"gandalf" poems
eye lids move slowly
over the eyeballs
in an effort to garner
sleep to a worn out
body to restore the
metabolism to normality
yet sleep eludes
the slight movement
of the eyelids never felt before
is sensed as the brine tear
a lubricant between the interface
where surface tension dominates
all other forces of physics
what force dominates my heart?
I know not
and sleep eludes me
Unconstrained emotions flow
around like unsettled dust
particles glowing in the sunlight
that escapes in through a ventilator hole
sedatives themselves are sedated
and sleep eludes me
I still have five more days I foresee
before hallucinations and delusions
take over me
before that oh sleep like gandalf
arriving at helms deep
please come back to me
but not at the breaking of the dawn
not when light is bright
but in silence of the mysterious night
Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 2:49 PM UTC
-something real. Something strong and sturdy, believable. I want to write words that are heavy with lightness and dark with their brightness, to draw on a page a life so unbelievably real, so inconceivably mine
in creation
I want to write
-not just love. Not a ***** with a couple of drink-mangled bugs. I want to write about that feeling of blood churning and the warmth of emotion not physical feeling, to put into words the unwordable joy of being in the presence of
not just anyone
Anyone. Like the not-platonic-non-romantic affection that Rudy would not fail to hint at, that so-wanted kiss that Liesel gave, it wasn't so much the action as the meaning behind it. Like that itch on Death's ear when Liesel he came near, not to take her yet, but to steal her story, to live through it. To feel the words dance in his void, non-niceness, the infinite meanings and the power of phonic combinations.
They allow even Death to live.
I want to write like Zusak, like Rowling, like me.
I want to write
-the philosophies. The thoughts and wishes and wonders of a minority. I want to write about those opinions of those whose voices are too small and their souls beautifully lit up but unseen, their ideologies so unmistakably right but also naive and innocent, to stage their feelings from transition to transition
their words to the wise
I want to write
-characters so flawed. Each with an inner splendor most radiant, but with their fields of starless black and heads that wander from this to that. I want to write lives and people so different, with not-so-good lives and not-so-normal features. People who, though lacking thereof, cliche the right things and believe
in the wrong
The wrong. Their thoughts and meanings about life and beyond, undesirable and judged but that is the human mentality, such as Hazel Grace felt about her casualties and Alaska Young wondered about the labyrinth's unending game. So standard at first, but then Gandalf came and Bilbo learned the differences between Hobbit and the untame. The reasons and purposes of life's grand living, through the eyes of those whose faces are shunned.
Hermione wasn't just a bibliosiac.
I want to write like Green, like Tolkien, like me.
Alas, the clock, a stained moon, it darkens, and the prejudice of people as well as the pride, unfortunately Austen couldn't lessen so much. Stereotypes triumphantly sit on the throne with their Mary-Sue maids catering from head to toe. I can't barge in, object to the crowning, because today I admit it: my writing is dying.
Jan 3, 2015
Jan 3, 2015 at 1:39 PM UTC
"YOU SHALL NOT PASS"
lord of the rings fanatics, typical
Somehow controlling thousands of people turned us all into Gandalf
I guarded the food, you two the door
Most people don't tell you how healthy it is to assert yourself,
They crave passivity, fear aggression
Assertion doesn't mean aggression
Patriarchal society
How good it feels to stand tall
Huge like a mountain, wise like a wizard
If we are Gandalf you're the ring
I hope you get thrown into the pits of Mordor
Sep 30, 2014
Sep 30, 2014 at 12:50 AM UTC
WHO ....
Do you ... " Trust " ... ???
and ... Who are your mates ... ???
cos' people these days ...
MOSTLY ... are Two Faced ... !!!
They .....
Talk with you ...
Like Everything's ... " COOL " ...
But ...
Watch Them .... CLOSE .... !!!
You May Get ... FOOLED ... !?!
I've Fallen .. FOUL ...
of ... " Fiendish " ... Cows ...
Who've tried ... Their BEST to ......
Bring Me .... "down" .... !!!
But I'm ... STILL HERE ...
while they ... STILL CLOWN ...
TRYING ... to judge ...
Like ... Simon Cowell ... !!!!!
I'm ... NO JUDGE ...
and DON'T Wear ... Cuffs ... !!!
But ... Two Faced Liars ...
WILL GET ... Touched ...
by words I ... Write ...
