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"perilous" poems
I am loud, Demanding attention. I know when I am being charming Because I try. I put on my impressing face And do my impressing hair And speak my impressing words. I tell you my embarrassing drinking stories And everything else about me That you probably shouldn’t know. I am not good at being quiet Because that’s not who I am. I am not the sweet girl Who will leave you with a smile And a touch And a glance Or a single word. There is nothing of this fashion of romance About me. I am the girl who will point out your flaws, And take you outside to see the stars, And remind you how human you are, And what a wonderful thing that is. I am the girl who will talk about science, And music and theology and history, And point out constellations, laughing, When you don’t know the big dipper’s name. I am the girl who will make witty references, To classic literature and science fiction, And will tell you stories of how I once, Made a gingerbread replica of a lighthouse. I am the girl who will stand on a table, And sing at the top of my lungs on the highway, And act like a chicken or quail or velociraptor, Or nuzzle your face like a lion to make a point. I am the girl who takes too many shots And then coaxes you to bed on a Russian liver, And knows all the right places to bite, and tease, And follows with exceptionally coherent pillow-talk. I am not a thin silk scarf on the wind. I am not a thing hard to capture. You would not spend a perilous journey Through a wild, perfumed jungle, Searching for my slender garments Hung beside a pool As I wail to the breeze. Rather, I am the bird who flies overhead Making too much noise Distracting from the trail ahead. A bird whose plumage proves What an interesting life it must be… What a colorful life for me… Perpetually strange The lone comic relief. I am many things. But I am not quiet. Of this I am sure.
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Sep 7, 2012
Sep 7, 2012 at 6:27 AM UTC
I am Loud
I am loud, Demanding attention. I know when I am being charming Because I try. I put on my impressing face And do my impressing hair And speak my impressing words. I tell you my embarrassing drinking stories And everything else about me That you probably shouldn’t know. I am not good at being quiet Because that’s not who I am. I am not the sweet girl Who will leave you with a smile And a touch And a glance Or a single word. There is nothing of this fashion of romance About me. I am the girl who will point out your flaws, And take you outside to see the stars, And remind you how human you are, And what a wonderful thing that is. I am the girl who will talk about science, And music and theology and history, And point out constellations, laughing, When you don’t know the big dipper’s name. I am the girl who will make witty references, To classic literature and science fiction, And will tell you stories of how I once, Made a gingerbread replica of a lighthouse. I am the girl who will stand on a table, And sing at the top of my lungs on the highway, And act like a chicken or quail or velociraptor, Or nuzzle your face like a lion to make a point. I am the girl who takes too many shots And then coaxes you to bed on a Russian liver, And knows all the right places to bite, and tease, And follows with exceptionally coherent pillow-talk. I am not a thin silk scarf on the wind. I am not a thing hard to capture. You would not spend a perilous journey Through a wild, perfumed jungle, Searching for my slender garments Hung beside a pool As I wail to the breeze. Rather, I am the bird who flies overhead Making too much noise Distracting from the trail ahead. A bird whose plumage proves What an interesting life it must be… What a colorful life for me… Perpetually strange The lone comic relief. I am many things. But I am not quiet. Of this I am sure.
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Within the fields of grace and moving waltzing wheat fields moves the spotted feline with pace black tears run down its face and yields to the sun's tangerine gaze The rythmic thomping of paws through grass with undivided focus so clear every step as fragile as glass sounds perilous behind this feeble deer Colossal strides that fly through air pefected anatomy claws down its goal rules of nature have never been fair but one must know the key is survival this deer now knows its fatal fate is nature's gift to the cheetah's plate.
