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The Poetry

Welcome to the Poetry section of my site, containing the occasional diseased ramblings I come up with from time to time.  Chances are this section will not change all that often, but when it does expect the new poems to be, well... interesting.


Dreaming

I sit quietly in my sanctuary
my portal to another space and time
Around me, the world turns like always
But here, I control my own fate
I control my own thoughts
Slowly, I reach over
and take a hallowed tome
from my library of dreams

I sit quietly in a corner
and begin to live again.

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Fantasy

Outside, the wind and rain howls
As if in fitful rage
unable to enter
no matter how hard it struggles
Inside, my sanctuary is calm
and bathed in angelic darkness
still and peaceful
And in the middle, the centre
of my little universe
sits I
eyes closed
breath soft
waiting for the beginning
Then,
a whisper in my mind
a flicker of candle light

My eyes blink open
and I enter another world
or a hundred
I hear...
The growl of dragons and taurs and starfighters
The clash of steel and the flash of lightsabres
The sound of fear to freeze the spine
And the sweet voice of one's true love
Fantasy it is,
Anthromorphs,
Science Fiction,
Swords and Sorcery,
Old and new tales
mix inside my mind
without a care
Sometimes violent
Sometimes peaceful
But always exciting

Paladins spar with Jedi on a mountain somewhere...
Dragons and chakats chat in a hobbit's den...
And in my mind, in my little universe
It all makes sense
But a call, a compulsion
A desire even
brings me back to Earth
Dinnertime
I close my mind's eye,
a portal to a million worlds,
both terrifying and lovely
and leave my room
and my little universe behind
But I will return
soon enough

Because,
You see,
I am a figment of my own imagination

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Falcon

In its nest of rock
a falcon sleeps
quiet and peaceful
without a care
sunlit wings glinting
all is well in the world
But suddenly
violently
It opens one glass eye
Territory disturbed

With a mighty roar
and a powerful shriek
It leaps into the sky
Searching for its prey
hearing with razor-sharp ears
seeing with razor-sharp eyes
Inevitably, it finds its quarry
a lonely Mig

A loud tone
A lock on target
and the missile streaks
towards its prey
A starburst of fire
A fall of metal
and the mighty Falcon,
with its human rider
flies back the way it came
returning to sleep
in its hangar once again

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StarShadow

Alone in my room
Alone in my bed
Alone in my mind
I close my eyes
and begin to sleep
but I find I am not alone
Something is here
Someone is here
invading my dreams

He walks around my mind
like an avid reader
browsing the library of my thoughts
Eventually
He stops and takes a book
but instead of leaving it be
he takes a pen
and adds some lines of his own
And then,
as soon as he arrived
he leaves my mind

I wake up suddenly
in the middle of the night
and desperately search for a pen
to commit to paper
the tale that my friend
my little bat
has put in my mind

He is my shadow


Star Dreamer

I have always been a dreamer
I was born a dreamer under the stars
and I have dreamed all my life
I once dreamt of
castles and knights
Now I dream of animals great and small,
love and life and the wonders of space
And in the future
who knows?

But I do know this
Just before I die
before my soul is
free once again
I will lie in my bed
and dream of stars

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