That ... HUFF and PUFF ...
and EXPOSE ... Those ...
Made of ... FAKE STUFF ... !!!!!
So ...
DON'T ACT ... " Tough " ... !!!
If You DON"T WEAR ... " Glove " ... !!!
I'm the ...
" Lord of The Rings " ...
WITHOUT ...................................... Gandalf ....... !!!!!
Guys Tell ... LIES ...
DON'T Be ... Surprised ...
They Normally have ....
A ... " Two Faced Wife " ... !!!
"under" ... The covers ...
They LIE to ... Each Other ... ?!?
HOPING ... Their Fraud ...
Will NOT Be ... UNCOVERED ... !!!
But ..
Big Brother's ... WATCHING ...
Check Out Channel 4 ...
That's where we ... NOW SEE ...
These TWO FACED ... Female ****** ... !!!!!
Who will ... LIE Their *** Off ...
To STOP being ... " Poor " ... !!!!
THIS ....
Is An ..... " ACT " ....
Two Faced People ... PERFORM ... !!!
Now That's JUST ... " TV " ...
But This IS Now The ... NORM ... !?!
From Work ...
to the ... Pub ...
to ....
This Thing We Call .... " LOVE " ....
These Days We NEED ... " Guidance " ...
From WAY UP ..... ABOVE ..... !!!!!
These LIARS ...
DEFY Us ...
By GAINING ... FALSE Trust ... !!!
But ...
CAN'T STAND ... The Heat ...
When Their Ways are ... Discussed ... ?!?
"What did she tell you ?"
"YEAH, what did he say ?"
"He said you're a ****** !"
"He said I was gay ?"
It takes one to know one !"
"Wait what did you say ?"
"You may have a girl,
that don't mean you're not gay !"
These are ... " Examples " ...
of those who ... DISPLAY ...
A Level of ... FAKENESS' ...
In ... MULTIPLE Ways ... !!!!
So WHO ... Amongst you ...
is Simply ... LIVING PROOF ...
That Humans tell ... LIES ...
MORE THAN They tell ... truth ... !!!
I'm Trying to ... Show You ...
to have some ... " Good Taste " ...
Before you ... "Embrace" ...
Someone who's ... TWO FACED ... !!!!!
cos' These Days ... These People ...
Are in ..... EVERYPLACE ...... !!!!!!
From Houses that ... GOVERN ...
to places where people ...
CLAIM ... " Poetic Grace " ... !!!
Some Poets are ... LIARS ...
Who NEED TO .... " Retire " ....
It's Simply ... MY VIEW ...
I May Not mean ... YOU ... ?!?
DON'T Get it ... " ConfuSEd " ... !!!
or ... Try to be ... SMART ...
In The End ...
Time will ... TELL ...
Who speaks TRUTH ...
Through Their ... ART ... !!!
cos' LIES Will Be ... OUTED ...
By ME ... The NEW ... " Shaft " ... !!!
A Brother who's ... COOL ...
and Building My ... CRAFT ... !!!
Don't Think that i'm scared ... !!!
I'm ALWAYS ... Prepared ...
to ... Back UP ... My Words ...
with ACTIONS ... BEWARE ... !!!!!
I'll take you to places ...
Where Eagles ... DON'T DARE ... !!!!!
I'm writing ... Like THIS ...
to Prove i've got ... GIFTS ...
and DISMISS These .............................................................. This FAKE People ...
who speak with a ..... Hissssssss........... !!!!!!
and SLITHER ...
Like ... SNAKES ...
The TRUTH They ........................................................... Forsake ... !!!
and These Are ...
The People ... You KNOW are ...
............. " Two Faced " ...........
Aug 6, 2018
Aug 6, 2018 at 7:48 PM UTC
And so I said to him, "Dumbledore beats Gandalf any day."
Chuckling as we ate our Hobbit breakfast.
Dec 7, 2012
Dec 7, 2012 at 8:23 PM UTC
How was it there in Isengard,
Former haven of the proud,
Whose hollowed valley hid the rot
Beneath its treeless hills,
Ancient machinations tunneled far below
The smooth, impervious tower of Saruman,
The Iridescent Dazzler,
Whose quiet words slipped Sauron's thoughts
Inside our weaker minds?
