a r s    bleeding
the             universe  breathing
illusion              and       feeling
concealing        and   revealing
truth                 and knowledge
of good
and       evil
good of
knowledge and                truth
revealing     and      concealing
feeling         and            illusion
breathing    universe            the
bleeding     s t a r s     shattered
but we are who
?
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