Author Topic: Winter's Tales (Read 36204 times)

WintersTale · « **Reply #180 on:** January 10, 2016, 05:07:12 am »

Spinning wild
Out of control
In the final chaos
When friend and foe
As one are lost
What once we knew
Now torn apart

#Promptpocalypse

Crimson berries of a rowan
Nightshade black as hell
Blend to one fine mess
Shall we herald a death knell

#Darktale

Great conductor above
Orchestrating each movement
My life a series of high notes
& low
Until I'm released
In a mighty crescendo

#fieryverse

WintersTale · « **Reply #181 on:** January 10, 2016, 05:09:17 am »

Release me once
Catch me twice
Third time's a charm
I won't play nice

#Darktale

@MercurialNight
Stepping back
from the insistent hubbub
I've donned dark feathers
I contemplate the night

... a quiet few days

@Banquozghost

Cloaked in somber garb
Melting with the shadows
A time for contemplation
Conjugation of the prose

@MercurialNight
The weight of just a comma
too much
for words, unmeasured
to bear

They disperse
unbound
no compass
for the formless dark

@Banquozghost

Quills dipped in misers ink
To eke out each precious word
Souls poured forth upon the page
Spilling to fill the universe

@MercurialNight
I cut my arm
wrote in blood

The rebel page
sucked my pen dry
leaving just a smear
that seemed indifferent
to the wound

@Banquozghost

From life's blood
In fountains
Flows the heartfelt truth

❣

@MercurialNight
At the bottom
of the heart's disturb'd sea
private tides
wear smooth each jagged edge

A pebble for your thoughts

WintersTale · « **Reply #182 on:** January 10, 2016, 05:17:51 am »

Blame it on fate
Or was it destiny
Back to the banks
Beside a river lay me down
Blackened petals about me float
Ruined to the core
#ashverse

Where once we danced
And spoke of dreams
Now we sit
And whisper of memories

#SenseWrds #Promptpocalypse

The final stretch
We've come so far
End game now in play
A whistle blows
A thunderous roar
Finally on our way

#Promptpocalypse #MadVerse

Forces aligned
Our final stand
Mighty pens flourished
We play our parts
Each keeping score
We scream our words
Forevermore
#Promptpocalypse

Poisoned ink
In deadly nightshade
A bitter battleground
Friends & foes
Lost in a rush
All honour cast out
Nowhere 2 B found
#Promptpocalypse

Drum the beat
Feet do March
Flags unfurl
Heads held high
Our foes despatched
By swift decree
All swept aside
Hollow victory
#Promptpocalypse

Silent
Taciturn
Watchful
He stands as a shield
Bastion strong
Beyond none shall pass
Gaze full of scorn
#fieryverse

Grim portents led us here
A trail of pain
Friends old and new
Brothers in arms
Lost and found
To meet the awful reckoning
#Promptpocalypse

What was it that moulded U
Who nurtured your mind
When was your spirit crushed
From where did you come
This anatomy of evil
#Promptpocalypse

A blood moon rises
Crows gather in the night
Black eyes to witness
This midnight clash
Of quill to sword
And pen to blade

#Promptpocalypse

Tethered by birth
This place my home
You shall not win
Though I breathe yet still
I am truly bound to stone

#Promptpocalypse

Through roots sunk deep
I feel the dark rage build
My land crying out
A slow cold fury
Straining to be unleashed

#Promptpocalypse

Hard pressed
Nowhere to turn
Blocked on every side
My world about to burn
Lights grow dim
Chill the air
Too soon the end
#Promptpocalypse

Yet hope
A living flame
Glows still within the night
I'm not defeated yet
Shall rise to turn and fight

#Promptpocalypse

Where there is a desert of feeling
No oasis of hope may bloom
All is fair if love is not there
No moral compass to guide

#Promptpocalypse

Heavens may fall
Mountains tumble to dust
Seas rise and mankind be crushed
Yet our spirit shall survive another day

#Promptpocalypse

Sorrow fill my world with tears
Cast me adrift upon seas of doubt
I search
But do not find
Yet more blues and no clues

#

When they cut the mainline
Cryptic signals clarified
Bloodstained honour demands
Heretics & martyrs
Take to flame
#MadVerse #Promptpocalypse

Drifting on a gentle tide
Rocking to & fro
Life passes
Smile & wave
With no place to go
#SenseWrds #Promptpocalypse

