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Azahar Raza Oct 17
In a hidden realm beyond the edges of the world,  
There was once a kingdom called Shiro,  
A name whispered like forgotten memories in the wind,  
Life’s stories vanished into the void—  
As light as a bird’s feather in the shadow of the gray mountains,  
Like the pale sorrows that blanketed the kingdom’s edges.  

But Shiro, the child of a Phoenix,  
Stood on the unknown soil of those silent plains—  
Where winter leaves quietly fell,  
As if offering a secret sign of sorrow.  
Shiro knew the song of rebirth echoed deep within his heart,  
Where seeds of dreams were planted as the black night thickened.  

One day, beneath the gray sky,  
Shiro saw the fields of dreams—  
Everything was bathed in the quiet light of eternal stars.  
The stars called out to him,  
“This land will be born again from the womb of emptiness.”  
Shiro believed, even in the cold grip of death,  
That one day a flower of fire would bloom,  
That the storm of flames within him would rise again.  

And then, like a Phoenix,  
Shiro hid his old sorrows beneath his wings,  
The ashes of old dreams—  
From which the seeds of a new world would grow.  
Like a Phoenix, his past burned away,  
And a new life was born from the womb of emptiness.  
It seemed as if a song of fire burned in the air around him.  
So, was this fire always within him?  
Or was there a dormant dream hidden beneath the soil?  
Shiro asked this with every breath—  
In each sleepless night, his dreams played silent tunes,  
As if they knew his future.  

Shiro felt a new life rising from the earth,  
Before he turned to ashes,  
He planted the seeds of his life beneath the ground—  
Hidden beneath the wings of the Phoenix was a secret story,  
And under each feather lay fragments of dreams.  

In their shadow, he birthed a new history,  
As if he always knew his flame would never die.  
The stars once told Shiro,  
“You are eternal, like the rebirth of the Phoenix.”  
Shiro knew then that time would never touch him.  
Yet he would be born again, only to burn once more—  
In this cycle of rebirth, he would live immortal,  
As if he were a story carried on the winds of an ancient tale.  

And still, Shiro’s dreams remained silent,  
As if they were waiting for the seeds to be planted again,  
To build a new life under a new sun.  
Shiro asked himself,  
“What tune plays in this life, what dream floats in this world?”  
He found his answer within the shadows,  
Where the sky touched the earth,  
Where fire and shadow merged into one.  

Written on his Phoenix wings was a map of dreams—  
A map leading to a silent city,  
Where stardust floated in the air,  
And within each speck, a new world lay hidden.  
Shiro knew that within this world,  
There was always a fire of rebirth hidden deep.  
So, does everything come from fire?  
Or does something new begin from the ashes of every life?  
Shiro thought then that perhaps each of his dreams  
Would bloom again like a flower of fire,  
Burning away old memories,  
Giving birth to the shadow of a new day.  

And yet, within him, an immortal tune would always play—  
As if he had witnessed every birth of the world,  
As if he had seen every rebirth of the Phoenix.  
So, is the Phoenix’s seed like a dream?  
Hidden beneath the earth,  
Waiting for those who can only see the flowers of fire.  

One day, Shiro planted that seed,  
Where his flame and shadow merged.  
Then he knew that this world would never end—  
Life would be born again, from the ashes,  
And written on every Phoenix’s wing  
Would be a new story of dreams.
AAYARA ZAYN Jul 2018
Shiro was a wonderful pet
who looked after my house
i don't know when
WHEN i  became addicted to him
playing around
closer and closer we were
playing and leaving every misery
BEHIND
we were inseparable or so i thought
but that was just an assumption to make
as a little i always thought
what would it mean to be loved
Today i remember those lovely moments
and cry like a baby
BUT
even though i do so
there would be no Shiro
NO Shiro !
to lick my face when i cry
No Shiro to !
to whom i cook food
i always ask why??
why did the divine took him
i always think
why did not the science save him
forever and ever i have always
remembered him by my side
but i could not feel him now
NOW that he's gone
WHERE ARE YOU?
ARE YOU AN ANGEL??
ARE U RIGHT NEXT TO ME??
i hope wherever you may be
you be safe
i wanted to hug you
one last time
and i am grateful
that i had done it
so are you listening
SHIRO !
be happy where you are
i may not be happy without you
i may act wierd
sometime
but i will move forward
just like you wanted
so SHIRO
be happy for me and you
be happy
AND
thanks for those moments you were with me
thanks for being by my side
                                                               yours
                                                                    AAYARA ZAYN
mEb Jun 2010
In a quasimodo feat of not only myself but my inner sanctums. I’m in a shelter. A secluded shelter far from mankind. The bells rich **** spreads across a cold Philidelphia. I hide from the tourniquets of our kingdom. Hordes of documented secrets filibustering the excutivies of a blood famished nation. Where could a turning point conspire? Not here. Not there. No where vast of what only we know. How many times have you performed German heischen styles upon what has happened? Dialect informative, all lauguages and ethinicities could tell you. Corruption. Progestational hormones of all man and woman get the gist of secrecy, but why inquire it onworth still. Atomic bombs whiping out ten times the population of our fragile pathetic planet.

