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264 · Nov 2021
Ciel Noir Nov 2021
I might as well
chase the Sun
west and west

until
the new day
finds me running

far away
263 · Apr 2019
Rainbow Bird
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
Rainbow bird
Whirls and swirls in a vibrant
Typhoon of colour
263 · Apr 2022
Animal
Ciel Noir Apr 2022
lift the veil
and let you know
every savage part of me
ride the night
the storm below
let the animal be free
262 · Mar 2022
0
Ciel Noir Mar 2022
0
I see the world
unraveling
the future
hanging by a thread

I try to memorize the spring
I hope I never will forget

the joy and hope
of innocence
new life
in the trees
on the ground

I try to walk
the Fool's calm steps
to face the sky
and not look down
262 · Jan 2019
Nuit Éternelle
Ciel Noir Jan 2019
Are there still days if there are no more stars?
Eternal night unbroken by the dawn
The darkness was here long before the light
And will be long after the light is gone
261 · Apr 2019
Rabbit
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
The rabbit
Is swept up into the sky
By the golden hawk

Trembling
But for the very first time
Not afraid to fall
261 · May 2018
World
Ciel Noir May 2018
To see from someone else's point of view
Is very grand and humbling all at once
Enlightened by new things I never knew
And moved by someone else's needs and wants

In my unending quest to understand
I look at myself from afar and see
One green leaf in an ever changing land
One raindrop in an ever moving sea

I feel so beautiful, vulnerable
So small a part of such a subtle scene
So intricate, so great and terrible
A part of such a powerful machine

And as I spin with all the other wheels
I see the world through very different eyes
I have no words to tell you how it feels
To see the world in someone else's sky
258 · Apr 2021
Crimestop
Ciel Noir Apr 2021
I do not want to cause offense

I do not wish to harm

I do not want to hurt your feelings

Or to cause alarm


I do not want to challenge you

Or to make you feel small


I know that you

Don't want me to

Say anything at all


And so I've learned to blunt my tongue

To mitigate my speech

To stretch the space between the lines

As far as it can reach


I censor myself

Without thinking

Every single day


And if I could speak freely

I don't know what I would say
257 · Mar 2019
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
.   sentences   signals        
   eloquence   evidence      
    transcript   transmit      
   syllabi   impulses

257 · Jul 2020
Ouroboros
Ciel Noir Jul 2020
there  ✧  is  ✧  a  ✧  star
will sleep until             it is destroyed
what we are                          and spills out life
       where our essence                                    into the void       
      become a part of the sky                   and what wise hand      
      you and I                                                             may­ fabricate      
moons and planets                                           the many things  
melting out into the night                                     that it creates  
      incandescent searing light                          moons and planets        
till the Sun begins to turn                                stone and metal  
burn whatever they can burn                           running water  
until only monsters remain                            flower petals  
     and up the chain                                       moving round      
  on and on                                   by their own power    
      to eat the bees                                    little bees          
       little birds                 to eat the flowers        
singing sweetly in the trees
256 · Jun 2019
Sentient
Ciel Noir Jun 2019
deep in this
latticework of consciousness
learn what darkness is
255 · Sep 2021
|´´´ ? ```|
Ciel Noir Sep 2021
tell me if this bridge is real
or only something
that I feel

will I cross over
to my goal

or under
to the void

below?
255 · Mar 2019
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
254 · Jan 2019
Poison
Ciel Noir Jan 2019
How easily our minds can turn to hate
Another or some others or ourselves
But this serves mainly to contaminate
And we may only poison our own well

The reason why we hate the ones we hate
Is seeing their reflection in our mind
As if this self rejection mitigates
A poison which may leave the whole world blind
254 · Mar 2021
Spring
Ciel Noir Mar 2021
one day it is just
grass and branches
last year's leaves
the bones of green

the next day
the whole world in bloom
like winter was
some long cold dream

little singing
birds are bringing twigs
on brightly colored wings

would they bring us
so much joy
if it had been
forever spring?
252 · Aug 2022
The Sand
Ciel Noir Aug 2022
everywhere
we see the hand
that wrote our pattern in the sand

no face
but within all faces

no place
but within all places

do you dream?
are you our friend?
do you tell spacetime how to bend?