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May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015 at 2:42 PM UTC
The Cheetah
PLEDGE TO NIGERIA By: Adigun Temitope Idealism From between heaven and earth stand a perilous place Where poverty kicked us on face Tears stand as our drinks Where hunger eat up our meals Our pain is a poisonous laughter Where sadness becomes our daily activities Where hardship becomes our ambition And sorrow our career Still, we need to pledge to Nigeria Blood, bone and oil, Are the pedestal of earth Where killing is a lifestyle And ****** a hobby Where humiliation becomes our take home And misfortune our store-house Where graduate works by the road-side Where poverty is titillating and titivating before the mirror of our land Yet we need to pledge to Nigeria Pledge to Nigeria Even when the birds refuses to sing, When moon dims its light, When our days turn into nights When sun fails to shine And flowers refuse to bloom When life fails to give reasons When dreams refuse to forgive When the weep inside birth the smile outside When tears wash hope from our sight Nigeria must still be pledge to I pledge to Nigeria Not to be one if the ambassadors that sing the National Anthem with a teleprompter smiling at them in a shameful tears I pledge not to be a naked masquerade dancing at the village square I pledge to steal government money for the poor when I become the President I pledge to be loyal and not betrayal I pledge to fight off vices and calamities with my pen If democracy must to end I pledge to go crazy to stop it to the end If civilization was to make us stupid I pledge to swim in stupidity not to be civilised I pledge, I pledge ©2015 Adigun Temitope Idealism (Deacon) #Muse #PurposefulPoetry #BPM #IIB #Asaplanet #ThoughtAndSociety #Poetfreak blackpridemagazin.simplesite.com @blackpridemag1
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Oct 28, 2015
Oct 28, 2015 at 3:11 AM UTC
MY PLEDGE TO NIGERIA
PLEDGE TO NIGERIA By: Adigun Temitope Idealism From between heaven and earth stand a perilous place Where poverty kicked us on face Tears stand as our drinks Where hunger eat up our meals Our pain is a poisonous laughter Where sadness becomes our daily activities Where hardship becomes our ambition And sorrow our career Still, we need to pledge to Nigeria Blood, bone and oil, Are the pedestal of earth Where killing is a lifestyle And ****** a hobby Where humiliation becomes our take home And misfortune our store-house Where graduate works by the road-side Where poverty is titillating and titivating before the mirror of our land Yet we need to pledge to Nigeria Pledge to Nigeria Even when the birds refuses to sing, When moon dims its light, When our days turn into nights When sun fails to shine And flowers refuse to bloom When life fails to give reasons When dreams refuse to forgive When the weep inside birth the smile outside When tears wash hope from our sight Nigeria must still be pledge to I pledge to Nigeria Not to be one if the ambassadors that sing the National Anthem with a teleprompter smiling at them in a shameful tears I pledge not to be a naked masquerade dancing at the village square I pledge to steal government money for the poor when I become the President I pledge to be loyal and not betrayal I pledge to fight off vices and calamities with my pen If democracy must to end I pledge to go crazy to stop it to the end If civilization was to make us stupid I pledge to swim in stupidity not to be civilised I pledge, I pledge ©2015 Adigun Temitope Idealism (Deacon) #Muse #PurposefulPoetry #BPM #IIB #Asaplanet #ThoughtAndSociety #Poetfreak blackpridemagazin.simplesite.com @blackpridemag1
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*Transient happiness Drought in our heart Emotionless Passionless Love’s an oasis We are Weary travelers Unaware of The ramifications Of unloved Earth Nature’s revolt Will encage us Within our faults Overzealous we are Perilous future Awaits us*
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Feb 28, 2015
Feb 28, 2015 at 11:39 PM UTC
Transient happiness
_To Polina, my anchor, through all my lives_ Between dawn and dusk on the precipice in shades of scarlet stood a magnificent house Strangers and I were enthralled by the neon red foyer where Francesca and Paolo welcomed us to the house of a thousand doors Each door an invitation to delicious desire each room a seduction of perilous passion One door opened — three bare women holograms drank from a small lake and brandished wicked, feline smiles At my feet a church of cardinals glowing with tears, heat and sweat whimpered in their prayers but the pope watched from afar.   He speaks— the mouth at once is an eye, an abyss and a hurricane from Pandora's box Then I am I no more — a cardinal in crimson — but no shame or guilt guides me when blood-red lips land on mine "Do you not see there is equal courage equal purity in giving into temptation— the kind that appals the devil to revel in the hurt, the open wounds, and the agony to dive deep— into the depths and say all the yeses to embrace the darkest demons of your soul? Enter— and you shall find hell or heaven within yourself."
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Apr 14, 2018
Apr 14, 2018 at 1:37 AM UTC
A Tourist at the House of Sin
I see the beauty in a palm‑sized tomato growing afloat on Inle Lake— the one-legged fisherman silhouetted, perilous against his wooden boat, against the slow-setting sun. Thin echoes of beauty linger: hundred-year ruins, temples, stupas standing with pride, The culture of longyi worn with quiet delight. I took the train that loops through buildings, markets, houses, plantations— a city, a country shadowed by a darkness yet to reckon with its genocide. The cries rise, unacknowledged. “Mingalaba,” says a Burmese lady, her face painted with thanaka, the ground bark a pale mask in the sun’s scorching glare. She sits near Dyamayanggi Temple, a basket of snacks at her side, offering them with a smile. Joy comes chasing the sunset in the land of a thousand pagodas. A mystical climb, a striking landscape. I breathe, feel, wish to stay longer, soaked in twilight. For a fleeting moment, with eyes closed, I drown in the colours of the golden sky.
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 10:03 PM UTC
Golden Burma
Communication/ medium of the mind Improper transfer; difficult time; Gears and pistons fire steadily Words are formed and jump out readily Filtered or not; good or bad A possible high, or impossible sad An idea new, bright, and free A rain cloud of dark, of which you can see The freedom erupts! The face celebrates The storm corrupts, the eyes retaliate A perilous game played (by two) together An exchange we somehow all get through A skill we improve with each Endeavour
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Sep 18, 2012
Sep 18, 2012 at 8:38 PM UTC
Communication
Just Let It In this language,
 the perplexity 
 of this language, 
 is damaging to me.
