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AstrologicalI have lost myself to
Venus & Mars,
tangled in their mismatched limbs.

Just dream dust & shattered prayers
begging for a new set of skin
(she can't remember where she orbits).

Pluck these fractured wings;
the Sun & Moon no longer ache
to see me fly in their luster.

XXXXXEven now,
part of me
(my hands)
want to
pull out
that glass
she lodged
in her neck.

Pull it out
and drop it
into pieces,
or keep it
in the back seat
of my car.

Where it can
lay a while
and stare at me.
Part of me
(my chest)
is not afraid
of demons.

It is far less
dangerous
than girls with
haphazard knives
and other
monsters.

Death of the PoetDear poetry,
This is your challenge,
my eternal chore,
to restate the truth
like never before-
but I’m imperfect
at my very core
and hypocrisy
is what I abhor
so you may expect
my work to be poor
enough for me to
be crushed into gore
with failed attempts
to take wing and soar
when all I wanted
was something much more
than emptiness and
inherited war
and pointless details
of imagined lore
which most of us tend
to simply ignore
at the piercing sound
of a lion’s roar
or the convenience
of a nearby store…
what am I truly
writing these words for?
Let’s merely pretend
that this isn’t me
but the voice of God
or L. Ron Hubbard
or whoever you
wish for it to be
since facts remain facts
no matter the source,
no matter the cause,
since the trustworthy
are also humans
prone to failure;
so prone to a fault
that we hold dearly-
the sum of our faith
measured in dollars-
rewarded by credit
and paper money…
for some odd reason
I find this funny!
So I conclude

False EternityDisillusioned youth was less common in those days,
I assure you, the people even more set in their ways,
murderous and unforgiving, yet unaware of the lie they were living
convinced that faith is stone, they cut faces into gods, they thought
ignorant that being made rendered useless the very gods they wrought.
Shiny carvings into stone, faces, figures, blessed unknown,
Murders, slaughters, sacrifices of the weak, preaching sins and what they seek.
Forgiveness is not for all, all who do not have will now fall!
Greed consumes the mortal mind, rage is all that's left behind!
Amidst it all I rose and found the sun, disowned him for the moon
then sought the horizon, again and again warned my father that doom
would befall him if he didn't seek a better way to live and be
I wasn't willing to follow the dark and deadly rules,
trying to bring some light into the lives of these fools.
Guilds of anti-gods were formed, wars rose higher, nothing to atone!
They all represen

The Pen, The SwordJust lovely
I was happy to fall asleep
in the welcoming arms of your words and
you were unaware that you held me
so close, and so carefully
from the moment I didn't hear you speak
to the taste of every sentence you spoke
I knew you were the very truth that I'd
been seeking all along
Just barely
I was loathe to fall so deep
in the sharpened edges of your words and
you were too aware that you had me
so close, and so carelessly
from the second I heard you break
to the taste of every sentence you broke
I knew you were the very truth that I'd
been avoiding all along

Chasing Butterflies

I believe in starry nights writing timeless songs
of all the yesterdays and tomorrows yet to come.

I believe in hearing the voice of love in rhyme;
I heard it as a child in my mother's lullabies.

Let's go down to the river now
and chase the butterflies.

I believe in playing, absorbing life's full sun,
dancing through the day until the night is done.

I believe in wishing wells never running dry,
granting us the time for a tender, slow goodbye.

Let's go down to the river now
and chase the butterflies.

Should I cross to the other side,
don't you worry; don't you cry.

There you'll see where tomorrow I'll be,
forever chasing butterflies...

False ProphetsPoems and love songs breed dead dreams,
strangled by weeds, face down in the ground
with no roses to mourn them.

Singers are poets that croon
(if you happen to lose your little heart to their tune)
and poets are false prophets -
true love will last forever
if they care to write it,
but not if you swallow the lines...

yet, they always do.

We all have a place
set for us in the shade
in our own private garden of weeds.

ArrheniusThe birds are
keeping to themselves
this evening
as the earth shifts
slightly-
ever so calmly
(for when you are
this powerful
you only have
to move).

Here and there, I
witness these
beautiful strangers
with perfect bodies
and long hair
walking down the road
in tightly knitted packs.
They are animals
like we are animals-
like we are
animals without
claws and fur,
with scratches on our
skin that yields to
fragile and
familiar hands.

The winds respond
as quiet birds rush
from telephone wires
in panic and
in beauty; she
tries to brush the hair
dancing circles in her eyes
(for when you are
this powerful
you only have to move).

Evolution of life

child, we dream
teenager, we have ideas
adult, we have a bar code encrusted in the nape

we evolve to finish in the matrix

False eternityDisillusioned youth was less common in those days,
I assure you, the people even more set in their ways,
murderous and unforgiving, yet unaware of the lie they were living
convinced that faith is stone, they cut faces into gods, they thought
ignorant of the fact that being made rendered useless the very gods they wrought.