I want to understand
but I have never seen beyond the sand
252 · Feb 2020
. .
Ciel Noir Feb 2020
. .
there is a darkness in us all
unseen behind our eyes

silent as a shadow falls
ancient as the sky

and though we shroud our souls in light
and hide behind the flames

sometimes
softly
in the night

the darkness calls our name
251 · Jul 2018
v
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
v
do you feel          how I feel
like you're not quite          sure what's real      
do you think          like I think
two metronomes          just out of sync
   do you know         what I know
     can you see         into my soul
shades and shadows          smoke and mirrors
say the          word
I'll make it          clearer...
^
251 · Apr 2018
(___)
Ciel Noir Apr 2018
Finally
There are no more
Words inside of me

Empty

and silent

I cannot speak
251 · Jun 2019
Kingdom
Ciel Noir Jun 2019
a field of rubble
I stand alone
looking for trouble
picking up stones

here was a labyrinth
before the fall
I walk through wilderness
where once were walls

statues are fallen
and shackles are broken
glass fills the grass
and the dungeons lie open

I begin slowly
small and alone
to build a new kingdom
stone upon stone
251 · Jul 2018
Iron
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
Magnetic
You flow in our veins
Molten
You fill our world
Bound
You make strong the chain
Unburned
You have stolen the fire from your star
And laid it at our feet
251 · Jun 2019
Footprints
Ciel Noir Jun 2019
When there are no more people in this world
When all of us have vanished into space
What rises from the darkness of the sea
And crawls onto the land to take our place?

Will they learn peace and live in harmony
Respecting all the other animals
Or will they follow after you and me
And leave their own deep footprints on the world?
250 · Sep 2023
Watching
Ciel Noir Sep 2023
cut my claws
cover my teeth
monster watching
underneath

innocent on the outside
darling
look into my eyes
249 · May 2018
All Out
Ciel Noir May 2018
I honestly feel better now
After I got those words all out
They look so harsh and broken but
I got them all out of my heart

I read them and it makes me sad
But now it feels like empathy
As if someone else wrote those words
And they did not come out of me

One day I'll probably go back
Delete the words I wrote today
For now I am just glad they're out
I think I'm gonna be OK

But now when others read these poems
They will feel sad just like me
I don't know how I feel about
This other side of empathy
248 · Mar 2019
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
247 · Aug 2018
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
247 · Apr 2019
Awakening
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
a heavy stone
is lifted from
the loamy ground

a slender stem
tender and pale
first greets the wind

and rises slowly
to become
green with the Sun
246 · Jan 2021
au
Ciel Noir Jan 2021
au
we love the Sun
because it is
so far away
246 · Sep 2023
Read
Ciel Noir Sep 2023
vandalize my mind
with layer over layer of graffiti
I repeat it and repeat it
until no one else can read it

ciphers in my system
speaking in my sleep
ink in my blood

very little still remains
of the blank slate
that I once was
246 · Jun 2018
Sail
Ciel Noir Jun 2018
I cannot see beyond the waves
This does not mean I am afraid
For there are deeper storms than these
And I have sailed much darker seas
Ciel Noir Apr 2018
I am the alien seeking terrestrial understanding
astrobiologically, electromagnetically,
electroencephalographic quinquagintatrecentilliardths
I do not fully itemize, agglomerate homogeneously:
anthropomorphisms, overspeculativeness,
antiestablishmentarians, hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
I am you
245 · Apr 2019
Raindrops
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
One by one
Raindrops fill an open rose
Beauty overflows
245 · Apr 2018
Deep
Ciel Noir Apr 2018
The flower says Sun shine on me
Says drink my nectar to the bee
The bee says Queen I will be true
You are my sisters
I love you

She dances to illuminate
To help her sisters find the way
They follow her to find the feast
The Sun says I am in the East

The Sun says here you find the nectar
Shines on the tiny collectors
Bright enough for us to find
A rainbow filled with fine dark lines

The Sun says I am hydrogen
And helium and other things
The Sun says Earth stay close by me
As we fly through our galaxy

The Sun says I am in the West
She burns inside her fiery nest
The darkness comes down from afar
So deep, so dark, so full of stars

The stars say you are looking West
You're this far North, no more, no less
The stars say it is 10 PM
The stars say it is almost spring

The stars say we are hydrogen
And other things so deep within
So many things that every part
Of everyone is made of stars

The Moon says Earth I hold to you
In day and night forever true
Deep fire and ocean dance the tide
Whispers to woman deep inside

The woman feels the cosmic song
She dances in it all night long
The beauty of the endless sky
Blooms like a flower in her eyes

So deep below, so deep above
She reaches out and feels their love
So infinite and yet so small
She whispers back
I love you all
244 · Jul 2022
Blue
Ciel Noir Jul 2022
I don't want to miss you
it hurts to stay silent
but I hold my tongue
and pretend to be strong

I wish you would speak to me
even one word
but we both know one word
wouldn't hold me that long

a world full of lovers
who want me to love them
cannot understand what I need
but you do

a whole sky full of stars
and you paint it all blue
who could let me forget
there is no one like you
243 · Dec 2018
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
242 · Jun 2021
Now
Ciel Noir Jun 2021
Now
Who are we now?