 how can there possibly
 exist such an impeccably
 imposing combination of
 words that still manage to destroy 
 a soul as wasted as mine? somehow 
 words discover these fine little cracks in 
 my wall, as thin as the head of a pin. words 
 are like water, rushing into whatever space they 
 can invade, occupying whatever volume they discover. 
 this water trickles through the fragmented spaces, traveling 
all the way to my heart, transforming me in the way they seem to 
alter us all. it is these words that i take with me. words reverberate in my mind, 
disrupt me to my core, degrade me. your  words are the ones i perpetually carry with me...
 any...all of them. yours are the ones that elicit the simultaneous firing of every single neuron in my brain. there is something about the magic of your words flowing together...whispered into my ear. they move through me like a stealthy, lone snake, undulating in a field, stalking its defenseless prey; slowly...at first glance, not appearing to be a perilous threat ...then piercing me all at once with fierce strength and determination, devouring me without appearing to 
 acknowledge that maybe i still...still want to be.
 to be whole. and i do. my body craves 
 the sensation of being complete, not torn apart by the nonsense of your  daunting words disrupting my spirit and making me despise the necessity of language.
 i wish i could void your words 
 from my brain, but my mind is helplessly inconsistent; i can never forget what i long to,   scarcely remember what i must; and my peculiar mind *
certainly* will never forget the sound of your words, 
 just like water,
 flooding me. 
taking me
 over.
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Nov 11, 2012
Nov 11, 2012 at 2:44 AM UTC
Just Let It In
Just Let It In this language,
 the perplexity 
 of this language, 
 is damaging to me.
 how can there possibly
 exist such an impeccably
 imposing combination of
 words that still manage to destroy 
 a soul as wasted as mine? somehow 
 words discover these fine little cracks in 
 my wall, as thin as the head of a pin. words 
 are like water, rushing into whatever space they 
 can invade, occupying whatever volume they discover. 
 this water trickles through the fragmented spaces, traveling 
all the way to my heart, transforming me in the way they seem to 
alter us all. it is these words that i take with me. words reverberate in my mind, 
disrupt me to my core, degrade me. your  words are the ones i perpetually carry with me...
 any...all of them. yours are the ones that elicit the simultaneous firing of every single neuron in my brain. there is something about the magic of your words flowing together...whispered into my ear. they move through me like a stealthy, lone snake, undulating in a field, stalking its defenseless prey; slowly...at first glance, not appearing to be a perilous threat ...then piercing me all at once with fierce strength and determination, devouring me without appearing to 
 acknowledge that maybe i still...still want to be.
 to be whole. and i do. my body craves 
 the sensation of being complete, not torn apart by the nonsense of your  daunting words disrupting my spirit and making me despise the necessity of language.
 i wish i could void your words 
 from my brain, but my mind is helplessly inconsistent; i can never forget what i long to,   scarcely remember what i must; and my peculiar mind *
certainly* will never forget the sound of your words, 
 just like water,
 flooding me. 
taking me
 over.
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Manning up in Texas Geldof overdose needles at the bed stand starlet comatose California dreaming killer meets demise hurling in a taxi puke fee on the rise Fighting in the Gaza Jordan's holy war rebels on a mission Jihad underscore The North Korean riddle pales in grand design crisis on the border planes fall from the sky Cooking on a deadline tempting tapenades herbs are in the spotlight wines that give a nod Google maps the body DOW at record highs Uber comes to market corn is on the rise Apple on its earnings Caterpillar dead European sanctions banks have **** the bed Clippers threaten boycott Longhorns follow purge Lynch is out of training camp James is on the verge Leinart taking *** shots coughing up a lung lions take a licking fans are throwing dung Another day in Vegas Primm from A-Z rolling out an ankle a flying SUV Quiet tempting spaces made better by design multi color pea coat silence fuels the mind Stabbing in the subway goat caught in a well apes are selling tickets (but leave behind a smell) Puberty on trial a man without a head teachers feel alone lets take them to the shed! Jonah's tomb destroyed wreckage in Mumbai Sugar Daddy sites Freedom 85 The immigrant debate Russia's mounting toll unions on a mission heads are gonna roll Beaches for the nudists hotels on the cheap the best generic brands a list you have to keep! Planning your estate questions from the camp a mansion up for sale where once they filmed The Champ Midwives threaten action aboriginal act truckers want concessions that train has left the track Sharks are found in Fundy a prized but perilous catch food we love to hate the most an irrefutable batch A family on the brink I want my kids to fail! politicians drains all hope a ban on Israel Follow out each headline let the columns be your guide all these things did happen the day that Newhouse died
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Aug 2, 2017
Aug 2, 2017 at 10:29 AM UTC
The Day That Robert Newhouse Died
