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Astraea Member
since 1999-11-09
Posts 378California! Yeah! Okay, I'm done now |
Wish, hope, and dream upon a star There was once was a happy place Teasingly called Heart Such a bright, warm and thriving utopia You must wonder what could make them smile With such simple, driving passion Gained just by breathing their love's name Through soft lips and echoing through wistful eyes In this gentle, yet powerful, paradise called Heart Outside these crystalline walls darkness trembles Larger eyes than the evening sky, hair cascading like an ebony waterfall She hides just outside the city gates, circling like a raven She is a grey, dull child But there is a wisdom and power boiling inside her empty body Beautiful and yet despising If you touched her skin There would be a fiery winter burning in her blood Her presence is intoxicating And she's never been given a name None known Wanderers near, far and so close from the eternity seperating them She's whispering a sad siren song Enchanting your breath away as the people of Heart gather the travelers Hiding them away from the ghostly girl who always sang like a lost fallen angel So dark, beautiful and yet dangerous beyond comprehension Her eyes are greedily drinking their attention Dulling when they look away And she sings again softly As the shadows stop to cry One Wanderer stopped, staring at her like a man lost in a dreary dream Caressing a nightmare For she seemed so sad that her song ate away at herself And its echoes tore through others with a tiger's teeth Approaching, drawing closer, He's so close now to observe the maiden intensely She looks at him Eyes like wide pools of inky tears, shadows and pains beyond understanding And wonderfully, he smiled and held out arms to embrace Expecting her to laugh and dance into his love She looks at him, blinking at the light of his happiness Returning her forlorn gaze to Heart again She begins to sing quietly, despair dripping from her lips The maiden remembered this scene She remembered the ending to that fantasy So she sang for the love she had lost and the emptiness she felt Hoping someone would understand how hurt she was Never noticing and yet hearing every sigh as he walked away The mist is grey, full of dancing shadows and lights that forever tease The city of Heart was a place of laughter, sunshine and love Yet outside, not so far from reach, was a darker place That made others sing, sigh and cry so helplessly The wanderers gathered to name this area into their maps and minds Argued between Loss and Despair But it was that same man before who spoke a word Describing the best and worst thing of that path It encompassed all its tears, aches and abysses But never amounted to enough as its depth deepened beyond exploration And so they marked into their own love that boundry beyond Heart Loneliness "Sometimes stars can only be seen in darkness." "Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things." |
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hoppy Member
since 2000-01-27
Posts 271 |
i really enjoyed reading this poem, it reminded me of one of a part from the Odyse, i love the way you made "heart" a place and described it, don't think i've ever seen that done before, may i ask what inspired this poem? just for curiosity's sake. "If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standards of nonconformity." SUBMIT YOUR POETRY HERE, AWSOME PAGE. NEW POETRY FORUM ADDED Don't look... you might see. Don't listen... you might hear. Don't think... you might learn. Don't walk... you might stumble. Don't run... you might fall. Don't make a decision... you might be wrong. Don't live...you might die. THE PAGE OF PURE POETIC EXPRESSION!! |
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Astraea Member
since 1999-11-09
Posts 378California! Yeah! Okay, I'm done now |
What inspired this poem? It's what always inspires my poetry: unrequited love. Memories of my own cherished heart cutting relationship and its eventual downfall. Listening to others or just fantasizing. We all want to go back to a place called Heart once we leave it for Loneliness, where you cannot escape until someone is there to show you the way. And sometimes, you just have to take that chance. ~Astraea "Sometimes stars can only be seen in darkness." "Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things." |
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