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ryu_shadowdancer 09-07-2009 11:23 AM

writings of mine from long ago
 
Not sure if all of what ends up in this thread would be considered poetry but it seemed the best place for them.

I do welcome comments, crits, and feedback/observations, but I wish to remind the reader that these writings are considered finished works and will not be revisited, or revised as they are considered complete in their current form, but that does not mean I will be deaf to what the readers interprets or wishes to express.

so for my first post I give you this....


........................lake

The lake just sits there and ponders what it is
going to do today, that is what it usually does
every day. It just waits there for someone to
come along and to go swimming in it so that it
knows that it is wanted. The lake longs to be
joined with its sister lakes and rivers, to no
longer be isolated and alone, away from friends
the lake reviles all its wonders and beauty to
all who come to its shores to admire it, it
provides a place for people to enjoy themselves
and to go boating or fishing for these are the
things that make a lake very happy, but when
people start snooping under the surface the
lake gets very angry and starts to cause problems
because unlike the river the lake keeps its secrets
very well gaurded and if you try to find out
what they are the lake will claim you as one
more of its many hidden horrorsfor other
investigators the lake tells me about those
people that were never able to walk on dry
ground again and abouthow it secretly plots
the drowning of every piece of dirt on the
planet because you see the lake has gone
insane from just sitting around by itself with
noone to talk to or any place to go waiting
each day for something to happen to it. the
waters tell me of how they want to embrace me
and love me forever so that no other may have me
the lake makes me offers that are almost impossible
to refuse, but I tell it maybe some other day as
I leave it and think about what it will give me
for loving it and each day I come closer to
letting the waters love me and hold me but for now
I belong to the land.

and my second post is this, a somewhat related writing..

..............river

The river is power it is serenity
the river is also life and death, it has
the ability to move a person to tears
it gives me a feeling of contentment
the river brings food to places it is needed
it also slowly eats away at the very same shore
that it feeds the river is peaceful to watch on the surface
but one glimpse of what is happening below is enough
to scare the life out of a person. The river has hidden
powers that only a very select few can see or hear
the river is the resting place for me to go and relax
I can hear the river calling to me and telling me its most
prized secrets and all that it has to offer if only I stay and
listen as long as it wants to talk. The river shows me what
it can do with all its hidden powers and how I to can posses
them the river is always glad to see me on the shoreline
and to have someone to talk to but when I am gone it will
sometimes get angry and start to destroy all that it has
helped to give life to, but most of the time it just flows
along its path and waits patiently for me to return
to it because it knows that someday I will come back to it
and to embrace it and love it but for nowit is content to
just talk with me and to carry my problems away to its
depths forever. But now I must go back to the river and
listen some more because the waters are calling to me
so I will go and talk and listen some more.

ryu_shadowdancer 09-08-2009 10:38 AM

the next couple peices are here

...nothing

what is that I hear?
is it a yell or just a noise
no it is neither it is just
nothing, the terrifying sound
of nothing no love no hate
no sadness no joy
just the bitter sound of nothing
nothing is an empty word without
light or hope it ends conversations
and lives it stirs the soul to
raise up in laughter or in sadness
it makes people cringe and brace
when there is nothing around people
get scared they look to replace the
nothing but they are not always
able to nothing can take hold of
the strongest heart and make it ache
or it can make the weariest soul
happy it can give a needed break
or it can become desolate, the meaning
of nothing can only be found by
the one who found nothing be it
on purpose or out of carelessnes
what is that I hear a laugh a sigh
or maybe a scream or a voice
oh it was just nothing


........................SILENCE................

