5 minute poetry

[RoosterChicken]

ok sorry.
but, i thought i only made the bleach manga thread?

[RaiRai]

Perhaps then I am confusing you with someone else, I apologise. But please do keep in mind that we like posts with content and not just an excuse to post something.

[Lycanthrope]

To the Girl Long Gone (A Letter)

When I first saw you, girl, you were the wind.
Your clothes loose and
pressing against your form with the breeze
Your hair blown back behind you as you
held yourself against the autumn chill

I didn't think
Didn't think to love you then
That first year.
You were with that well intentioned boyfriend then,
The one you left for being dumb as a rock.
And I, I was the plaything
in another girl's sadistic little game

But years past
we cleared ourselves of these binding threads
and landed next to each other.
To speak
To listen
Perhaps to love

I slowly fell for you, girl.
Seeing your lovely form day in
day out
Typical High School Romance
Or it would have been
Perhaps.

But I didn't think
Didn't think to ask you
Didn't think it safe
I'd had my heart broken once too often
(once is too often)
and too often you had broken hearts

I didn't think
didn't think until it was too late

A year past and still I can't stop thinking of you
But I know
I've got to leave you, girl
Got to leave your memory behind
Got to let you go on your way
(can't keep you from your dreams)
Got to stop loving you
(can't stop loving you)

You left me, girl, in California
Moved out to your big east-coast school
Its not too late to come back, girl
Not yet, at least.
But you never know when it might be.
'Cause I've got to let you go girl
One way or another.

[RagnarofBurland]

A Terrible String

A heart on a string is a terrible thing,
Please don’t yank my chain.
I know it clanks and chanks as I go along
But leave that sordid thing unchanged.

This ball and chain are a terrible things,
When it’s a heart on a string.

An unfit end?

Two black birds watch from the mountaintop,
The earth shakes. All is consumed
In the serpent's poisonous breath.
The heavens sink. The mighty have fallen.
Metal wheels and smoke
Greet the dawn.

[Cloud Strife]

My travels have taken me
beyond the reach of civilized lands,
to places unhindered by noise of
metal against metal,
untainted by artificial light,
as the moon and stars dance overhead.

Legs moving slowly, they tell me that
the time for rest is near,
and camp is set, though no fire lit -
summer months provide all the warmth needed.

I lay back and sigh,
looking up at the stars,
so far from home,
yet so familiar to me,
leaving me a trace of memory,
and longing for the land from which I came,
where friends, family, and warm meals
always await.

I snap out of the reverie,
a bright streak across the sky
providing a light, and a new direction,
as it does not fade, and lands
far away from my place of rest,
I find that best for me,
but I will see
when the morrow comes,
where that light shall take me.

For I follow the stars, when so far from home...

[RaiRai]

On a dark night, approached by dark strangers
take to my heels and brace myself,
walking brisky along the streetlamped road
which oddly enough was not lit this night
as the shadows pace behind me
with deafening speed and skyrocketing noise
as I draw my hands into fists and keep looking back
edging, ever so closer, toward the houses
(perhaps to knock, perhaps to pretend the house is mine)
keep walking, keep walking, and then finally build courage
to turn around and face it
the nothingness that haunts me.

[Kirschwasser]

One life to live in misery
One protest to scream silently
One dawn to come in crimson red
One river run as innocents bled
One eve to fall so quietly
One night to break in agony
One friendship lost to bitter greed
One desperate act in utmost need
One forgotten, wasted away
One remembered but not by name
One who died in battle fierce
One from misguided arrow's pierce
One lord to rule o'er all the lands
One shamed and banished to the sands
One scream swept away on winds
One herald of our bitter end

By...ME

[Cloud Strife]

Let truth be mentioned nevermore,
Let lies now cut us to the core;
So Wrath consumes with rage unknown,
And tranquil thoughts will lose their home;
May change descend upon this ground,
And transform all that utters sound;
Greed, which reigns over the earth,
Evil, yet in doubled worth;
Lust corrupts the family life,
Destroys the mind of every wife;
Vanity snakes into all thought,
Misguides us all, for them we fought;
The lazy ones can never rest,
Sloth grabs hold, and not in jest;
Gluttony looms overhead,
Within them all - left for dead;
Finally, the Envy comes,
Opens all our wants to shun.

With all the Sins upon us,
The world will cry in chorus;
For Sin will always be there,
In hearts so filled with dispair.

[_mike]

I know that snow flakes will be falling soon.

That's all we are--snowflakes:
Beautiful, unique, and quickly gone.


Once we hit the ground.

[Cloud Strife]

'Man and Machine'

A heart beats
a pump groans
legs, arms moving
gears grinding
finding homes
next to bone
metal enshrouded
vision unclouded
artifice created new
man and machine
beginning anew
traverse the planes
immerse the senses
oil and blood
metal and bone
man and machine

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'Singed Wings'

Dance, dance,
not too close,
overwhelming,
heat consuming,
drawing me in,
flutter closer,
wings singed,
yet still I come,
flames not done,
I cannot shun,
too close to be,
mortality finds its grip,
pulls me in,
burns my wings...
never again.

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'Thought you knew'

Empty places all in view,
never false, but never true;
feigning interest, thought you knew;
It was to be close to you.

Never thought I'd come this far,
stars abound, come from the scar;
My heart heals, keeps moving on,
the love is there, t'was never gone.

I only hope, I only pray,
that you will speak with me someday;
And back to how it was before,
with no exceptions, I adore.

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'Music'

It flows like streams down mountainsides,
It gives us dreams of paradise;
Sharpened notes - a battlecry,
Soulfull strings, for someone died;
Complete emotion, always there,
Made just for friends, by those who care;
Instant acheivement, utter glory,
Epic sounds, they tell a story;
Forming scenes, creating lives,
Composer's dream - for this they strive;
Within us all, a certainty -
Music's love, eternally.

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'Lonliness'

Lonliness -
drifting away
on clouds of white
to lands of peace
while next to you
filled with grief
stress descends
once again
love is there
but love pretends
misshapen thoughts
misguided words
my heart still longs
tries to endure
tightening grip
reality slip
motion continues
seeing they've been used
thoughts drift again
I cannot pretend
I'm not happy here
to you it's unclear
but lonliness reigns
for my heart's in pain

lonliness here, next to you

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'Horror'

Night descends,
once again,
eyes dialate,
minds isolate,
monsters in shadows,
thoughts turning shallow,
greed and wrath,
point and laugh,
steps moving quickly,
stomach feeling sickly,
light far away,
no safe place to stay,
overwhelming,
resolve melting,
no words to share,
just screams of horror,
have to run,
get past the corner,
light comes closer,
heart beats faster,
light goes out,
no hope left,
falls to knees,
succumbs to theft,
sound of despair,
silence lingers....


Author's note: Each of these poems were built off a premise that different people gave me, and were made on the spot.