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Under a Witches SkyAnd lo there he said: "I am darkness rising"
— ‘an apparition bleeding into a dreaming sky
Distilled in the timbre of windswept voices,
black feathers enchant earth in fevered-song
Magick ebbs & shimmers thru earthen veins,
seething like a migration of hungry wolves
Silvery eyes peer, drinking the ether of souls;
watching the spirit world fold into the mists
And where Shadows and Witches conjure,
— myriad talons beshrew Winter’s prayer

For eons I hath wandered in forgotten lore
— a sleep walker thru ash & fire, hunting ..
Beneath Moon solemn and drifting,
I covet thy ghostly figure velvet, undressing
Pools of

The Man and the MoonHer mouth corners hung themselves
and I began to wonder if that was the death of them.
A simple, quiet death;
without broken fingernails lining the walls
with the stripes of a despairing end.
I began to ache with the questioning in my heart
with the echoes reverberating in my capillaries
of her face scorching sunshine in her smile
right before it crumpled
and nothing was left but a frowning moon
set firm in its resignation to an upcoming eclipse.

Dandelion QueenI dream of the ocean;
that paper-thin line where
the current swallows the stars
and the water churns violet

(you tell me to be
quiet,

dandelion queen, we've
heard all these words before)

tonight
I will sleep heavy
and wake a few hours before dawn,
only to forget my name

my wave-weathered heart will cry,
I will cry (my biggest fear
is drowning in too many
of my own weighted words

you tell me to be
quiet
so I can hear the world breathe)

I want to go home

SpeakeasyI can feel you like a phantom,
sensation without touch,
like breath in winter
or a misty mountain morning
that stays with me
until the stars fall in evening.

Your eyes contain the secrets
your lips would dare to betray,
but your body tells the story
and I am trying
to read between the lines
of your paperback smiles.

A grazing touch, a covert glance,
the memories remain
as skin grows warm and red
beneath lying fingertips
that claim incidental contact
a thousand times a day.

Of course,
it's not the kind of thing we say
when we are speaking
without talking and feeling
without touching
and thinking without knowing...

all of the things

Overgrown ColorsRed like blood on a rose.
White like bone and stars.
Black like reclusiveness.
Green like dead air.
Orange like the savage instinct.
Purity like a god's heart.
Red like thawing hatred.
White like a frozen, severe cry.
Black like the night's deprived shadows.
Green like the wind in the grass.
Orange like the light in the shadows.
Purity like the sun rising.
So discharging through the moon in a wheeze is like luminous white, dispersed red.

We Can't Be Together.Every kiss you plant on my lips,
Takes a little bit of my soul away.

You're stealing the passion,
You're invading my heart,
And killing what emotion I've left untouched.
Stop this.
I can't love you.

I've tried to before,
Oh my god,
Have I tried.

Tried to unlock the doors to myself,
Tried to open up,
And let you in.
But as soon as I took one look,
Negativity took it's opportunity,
And struck the hot iron I'd been molding.

Every word you mutter
My knees falter under
You're killing me

You're my kryptonite
I'm your paradise
But in this odd peace that seems to be approaching
I can't find happiness.

We aren't meant to be together
But this

Poet as PainterThe world
Your dusty palette,
The pen
Your muddied paintbrush:

Dip into
The impossible
Colour
Of imagination

And stain
The pristine slate
With an
Image distilled.

WindowsHere am I, repeated,
and beyond waits everything
but everything is more
than I can bear.

I am not built for altitude
nor looking far afield;
groves and granite-sided mountains
stop my gaze

like rest for every tired wing;
a cover in the coldest time
snugged up beneath my chin.

Windows nothing more,
but safe lies there behind them
as the chambered hours pass;

safe sleeps there behind them
on the soft side of the glass.

with thanks to frosttwo roads diverged in a soulless dawn
and you pull over,
idling on the shoulder of route 50.
it's a polaroid morning and
the world is as grainy
and sleep-heavy
as your eyes,
and one million miles
is not far enough.
it plays back, filmstrip,
blurred along the length of
optic nerves,
and here you are:
facing a choice between
on
and
out.
and this?
this loosejointed, hollowbodied
weightless ache--
this is what
gone
feels like.

Dry Spell I am immobilized by time.
by the idea that it is somehow slipping,
fleeting,
evaporating
through the cracks of
my fingers and high

above my head.
I am terrified by the incessant notion
that no combination of thoughts,
words,
silences,
or actions
could possibly satiate it.

I realize only now that it can never be filled:
all which is tossed into it is swallowed in haste
or stretched
so far
that it dissolves into non-being.
I find that I am caught within its furrows
much like the words it devo

BoyfriendI thought you were good.

You WERE good.

You played with my hair.

You held me when I cried.

You were a gentleman.

You made me laugh.

You kissed me.

You loved me.

I loved you.

It was then that I learned the truth.

The dirty, rotten, stinking truth.

About you!

You cheated.

You played with her hair.

You kissed her.

You loved her.

You made her laugh.

I saw you – don’t you dare deny it.

I saw you giving her that love.

That same love you gave me.

I break up with you.

You don’t even seem to care.

Did you ever love me at all?

Or was it only ever her?

Much later, you’ll realize what a mistake you made.

I

He doesn't write poetry anymore.He doesn’t write poetry anymore,
even if he still collects it, reads it, saves it, treasures
faded verses from his wife the way connoisseurs
savor vinyl over metallic rainbows on disc.
I don’t mind not knowing, but I can’t stand not asking.

The record needle hits the groove wrong;
he stumbles over words that aren’t there,
rummaging for an answer he doesn’t really have.
He doesn’t write poetry anymore
and his confusion is strangely endearing.