Manning up in Texas Geldof overdose needles at the bed stand starlet comatose California dreaming killer meets demise hurling in a taxi puke fee on the rise Fighting in the Gaza Jordan's holy war rebels on a mission Jihad underscore The North Korean riddle pales in grand design crisis on the border planes fall from the sky Cooking on a deadline tempting tapenades herbs are in the spotlight wines that give a nod Google maps the body DOW at record highs Uber comes to market corn is on the rise Apple on its earnings Caterpillar dead European sanctions banks have **** the bed Clippers threaten boycott Longhorns follow purge Lynch is out of training camp James is on the verge Leinart taking *** shots coughing up a lung lions take a licking fans are throwing dung Another day in Vegas Primm from A-Z rolling out an ankle a flying SUV Quiet tempting spaces made better by design multi color pea coat silence fuels the mind Stabbing in the subway goat caught in a well apes are selling tickets (but leave behind a smell) Puberty on trial a man without a head teachers feel alone lets take them to the shed! Jonah's tomb destroyed wreckage in Mumbai Sugar Daddy sites Freedom 85 The immigrant debate Russia's mounting toll unions on a mission heads are gonna roll Beaches for the nudists hotels on the cheap the best generic brands a list you have to keep! Planning your estate questions from the camp a mansion up for sale where once they filmed The Champ Midwives threaten action aboriginal act truckers want concessions that train has left the track Sharks are found in Fundy a prized but perilous catch food we love to hate the most an irrefutable batch A family on the brink I want my kids to fail! politicians drains all hope a ban on Israel Follow out each headline let the columns be your guide all these things did happen the day that Newhouse died
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Let us paint our canvasses on WOMEN!! Curious I stand to unravel your perception of a woman Would you weigh her as a piece of wonder or a gruffly aggressive thunder? She is extraordinary, gorgeously efficient, solely independent! The love she embraces is wider than the infinite heaven and deeper than the fathomless sea. The shallow world with its profound hypocrisy, Banters with a judgemental frown. The world has changed, and so has she. It has known the beautiful rose, tarnished by its prickly thorns, Only the delicate rose, the world, with its abysmal critics, abides by to adorn. She knows her paths, truly determined to achieve her goals, Her patience deserves a salute, her tremendous sacrifice only to satisfy our souls. Dare never to shred the lovely red petals, not knowing her darings! For also the thorns in her are perilous, to blemish a wound till your last. With her chin up and a gaze so ferocious, ocean of wisdom she is vast. She rises, she grows, taking a free flight, venturing to claim new heights, She is benevolent, a ray of sanguine sunshine to your forlorn nights. Walking proud, believing in who she is, glimmering like a star! Born strong she is, refuses to be judged by her scars. She is the teller of her tale, over fears and worries she will prevail. A miracle of God, with a sweet lingering fragrance she leaves a trail, Of patience, commitment, empathy, and unfaltering fortitude !! by ~Mihika Rohatgi
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Mar 7, 2021
Mar 7, 2021 at 10:50 PM UTC
Wonder Woman !!
Winters can be tedious. Sun dips into early dusk. A dead fire refuses to ignite. There's a quick repetition of opening and closing blinds over a barred window. In need of reflection I search a familiar face in an unfamiliar landscape. I have her in my grasp, half illusion, half real, a symbolic mask denies her true face, her glittering crown divides us by its radiance. Groping in darkness, I stumble over objects of wood and stone, my unsteady tread tripping over their contours. I light a candle. Bathed in amber light, our shadows merge. A new door opens, stretching the perspective. No formal borders here, they wouldn't survive the present climate. In their place, intricately carved figureheads and totems- a vision of the past. My eye is a camera, retinas branded with imagery for the photographer's delight- coloured pebbles, carved wooden animals, tin cans, bones..... ....A Glass Sentinel (though she isn't visible) I can see right through her- a vision of smokescreens and subterfuge. Past stumps of driftwood, past the uncut grass, a few flowers... ...to the fabricated backdrop of a burning house, black smoke rising in a thin stream. At the open door - The Guardian, (I know her inside out) unmoved, (she didn't bat an eye) defiant in a new skin, a softer version- The Mother protecting her children, arms splayed, prepared for fight or flight. A russet flame Licking her spine exhales 'Get out of my way!' but she wasn't listening. Smile fixed, eyes of a phoenix, a lion, a raptor, protector. We all need feeding, but not this way! Throw me a cloth, a napkin, a man-size tissue a lifeline! She wanted this, no, wished it- this symbolism, this burning of ironic portraits, to clear the deck, make way for new. It shook the house, its fate sealed behind closed doors. I compose myself, pull her back from the perilous edge, gather her in my arms. Fragments of shattered words flutter in the ether. What is real? What is fiction? A carbon copy of thousands? A charred corner? A forgotten candle? WARNING: 'Eating fire' is a risky business but can attract a large audience.