Crimson streams flow to eternity
Of rubies we talk
Yet of bloodlines we dream
Strands intertwining
Stretching immemorial

#fieryverse

WintersTale · « **Reply #183 on:** January 11, 2016, 01:58:26 pm »

Ever just out of reach
Beyond a hazy veil
Light as butterflies
Dreams flit
Unceasing
Fluttering temptations
Before wishful eyes

#SenseWrds

Lazing in the shallow parted dawn, hand outstretched to capture the fading warmth of your body in the empty vastness you left behind
#ntitle

Fate determines
With blood tipped pen
The pattern we each shall weave
Skeins unspooling
In patterns undeviating
Until the end

#fieryverse
Twin souls
Caught forever in duel
You only live twice
Yet die but once
Wishing time frozen
Pulling you closer
Never 2 lose U again
#ashverse

'Twas a Winters eve
Just like this
When our enduring love
So endearing to others
Slipped from our grasp
Holding onto it no more
❣
#MadVerse

Emotions gather
Like bloated storms
To flood my eyes
Memories swirl
Waterweeds choking my mind
Cut them down
Let the waters flow
#fieryverse

Upon a roof top , crouching, he patiently waits, surveying the rush of souls upon the streets below. Upon which shall he feast?

#Darktale

WintersTale · « **Reply #184 on:** January 11, 2016, 02:33:06 pm »

A dream was born
Baptised in silence
We stood upon the edge
Poised to fall
Or was it take flight
Untried
Our wings spread wide

#ntitle 673

WintersTale · « **Reply #185 on:** January 15, 2016, 03:40:23 pm »

We gambolled once & played the fool in merry times long past, when laughter rang & jesters undisgraced danced at the end of a rope

#ntitle

By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes
Hide thy face
Shield thine guileless eyes
The devil comes in sweet disguise

❣

Such tender tidings beseech my ears
These mercies as poison
To drown my sorrows
As one crown falls
So does another one rise

#fieryverse

Twilight falls in shades sublime
A sombre cloak upon the land
Haunting shades
Within graveyards move
To seek their wary rest

#SenseWrds 62

Crushed, my heart aches as I watch them parade their love B4 the world as we once did but now I shield my hurt & smile instead

#title 676

Shining beacon
The golden heart of our universe
Bringing warmth
Lighting our path
The brilliant burning sun
Ever shining
Always
#wyldeverse

Deep within
Beyond all reach
A dream takes root
Begins to grow
To seek the light
Breaking free
A wish once made
Now fulfilled

#WyldeVerse

No matter how hard he tried, as mist in the morning his reflection dissolved in the mirror, reborn his death was a new start

#

Sugared words
Honey sweet
Drizzled gently
Sprinkled with love
Wrapped in a bow
Placed in a bowl
And offered to those deserving

#fieryverse

EquineAnn · « **Reply #186 on:** January 15, 2016, 03:43:46 pm »

I love some of your poems.

WintersTale · « **Reply #187 on:** January 15, 2016, 04:02:36 pm »

Thank you. They really are on the spur of the moment when I read the prompts 🙋

EquineAnn · « **Reply #188 on:** January 15, 2016, 04:49:03 pm »

You're welcome. I believe you. I get my ideas for poems spontaneously too.

WintersTale · « **Reply #189 on:** January 17, 2016, 06:58:24 am »

Are you my judge or executioner? For none but the Lord on judgement day shall dare pass sentence upon my soul

#Darktale

Heartbroken
Spirit adrift
My anchor cut loose too soon
You were my world
My reflection now standing alone

#SenseWrds 63

Two souls
Joined as one
Though the miles
And years between
Do keep us far apart
Saying goodbye
Mere words
We never could say

#WyldeVerse

With eyes averted
Between us a chasm of loss
Words unspoken
Desires denied
What you took so long ago
I now demand it back

#ntitle 678

Just a material girl
Forever seeking that diamond ring
A gamble too far
She played with loaded dice
Lost the wager
And her heart

#ashverse

WintersTale · « **Reply #190 on:** January 17, 2016, 07:08:09 am »

Beware the envious gaze
When upon a pedestal we place
In love's high honour
Those dearly well beloved
Where once another stood

#fieryverse

Divine Metamorphoses · « **Reply #191 on:** January 29, 2016, 03:19:42 am »

