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Scarlet Niamh Apr 2016
Bipolar sunshine;
Life's periodic lullabies
Changing me,
Waking me from ash to animal,
Trapped in the cage
Of my past lies,
Present cries,
Future demise.

But underneath this skin,
I'm still a human;
Boats of evergreen
Floating on tideless seas,
Yet I think I'm dying,
Unready for breathing;
Wild waters, blood oceans;
Mind lost, nightmares healing.
~~ Madness is in the eye of the beholder.
     This madness is the beholder of my eyes. ~~
Bethany Gorman Mar 2016
It is an ocean
And my little boat is weak and weary from the waves
Praying for some rain, and starlight
And a song to send me on my way

My friends are gone
Sailed off to fairer shores than mine
My map is dust
And home my compass cannot find
Unfinished
Holey Mar 2016
Now is not the time to cry me a river, but be the river.
It's the time to stand strong and mighty
Making every dark thought flow through you, not on.
Your head is the river, your thoughts a current
Dragging your emotions along.
The person that owns the boat
Is the person that holds the key to your mind.
This one is a little thought provoking...Sorry :D
J M Evjen Mar 2016
Viewboat,
After viewboat,
Passing.

Viewboat,
After viewboat,
Water.

Silent,
Hollow’d galley,
Drifting

Viewboat,
After viewboat,
Bypassing

Viewboat,
After viewboat,
Swans.

Steady,
Eternal force,
Moving.

Viewboat,
After viewboat,
Passing-by.

Viewboat,
After viewboat,
Open

Sultry,
Quiet hymns,
Resounding

The boat,
As refuge,
To love.

The sound,
As incense,
To God.

The water,
As life,
To men

Viewboat,
After viewboat,
Haven.
Sombro Mar 2016
Drift off
Slower than the tide
And these hazy buttercups
On this Sunday morning
Drift off
And let your fears
Spill into the current
That passes you gently along.

Melodies take me
And light guitar strings murmur
Giving flow to my stiff bones
As they sigh in the sunlight
Staring lovingly into the bluest sky
Bluer than the green water
That sings its own harmony.

Hear the birds chant
Sparks into the air
Hear the water hush
The wind that will never come today
And the chug chug chug
Of that faithful riverboat
Keeping me steadily onwards
On its warm wooden deck.
I hope this takes you somewhere nice, like my riverboat!
Cody Haag Feb 2016
My leaves have fallen off,
Shed long before winter's brutality;
I have lost all of my hope,
And I feel only fatality.

Was this destined to be my outcome?
Is there any other ending for me?
My pain and agony, a ghastly sum,
Leading toward death to set me free?

Everything went wrong,
I try not to linger on that fact;
I've tried to sing a better song,
Positive change to enact.

But I am still lost at sea,
Just barely afloat,
I stopped trying to flee,
These shambles of a boat.
Jesse Cox Dec 2015
I was walked through corridors
of hardened steel, floating in a harbor.
My young eyes did not marvel
at the way it sat above the water.
My eyes drifted toward the sharp flashes
of filler metal, melting in between two joints.
I was told not to look directly at it;
I couldn’t look away.

My bones grew,
and my structure was fused
into its permanent fixture and
today I’m given a mask,
heavy tinted black glass over my eyes.  
I’m not told to look away,
merely blinded.
Watching the same work I marveled at years ago
hands working tirelessly at a task,
performing flawlessly,
and when I close my eyes,

the spark persists.

Even now floating metal masses,
though seemingly improbable,
still do not amaze me
like the light created
in broad daylight.
But even this joint
is not fused flawlessly,
smooth and stubborn,
metal makes sure of this.
From Fall 2015 portfolio
faithfulpadfoot Jan 2016
Like waves she
ripples, ebb
and flow,
barely contained within
herself, but yet
she has the
strength
to carry me to shore
Beleif Jan 2016
My pen is drawn,
I play my card.
In opposition, bullets charge
At the humble hull that graces space.

I row through open,
Sound is broken,
Yet I feel the great explosions
As I begin my work of art.

His beard can change the name of Virgo,
As it entangles her with rugged work.
His fingers grasp the fins of Cetus,
Guiding him through hallowed dirt.

Upon my course of groundless ground,
A chorus spits its sinful praise
Upon the Heavens, hands are raised;
Filthy angels make the games.
Holy traitors, boundless bounds,
And sacrilege will fall as rain.

The ones who think they are marionettes,
Will taste the blood on their swords.
Controlled by delusion,
They swing from confusion,
There are no strings in an aimless space.

The pen masters dance in allusions!
Imprison the stories of old,
And execute them with ink!
A war to break out in a comedy show,
Over one wordless tome—
On an altar in my vision zone!

My pen unarmed,
My senses harmed.
A soundless token of echoing voices,
To be spoken in softness, over thundering roughness.
This altar carved with wood and stone,
This tome of words with sheets of ink,
These words wear masks— I cannot read.
Tear a page,
It falls like rain.
Observe the rage,
Let freedom faint.
Soak the page,
Its masks detatch.
Lift the rage,
I row away.
Part III and finale of "Pennons of Madness."
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