Post by Cyhirae on Jan 22, 2008 13:22:12 GMT -5
Slow day, not much to say and I've been rather quiet since coming back...so figured I'd give everyone a reason to be grateful for that. XD
So here we have my personal attempt at a multipart poetic saga; two parts of this have already been posted here in another thread. It's very long, free verse and uses differing meters per installment.
If ya hate poetry, run screaming now. If you're okay with it, get half way then run screaming. If you get all the way- well...I'll find a way to give you a great big gold star somehow. Thanks in advance, even if you don't like it.
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Just a little note on this one- Italicized lines are meant to be soft and trailing; in some cases near grieving or horrified.
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Part I: Ancient Dream
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Falling, drifting down from stars-
Dreams of ancient days long past...
Parting, rending the lost Dreams;
The future bears on relentlessly.
Seeking, finding faded Dreams,
Children of the Dreams...
Descending stars take new forms;
I ask you to live again..
Wandering, lost and forsaken,
Return light to us;
Can they rebuild the past?
Please never forget us....
Glories lie forgotten beneath the sands of cruel time's advancing might,
Lost and buried is our strength and honor, leaving us only our pain;
Guide us on our way to the past, fallen stars now reborn;
Show us the time of which you dreamt of in this ruined land....
Push back the sands of time and unveil it once more unto us;
Our right, our power long taken from us by those who had cast us down-!
We shall rise again with you;
Heavens stars who died in fire-
You will guide us to our glory!
Fallen stars reborn in flame-
We will reclaim our lost past;
Rebuild it upon the death of the present where only chains bind us-
Forge them into swords of revenge!
We will not remain bound like mere starving dogs!
Guide us now to our war oh fallen stars-
You came to set us free, yet now you hesitate;
What did you come for if it was not to aid us;
Take up the sword along side us and lead us on-
We will rebuild the Dreams of old once more when the present is gone!
We will reclaim our place upon the world's throne at long last....
Ah, what have we done...?
This was not what we came to do....
Was this their wish all along?
How could we have not seen....
We came to them...
We freed them as asked;
Yet this is how they act...
Like animals set to feed;
This is how they repay freedom-
Shedding blood to mark their way;
Vengeance means more than the past-
Then let them be struck down!
We will guide you no longer, failed children of the ruined past-
It was no enslaver that took your honor;
No chain that stole your strength!
You threw it away in ambition's name!
Let the fire that bore us burn you pure once again!
Let it remove all sign you ever touched this faded world;
May you vanish from its histories and its future-
May you now be lost....
Drifting, falling ashes from the sky above;
Burying the remains of lost children far below.
Weeping, mourning the stars ascend;
Returning once more to the heavens.
Lost, forgotten now and forever;
The Dreams of the ruined past.
Let the world seek now its healing rest beneath this gray mantle;
To be born again from ashes, pure and free of its dark past.
May you live again,
Free of our past mistakes...
Rise again, fresh and new...
May you find a new Dream...
Learn from the past and never repeat it;
What is past is forever gone,
Never was it meant to rise again-
Rest eternally the ancient Dream.
Lost forever the ancient Dream...
Let the world begin again....
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More changing counter points; though in this case the italicized indicates a second singer. Bold and italicized is where they join together on the same line.
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Part II: Phoenix Egg
---
Raise your eyes to the sky above,
Know what awaits there....
Close your heart to all fear;
Prepare for what is to come....
Stars are raining down, burning tears of pain;
The sky is aflame, the clouds are writhing-
Phoenix wings are this world enfolding in ash;
Now from fire it will be reborn!
See now the end as it comes down;
The finishing point of time's beginning-
The final chapter written;
Look on!
Don't turn your eyes away-
Watch as the world is reformed;
Take your place in its future-
Live ever on!
All around you the world is slowly reviving,
Rising from the Phoenix ash of the past-
The beginning has ended and made way for you;
Reborn and begun in the Phoenix's Egg,
It unfolds!
Vestiges of the past;
Corrupting what should be new-
A world proven tainted...
Misborn from the Egg.
A nightmare before a dream;
What is to become of the new tale;
How can it continue on like this?
Gather up your will and desire;
We must fight to cleanse away this taint-
To war we shall now march.
Baptize the new world in blood.
We will never surrender this tale;
Yet too much like the past it already is;
Lost in the shadow of our nature....
Stand and fight for your world;
You cannot stand down, you cannot run away.
Begin your tale in the blood of the past-
This is the beginning of your fate, your new tale;
Fight on!
Raise your eyes to the sky above,
Life is an existence ruled by death;
Know what awaits there....
Live if you wish to shape it;
Close your heart to all fear;
Die if you cannot...
Prepare for what is to come....
This world is only just begun,
Is it to be already damned?
Only just now finding its place in the Weave;
The tale has just started,
Life has barely begun;
This is not how it should end....
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Italicized lines are the stars.
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Part III: Dreamless Rebirth
-------
Falling, drifting came the stars,
Bringing mercy and rage in their wake;
Raging, slaying the lost dreamers-
Leaving our world naught but ash.
Hear us now, ancient stars;
We hear you call...
See us rise again from ash.
We see your pride...
Our new life needs not you,
Shall it be false?
We will find our own path.
May it treat you well....
Now, raise our wings high....
See the world rise beneath our hands;
Reborn not by gods but by us;
A gem of purest green and blue hidden away.
Only for us, wipe away the stars.
This world needs only us,
No divine Dream of ancient times;
We turn our eyes from the stars.
We will find our own path.
The days of Dreams have long ago passed;
There are only the days of flight and life.
Our world sheds its mantle of gray once more;
Showing the life that rose beneath.
Shielded from stars and Dreams.
Look far away,
Leave us be oh stars....