Silence fills all the empty spaces
where sound has abandoned.
silence comes before sound it
also comes after sound.
Silence is a force that cannot be defeated,
yet can be shattered and lost
with a single noise. Silence is what
I like to listen to, to not hear anything
after listening to the hustle and bustle of the day
silence is golden it is a thing of pleasure yet
a source of overwhelming fear and panic
silence is the one thing everyone wants but
it is the one thing they cannot stand.
Silence waits patiently for the night to come
it slowly takes control of the world as
sound fades away, it holds onto the cities
and countryside as long as it can
reluctant to give them back to sound
for sound is a young concept while silence is
older than the universe itself. Silence will be here
long after sound dies and is forgotten.
Silence will be the only witness to the end of time.
Silence is what attracts me and guides me
in what I do, Silence is the the thing that I wish for
and it is the one place I long to be.

ryu_shadowdancer 09-09-2009 10:42 AM

Here are 3 short ones


people

people change people come
and go people make memories
people keep and forget memories
people forget people people keep
pictures of people people are
people are not
people are people



life


Life is and is not
life is priceless yet
thrown away like trash
life fills and is filled by
those around it
life is full and yet empty
life is simple yet unexplainable
life is happiness and sorrow
its contentment and unrest
life is everything yet its
nothing
life is me and you
life is what life is
life is life



friends
Friends are people who
have fun together
Friends are there when
you're down to give you
a hand
Friends are the ones that
make you feel like you
belong
Friends make you laugh
when you don't want to
Friends are the ones
that know youthe
best
Friends are the people
you can count on the most
when you need help
Friends are your most
valuable asset

ryu_shadowdancer 09-10-2009 10:54 AM

Next group



........................change

change is good for the human spirit if it is the right kind of
change. change is what the human spirit needs to survive but the
wrong kind of change can bring terror and chaos to a persons life
good change is one that brings happiness to a person's life
the differance between good and bad change is very hard to
find because there are some changes that seem good before they
happen but when they take place they scare those that are effected
an example of a mixed change is one of a person leaving for a short
time period it seems like you are going to be happy to be rid of
that person but after they are gone you realize how much you needed
that person around
an example of a good change is getting married or having
children because then you have someone who depends on you to take
care of them and that makes you feel like you have done something
that you can always be proud of
an example of a bad change is one where you must alter your
lifestyle because of an illness or because of financile reasons
where the things that you used to do are no longer good for you or you cannot afford to do them

when a change comes to you in your life you must take it in
stride with everything else that happens to you and when there is
a bad change tha you are unable to handle you must seek help from
friends that care about you.



.........home

Home is a place
where you feel safe
Home is where your family
is at and wherethe heart is
Home for a soldier is far away
Home is a word that soldiers use
to remind themselves that there are
peple waiting for them. Home
is a memory buried deep inside,
Home is the force which keeps a
soldier moving forward.
For some home is the barracks
others it's in a different state
or even a different country.
Home is where we are yet its
also a place we long to be
Home is a place some may never
see. Home is where I haven't seen

ryu_shadowdancer 09-11-2009 10:24 AM

Next two

..................................winter...


Winter is a time of joy
winter is also a time of death
for everything is cold yet eerily bright
the fresh snowinvites me out while
the wind howls for me to beware
for it is the winter wind that will
claim the person who is lured out into it
by the seemingly quiet serenity of a clear
winters day
Winter is a time for people to get together
and go sledding or skiing or even ice skating
but it is also the time when most go unprepaired
for the weather and some pay the ultimate
price
winter is a quiet time the trees and flowers
lie in wait for the warmth of spring the birds
and small animals have all left before the
unmerciless wind and coldcould get their
icy fingers on them. winter waits for
its prey paitently fore it knows that somewhere
someone is going to forget about what is going
on around them and the wind and cold are going
to rip through them with an unyeilding
grip and a howl of victory Winter cares not
who you are or where you're from it wants
to get to you any way that it can if it cannot
trick you it will bombard you you until either
you break or spring arrives. all you can
do is fight back and wait for spring.


..................................dark............ .........

