Determination
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Inversion (Part 1 of 3)
A lament I see cold stars In dark skies Their blue light No warmth provides A black sun rises Radiant dark Light flees into cracks Night is about to start Blue flames lock me Into a pillar of ice Water shoots upwards The ground by clouds dried An inverted worldSets its mightTo stop my journeyTo… Continue reading
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Enigma
I am an enigmaA walking contradictionOne day I do the impossibleThe next I am bedridden My mind can masterComplex puzzles and problemsAnd then at the smallest effortSuccumb to exhaustion I can write thingsThat impress even myselfBut then struggle to find the wordsTo ask for help I don’t understand This juxtapositionBut I will find a wayTo… Continue reading
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Left Behind
A lament EverydayI start undergroundHearing the footstepsOf everyone else pound I must get up earlyTo try to catch upSo that I am notLeft in the dust Some days I make itOn others I fallSometimes I am assaulted By nasty things that crawl But whatever the circumstanceOr how hard I chaseI always start at a disadvantageIn… Continue reading
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The Black Beast
Concealed in the darkHidden amongst painA treacherous beast cowersFrom the light of day A fiendish foePretending to be a friendIts words of warningHave nefarious ends Among the rippling windsIn the twilight hoursFace the fearAnd confront its power In its coreIs a golden lightThat this black beastHad tried to hide Continue reading
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Ravenous Ravine
Gaping ravines Creak and groan Ache for a taste Of my wasting bones Barren pits of Knife-like stones Echo old cries Of fear and woe I hear familiar voices From my past That I should never Have taken this path But I will climb Where rivers once flowed For I know what is At the… Continue reading
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The Steadfast Fern
Tangled fronds Of a fern tree Scattered by a storm That didn’t need to be Dust and detritus Shift with the wind Circle the tree With a cruel chagrin Dishevelled and broken Beaten and bowed But this fern tree still stands When others fell down Continue reading
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Adversity is not the End (repost)
Though the fire burns,It will not consume me Though the flood rises, It will not drown me Though the wind howls, It will not stop me Though the lightning flashes, It will not blind me Though the storm rages, It will not engulf me Though the lava encircles, It will not entrap me Though the… Continue reading
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Burning Bones
Passion locked upIn his bonesHe hears them creakingTheir endless groans His marrow is packedOverflowing with dynamiteGlowing like embersAnd pulsing with light He tried to bury themBut they cannot dieThe deeper he digsThe brighter they shine Now it is a furnaceA cauldron of desireThe only time it easesIs when he sits down to write Continue reading
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Castles of Dark
He fought fearsome foes In abandoned castles of dark Ignored the melancholic whispers That clawed at his heart He crossed bleak landscapes Scaled rivers and fjordsWrestled with bearsAnd fought obsidian swords He subdued dragonsAnd outwitted sorcerersTo the poor and orphansHe gave up his last morsels Who is this man, you askWhat kind of hero is this?To face… Continue reading
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Pale Lord
A pale lord Sits enthroned Bids I enter Into his world Tells me that There is no hope here That this is the residenceOf all I fear He offers citizenship To this land of gloom Assuring me there is No escape from this doom But I step closer And his crown slips And I see… Continue reading
Dawn & Dusk 