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Jul 12, 2014
Jul 12, 2014 at 11:29 AM UTC
On reading Margaret Atwood's selected poetry-'Eating Fire'
Winters can be tedious. Sun dips into early dusk. A dead fire refuses to ignite. There's a quick repetition of opening and closing blinds over a barred window. In need of reflection I search a familiar face in an unfamiliar landscape. I have her in my grasp, half illusion, half real, a symbolic mask denies her true face, her glittering crown divides us by its radiance. Groping in darkness, I stumble over objects of wood and stone, my unsteady tread tripping over their contours. I light a candle. Bathed in amber light, our shadows merge. A new door opens, stretching the perspective. No formal borders here, they wouldn't survive the present climate. In their place, intricately carved figureheads and totems- a vision of the past. My eye is a camera, retinas branded with imagery for the photographer's delight- coloured pebbles, carved wooden animals, tin cans, bones..... ....A Glass Sentinel (though she isn't visible) I can see right through her- a vision of smokescreens and subterfuge. Past stumps of driftwood, past the uncut grass, a few flowers... ...to the fabricated backdrop of a burning house, black smoke rising in a thin stream. At the open door - The Guardian, (I know her inside out) unmoved, (she didn't bat an eye) defiant in a new skin, a softer version- The Mother protecting her children, arms splayed, prepared for fight or flight. A russet flame Licking her spine exhales 'Get out of my way!' but she wasn't listening. Smile fixed, eyes of a phoenix, a lion, a raptor, protector. We all need feeding, but not this way! Throw me a cloth, a napkin, a man-size tissue a lifeline! She wanted this, no, wished it- this symbolism, this burning of ironic portraits, to clear the deck, make way for new. It shook the house, its fate sealed behind closed doors. I compose myself, pull her back from the perilous edge, gather her in my arms. Fragments of shattered words flutter in the ether. What is real? What is fiction? A carbon copy of thousands? A charred corner? A forgotten candle? WARNING: 'Eating fire' is a risky business but can attract a large audience.
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resuming vogon poetry altering website logos pretending everyone cares playing "east hastings" asphyxiating well-nigh denouement depicting twitter status obfuscating coincident deletions translating from Sḵwx̱wú7mesh assuring Sḵwx̱wú7mesh exists painting skwiḵw's mother? decrying micropolitical maelstrom imbibing fireball fountain inundating lexical foofaraw crafting poetic wonders desiring other mediums remaining practically invisible ending internet-only depression drafting noetic blunders requesting astute clique blazing perilous trail aging ominous grisaille depicting kmart realism seeking darker groups increasing pre-weekend laughter appropriating communist symbols making lone chuckle offending worldwide communists colonizing hello poetry colonizing parallel universe relaxing e-migration policies пить чистую водку photographing abduction scene ¿losing consistent format? increasing bluebird insignia avoiding frivolous legalities striking astraphobic comments assuming near-universal automation lowering latent inhibition traversing oneiric plane laxwadding afebrile loodies wallscaping pitchsourced chthonicities closing one-star conveniences sharing alien-looking alphabet writing system downtimes
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Sep 13, 2015
Sep 13, 2015 at 7:42 PM UTC
201509-w1
Slick grass glistened heavy After summer showers fell before a sun That trickled veiled toward transcendent trees Towered on the outskirts of the demesne - It unsheathed A pearlescent canvas for a dreamer who paints ideals; A reader finding signs in smiles and glances Strolling paths free of fear to free imagination; Summoning hopes against a fresh red/orange Backdrop, and ignoring perilous heights to cast A thought to moments yet unlived - This fool's masterpiece.
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Aug 9, 2015
Aug 9, 2015 at 8:07 AM UTC
Brushstrokes
life is so unexpectedly ordinary next you jump right into adventure turn of a corner changed everything what lies ahead? could it lead to my once up on a time or a perilous downfall the only way to tell is to have faith and trust in your fate I fall, jump and bound into this unknown and hope it's the right choice you and I will never know what is ahead unless we try this path together
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Jan 7, 2016
Jan 7, 2016 at 4:18 AM UTC
an adventure to change fate
Everyday’s affliction with what we know is missing Countless moments wishing that fishing was as simple as whistling Remembering that willows wither in winters un-warmed and wandering wonders willfully repose when rivaled against ripening woes Come closer potential memories of exposes’ Clothes skydiving with expectations of faceplanting into the floor Lady classifications disguise the actions depicting a ***** Heaping hopefuls cascade over glistening gazes that persuade the perilous to lay dormant Come closer to the oops That second guess in the back of your head that taps the shoulder and says go That same go that was an initial no and now corruption has spidered the criteria It seems the cat may have found the trick to the ball of yarn
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Dec 1, 2011
Dec 1, 2011 at 10:26 PM UTC
Curiosities Corruption
Dear thirak, I'll keep you safe, I'll keep you warm. If ever there comes a storm, Dare not worry, Stay calm; I will be your charm. I will take your hands and guide you through this perilous journey of what life brings new; Good or bad; Happy or sad, I will not leave you even when I'm mad; I will walk with you till the skies turn blue; all because my heart is true. -Kes Long.
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Feb 19, 2016
Feb 19, 2016 at 8:58 AM UTC
Dear Thirak
This is the time lean woods shall spend A steeped-up twilight, and the pale evening drink, And the perilous roe, the leaper to the west brink, Trembling and bright to the caverned cloud descend. Now shall you see pent oak gone gusty and frantic, Stooped with dry weeping, ruinously unloosing The sparse disheveled leaf, or reared and tossing A dreary scarecrow bough in funeral antic. Then, tatter you and rend, Oak heart, to your profession mourning; not obscure The outcome, not crepuscular; on the deep floor Sable and gold match lustres and contend. And rags of shrouding will not muffle the slain. This is the immortal extinction, the priceless wound Not to be staunched. The live gold leaks beyond, And matter’s sanctified, dipped in a gold stain.