Venom running hot...then changing cold
Within old Saruman on Gandalf's salutation:
"Saruman the White,"
Changing Truth for truths,
Something totally desired.
"I prefer Saruman the White!"
I think old Gandalf said
While he was still "The Gray,"
(Just before his lofty spire stay).
But evil magic has its ends,
Tendrils turn upon themselves,
Vines tangling slow or fast,
Returning to the evil doer's door
While Good climbs steadily to new beginnings
Rooted in the Old and True,
Reaching for the sun.
Old Ents in righteous anger
Broke dams, diverted streams to flood
The war machines of Isengard,
Drove Orcs and Wargs and Trolls to doom,
Drowned the furnaces...
Then, mourning tree-limbed kin,
Greeted Gandalf on his way to greater things,
And pledged themselves to holy war.
Saruman the Proud,
The sooty iridescent,
The abject coward,
Stripped of power,
Fled unrepentant
Into the mists of Middle Earth
While Sauron's eye glared
West and East,
Wraith-seeking
Frodo and
The Ring.
Aug 27, 2013
Aug 27, 2013 at 9:18 AM UTC
You bought me a wooden pipe
on my last birthday.
I had it for a few months until I lost it.
Now, you're not here to spend the day with me
and neither is the pipe I named after you,
my lovely Lady L.
On a whim, however, I purchased a new pipe.
Inside a gold box,
long and brown,
like something Gandalf would smoke,
my mysterious Wizard.
Just like the girl I share tonight with.
Oct 16, 2013
Oct 16, 2013 at 2:15 AM UTC
these are the days that try mens souls
said oliver twist to L'ouverture
and the big crisis is coming
its time to get running!
the british are coming!
"O' quiet ye olde buffoon!"
what's next? I dont know
said gandalf the gold
whose sincere grin forever faded...
he looks outside the kitchen door
the sand men made sure
the sun wont rise any more
it also rises
nevermore...
Jun 28, 2015
Jun 28, 2015 at 2:50 AM UTC
Rolling in late, Mr. Movie sits on his roll-y chair and is
entranced by the glittering star and butterfly beads
inside the walls of his magical kingdom.
He's having a think.
He's taking a journey, tuning his frequency to the
Centre of the Earth
beep boop boop boop beep
and then stares at me waaaaaaaaaaay far out.
Okay, look, listen to me....
*The ground, did it broked and the dinosaur fell into the
shadow like Balrog?*
I look at him.
(We discussed the death of Maleficent a while ago)
But Trevor didn't fall into the shadow just like Gandalf.
Uh uh. No, he didn't.
He shakes his head.
That is a good thing, I say.
Yes, okay, now look, listen to me...
He lowers his voice to a whisper.
(They want him to stop talking incessantly about these movies)
But the lava's going to blow and let Trevor out, yes.
He nods at me, waiting for my approval.
I agree.
Okay, and now...
He returns to inside the magical kingdom.
Chattering away, he travels to the Serengeti.
beep boop boop boop beep
He turns to me, worried.
An elephant graveyard is no place for a young prince. Oops!
Oh no! An elephant graveyard is no place for a young prince! Oops!
Oops is right.
Grabby is less impressed.
He's all giggles today but not impressed with me.
Slaps me in the face and pours tea all over my stuff.
Oops is right.
Apr 2, 2014
Apr 2, 2014 at 4:53 PM UTC
Rain slides on the window panes,
I read about knights and dragons slain,
Outside of the glass, it's foggy and grey,
And inside the drawing room, the children play.
Fog suspends in space in curls,
The sky outside is white like pearls.
Candle light reflects soft yellow on the glass
Thick dusty books are stacked up for class.
The carpet is soft and fluffy and warm
In the corners of the wall spiders hide from the storm.
It's magical and I suppose if you look out to the street,
you'd think you saw Gandalf making his way through the sleet.