Great to see your talent showcased here Lady Winter

Looking forward to more!
Love and light
Divine

WintersTale · « **Reply #192 on:** January 30, 2016, 02:06:19 pm »

a thorn tree grows
where none shall flourish
yet there it stands
defiant of all
just as our love
forbidden yet true
survives on

#fieryverse

WintersTale · « **Reply #193 on:** January 30, 2016, 02:52:27 pm »

A duet

Red iron trees
beset with rust
sinking as they rise
a slow return to dust

Art: Rafai Waniak

.@Banquozghost

Subsiding to ash
Dissolving to dust
Blown away on the wind
To land where they must

@MercurialNight
Stir the dust

Lay out the rusted blade
the tainted implements

Make corruption's invocation

See them rise again
from ash

incantations
1 by 1
watch them grow
towards the sun
we built them 1st
designed with hope
yet here we kneel
a slippery slope

@Banquozghost

@MercurialNight
Grow until
a burdened earth
groans
beneath the weight
of awful aspiration.
Sick surfaces slick
with dark intent,
quivering.

Silent giants
Held at bay
They strain to unleash their rage

Mankind watches
Holds its breath
Encased within this cage

@Banquozghost

@MercurialNight
The rasp and rattle
of restraining steel,
eclipsed by thunder's peel.
Heavens shake
with wrath at the ungodly risks
we take

WintersTale · « **Reply #194 on:** January 30, 2016, 03:01:29 pm »

Sweet cotton candy
Sugar drenched clouds of pink perfection
Melting deliciously upon my tongue
Dreams of childhood
Sugar rush haze

#ntitle

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My gypsy heart
Seeking a haven
A vagabond wandering
From love to love
Betrayed by my hopes
Treasonous desires
& yet I search on

#WyldeVerse

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Scatter your pearls
Before the swine
Fresh cut blooms
To colour their barren garden
Into the light
Shall knowledge
Step forth

#fieryverse

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May to September
An Autumn bloom
Flowered so late
Yet here and now
Captured in your eyes
You make me blush

#ntitle

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Fireworks explode
The living daylights
Blind my eyes
Yr lips of madness so sweet
Stop playing games
Wrap me in desirable closeness
#ashverse

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What does it take
To make you believe
A miracle so wondrous
Your eyes not to deceive
May a wish come true
& your dreams come alive

#ntitle

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What they demand
We cannot allow
We stand in strength
To this
I avow

#darktale

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Ashes and dust
Copper hued rust
Are all we have to show
Of lives well lived
Hearts well loved
And a Harley set on the road

#WyldeVerse 108

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Baring my soul
Removing layers
Nothing left to hide behind
My shields are down
Inviting you in
Will you step into the unknown?

#DsubVerse

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Memories and dreams
Melt into one
I feel your hand
Is it you?
As long as I sleep
Beside me you'll keep
If only just for a day

#fieryverse

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Dark doves
My sombre thoughts
Flit to and fro
Wings softly beat
In futile effort
Upon the bars
Caged forever within my mind

#fieryverse

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Hidden within shadows
Rumours are circulating
A gathering of whispers
As pebbles dropped in a pond
Ripples expand
Ever widening

#ntitle 681

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Surrounded by such useless beauty
No consolation 4 my loss
A phone can be such a cold device
Your words a bitter wine on my tongue
#ashverse

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I no longer see you
My world now in deep shadow
And yet
Every day
Every night
I use your eyes
To view
Discern
Perceive the truth
#ntitle 680

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A flower unfurling
Petals spreading
Open to their fullest
Senses alive to every touch
Absorbing your scent
Your taste
Just...you

#dsubverse

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No questions asked
No explanation needed
As the back of my hand
I know you so well
And would follow you blindly

#fieryverse

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Beware the envious gaze
When upon a pedestal we place
In love's high honour
Those dearly well beloved
Where once another stood

#fieryverse

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Just a material girl
Forever seeking that diamond ring
A gamble too far
She played with loaded dice
Lost the wager
And her heart

#ashverse
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With eyes averted
Between us a chasm of loss
Words unspoken
Desires denied
What you took so long ago
I now demand it back

#ntitle 678
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Two souls
Joined as one
Though the miles
And years between
Do keep us far apart
Saying goodbye
Mere words
We never could say

#WyldeVerse
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Heartbroken
Spirit adrift
My anchor cut loose too soon
You were my world
My reflection now standing alone

#SenseWrds 63

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