Dark and blackness are the same being
it is what is behind you when you are alone
it is the feeling you have when you
think something is going to happen. Blackness
fills every spot that light is unable to penetrate
it is the force that envelopes the world at night and
holds onto it with all its power, for dark is stronger
than light by a thousand fold dark was the companion to silence
before the universe was here and it is always around
darkness is a place for lovers to snuggle closer together
it is also the reason they hold on tighter to each other
dark is a peaceful state in which the eye does not have to
distinguish colors or shapes it is also the state
in which panic and fear breed and spread like wildfire
and can grow to attack a person who is unlucky enough to be out
Dark is my element the place I feel most relaxed
it is also my one true friend for it does not tell anyone
what I say to it and it does not let others know
where I am at dark keeps those facts without ever letting them go
no matter how hard anyone tries to take it from the dark
Dark is where I feel wanted and it is where long to go and to
stay until the end of time.

ryu_shadowdancer 09-12-2009 05:39 PM

next installment is here



...........................storm

The storm has power beyond belief
the storm is beautiful to watch
it brings life waters whereever it goes yet it
also can bring Death and Destuction
the storm has powers of lightning and tornados
which very few people can understand yet
the storm will tell you about them if you sit
and listen the storm will tell about how it can
be soft as silk or hard as stone depending
on what mood it is in the storm will try
to scare you with light shows and impress
you with strong winds but I pay no mind
to the boasting of the storm for while I am
talking with it it becomes prideful and
angry because I do not show fear nor am I
impressed by the light show and I let the storm
know this because the storm no power over
what I fear or dread an dthis angers the storm for
it does not like when a human can be considered
its equal whether it be in strength, anger, destructive
power, speed or even pride yet when the storm
and I meet it knows from the past that I have
greater powers that the storm ever could and this
angers the storm into trying to impress me and to
try to get me to tell it my secrets but I never do
so the storm rages on waiting for its next chance
to meet with me but for now all is calm and Quiet
as the storm approaches


......walking with me

when the path is clear walk beside me fore
I need not lead where you can see

when the path is narrow and hard to find walk
behind and hold my hand fore I shall guide you
safely

when the path is dark look for me I shall
be your light

when the path leads upward hold my hand fore
I shall help you up

when the path becomes to tireing or trecherous
ride upon my back fore I will accept your burden
as my own

when the path splits walk before me and
lead the way fore I shall follow with you along
what ever path you may choose but you must
choose the path yourself

ryu_shadowdancer 09-14-2009 10:42 AM

The last two I have are here. I hope if you have read all of them you can understand them as I have written them.


wolf or man

A form takes shape a movement and the shape changes
what was is gone and whats here is changing

look again a different form nothing solid nothing
fluid everything shadows meet a form takes shape

alone look again a form Defines and moves
forward the time has come a lesson waits

Think your alone look agian the form approaches
fear is not present calm aproaches

Time for a lesson the shadows open the form
approaches

stand in the light listen to the lesson peace is
comming

look to the shadows the form approaches
low and silent no fear a friend has
arrived

a call in the distance The form enters the
light low and silent padded foot on bare
ground

look down again Booted foot is there look
up I am there you have stayed the
lesson begins.


two are one

Empty clearing look around nothing seen
nothing heard all is quiet on frozen ground


Footsteps heard all around whats this way
bound is it padded foot or leather bound

enter the clearing no sound nor fear around
step to the side and wait for thee

sighted is there one or two its hard to see
man or wolf you cannot tell one or both or
two as one

stand in place I approach no fear nor hate
a friend has come stay and watch man
is wolf yet wolf is alone on frozen ground

Foot in the light wolf is gone but around
stand face to face with one who is two
listen words are said low and calm

wolf turns to go Follow and learn the time
has come for two to be one again
I say to you stay and learn or go with hopes
to return

stay or go The choice is yours
I will wait come and learn or go and
remember when you are ready seek and I will
be found

Sir D . L O Van Lobsters 09-14-2009 09:26 PM

  • I like, alot.


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