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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?
Ciel Noir Jun 2023
the kind of mind
that organizes
chaos into storylines

the kind of mind
that draws a line
in the sand
and between the stars

the kind of mind
that smashes a kaleidoscope
and cuts itself to ribbons
making sparkling mosaics
from the broken parts

the kind of mind
that asks a question
and then dreams the answer

the kind of mind
that teaches a computer
to make art

the kind of mind
that looks into the sky
and sees an alpha
and an after

everything means something
I can feel it in my heart
Ciel Noir Feb 2019
Glittering
Like a metal chandelier
The city of lights
Ciel Noir May 2018
When you're a centrist
Everyone agrees
Cause everybody thinks you're wrong

When you're a centrist
Everyone agrees
Cause they all say you don't belong

But if you talk to one person at a time
And bring them just a little toward the middle
One step at a time
Before they know it they're on your side

Take your left hand
Reach as far as you can
But don't give up your ground

Take your right hand
Reach out to the right side
Don't let them pull you around

And then connect two hands at a time
Make a chain that snakes its way across the middle
One link at a time
Before they know it they're all entwined

There is so much
Space here in the middle
All of you can stand with me

There is so much
We can do together
Without this dichotomy

It happens one day at a time
Shifting just a little toward the middle
After enough time
There aren't that many sitting on the sides

Why not get up and move around
And mingle just a little in the middle?
One big fabulous party, we'll be
Dancing in the aisle
Ciel Noir Feb 2021
will they believe
there was a time
we kissed our friends
to say hello

and shared
bottles and space
and life

now it all seems so long ago

will they believe
the way we danced
together
in another time

that from this distant new world
might as well be
1999
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
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
Some paths are made by force
Suddenly
Carved into the ground
Branded on the world

Some paths are made softly
One day at a time
A memory of ten thousand footsteps following
The path of least resistance
Ciel Noir Jun 2018
I wish

We all felt love

No hate

We all felt joy

No sorrow

We all felt hope

No despair

How can I make this so?

I can begin with my own mind

Plant one seed of peace

Let it bloom into a tender vine

And wrap its tender green arms around the whole world

Until the whole world is encircled

Within the web of my peace

O if only

For a moment

Let it be
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
Our minds are always full of peace

In the same way that

The sky is always full of stars
Ciel Noir Sep 2020
those whom we did not defend
today are the ones who attack
no matter how much we pretend
the pendulum always swings back
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.
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
From time to time
From day to day
I see the world
In different ways

How different then
Must it be
From the perspective
That you see

How does the world look
Through your eyes?
I wish that I
Could read your mind

But it is hidden
In your head

I'll show my mind
To you instead
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
my thoughts are drifting
wandering
dancing like petals on the wind
they climb the sky
and fly wherever
ride the timeline
like a river
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
the phoenix
flies again in time
and time turns ashes
into diamond
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
mathematics

using symbols

to paint a picture

of the shape of god
Ciel Noir Mar 2020
I wish I could be there with you
so many times
and many ways

I just want to
reach out to you
but I know
it is not my place

a place where you would lie
pretend to care
and one day break my heart

and if you asked me to
I would be there
but for the grace of god
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
Ciel Noir Aug 2021
I know the things I need to change
but I don't have the power yet

I want to be a charioteer
but I feel like a marionette

now every day I take small steps
and train my brain with little things

so one day I will have the strength
to break the strings
and take the reins
Ciel Noir Oct 2023
you only know one kind of strength
armed to the teeth
you call us weak
but take our words for weapons
as if we should be afraid to speak

you want us to be decorations
pretty little flowers
but I know that you would sell your soul
to have a shadow of our power
Ciel Noir Mar 2022
maybe I'm brave enough
maybe I'm strong enough
maybe I'm worthy
after all

give me the chance
and give me the power
that is the only way to know
Ciel Noir Feb 2021
what part of your soul
makes the choice?

do you have free will
or is it fate?

what if your predictions
create the future

and that's how you decide
which path to take?
Ciel Noir Sep 2023
once the Moon filled our horizon
even greater than the Sun

do you think we remember fire
and dragons falling one by one?

a message following along
primordial and wordless song
of Eden where we once belonged

how deep
how long
our river runs
Ciel Noir Jun 2019
in our judgment
and       division
we have written
our own prison
too ashamed
to think at all
our minds are
h  o   l   l  o  w
empty        walls
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 Jun 2018
somewhere between
0 and 1
probability
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
I am afraid
To make a mistake
But the longer I wait
The more I make

To wait makes haste
And haste makes waste
If I start now
It will be OK
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
What if all you see is a
Projection of your mind?
I am just a part of you
Like all of humankind

When you see your enemy
What path do they follow?
How far will you go from the light
To chase your own shadow?
Ciel Noir Feb 2021
each day I carved part of my heart away
to make                             an empty space
to fit                                           your shape
             how                                           much of the           
                puzzle                                 would I change             
  only so you could be the missing piece?
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
What would you say
To the world
If you could?

Would you say
I love you?
Would you say
Be good?