Apr 27, 2013
Apr 27, 2013 at 12:24 PM UTC
Tea With Yoda [50]
Having a Tea Ceremony,
with Yoda in a pagoda,
they say life’s a ladder,
He says it’s more like a totem,
trying to make ends meet for ends meat,
by exceeding expectations & meeting quotas,
trying to make my six senses see as clear as my mentor’s,
a Sensi with stressless sensibilities yet infinite responsibilities,
He’s a mature mixture of past scriptures & vast futures,
the perfect fusion to provide ideal solutions effectively,
to dispel all of the confusing illusions that currently occur,
so that my six senses can make sense of it & see clearly,
& that’s exactly why I’m grateful He’s my mentor,
I clear my mind when I enter his temple & listen attentively,
He’s Mr. Miyagi, Professor X, Stephen Miles, Morpheus,
Gandalf, Splinter, & Obi Wan, all rolled into one,
His composition is awesome so when taking lessons,
I make sure to be free of all distractions going on,
attempting to not take meetings yet people keep calling,
but phone’s off so I don’t see nor take note of the notifications,
I just go off like a boat on the edge of Niagara with no motor,
got expense taste life’s great though no time to be wasting,
gotta find a way to keep speed without delay & without haste,
because patience is key but time won’t wait,
so I stay totally outta touch with the clubs & the whole scene,
so focused I don’t even notice those overblown cokeheads,
light so bright that I’m always getting it in even when I go out,
light always burns but never burns out even at it’s lowest,
heard them mention a question but didn’t return the gesture,
was unsure of their motives plus the question sounded loaded,
goin' all in outta control only thing I limit is my exposure,
on balance with my talents in a pair of New Balances,
meanwhile they’re still trying to gain their composure,
I swear to God I’m not a rock nor in a hard place,
but I do rock Ohms on mountain tops complete with boulders,
shout out to Colorado though I boast low key so no bravado,
soul sans ego, modest & honest like a Buffalo Soldier,
no need to buy game it’s already in the bag sewed close,
& I’m relaxed shoes off spine upright aligned in the Lotus,
having a Tea Ceremony, with Yoda in a pagoda,
having a Tea Ceremony, with Yoda in a pagoda,
they say life’s a ladder, He says it’s more like a totem,
trying to make ends meet for ends meat,
by exceeding expectations & meeting quotas…
∆ LaLux ∆
@aaronlalux
from THHT3: Dark Lights & Bright Shadows 9/9/19
Aug 30, 2019
Aug 30, 2019 at 5:12 PM UTC
And through the woods and past talking trees
Past gandalfs house and past the pile of leaves
Returns a king who has only one specific dream
To conquer the world with a powerful golden ring
And this journey will take three movies long
With Frodo's friends and Gandalf's help
To exploit the lost and i think theres theres room
To throw the ring in the firey pits of Mt. Doom
And I, would save
A fairy elf princess that fell in love with
a man, that's brave
Enough to travel through the mountain to try to save
The whole, **** world
I think that's enough to be worthy in this book
And to try to fight the goblins and trolls
To be prophet of the ancient scroll
And be the the guy that is the chosen one
Please don't forget the times we spent at home
And to help the king thats poisoned in time
And the return of Gandalf the white
Is enough to save the one he loves
The remembrance of a man who fell off a cliff
And I, would save
A fairy elf princess that fell in love with
a man, that's brave
Enough to travel through the mountain to try to save
The whole, **** world
I think that's enough to be worthy in this book
Feb 1, 2013
Feb 1, 2013 at 11:35 AM UTC
Please don't try and correct me.
I'm not broken. I'm maybe free-spirited and a little out-spoken but I've got methods that water would even soak in and when you confuse me with that ****** J.R.R. Tolkien just because I'm burning herbs that Gandalf would be smokin', I'm going to brush it off like you're just joking and I'll get back to the life that i'm continuously toking, kick it back like it's all easy stroking, become at one with nature like an invisible cloak and be that dream but still get awoken by the ground as if something is choking me by the hands of some celestial bloke and hence why i feel like evoking some people with words like they are subliminal pokes and hopefully I'll please whatever it is that had me initially provoked then.
Mar 25, 2014
Mar 25, 2014 at 12:23 PM UTC
I saw you fill the park
Tall and grey
Like Gandalf
A book of spells to hand
And cloaked against the rain.
Long strides across grass
Pink shirted king
A circular crown
Shoes trodden down
Waiting for the Wedding to end.