But there’s a lyricism to his words that I love,
poetic lines inserted between the daily grind
of character names and who said what;
voiceless boys in white a

PocketLeftover religion in the pocket
Of my trenchcoat
A key that unlocks nothing
A penny, a scrap of paper
With half of your name
Written in black ink

A song that is usually in my head
In the shriveled carcass
Of a long-dead dream
In the pocket
Of my trenchcoat
With the lint

You Don't Know ItYou don't know it, but you kept me sane
I nearly went over the edge
With a knife in one hand and a gun in the other
But you grabbed me
Pulled me back on my own two feet
Emptied my hands
And when you realized that I couldn't stand on my own
You hugged me
Like a mother would do for her child
Like a friend would do for, dare I say, another friend

You don't know it, but when you saved me
I felt free
I felt wanted
I felt needed
I felt, dare I say, loved

You don't know it, but when you showed me kindness
I fell in love
In love with your kindness
That same sweet kindness you saved me with
It felt like I found a new home
One that I could be, dare

Pull Her Hair/Stare At The StarsThe ghosts have crashed their ship
on the other side of town,
you can see it from the second floor
all the way over here.
You can see the white clouds
rising from the wreck
and a nova of heat, a big bright
nova of warmth pulling the moths and wolves
out from the woods (with their noses up and searching).
You can smell the yearning like bees
leaving the hive, like the grizzly brown bears
on the jagged white mountains (concrete and imposing).
They call it fear,
but I see these ghosts
scrambling up into the sky
and I like to think it's
something different entirely.

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Lonely Without YouFalling, so fast and so far…
I cannot hold on anymore.
We are meant to be together
Of this I am sure.

Your love is powerful,
Like venom through my veins…
Every day is a new struggle
Filled with new kinds of pain.

I feel so weak without you here
I need you to be with me,
If there only was a way
I'd die for you to see…

Our love is so unreal
Together over so many lives,
A tragic fate
Like dancing on knives.

I will never be free
So long as love is my master,
Every second we spend apart
I can feel it fading faster…

AnymoreEvery time I see your face
It fills my heart with stars
And slowly,
One by one…
The stars are fading.

Every passing moment
it gets darker and darker,
Until I don't remember
Anything at all.

You're hanging on the edge
Of the deepest cliff,
Outstretched hands
Try so hard to reach me
But I will let you fall…

No other choice,
No memories,
And no more tears
Left inside to cry.

Taking misery in existence,
The shadows keep falling
All around my eyes,
And I cannot see yours
Anymore…

Dust Into DreamsIn this hallowed place
Where dreams turn to dust…

My heart, it spreads…
Festers…
Like a disease…

That is what I am,
A sickness
Without a name…
That will consume you
From the inside out.

Keep watching
With your liquid tempest eyes…
Seeing into the very core
Of who I am.

I know you…
And exactly why you watch me,
My dark angel
Sent here to guide me…

But you only take me…
Further into the darkness.

Love is an imperfect thing…
I love you
For all of your flaws,
As well as you're beauty.

Tragically…
I am incapable of any kind of love
Or feeling at all…

Hidden

Scars InsideI wish that I were covered in scars…
At least that way,
The outside would match the inside.

Finally and forever…
That is what I see when I look into your eyes.
I cannot see your soul,
It's been sealed away.

There is no longer any way
To save the you that I once knew,
You are lost.

There you are again…
Like a great deluge in my heart,
The blood drenched waters
Are far too deep for me to ever escape.

And I cannot see…
And I cannot feel…

With a flutter of wings like paper,
You've set my soul on fire
Killing me slowly…
I am your prey.

Feeling through your eyes
Beneath an artificial moon
In an i

Journey Into DeathFrom within graves that have been dug so far down,
They will never surface from deep within the gloom…
Rainbows bleed into my heart.

And all the bitter hearts
Went waltzing around the moon,
All alone inside their hollow shells;
We have all died
And are now left here to decay.

I can see the hidden truth within your eyes,
When all of this ends,
You will be my demise.

Sacred bloody omen that I despise…
How many times must you kill me
Just to prove your own worth?
We do not belong in this fathomless world, so cruel.

How can you stand to be so cold?
You've made me feel so alive…
And it's against my will…

GazeTriple-fold guilt,
Closing in all around me,
It is clinging
To something;
Someone else.

Midnight colored drones,
They haunt me;
They stare…

In this place
Where fallen dreams decay,
And stars have no place
In the night sky…

The moon follows us
Through the trees,
Singing softly
Into your soul
Beneath all of the chains.

Coffin nails
Dig into my feet,
Baring my soul
To your cannibal gaze.

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Silken Coccoon

by =KalineReine, Sep 4, 2012, 2:26:38 AM
Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Free Verse

I wish I could help who my heart loved...
You shove my feelings aside so easily,
Brushing them aside like they are nothing.
I won't believe in anything again,
Else I should be so easily crafted;
Made into your little doll,
Everything you want me to be...

This wasn't the way I wanted it,
But you were forced to force my hand...
A single word on a page,
Wings fluttering across a silken screen...
And I posed for them, then;
Did everything I ever could.

But now I've withdrawn completely away,
Back into my nice safe cage,
Beneath this vexan mask, so gingerly...
Wrapped within my warped little coccoon,
Shielded from the bitter cold
Sinking back into the darkness where I belong.

Silken Coccoonby =KalineReine

Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Free Verse

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~KyokoKagami Sep 12, 2012

This is hauntingly beautiful...

=KalineReine Sep 12, 2012 Professional Writer

Thank you!

~KyokoKagami Sep 14, 2012

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