Shiny carvings into stone, faces, figures, blessed unknown,
Murders, slaughters, sacrifices of the weak, preaching sins and what they seek.
Forgiveness is not for all, all who do not have will now fall!
Greed consumes the mortal mind, rage is all that's left behind!

Amidst it all I rose and found the sun, disowned him for

VoicesDo you hear the moan of morning rhymes
By the people in their endless time
As the morning dew breaks the day
Back to where the city-lights once laid

The lamp-posts are filled with black starlight
As the children run in their flight
With cries of sorrow, cries of pain
The old houses creaking with disdain

Acidic puddles of blood-wet tears
Remain on the street through all these years
As the cracks have hid the crumbled dust
Within these roads of bone and rust

The melody of the birds is lost
To the screeches and screaming loss
There are people cowering in the dark
Murmuring, whispering their tortured remarks

Flames ignite the world in fire

On The Collapse Of Modern Society"I've never seen so many folks
putting their hopes
in packaged air,
as far as I'm concerned,
and from what I've observed
misplacing material worth while
rushing back and forth
to get nowhere."
my Grandma said,
shaking her head.

Within A BoxIt's a prison for the minds of haunted souls
an odd prison, not large enough to contain its prisoners
and yet it encompasses every fiber of their being
in silent, silent spaces.
Haunted souls are searching for the key
there is no key, but they don't know any better
and what harm could it do? Hope is better than nothing
here's an unlocked open door for you.
Little trinkets haunt souls with their questions
and we want answers, but they won't give
anything away. Very smart,
you know the world is ending soon.
(The best of which are only
crude descriptions of the magic
they are looking for.)

HumanDear Hypocrite,

What do you do?
Throwing insults when you're insulted.

Dear Coward,

Where went you?
To your "peaceful" sanctuary you have bolted.

Dear Liar,

What say you?
Your poison corrupts innocent ears.

Dear Human,

What are you?
A sinner trapped in endless tears.

Lovers and assassinsNight
walk

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Chapter 7: Surprise Meetings

The splash startled the young airbender. He spun around to face the eerie red falls. In the red “water” he saw Toph being pulled under. Instinctively the young monk ran to the edge and dove in. He franticly swam over to the struggling and splashing earthbender and grabbed her under the armpits to pull her out. Toph screamed at the unexpected contact.

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Creation by chigoI have realized that
My world is not empty.

There is unoccupied space, yes, but
It is a space waiting to be filled.

I have begun to fill it.
With each day, I pour a little more
Into the thick soil of my reality.

Whether you view the cup as half-full
Or half-empty
Is inconsequential.

You can just as easily fill a void
As add to already-existing content.

The plastic click of the keyboard keys
Is the steady dripping of water.

The beating of my heart
Is the pitcher from which I pour.

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by ~Ilikethefair, Apr 17, 2008, 8:33:12 PM
Literature / Poetry / Human Nature / Free Verse

January—
I am forced to grow up
Before my time
Confusion

February—
I get a little worse
Start to cry every night
Sadness

March—
I cling to old things
Try to turn back time
Failure

April—
I start to write
An outlet for built-up emotion
Expression

May—
I fall apart for real this time
Do things I now wish I hadn’t
Mistake

June—
I staple up the gap in my chest
And begin hiding behind fake smiles
Illusion

July—
I retreat further behind my wall
Forgetting how to cry, laugh, or scream
Isolation

August—
I am caged
Trapped by my uselessness
Insignificant

September—
I don’t know what to do
Nothing seems to matter anymore
Apathy

October—
I’ve snapped, it seems
Worse than before and oh so impossible to fix
Broken

November—
I stumble upon something unexpected
A reunion, a confession, a promise
Hope

December—
I start planning
Realizing that all is not lost
Though I am choking everyday
I am choking on rainbows
I swallow the beautiful things
As I find them
They are the product of all these months
Of these years that once seemed wasted
Light, the light of hope
Filters through every tear
And casts rainbows at my feet
I pick them up, collect them
And save them, one by one,
Save them for all the days I need saving
For all the days I need to feed this emptiness
Save them so that I can return them
Someday
I fill myself with seasons and seasons of rainbows
I can see it now
The color after the storm
I see
Possibilities, dripping with
Clean water.

Rainbow by chigoby ~Ilikethefair

Literature / Poetry / Human Nature / Free Verse

#18 Rainbow for the 100 themes challenge. I didn't realize how much hidden meaning rainbows can have

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Chigo-chigo

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~ChrisJaeckle Apr 29, 2008 Professional General Artist

I like this one a lot too- it definitely has a sting to it, just as every rainbow needs some dark clouds behind it.

~Ilikethefair Apr 29, 2008

Thank you so much! I'm glad it came across the way I intended it to.

Chigo-chigo

~mode-de-vie Apr 20, 2008 Student Writer

This is a fabulous poem. I would never have thought to use rainbows in such a way. This is very dark at some points, but the sudden theme of possible hope is inspiring.

Great job.

~Ilikethefair Apr 20, 2008

Thank you! I just kind of got the idea for the rainbows randomly, but I decided it would be a good way to make my poem more unique.

Chigo-chigo

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