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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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

untitledGold abundant at your feet,
Heart ripe and pumping on your sleeve,
And eternal admiration;
To say happiness has evaded you
Would be asylum-esque lunacy
For you have nothing to lose,
Fate is on your side,
The odds are in your favor infinitely
Do not waste the gift you’ve received

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.

clicheTo those who hold bird bones
on the edge of their limbs,
there are dissipated lungs
filled with skies
longing for pillars of fire
rather than bottled souls
kept in the brink of captivity
too big for sparrows.

To those with the cancer
of building and rebuilding
their minute sentences
into salt-shaken metaphors,
sometimes a whisper
trying to be a rhapsody
will never be the same as
a declaration,
an aubade on it's own.

To those who empty
their ash trays
like cremated dust onto
salivating pores and
two cents of syllables weeping
by your windowsill,
there's sand in your mouth.
sand so red that oxygen
will mistake it for blood
so your words wi

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One FaceI walk about, working
Talking, listening,
Some say even existing
But I’m just another pair of blue eyes
Darting here and there
Claiming judgments
My existence is of shame
I’m a face or an obstacle
To move around, to avoid
Nameless listless like an android
No one’s home no one’s here
I’ve shut the doors
I’ve locked them tight
My connection to this world out of sight
As time keeps eroding
My existence more obscure
Until one day I walk by
Completely unnoticed
As though a ghost
That only ruffles the air
Not a person with whom realty you share
After all I’m just one face
No name
No title
One face you

PreceptionPrestige
Glamour
And Beauty
Clinging
Like forsaken child

Despair
Anxiety
And frustration
Carrying
Love in chaotic wing

Charm
Deception
and witty pity
Capturing
Essences of self destruction

Unsatisfying
This life
Driven by emotion
Choosing
Left only to perception

ConquersHate conquers Joy
Love conquers hate
Shame conquers peace
Forgiveness conquers shame
Pride conquers love
Courage conquers pride
Despair conquers life
Hope conquers death

The ProvingThey said I couldn’t do it
Incompetent, unworthy
Incapable of a thing
What happens to a mind?
In face of challenge
Is it a wildfire
Determination that dictates
Incompetence therefore
Is burnt down to ash
They said I couldn’t do it
But their words go up in flames
As I set the pace to prove
I’m so competent
They feel ashamed

The EdgeI’m at the cliff’s edge
It’s so far down
My heart races
I cannot breathe
I feel like I’m paper thin
So small and weak
Even a gentle gust
Or silent breeze
Would blow me in
I can’t look down
Or it will be my end
I cannot run
Nor hide this time
I must… I won’t…
But I will; jaw set determined
Walk the cliff’s ledge
Stand tall and strong
Moving straight forward
And walk the edge
Until I'm altogether dead

Stupid, Stupid MeStupid, stupid me
How stupid can you be?
I’ve told you once
In fact I’ve told you twice
You’d think, you’d listen to advice

If it was just one mistake
I might let you catch a break
But it’s not one, not even three
I fear you’re on quite a naughty spree
Dear me how stupid can you be?

You’ve been so stupid in the past
I couldn’t trust you even if you’d asked
No words attempt nor describe
The stupid things you decide
Stupid me you’d think you’d learn

Now we’ve come to subtle cross roads
And I’m putting my foot down
Time you erase those naughty codes
Or else pack you

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I think, I feel

by *roselynedwards, Nov 23, 2012, 8:13:31 AM
Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Free Verse

I think, I feel
And sometimes it stinks,
When one thought goes ‘round
Like a little bug, Buzzing
Poking you, prickling you,
Biting you, snitching you
Doing a buggy parade ground
C’mon admit, it’s annoying…
You’ve failed, you’re not good enough
And you think this, I’m enjoying…
They’re better than you, you’re not enough
Soon you realize, the damage already done
You think, you feel, and then you hurt
And oh boy it ever hurts
Sometimes so much
You hope to evaporate
Into the mist on the slough

Again I think, I feel
Things happen so perfect
Like an aurora light
Piercing your soul, lifting your spirit
Once was drowning into a hole
Humming to you, Warming you
Drawing you out, Lifting you up
So high you feel you’re flying
Beyond the shroud, beyond the slough, beyond the vale
High up in a puffy cumulus cloud
So consumed by a feeling
You become it,
Just chillin’ out
High on cloud nine

‘round and ‘round your brain plays
Turning over new sod
Scattering up new seed
Thinking, feeling
Hurting, laughing
Being, nothing
But pure human

I think, I feelby *roselynedwards

Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Free Verse

Written by Roselyn Edwards
Status: Final Draft
Additional Notes: I know this one is different then my usual style, it's a bit more straight forward I think.
Anyways let me know what you think, I appreciate feedback either way good or bad.
If you don't like it let me know why so that I can learn and grow better.
Thanks I appreciate everything you'll do

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=DragonsChest Nov 23, 2012 Professional Writer

Heartfelt and powerful...

*roselynedwards Nov 24, 2012 Student Writer

I wasn't sure if it flowed, does it flow to you or is it like super choppy?
btw thanks for the comment means a lot

=DragonsChest Nov 24, 2012 Professional Writer

No, it wasn't choppy. When you have verses that are structured long and then short, it can appear choppy, but the proof is in the reading, and it reads fine...

*roselynedwards Nov 24, 2012 Student Writer

Good !

Thanks ! You're a big help

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