An ice rendered telescope at zero gravity with the script filled micro chips of new findings amongst our universe. This was an immediate spawn of hope towards who we are. At least for the sake of another life form, they would configure an easier derogatory and denigrating outlook of a human lifestyle. Maybe they could relate, maybe they would have emmerged in trade as our ancestors of the past 1,000 years and before had. With us, it would have been magnificent for the future to come. This era though, the only significance we know collides with a destruction of a super-catastrophic function that has been reformed thus grouwan. Grouwan, the origin of grow, growing or to increase in size, building up just as the magmata composes its liquid matter within the Earth’s crust into lava. Igneous rocks now form. Reaching the Alps. Frozen, a complete opposite of what they were once spawned from.

Still intact, an ice rendered telescope photographing galaxies not seen by a naked eye. They called it, “The Orbiting Gaurdian”, while we remained demonic and caught in ignorant reality conflicts. In small groups spread across the lands, combined as one, we are still undeniably small. I built this shelter with my own two hands knowing what would come, I wanted to overcome. Philidelpia was still so cold, very odd, quite eerie for a patriot New England city. Rot, Weib, und Blau. Rodt, Hvitt, og blatt. Shiro aka to ao. From Germany, to Norway, to the super advanced technologic Japan, they all recognize red, white, and blue. Maybe we are a leading nation, but who honestly gives a ****. All nation’s combined, worlds away, a lone planet of democracy. Darkness. The abcense of light above me, directly. No two-dimensional representation of an outline of any body form. No cutout or configurational drawing with a sun glimmering backrounded setting. We are inkligs with no hint of suggestion in the sea of blackness above. If you could have gone so far back in time though, you would have found a blackned quality on the most transparent and pellucid of days.

I race through my brain waves wondering if this concealment was completely ignorant. Was it full of extreme folly? Asininity? Ineptitude? I pondered the synonyms of stupidity. I was ravished to wonder if my last thoughts would be a mind race of the lacking self-esteem I hold. Sudden deaf struck. I no longer heard shrills of humanity above. I was deprived of my sense of hearing. Intimidated to look upward, I could not manage being deprived of sight as well.

What were those dangling seconds that I could not hear?

Were they little fragments of time that I could not notice near?

They stabbed at the back of my skull to leave this sheltered hole.

I find humor in how my poetry is merely past time entries that mean nothing. They once had been published, but now at the least, they did not mean a thing. I wish them to burn long and hard, fighting. Hardback covers and dusty library shelves vanishing in this dark mess of a world.

Pain, sharp municiple pain casted into my skin. Into my lungs, my contaminated, sickened lungs that had ciggarettes by the thousands over the years. I had started as a child. A stubborn twelve year old child wanting to experience any drug my hands could get a hold of. I did too, I don’t regret it, and I dont feel remorse from my actions and those many high nights when I could not walk or stand. I felt weary, weak, helpless and finished. My eyes, my mind, my pulse, my body, my so called soul, asleep or dead?
Daniel Magner Jan 2018
You always shook my hand,
always wanted your family to flourish,
always seemed content
knowing your kids and grand-kids
were living happy lives.
I didn't know you well,
but I know you cast a calming spell,
and without you here
the world is missing
something important
Daniel Magner 2018

My words seem hollow, unhelpful, and unable to embody Shiro. His death is a blow his family does not deserve. He was loved, and loved, and welcomed me. I could feel the warmth in his home. I cry for his absence, I cry for Asialani's heart, I cry for Grandma Betty's love, I cry for JoAnne's loss, I cry for the family, I cry.
Daniel Magner Jan 2018
Tonight you are off, far away,
you've left this place,
left a space in hearts that hurts,
though you intend it not.
Your grand daughter is in knots.
Please appear in her dreams,
tell her all the things you love about her,
let her wake, a deep breath
to calm quaking hands,
and feel you smiling,
sipping tea,
happy to have been her grandpa.
She loves you endlessly...
Daniel Magner

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