The Raven

They say there's no beauty in the Raven,
That it's a bird of ill omen, messenger of doom;
They would rather watch and hear a songbird,
Listen to its trill where the flowers bloom.

Shows they've never really... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Edirr) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1648 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:17:14 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1645/t/Sleepless-muse.html Storm is in my mind,
Because of an element of insight.
Noise drifts to song and back at night.

Not just the thing,
But the whole of the thing,
Does beckon from my words.

Unspoken universes rattle,
In a drift of my eyes,
Waiting the turn of the tide.

Pinching my nerve,
Do my fingers struggle for
Figments of inspiration to unwind.
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Zixinus) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1645 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:53:28 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1631/t/True-tears.html
It was as if a sharp wind had blown through me, a gust that uprooted even the strongest trees.

I didn't know how to react to it. I didn't even know why I couldn't react to it.

Her tears. They fell. Like a water's spring.

Ah, I wanted to catch them, to wipe them away. But when I did, a warm, unfamiliar feeling swelled inside me.

What was it?

The ghosts of my past blew around... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Blackmane) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1631 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:32:46 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1624/t/A-secret-place-and-power.html A secret place and power

I live in a thousand glimmers,
Dreaming repeated music,
That sometimes flows
Free.

Curtained by grey reality
I live my days coloured
By images conjured for
Free.

In-between hours of sloth
Broken for a moment by healthy excuses
Can my... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Zixinus) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1624 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:43:29 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1605/t/Loss.html Slick, well dressed, cool and collected in their mis-match.
One a sloth,
another a bowl,
a third a porcupine.

How did I lose to such as this?
I wonder as I sit idly by.

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Due to circumstances (I.e. I am paranoid about the Internet) I can't explain further why the use of animals and a bowl as a connotation, nor can I fully explain what this poem really talks about. It can mean... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Blackmane) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1605 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:17:38 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1595/t/Light-and-Dark.html Just a couple of random poems/writings I cooked up......

The Dark

I can be comforting and warm... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (deliciousruby) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1595 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:40:13 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1569/t/Love-on-the-Highway.html
"Faster. Harder. More. MORE."

I'm thrilled by her reckless demands, her insatiable appetite.But I must hold back, maintain control. There are too many people around for an overt display.

Distraction, that's it. Billy Joel's voice fills the small space, I focus on the lyrics. "The piano sounds like a carnival, the microphone smells like a beer."

... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (vaalium) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1569 Wed, 20 May 2009 02:44:00 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1568/t/A-Moment-in-the-Colorado-Night.html
The clouds are illuminated from within by flashes of lightening, their billowing internal structure revealed in the night sky. The thunder rumbles distant and faint, almost an afterthought. Most of the drops never reach the ground on their six thousand foot journey to the concrete of my driveway. They... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (vaalium) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1568 Tue, 19 May 2009 13:43:20 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1564/t/Excuses.html rain tap dancing on the black-tar
streets below. I was going to
mop the floor,
do some laundry,
run out the door, get some groceries --
but there was no sunrise;

so much for a day at the beach,
someone must be sighing.

Does it make it a better day
for doing housework?

Grumbling thunder, rain beating on the windows.

I don't think so.
]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ravenblack) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1564 Sat, 16 May 2009 13:48:15 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1556/t/The-Cashier.html after getting the change she needed
and the customers-in-line stabbed her
with stares of where have you been
for the past five minutes of my precious time?
But as they watched her count through
a heavy stack of fifties - change
for the thousand dollar some asshole gave
to pay for his two-bag $40.55 groceries,... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ravenblack) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1556 Sun, 10 May 2009 11:06:49 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1555/t/Mrs-Lee.html beads of sweat on her forehead ran down
fierce creases, she would wipe them off
with her white lacy hanky before they could fall.
She'd instruct us to turn to the page as her eyes
scanned over the heads of the restless for recess.

Twenty years later, on a train, she's sitting
in front of me. Her hair once curly and black
is now a head of white furls; same eyes, same
pitbull jaws; she's... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ravenblack) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1555 Sun, 10 May 2009 10:51:45 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1551/t/Confess.html I broke it.

But I wish someone else did --
It's got to be that guy
who used it before me.

Quick! get the superglue
or some sticky tape!
Maybe I can fix the damn thing
before it's found out.

Too late!
A passing witness sees
the two pieces,
"what happened to this?"

Lips flap like a tent
giving way to wind;
words sputter out:
excuses --
useless --
sentences can't... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Ravenblack) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1551 Thu, 07 May 2009 23:37:36 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1550/t/Anticipation.html
He paced back and forth
senses all a-tingle
Muscles bunching and relaxing as he watched and waited in anticipation
Hunger growled in his stomach as he eyed his... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (deliciousruby) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1550 Thu, 07 May 2009 20:55:17 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1543/t/Monsoon.html The storm is rolling in, low, ominous, exciting
The thrill of what is coming tingles in my veins
Anticipation mounts within, teasing me with hope
The scent of rain heavy on the air, a promise strong
http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1543 Sun, 03 May 2009 08:55:51 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1542/t/Vampire-Possession.html

Memorizing promises that hold you in their grasp
A thousand words uttered in a single glance
Think you've found redemption in that tainted touch
But hell reeks of salvation until you're in its folds... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Silent) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1542 Sun, 03 May 2009 08:26:03 GMT http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1532/t/White.html Majestic in its crenelations,
Towering over the rest of the city.
All who looked and wondered were in awe,
At its crumbling facade,
The off-white stone,
Whitewashed, and peeling.

Those who ventured inside found
the air cloying with the scent of dust.
The dark nether regions exposed suddenly
By a shaft of sunlight pouring in,
from a broken roof.

Many have come to marvel,
At the history that it... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Blackmane) http://cassiopeia.yuku.com/topic/1532 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:45:39 GMT