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Sundown
the end is now in sight terror comes encroaching don’t let the perilous dusk douse the flame that leads you the dream inside you burns yet darkness wants to dim it when you want to quit hear the summit calling and when’s the sky’s sunlit and faith is at its brightest the blackness strikes again the apex is still higher tho’ energy now spent you vow to keep on going just when the crest you’ve reached you slip and fall now dangling hanging by a nail a famine then come robs you feed on your inner will to see your destination you break free and go on the wind strikes now the hardest resist not but take flight set sail to elevation your spirit will not break your eye’s upon the zenith but next the snake will bite let passion be your tonic it burns right through your veins your skin molting peels off you metamorphosis has changed the venom to elixir then illness strikes quite fierce you sink into a deep trench reach down throw up your twine towards the light you see it no strength left yet still walk you are not to be broken stop gasp and catch your breath you are at the top now a phosphorescent light envelops all around you spin it into gold throw rope to those still climbing you who’ve scaled the mount tho’ scarred have high ascended fear’s an illusion here love’s altitude has conquered never give up hope tho’ night is at its cruelest hang on to see the sun the pinnacle is magic ©2016janetaylor
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May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016 at 11:48 AM UTC
the pinnacle is magic
*Cimmerian Chaos, incediary The Requiem of the Revenant: Tis I, The Breathing Song Conjuring a vestige, Ensorcelled by what I'd been envisaging. Maimed by Tempus, The Temporal Arbiter Words reverberating on the wavelength of my soul Left me vibrating desolate and wayworn. Utterances deluging me in the Dominion of Doubt Until I reached a crossroads For perilous was the pilgrimage I peregrinated. The Penultimate Tribulation has begun And though angst is festering in my flesh, The Sacred Lotus of Dreams has not wilted, Shalt it ever upon the Lake of the Holy Oracle; Elysium of the Soul is awaiting those who are stalwart In the Visage of the Shadows.* ∞Hallelujah∞ By Sanders M. Foulke III
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Sep 29, 2017
Sep 29, 2017 at 5:32 AM UTC
The Requiem of the Revenant (Originally Penned in July of 2017)
I told you not to pardon me cause I couldn't let you count on me but you put every bet on me against all odds... I told you to hide your soul instead you gave me heart mind and all I told you I was a thorny road you walked it bare footed wincing at every ***** believing that right ahead things would change... I told you I was a broken Eagle but you believed you could fix my wings I was a volcano waiting to erupt you wasn't afraid of the larva, thought you could adapt I told you I was splinters and you started picking up the pieces I told you I was hell and you said you wanted to dance with my demons When I revealed that I knew not how to dance you said life's a lesson and you would be my teacher "What if the song of our affection ends?" I questioned with the belief that love's just a word but you assured me that we would keep dancing even after the song's gone silent... because that's what real love's do or at least we would dance until you found all the shards. I told you I was a labyrinthine jungle and you right away took adventures in my wild even when I told you I was a wrecked ship lost at sea you said that'd you'd find me free from the ecstasy of this perilous world... I told you I was a desert ... but you were okay with sand and sweat even thirst didn't scare you away I told you I was a thunder-storm waiting to rain malady and you said you've known such kind of pain, you've withered storms that left you Ocean wet so it wouldn't hurt playing in the rain again... I said I was a wilting rose and right away you started watering my hopes with tender sprinkles of care and weeding out despair with endless promises to always be there... I told you I was frozen inside and incapable of loving and you said you'd place me in your warm embrace and bare the icy chill for eternity if that's what it took to melt the snow... I told you I was all wounds and painful scars you responded with "I know..." and you said even Angels are not perfect... I told you I had nothing but me to give and you told me I was everything you always wanted I tried not to believe but I was enchanted... I said I loved you not because you said it too or because I ran out of excuses but because it was true... and because I was tired of pushing away those gifting me a second chance...
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Feb 3, 2017
Feb 3, 2017 at 3:08 PM UTC
Even Angel's Aren't Perfect...