Still as we once were
Older and wiser
Are we the same?

Who are we now?

Are we together
Was it forever
Or just a game?

Who are we now?

Born of the ashes
Sing in the darkness
Dance in the flames

Who are we now?

Echoes of laughter
Hope you remember
More than my name
242 · Oct 2018
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
242 · Jul 2018
Curiosity
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
Every day we send another million
Letters to the stars
Meaning them for one another
Always so surprised how far

All our light and sound can travel
Our radio and TV
Every day we throw another million
Bottles in the sea

Will the others read our messages
And learn about our ways?
Will they know us in the night?
Will they seek us in the day?

Do they go about their lives
Without curiosity
Never looking in the bottles they find
Floating in the sea?

Or perhaps they have already found
Our pretty little sphere
Maybe they already know
Maybe they're already here

For sometimes we send out letters
Hoping they will find and read
We have shown them the whole world
In a dandelion seed

Even if they never find us
Even if they cannot read
They will understand one thing about us:
Curiosity

Even if we never find them
Listening among the stars
We'll never stop sending messages
For that is who we are.
242 · Jul 2021
Follow
Ciel Noir Jul 2021
for you
I would have
never stopped hoping

I'd have followed you into Hell
with my eyes open

and now I don't know
the way to follow
far from your shadow

but I am coping
241 · Jun 2019
Little Fish
Ciel Noir Jun 2019
little fish
who thinks that its shallow pond
covers the whole world
241 · Mar 2019
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
240 · May 2018
Mean Voice
Ciel Noir May 2018
This is why you're not good enough
That's something I've heard people say
I used to get angry or cry
Now I just laugh and walk away

Because I know that same mean voice
Has all those same mean things to say
Even when they are all alone
And there is no one else to hate

The things that people say to others
Are what they say to themselves
The things that people criticize
Are what they hate about themselves

So I walk on because I can
Not everybody has that choice
They'll only hurt me once but they
Can't walk away from their own voice
238 · May 2018
People Love
Ciel Noir May 2018
People love dark
People love light
People love day
People love night

People love Sun
People love Moon
People love sky
People love blue

People love land
People love sea
People love animals
People love peace

People love people
People love things
Small wonder
People sing

People love soul
People love heart
Stars build people
People love stars

People love deep
People love real
People will fall
People will feel

People forgive
People cry
People build things
People fly

People love song  
People love God
Deep wonder
People love
All of these words are in bold on my list.
https://hellopoetry.com/cielnoir/words/
I invite you all to do this same challenge.
238 · Aug 2018
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
238 · Mar 2021
Threefold
Ciel Noir Mar 2021
changing

maiden - mother - crone

threefold goddess
the same stone

tide to bring us
life and pain

and tide
to wash it all away
238 · Aug 2018
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                   . ☆ .
237 · Mar 2024
Watch
Ciel Noir Mar 2024
there are things I cannot grasp
long though I reach out my hand
stare at the strange shape of darkness
watch until I understand
236 · Jun 2018
No Direction
Ciel Noir Jun 2018
O

Where do I go

I don't know

No matter where I go

I am standing in the centre

Of my horizon

How I cling to the Earth

With my hands and feet

The dove may lend me her wings

But I lack her sense

Of direction

Faith to fly through the storm

Two wings

One blue horizon

No land in sight
236 · Apr 2019
Triune
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
Three candles burning in the dark
Beneath a great oak tree
In a triangle
The same spark
Set fire to all three

Each candle held a symbol
Which was writ on it in red
With the rhythm of a tymbal
A soft voice came down and said

By the Moon and Earth and Sun
Let these three melt into one
By the Sun and Earth and Moon
Let these three become triune
236 · Dec 2018
We Ask
Ciel Noir Dec 2018
Where did we come from?
We ask
Eyes wide
Always the same answer
We came from the sky

Where will we go next?
Trembling
We ask
Always the same answer
We will go back
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