#awoken
You can try to make us less soft, less open, less fiery…
But you are the ones who are frozen -
The ones who won’t make the diary,
When everything you claim to be right is distorted and stolen…
You can’t stop us from flying towards the light
and glowing green and golden…
So best just leave us be… you’re the wanderers of this gallery and we’re the centrepiece…
Having travelled many galaxies to see you differently,
You still look at us with one colouring, through one sheen -
But it’s time to evolve or flee…
Our wings shield your swords and shine a light but only for those who want to see -
And those who want to see have wings like me,
And we hold each other carefully…
When our eyes meet - catching our dual infinity…
Our endless vision reminding us that within our dual lucency, we belong to many cosmic entities…
Sep 11, 2025
Sep 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM UTC
We’re nothing but skeletons through safety nets -
Fingers clicking new time sets,
Carcasses savouring the darkness
Lipsticks by cigarettes following the dim lit spec
Of no ground beneath us, wanderers foetusless
Figuring the freckles from the sun to our mess -
Caskets of breath, holding up heads
Hangers and railings, waiting for the horse sense sect...
Arrows through archways, glass light through windows
Pink blood smelling phoenix potent
Broken street slabs, bruised zinc honing
Wailing, awoken, wasting, frozen
Bent not broken– darker, sharper
Pieces of our star creature
Learning to walk quicker
Into the other whirl where we were hurled from...
No longer held off,
Dragons and sky gods
fending the ether -
Furious feathers float into glowing oceans that camber...
Aug 20, 2025
Aug 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM UTC
to the man donned in black
to the woman with no spine
and a broken back
you work in slumber
with eyes unopened
to life's beauty
you have only spoken
brief talks betwixt dreams
stiffened, when awoken
of thoughts that linger a ways away
in a land of virtue
reminiscent of tolkien
Mar 28, 2021
Mar 28, 2021 at 3:31 PM UTC
At dusk
My eyelids fell
Leaving me
Curious
In no time
My eyes had to wander
So up went my lids
Shocked
Just a second passed
I took a look around
The stormy wind blew
Distressed
A moment later
I saw the world tilt
I flew onto the deck
Confused
I was a second too late
As the water soaked my lungs
Salty ocean blades
Overwhelming
As hours went by
I flailed amidst the sea
Blue in the face
Terrified
By dawn, I saw
life, within a wreath
Swimming around an island
Relieved
It could have been days
As I trudged to land
Finally, I reached salvation
Desperately
Then time stopped
And my eyes flew back open
Revealing my room
Awoken
Nov 12, 2020
Nov 12, 2020 at 11:36 AM UTC
that Knowing came today
in a casket it lay
a thing revealed i say
that which lived now dead
the mystery of mysteries
whirling upon my head;
once to live
once to die
and many more hidden
within my rye!
:: 04-03-2014 ::
Rev: 03.01.2020
Mar 1, 2020
Mar 1, 2020 at 10:51 AM UTC
i think i was made, already broken
know every word that goes unspoken
keep it inside like holding the smoke in
choke on the words, and you'll be awoken
Feb 2, 2020
Feb 2, 2020 at 10:09 PM UTC
Surrounded by impeccable noise
This was nothing but my choice
Goodness gracious
I lost my voice
So anxious I can't breath
I think it's from Ms. Melody
How beautifully she's made
You flew to her aid
My heart has been awoken
Living to be broken
Needing be free
It'll never be me
Oct 20, 2019
Oct 20, 2019 at 7:10 PM UTC
How to ensure that you’ll never sleep again:
Halfway wake to a tickle
Decide you’re dreaming, and ignore it
Almost asleep again...
Feel another tickle
Grab for back of neck
Feel a definite something
Jun 10, 2018
Jun 10, 2018 at 2:58 AM UTC
*I bow my head with sleepy eye’s,
slowly downward goes my head.
Mind drifting,
shifting from reality into
a drowsy darkness.
A flooding moment of silence,
my mind is still about me,
yet I feel a difference in my reality,
it wakes me everytime.
I can never dream until the end,
for my mind is too aware
for it to keep me underneath
the dream state you all are allowed
to share, but without me.*
© 2017 By Amanda Shelton
Oct 14, 2017
Oct 14, 2017 at 8:21 AM UTC
*My eyes open,
The sun filters in.
For a moment,
Just a moment,
I am warm;
I am at peace.
I am happy.
And then the day
Starts, and I wish
With all my heart
And soul that
I hadn't awoken
From my sleep.*
Mar 14, 2017
Mar 14, 2017 at 8:07 AM UTC
Awoken from a dream that never ends, aware of the lies that disguise the worth of mortal lives. Taught to mimic what's seen without ever knowing what it means, I watch the masses shift between souls with free will, and machines with a set of programmed commands.
Robots on a conveyer belt, the world is spinning we are all trying to hold on to our sanity. Humanity individuality, what makes us different is slipping this constant need to be different. Is what makes us the same.
Mar 4, 2015
Mar 4, 2015 at 6:18 PM UTC
at least you still have your heart
i'm molded glass and iron
things are ice and cold
metallic, lacking fire
no understanding, just being
waves floated and crashed
days lived and passed
stories told, forgotten
words spoken, promises broken
hermetics exposed, porcelain froze
perfection, a far distance
many planes, lands, wildernesses and visions
spirit awoken, undone and redone
sure to speak up or be forever a silenced pun
s.q.
Dec 8, 2014
Dec 8, 2014 at 12:29 AM UTC
I try to not talk after 2am.
because that's when I really
come out.
I share my hopes
dreams, desires, fears.
I talk about the future
and make promises that
we both know, I won't keep.
The sun acts as smelling salts
to the unconscious,
or glasses to the almost blind.
It wakes me up from my darkest thoughts.
So lets not share late night thoughts
lets not share cheap wine on carpeted apartment floors
lets not share laughs or secrets
because when the sun comes
the night buzz will be gone.
And we'll go back to being strangers
with one night of memories.
Mar 30, 2014
Mar 30, 2014 at 5:58 AM UTC