I told you not to pardon me cause I couldn't let you count on me but you put every bet on me against all odds... I told you to hide your soul instead you gave me heart mind and all I told you I was a thorny road you walked it bare footed wincing at every ***** believing that right ahead things would change... I told you I was a broken Eagle but you believed you could fix my wings I was a volcano waiting to erupt you wasn't afraid of the larva, thought you could adapt I told you I was splinters and you started picking up the pieces I told you I was hell and you said you wanted to dance with my demons When I revealed that I knew not how to dance you said life's a lesson and you would be my teacher "What if the song of our affection ends?" I questioned with the belief that love's just a word but you assured me that we would keep dancing even after the song's gone silent... because that's what real love's do or at least we would dance until you found all the shards. I told you I was a labyrinthine jungle and you right away took adventures in my wild even when I told you I was a wrecked ship lost at sea you said that'd you'd find me free from the ecstasy of this perilous world... I told you I was a desert ... but you were okay with sand and sweat even thirst didn't scare you away I told you I was a thunder-storm waiting to rain malady and you said you've known such kind of pain, you've withered storms that left you Ocean wet so it wouldn't hurt playing in the rain again... I said I was a wilting rose and right away you started watering my hopes with tender sprinkles of care and weeding out despair with endless promises to always be there... I told you I was frozen inside and incapable of loving and you said you'd place me in your warm embrace and bare the icy chill for eternity if that's what it took to melt the snow... I told you I was all wounds and painful scars you responded with "I know..." and you said even Angels are not perfect... I told you I had nothing but me to give and you told me I was everything you always wanted I tried not to believe but I was enchanted... I said I loved you not because you said it too or because I ran out of excuses but because it was true... and because I was tired of pushing away those gifting me a second chance...
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Deep In the Universe of which we perceive but a fraction: Exist an All encompassing Mighty Goddess of Compassion, Whether scrying a Luminous Being immune to any curse, Or a simpleton Women, with a few worries to nurse, Whether at home, or some world's distant shore Whether sentient ones in distant Heaven adored Whether in silence or at war, Goddess we whisper or roar! Wisdom sweet like the Nectar of a thousand peaches Worlds at Peace, Passages to Endless Realms within our reaches For Love, Peace above us to Crusades beneath A Goddess Bold, a Heart of Blissful Eternal Heat. We fight, and strikes red devils, black knights For the ones innocent with truthful plights, Our Hearts in our chest, Truly Only One Holy Crest! Hearts and Minds United with The Goddess, Eternally Blessed. Whether one lost or confused, Whether sad, much trust found, lost then misused One who speaks dearly forever to those abused Goddess of Compassion, Light with All Hues. Even when facing immeasurable defeat. Whether in the Cold Hells frost or Hot Hells heat, Whether trouble or sinking fast and deep, Or perilous journey through Mountains; passages steep. Compassion an elixir and sword of eternal heat. With Wisdom together, an improbable defeat. (edited 9th May) Whether evil in the Battlefield or crawling evil hidden Reading Ancient Wisdom or Knowledge Forbidden, Even if a thousand vile voices slander in unison, The Goddess of Compassion Eternally, is Warm and Singing.
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May 24, 2016
May 24, 2016 at 12:38 AM UTC
The Mighty Goddess of Compassion
because our dreams of leaf-canopies and lignin arrive at a certain variety of green, we will zither anew with song here in Bulacan; all the leaves are capsized brandishing inflorescences as naked as   the scent of petrichor girdled on the cobblestones: they are forsaken not by trees but by seasons only, a twofold deliberation of caprice: there is only two of what is spoken.    such is the warmth and coldness, missing their obvious targets, hesitant and abstruse,   scattered and at long last, never collected deftly camouflaged in the familiar drapery, “Tantusan mo!” as they cry for marks to remember, we touch the cicatrix to measure with our jagged hands how much we have forgotten. what we cease to remember descends deep, as wash-hand basins concur such depth, into the well of ourselves, later to discover such perilous foundling in the squall of either morning or evening,    still devoid of sense: still arguing whether there is much to reconcile with what has been found and what has been pictured    now, altered by such loss: this is danger, and so is nothing, swollen and tender, the waters of the estero reek of such remembering – we cannot ignore its perfume, oddly taking the shape of the next dagger slowly making its way towards the back of the skull to pare with river-run precision, what we all try to hold back inside; so as if to say,              “Tantusan mo!” to remember where     we last    took  off,  like a heron,    or a  bird, wary of distances.
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Jan 26, 2016
Jan 26, 2016 at 12:59 AM UTC
Tantusan Mo
because our dreams of leaf-canopies and lignin arrive at a certain variety of green, we will zither anew with song here in Bulacan; all the leaves are capsized brandishing inflorescences as naked as   the scent of petrichor girdled on the cobblestones: they are forsaken not by trees but by seasons only, a twofold deliberation of caprice: there is only two of what is spoken.    such is the warmth and coldness, missing their obvious targets, hesitant and abstruse,   scattered and at long last, never collected deftly camouflaged in the familiar drapery, “Tantusan mo!” as they cry for marks to remember, we touch the cicatrix to measure with our jagged hands how much we have forgotten. what we cease to remember descends deep, as wash-hand basins concur such depth, into the well of ourselves, later to discover such perilous foundling in the squall of either morning or evening,    still devoid of sense: still arguing whether there is much to reconcile with what has been found and what has been pictured    now, altered by such loss: this is danger, and so is nothing, swollen and tender, the waters of the estero reek of such remembering – we cannot ignore its perfume, oddly taking the shape of the next dagger slowly making its way towards the back of the skull to pare with river-run precision, what we all try to hold back inside; so as if to say,              “Tantusan mo!” to remember where     we last    took  off,  like a heron,    or a  bird, wary of distances.
