Poetry and other Odds and Ends.

This is my official miscellaneous bin of other stuff.  Here I'll be posting poetry, articles not related to my other subject areas and random stuff.

8/5/2013
A poem I wrote somewhere around high school or college. In high school I wrote anonymously under the name Shadow.  Leaving poems out to be found or publishing them in the school magazine.  I thought I lost most of those but I did manage to find a couple after all.  I couldn’t help but to make a couple changes now, though its mostly the same. At the end of these poems, I always had the little bit.

Shadow’s Song

I sing, songs to myself

I dream, of things unreal

I love, that which does not exist.

I am.

A singer

A dreamer

A lover

of fantasy gone long.

I am a singer, a dreamer a lover

of fantasies so wrong.

I am a shadow, a dancer in the night

I am the shadow, that does not live without the light.

Hear my song and dance with me, dream my dreams and love them through me.

I am.

A singer

A dreamer

A lover

OF what exists in my mind.

I am a singer a dreamer a lover

Of fantasy that is mine.

I sing, songs to myself, but I crave the sound of echo’s.

I Sing to the shadows that lie around, that comfort me, that enjoy my sound.

Am I lonely? With these shadows and shades?

Can I not sing? To both gentleman and maid?

No.

~A step ahead of the darkness, a step away from the light…

ever the Shadow, but never the…~

8/6/2013

Unlike the Shadow poem above, and any others I may unearth and post, this poem isn't about me or written with me in mind.  It was written for another person's character in a larp for a pretty good plot-line we put together for our opening weekend.  A prince and noblewoman were apart of an arranged marriage, one he was thrilled with, having loved the woman from afar for a long time, she though, loved someone else.  The man she loved died earlier that weekend and she believed it was the prince's doing so she arranged to have him killed to avenge her lover.  She discovered to late that he had been innocent of the deed, but not before he recited the poem below.

Shadow's Dancer

Only the stars

May illuminate the grace

Of a shadows sinuous dancer

Undulating waves are the only music she needs

As thought forms movement

Graceful

Serene

Shadows play to her

Lapping waves sway to her

Her movement turning the stars

Love from the shadows with those stars as guides

I dance with a blade, but you, your heart

And are, to me far more deadly

In the dark

And darkness clings and none can blame,

To every curve, turn and sway

But the stars burn hot

With passionate flame

And frighten the darkness away.

But darkness

           In its corner

          Still yearns to see

          Your form, dancing divine

          Trying desperately to be at your side.

But with your beauty, your grace

                                           your ephemeral face

Nothing stays pace

With a shadows

sinuous 

dancer.