Love Mary for Roger ***
Jun 23, 2018
Jun 23, 2018 at 10:26 AM UTC
i only think of a japanese robot thinning air in marathons:
editing in secret, while i speel the acronym a.i.
into aerodynamic informatics
for a breeze and wavy hunches true:
i wondered - would this much assure
me to buy a mandolin?
i bought a mandolin once,
but instead of gobi dried up ****** - instead
i was lodged into essays
and existential qualms relieved:
entering a 1960s l.s.d. disco
to suit a broken heart for a tongue flip of disco into ****
i thought of a flirt though,
played the mandolin in scotland,
beneath a window for a vine,
jagged & jarred the bricks with nails to climb & clutter,
and wished for serpentine thorns to clothe
excess sight with light through
spider's diadem kept, webbed;
landed a longshanks' bonus with excess strides
to counter the "debility"
of elongation instead; took two windmills with me
into don quixote, and out popped
the pepper queen of diamonds sneezing,
aged cougar.
so? my one grand delusion is a robot
precisely spelling me wok twang wrong;
i know i'm drunk, but that's hardly an excuse
to equate soberness with sanity
and stupidity clothed in spelling relieved, so simply undone
above the rubric of welcome detention in lines of surd names after mother smith.
Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 9:28 PM UTC
At times I’m superstitious
coincidence and names
But mystery’s delicious
More delectable than fame
Yes, I’d like to live
In a fantasy story
Like Karen Eifel gives
Or Gandalf in his glory
Analogical is my mind
I search for secret connections
The rhyme is what I find
Similarity reflections
Ordinary daily life
I admit is often prosaic
Yet amidst the struggling strife
I fly Eliadean archaic
My spirit in the sky
My body walks the beach
To philosophize is to die
As both shamans and Plato teach.
May 4, 2019
May 4, 2019 at 6:56 PM UTC
So I sit back in my freshly painted
Living room.
Neon yellow just didn't do it any
More. That colour blind landlord
Might actually have cost me a
**** fine relationship.
I'm painting over few, ugly fights,
Intense passion, selfless love alike.
White. It's a Gandalf-like rebirth,
This coming back to myself.
I sit smiling in my freshly painted
Living room. Just some man
Waiting to be asked why he's
Grinning like that.
I've painted every wall of my home
The colour of canvas.
Jul 7, 2014
Jul 7, 2014 at 11:30 AM UTC
Hello again Gollum
Sitting over there
Now I know sometimes
Life seems sad and stupid
And it feels like no one really cares
But everyone has their part to play
Remember what Gandalf said
Let's cook this fresh salmon
And enjoy it with some of
Bilbo's freshly baked bread
Oct 20, 2015
Oct 20, 2015 at 5:37 AM UTC
The thing that I wish for most in life
A thing I yearn for constantly
Is an Adventure.
Getting As on your report card
Does not count.
Neither do
Projects
Homework
Responsibilities
Plans
Or walking ten feet into the woods behind the house.
The Adventure I seek
Is one where there are no plans
Or perhaps they go awry
In exactly the way where everything
Turns out to be grand.
To walk hundreds of miles
With a
Dwarf
An elf
Four hobbits
Two men
And Gandalf
On a Quest to destroy the Ring.
Maybe it is the greater purpose
Which I lack.
There is no true magic I can see in this world
So I delve into another
And another
Turning pages and
Pretending that I am part of that greater purpose though I am
An observer
Somedays I wish books could come to life.
Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 10:27 PM UTC
I wish I had a Gandalf
or an Obi Wan
when all hope was gone
Or a Morpheus to come
and make me believe
that I am THE ONE.
Jan 5, 2015
Jan 5, 2015 at 9:28 AM UTC
I smoke this pipe
As I look out the window
Packed with longbottom leaf
I envision myself
As Gandalf the Grey
Reborn as Gandalf the White
Mar 7, 2015
Mar 7, 2015 at 3:41 PM UTC
What if Gandalf had no idea what he was about to do about the balrog... he's just so attuned to his intuition that he knew the universe was fixing to use his staff as an instrument to prevent it from passing.
Maybe being a wizard means knowing what you have to offer the world and keeping it with you at all times;
Practiced.
Mastered.
Ready at a moments notice should it ever be called upon.
To achieve wizard level, stay focused. Be brave.
Jun 14, 2015
Jun 14, 2015 at 5:32 PM UTC
I want to be that firework
Like, in your face showing Gandalf's work
Up and at 'em flying high
On my suicide run into the sky
Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013 at 12:08 AM UTC
"Don't wait for Gandalf to show up on your doorstep to have an adventure.
Be Gandalf and do it for yourself."
Apr 27, 2016
Apr 27, 2016 at 5:13 PM UTC