Would you tell your secrets?
Would you tell a joke?
Would you be afraid to speak
Lest you misspoke?

What would you say
If you knew you’d be heard?
How would you choose between
So many words,
So many different
Forms of expression?

As for me
I would ask the world a question
Ciel Noir May 2018
How many different ways can I say
Who am I
How many different ways can I say
I don't know
How many different ways can I say
I'm afraid
How many different ways can I say
I still love being alive

As many as there are stars in the sky
Ciel Noir Apr 2021
spring snows
winter's final throes
fall like feathers
quietly

soft and white
drift from the sky
heaven is a cherry tree
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
so much rage
and where does it go?

I hope I am aware
enough to know

I split it into pieces
like a prism

and then I sublimate it
like an exorcism

I do my war dance
and sing angry songs

my rage is not alone
if I sing along

I play like a warlord
and yell at the game

I get my revenge
and I give them the blame

always trying to pull
this venom from me

the dangerous monster
I'm afraid to be

the dangerous person
that I am
underneath

this soft façade
that hides my teeth

defenselessness
that I pretend

afraid I will
offend my friends

afraid to hurt
afraid of pain

afraid of my own face
that's all the rage
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
Ciel Noir Jul 2018
She walked right through a rainbow
Sparkling veil of mist and light
And though she was a part of it
All that she saw was white

She walked all the way through the storm
Turned to face it again
And saw the dazzling beauty
That lit up the falling rain
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
Rainbow bird
Whirls and swirls in a vibrant
Typhoon of colour
Ciel Noir Apr 2019
One by one
Raindrops fill an open rose
Beauty overflows
Ciel Noir Sep 2020
it has been raining for so long
I still see the sky through it

how can I trust the sunshine
to be real

I shut the warmth out of my mind
remembering the grey

it will take a little longer
before I let myself feel
Ciel Noir Oct 2023
I reach out to the ones I love
At least when I am brave enough
But sometimes I am too afraid
Afraid that they will turn away

In questions I reach out my hand
To what I want to understand
But that is more than I can ask
I reach for things I cannot grasp

I reach for what I hope to earn
I work and learn and in return
Reach for the stars
Find out they burn
Another lesson I can learn

And when I fall down from the stars
And when the tree was just too far
I summon all my strength to stand
And once again reach out my hand
Ciel Noir Jun 27
maybe every writer wonders
what the reader reads

it's a window into me
but what do people see?

did I write it like I thought it?
did you read it like I said?

can you feel the rhythm
even when you read it in your head?

do you read it like a rap?
do you read it like a book?

do you sing it like a song?
do you only look?

do you hear it in your head?
is it someone else's voice?

Julie Andrews?
Morgan Freeman?
really it's your choice

do you think in pictures?
do you think in sound?

if there's no one around
do you read it out loud?

do you read it only once
or maybe two or three times?

do you analyze the meaning?
do you focus on the rhyme?

and I'm sure that you know I'm
overthinking like I always do

you saw my soul
so I try to stare back into you

and understand how much of me
you could have understood

I would read your mind
if I only could
Ciel Noir Mar 2019
I am lost in
book land again
I need to do things but
I just want to 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
Ciel Noir Dec 2018
I believe in myself
I know I am real
Because I think
Because I feel

I might not be
How I appear
But I know
That I am here

The world may be
A grand delusion
Altered wavelengths
Of confusion
Illusional
Balance wheel

But I KNOW that I am real
Ciel Noir Oct 2020
every day I try to act
like I could let you go

it is tricky to retract
what you already know

I think you have seen through me
and into something real

I love you

but I'll never really tell you
how I feel
Ciel Noir Aug 2021
the real me:
am I what I cannot change?
who I choose to be?
Ciel Noir May 2018
Dear God, I don't know if you're real,
But either way, I pray for peace
In my land, their land, every land
America, the Middle East
They **** each other in your name
I don't know how that makes you feel
I'm kind of angry with you, God
Or I would be if you were real

Oh what, now is this blasphemy?
Then come down and give me a sign.
Spread peace and love throughout the land
And make it 'ours', not 'yours' and 'mine'
Come on, God, please, just bring us peace
I'll hold up my end of the deal
If you just bring us peace on Earth
I'll the whole world that you're real.
Ciel Noir Jun 2021
all this joy
and all this pain
all the things we think and see
all this hope and
all this love

vibrations and energy

all this madness and confusion
written by some inner hand
we have woven this illusion
all that we can understand

what if we could see beyond
what our perception is concealing?

Earth is moving
time is a dimension
color is a feeling

what if we could move beyond
all the things we think and see?
what would happen to our souls
if we could know
reality?
Red
Ciel Noir Jan 2019
Red
I went to the sea
And I saw
A red bird in a tree

In my mind
I felt
Silent

And still
Ciel Noir Jul 2020
be silent

words are dangerous

this is no time to speak


a little censorship

is what keeps everybody free


and if you disagree

then you will see

your star shall fall


say what we tell you to

or don't say anything at all
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
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