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 Mar 2014 Ruby Crow
Nick Strong
A gentle soul that once,
Trod well, worn paths,
Laid down by matriarchs past.
Now just,
Brittle bones baked by a searing heat,
Bleached beyond a perfect white.
Here lies the last elephant.

© Nick Strong 2014
We have to stop poaching of these and other precious creatures that will be gone unless we act.
 Mar 2014 Ruby Crow
allie
Facade
 Mar 2014 Ruby Crow
allie
She cried tears of black,
Weeping with lips scarlet
The pale foundations of her face,
Fading,
Into nothing
While the teardrops of ink
Created a new facade.
 Mar 2014 Ruby Crow
Liam
Insidious
 Mar 2014 Ruby Crow
Liam
insidious...
the forces that bend us toward self-destruction

insidious...
the illusions that feed those malevolent forces

insidious...
the stories that construct those obscuring illusions

insidious...
the thoughts that metastasize into those deluding stories

insidious...
the mind that identifies with those detrimental thoughts

innocent...
the soul that succumbs
 Mar 2014 Ruby Crow
Trader Tim
Eyes that peer into the fire
Dancing flames of true desire
Consuming lust quite divine
Burning hot within your mind
 Mar 2014 Ruby Crow
Poetic T
Jungle of Concrete,
Towers stretch up high,
The people that live there
Hanging on to life.
Suspended on the branches
some fallen never to climb up high,
Corrupted
Tainted,
Polluted,
By the fruits,
Poisoning the mind.
Now fallen as another one
Takes there place,
In the branches dreading the life.
Scared,
Anxious,
Intimidated,
Towers reaching for the sky,
while the little ones look up
Fearful
Of that place for what lies in there,
Fear in their eyes.
But time moved on and those up high
Moved to the ground,
Living in the field
Of flowers,
On the ground.
A little safer than before
No longer the fear from before.
Children could play
In the meadows of green,
That were behind and upfront
Playing like they couldn't before.
But parents still wary,
Strangers,
Roads,
Cars,
As the ground has dangers
Like the tree tower did before.
The trees reached for the sky's
That were the misery of most
Now collapsing,
A scar on the landscape,
Now breathes in new hope and life.
Each morn
awakening's first breath
recreates the myth
today would be born
a new kind of poem

Mind in the heavens sail
seeking kind of a tale
never unearthed

travels the whole length
the *****'s renewed strength
digging deeper
evermore
foraging space time
for one rhyme
that in its first breath
would reinforce the myth

on this earth
a new poem can still take birth!

When the day is out
we know it's one myth
we can't live without.
It was a dark night, rain slashing through it,
Trying to cut the windowpane,
When your demons escaped from the cage.
They tied you up and burned you on a stake.
The fire licked you up and devoured you,
They thought they have destroyed you at last.
But your soul is a phoenix,
and it sprung back up from the ash.
A poem I wrote for a friend who is a fighter like no other <3
 Mar 2014 Ruby Crow
Emily
Exposed
 Mar 2014 Ruby Crow
Emily
You can't escape this
There's no avoiding the truth
Maybe not today
And probably not tomorrow
But you'll be exposed in time
And it'll haunt you for the rest of your life
It appalls me...the length people go to to continue telling such a huge lie. And how delusional people are to continue believing it despite being shown a handful of evidence.

© Delia 2014
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