Any poets here?

[taloony]

Originally posted by Orochi
I write... Short stories, poems, lyrics, etc. I'm just far too critical of anything that I do that I actually care about to show it to anyone at all, much less post it here...

Um...

I guess that leaves us at goodbye.

Um..well.. based off that first sentence I was going to pimp Brisco's Pancakes thread..but, I suppose I won't.

[EternalAlien]

Originally posted by Nemesis
Whats your style?
Dada
Sureal
Futurism

Beats the shit outta me. I just write the damn things.

"Void", though, is acctually the begining of the fantasy novel that I'm writing. It sums up part of the lead character's past.

I just wrote this one earlier today.

Cycle

the perilous darkness breeds a new insight
opening a pathway into the infinite light
but suckers just can't see straight
blinded by the darkness pulled over their own eyes

to take that new way of seeing
and bestowing it in full upon those that are seeking
is to be a shepherd for the lambs
leading the flock to potential reached freely

so freely dismiss
the darkness
the dark kiss
of a lover's lips so pure
that can open thine eyes
to the darkness inside of you

for you are you and you are of gray
intermingled darkness and lightness
destruction and justice
breaking the mold of a norm that is heartless

and my heart was wrapped in barbed wire and chains
with electroshock prods to inflict so much pain
locked away
thrown astray
but found again one day
reopened with a key made of glorious gray

and when it was opened light and darkness did pour
out from the chambers of blood, illuminating the door
to the pathway that I must traverse
so that my life I may transverse
and undo this cruel curse
to be who is me
physically
mentally
spiritually

I complete the cycle and find my own bliss
break off the manacles and give of my own dark kiss

---------


*looks at CD collection.* 311, Incubus, Beastie Boys, Shootyz Groove, Deftones, RatM....

*looks at self in mirror* Brown hair, tan skin, kakhi pants, Bullhead sweater, Globe shoes, non-painted fingernails.

*double-checks mood* Nope, not depressed or heart-broken.

Yea, I'm as goth as they get.

[Scourge]

Process

The blooms sway in the metal grey-
a machine for the botany,
where scissors descend and resend
to snip them into suffering;
a conduit blows recycled breeze
that smells stalely moldy,
so to sweeten it they extract
perfume from the glands
of rodents no one keep as pets-

a liquid screen projects its images,
propaganda and paraquet pandering,
the volume down, the lips to read,
imagining the message means:

Sit the watch, wait the cock,
guard the flock, wear the frock,
raise the scythe, cut the stalk,
bundle it and go to market…

Dreams of silo skylines stretching,
the flatfields housed are so depressing,
the Rainswitch hopes there’s not a glitch
or there’ll be no bundles for window dressing-
a button pressed is god in action
the pulleys pull and cogs retract and
open gates to fill up lakes
to soak the soil for propagation
through zygotic irritation;
a hand removed the job is done-
praise be to St. Irrigation
and to holy gene mutation

Push the button, wait the rain,
depress the button, wait again,
push the button, wait the blades,
depress the button, wait again,
push the button, rake the grain,
depress the button, wait again

The liquid screen projects its images,
propaganda and paraquet pandering,
the volume down the lips to read,
imagining the message means:

Sit the watch, wait the cock,
guard the flock, wear the frock,
raise the scythe, cut the stalk,
bundle it and go to market…

Put upon a track it’s taken,
ground it’s bleached and nutriated
and put in capsules for the masses,
sold in designer color bottles
labeled as the one quick fix;
the reaper is a button presser-
sworn to uphold the corporate credo,
‘Conversion by Subversion,’
the harvester of salvation;
and plebian pushers smile and sell,
and family dinner is popping a pill

--R.Brenner [me]

[Tracer]

Poems are never so chalangeing as they seem
for once and awhile you learn to let your mind rest
and follow your fingertips on trails
that your heart mandates
Let your mind wander freely
and hit the keys
one by one
till the poem you are telling with your heart
is done.

[Brisco Bold]

Fuck it- I'm pimping my thread.


http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/s...threadid=12138

If you want any sort of fiction critiqued or want an audience, feel free to stop by.

[arjue]

I can write a mean haiku...

[Clash!]

Nerds.

[Shooting Love]

Hey bahn,
since this thread surfaced again...
Sorry for cursing at you.
..clearly I'm overdefensive about people mocking poetry
..and I didn't catch your humorous drift

Oh shit!, I shoulda wrote a poem about it

[Jimmy Carter]

Originally posted by Clash_Master
Nerds.

I was browsing the Sound Off area and I saw that Clash had posted her. I was like, "Oh man, this should be good. The harassment is going to be great."

Well, a respectable post, but it could've been better. I give it a 6.

[Clash!]

Originally posted by Jimmy Carter
I was browsing the Sound Off area and I saw that Clash had posted her. I was like, "Oh man, this should be good. The harassment is going to be great."

Well, a respectable post, but it could've been better. I give it a 6.

I am so sorry James Carter. I have failed ye. The truth is I was blown back by the lameness of the thread I guess. "Nerds" was the best thing I could think of.