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I'm a not-so-hopeless romantic, I sealed a date, somehow. I flirted I thought but I knew that I ought to cut back on my perilous prowl. My absolute closest best friend, is in love with this girl, it would seem. I told him I like her but he really likes her and I can't help but feel mean. (The girl) We've been friends for a while, and I've always fancied her style, but only recently text (completely unvexed) and decided to spark up a trial. Now judge if you must, but in Molly I trust, and this girl wants to know how she feels. So coated in sugar her words without quiver request that we share her appeal. Alone in her room, four hours and soon, confused, tired and worn. There's always the chance, that our flirting advanced, our careful responses and cheekier choices, will stump this chaotic lovelorn.
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May 28, 2013
May 28, 2013 at 4:47 PM UTC
In Molly I Trust
Here comes The Change That has the range Of emotions And demotions And devotions Of a perilous populous That likes to raise a fuss When they eventually learn who I am And treat me like I'm the Son of Sam To be specific They discover I'm gay And begin to filet My mentality In totality For fatality Merely by acting differently If my sexuality isn't the first thing people know about me I get to witness The Change Like a dog with mange I am shedding my hair While screaming no fair Because of the shift I see Because of the **** I need To make my heart bleed There is a steady bellowing burdensome baggage From those that want to ****** some ******* So I search for weight lifters But only find shapeshifters That become great grifters When The Change occurs And The Change burns So The Change turned Me into an interdimensional changeling And an unintentional rage king After they use words like flaming Because the results are so draining It becomes hard not to hate people Who are inspired by hate steeples They say I'm going to Hell While I notice the smell Of being buried in their banal **** While they play their greatest hits That are as unoriginal As they are cynical They say I'm a degenerate An embarrassment A parent's lament I want to change into a carefree bird Instead I stay in Hell with the herd Wanting to escape like Lupin the Third Rather than be oppressed like the Kurds But there is no relief Only re-grief When changes aren't permanent But The Change is There's an illustration of my life That will change your perspective The picture is in my words When the painting is what I choose to say And the canvas is your mind Whose textures I could never imagine So I jump off a cliff blindfolded Expecting to be changed once I land
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Nov 20, 2017
Nov 20, 2017 at 6:13 AM UTC
Change
Here comes The Change That has the range Of emotions And demotions And devotions Of a perilous populous That likes to raise a fuss When they eventually learn who I am And treat me like I'm the Son of Sam To be specific They discover I'm gay And begin to filet My mentality In totality For fatality Merely by acting differently If my sexuality isn't the first thing people know about me I get to witness The Change Like a dog with mange I am shedding my hair While screaming no fair Because of the shift I see Because of the **** I need To make my heart bleed There is a steady bellowing burdensome baggage From those that want to ****** some ******* So I search for weight lifters But only find shapeshifters That become great grifters When The Change occurs And The Change burns So The Change turned Me into an interdimensional changeling And an unintentional rage king After they use words like flaming Because the results are so draining It becomes hard not to hate people Who are inspired by hate steeples They say I'm going to Hell While I notice the smell Of being buried in their banal **** While they play their greatest hits That are as unoriginal As they are cynical They say I'm a degenerate An embarrassment A parent's lament I want to change into a carefree bird Instead I stay in Hell with the herd Wanting to escape like Lupin the Third Rather than be oppressed like the Kurds But there is no relief Only re-grief When changes aren't permanent But The Change is There's an illustration of my life That will change your perspective The picture is in my words When the painting is what I choose to say And the canvas is your mind Whose textures I could never imagine So I jump off a cliff blindfolded Expecting to be changed once I land
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Intensely, I traced his steps until he met my eyes, the only gaze I welcome with a reflection of light, grey and hue of excruciating colors—to serve his mightiness in the forlorn night— through the fields and the city, everyone is following him. Their mouth agape in the sight of his face peering at his brides—in weeping, in despair, in all forms of wrath—hope and madness. The moon creeps in the black of the night—with his voice lulling as a whisper, faint like a finger softly lingering its hands on the piano— through the perilous scheme of the midnight dawn. He then wept with his brides and kneeled down in front of me. His linen gown and fur coat covering his silver body and his eyes shriek with only a weeping melody. He faced me and my heart sank at the sight of him, “My bride, how come you are facing such a horrible nightmare?” He said and held my hand, “Artemia, I am broken by the man whom I love so dearly. I faced death, inferiority, dreamless sleep, and my heart crawled out of my body,” “Darling, you are a bride of the moon and a man will only love you if they get blinded by the light, and such us, we are the daughters of the night. A man who is in love with the moon, is out there waiting for you.” He then walked away, faced another midnight with his bride gleaming with hope in the forlorn night, with the light, grey and hue of excruciating colors. There, I saw how he turns into the god of the night.
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Jan 23, 2021
Jan 23, 2021 at 11:02 PM UTC
The Bride of the Moon