Simple Poetry...

illogical_reality

illogical_reality

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I think the "Conversation" post I made confused people more than anything, so, this time I'll just post some simple poetry. :D

Tainted Dream​

Tender heart was broken
Tender love abused
No sweeter words were ever spoken
Than those lies I did not choose.
Heart was torn asunder
Body kept from bliss
Mind filled with tainted wonder
You saved me with a kiss.
New love caught and held your heart
Mine was cast away
Fickle love did then depart
While I begged it to stay.
Tears did flood my tortured soul
They'll never cease their stream
You're a grain I never could hold
My beautiful, tainted dream.​

Perilous Lullaby
You sing to me, voice so sweet
Though words are used to maim
You offer me a priceless treat
No love is ever gained.
I offer you my willing heart
You throw it in my face
I place you in a world apart
Yet suffer in disgrace.
You offer more than you can give
I give more than I should
Day by day is how I live
The way you never could.
I'll never flee this broken dream
My love will never die
Your voice will never cease to sing
My perilous lullaby.​


Secret World
I felt you drift so far away
When nightmares ruled the world
You laughed and turned your face away
Malicious words were hurled.​

I felt the coldness and the dark
That lived within your mind
You made a point to break my heart
And leave an empty shell behind.​

I felt the warmth once from your eyes
Shining with devoted love
Now my mind holds only lies
My heart a withered nub.​

I felt the seasons come and go
Just like the promises you made
And now distrust is all I show
Your asking price is what I've paid.​

I felt you turn and question me
Wondering at the sorrow
But you were blind and never could see
The beauty of tomorrow.​

I felt you hide from my pain
I watched you build a wall
But now I know why you complain
And now I can stand tall.​

I heard you offer me the world
The one that haunts my dreams
But monsters live within that world
And you've ignored my screams.​

I felt the sunset on my skin
The chill within my veins
I won't ever let you in again
I'll cry only when it rains.​




©2006-2007 ~perilous-dreamer

For those who are interested in seeing more of the stuff I write, http://perilous-dreamer.deviantart.com I've updated with some new stuff since posting here got my creative juices flowing again.
 
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These were written last night:
Obsession
I wish they would be quiet
These voices that keep screaming
I wish that they would go away
And leave me to my dreaming.
I only want a little silence
A little time to rest
But on and on they chatter
I'm a slave to their behest.
I wish someone could save me
Quiet my poetic soul
But on and on I write these words
I write to make me whole.
Oh, please stop the agony
Rip out the silent pain
Words without reason
From this I must refrain.​


Demon Dance
A demon hides within me
A demon with no name
And since he's come to visit
I've never been the same.
With each malicious whisper
My perfect world he taints
It's not a pretty picture
This new world that he paints.
He tells me I am lying
He wakes me in the night
To fill me with corruption
To turn my love to fright.
He claims our love is nothing
Just a silly little play
He taunts me in my dreams
But leaves me the next day.
Oh, tell me that you love me
Give to me no lies
So this silly llittle demon
Can run away and hide.​

Perfection
Perfection is your eyes, my love
Perfection that I seek
Perfection is the way they light
When mine they chance to meet.​

Perfection is your mouth, my love
Perfection is your kiss
Perfection is the words you say
They bring exotic bliss.​

Perfection is your hands, my love
Perfection is your touch
Perfection is your sweet caress
The one I love so much.​

Perfection is your heart, my love
Perfection is your soul
Perfection is the way your love
Transformed and made me whole.​

©2007 ~perilous-dreamer​
 
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Do you mind if I jump in?

I actually did a little something called Perfect awhile back and you reminded me of it. Its not nearly as good as yours, but I thought it might be interesting to see...

Here it is...

Perfect

I have to be perfect. I can’t slip. I can’t fall.
My heart can’t beat. My eyes can’t blink.
If I fail, then I lose everything that matters.

If my heart beats, then I have no reason to live.
If I blink, then my eyes have no more reason to see.
If I fall, then Nothing can ever pick me up again.

The cruelest interruption into my thoughts is the
only one that reminds me of happiness.

I cannot move forward. There is a cliff before me.
I cannot stay here. My heart’s desire is across the chasm.
How does my spirit learn to fly without leaving this mortal coil?

I want to scream. I want to cry.
I want to curl up into a ball and disappear.

But more than all I want to be silent.
And I want to smile and stand tall.

All of my wants are for nothing right now.
 
It's really quite good. It's not necessarily poetry...I think it would be classified as prose because of the lack of a rhyme scheme. I have a tendency to think in rhyme when writing poetry. My prose just sucks.

But, all that aside, as far as the poem itself is concerned, it displays emotion and that's all poetry really is. Emotion transformed into words. Personally, when I read it I automatically think of pain and suffering...longing even....for something that is just out of reach. And, while that might not even be the true meaning behind it, that's what's so great about poetry....while the author may be thinking one thing while writing it, feeling something entirely different and unique to his or her own experiences, another person may come along and relate in a totally different way.

You should write more. It helps to ease the pain.
 
Prose...

Okay, so, this is an example of my prose. It really sucks, so nothing harsh please....I know it sucks. Written for my grandfather:

Shattered Illusion
You remind me of summertime.
Not because you're warm or kind
But because after you
I never felt warmth again.
You remind me of innocence.
Not because of your child-like mind
But because after you
Stole my innocence I was tainted.
You remind me of anger.
Not because I've ever seen your temper
But because after you
True happiness no longer existed for me.
You remind me of darkness.
Not because of wonderful dreams
But because after you
There was no light left in my world.
You remind me of pain
Not because I've ever seen you suffer
But because after you
I wanted nothing more than to destroy myself.
You remind me of hatred.
Not because I've ever seen you hate
But because after you
I learned what it was to hate myself.
You remind me of teardrops.
Not because I've ever seen you cry
But because after you
I couldn't stop weeping.
You remind me of myself.
Not because we are anything alike
But because after you
I'm nothing more than a shattered illusion.
​
©2007 ~perilous-dreamer​
 
I loved them,yes, yours too SJ.
I'm posting an old poem of mine in a different thread for Illogical Reality's entertaiment :)
 
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