Your eyes only burn us-
We need not you ever again;
Let us be, keep your Dreams.
Glorious in life we stand,
Deities in our own right....
Ah, they begin to lose their way,
With no Dream to guide them...
We rule our own lives,
Our lives rule this world;
Life shaped as we see fit.
If this does not make us gods,
Then what ever could?
We shall guide it truer than the stars,
Ah, you fools...
We shall revive this world free of dreams,
You are already lost...
Nothing shall ever hinder us.
Falling, drifting down from stars;
The cycle begins anew....
Arrogance and loss is all they spread,
The only lot of this world..to ever die...
--
Note: Italicized lines are the stars.
-------
Part IV: Ashes of the Dream
------
Rising from our ashes,
Children, phoenix-born....
Do you rise in purity?
Only time shall tell,
Oh bitter stars above...
A world of ruin is what you left us,
A world cold, unwilling to live-
This is your mercy?
Your redeeming of the children of the fallen?
Your way of showing us the truth?
How cruel you are....
Rise children of failed and lost Dreams,
Bring life to your world once more,
Be not so proud as those before.
How can you demand this?
Sin of the Father is that of the Son,
Shame of the Mother is that of the Daughter-
Is that how you judge us, oh stars,
Forever guilty?
We stand amid the ruined past you left,
Cloaked in the ice laden ash you laid,
Are we in no way redeemed to you,
Cruel stars of the past?
Walk the path we lay before you,
With humbleness and purity;
Cast away the past vices of your forebears,
And you shall know your place in this world!
Your words are kind but your actions cold;
No Dream do you give us,
A Nightmare is all this world now is, oh stars;
Cold and burning....
Do you refuse us now,
After pleading with us so?
We have given you a path as you wished.
A path no one can walk and live,
An unrealistic Dream of life in ruin...
This is a Dream destined to fail,
No one can follow it and live here!
See us here below,
Cruel stars above,
See what you have made of us...
Ash eases no hunger,
Ice quenches no thirst-
You've condemned us to die...
Wasting slowly away beneath you,
Illuminated by your worthless Dream...
Does it please you to see vengeance done?
Our hatred goes with you, oh worthless stars-
Look upon the cold husk of this world forever,
And remember how you betrayed us,
For eternity....
So here we have my personal attempt at a multipart poetic saga; two parts of this have already been posted here in another thread. It's very long, free verse and uses differing meters per installment.
If ya hate poetry, run screaming now. If you're okay with it, get half way then run screaming. If you get all the way- well...I'll find a way to give you a great big gold star somehow. Thanks in advance, even if you don't like it.
----
Just a little note on this one- Italicized lines are meant to be soft and trailing; in some cases near grieving or horrified.
-------
Part I: Ancient Dream
-------
Falling, drifting down from stars-
Dreams of ancient days long past...
Parting, rending the lost Dreams;
The future bears on relentlessly.
Seeking, finding faded Dreams,
Children of the Dreams...
Descending stars take new forms;
I ask you to live again..
Wandering, lost and forsaken,
Return light to us;
Can they rebuild the past?
Please never forget us....
Glories lie forgotten beneath the sands of cruel time's advancing might,
Lost and buried is our strength and honor, leaving us only our pain;
Guide us on our way to the past, fallen stars now reborn;
Show us the time of which you dreamt of in this ruined land....
Push back the sands of time and unveil it once more unto us;
Our right, our power long taken from us by those who had cast us down-!
We shall rise again with you;
Heavens stars who died in fire-
You will guide us to our glory!
Fallen stars reborn in flame-
We will reclaim our lost past;
Rebuild it upon the death of the present where only chains bind us-
Forge them into swords of revenge!
We will not remain bound like mere starving dogs!
Guide us now to our war oh fallen stars-
You came to set us free, yet now you hesitate;
What did you come for if it was not to aid us;
Take up the sword along side us and lead us on-
We will rebuild the Dreams of old once more when the present is gone!
We will reclaim our place upon the world's throne at long last....
Ah, what have we done...?
This was not what we came to do....
Was this their wish all along?
How could we have not seen....
We came to them...
We freed them as asked;
Yet this is how they act...
Like animals set to feed;
This is how they repay freedom-
Shedding blood to mark their way;
Vengeance means more than the past-
Then let them be struck down!
We will guide you no longer, failed children of the ruined past-
It was no enslaver that took your honor;
No chain that stole your strength!
You threw it away in ambition's name!
Let the fire that bore us burn you pure once again!
Let it remove all sign you ever touched this faded world;
May you vanish from its histories and its future-
May you now be lost....
Drifting, falling ashes from the sky above;
Burying the remains of lost children far below.
Weeping, mourning the stars ascend;
Returning once more to the heavens.
Lost, forgotten now and forever;
The Dreams of the ruined past.
Let the world seek now its healing rest beneath this gray mantle;
To be born again from ashes, pure and free of its dark past.
May you live again,
Free of our past mistakes...
Rise again, fresh and new...
May you find a new Dream...
Learn from the past and never repeat it;
What is past is forever gone,
Never was it meant to rise again-
Rest eternally the ancient Dream.
Lost forever the ancient Dream...
Let the world begin again....
---
More changing counter points; though in this case the italicized indicates a second singer. Bold and italicized is where they join together on the same line.
---
Part II: Phoenix Egg
---
Raise your eyes to the sky above,
Know what awaits there....
Close your heart to all fear;
Prepare for what is to come....
Stars are raining down, burning tears of pain;
The sky is aflame, the clouds are writhing-
Phoenix wings are this world enfolding in ash;
Now from fire it will be reborn!
See now the end as it comes down;
The finishing point of time's beginning-
The final chapter written;
Look on!
Don't turn your eyes away-
Watch as the world is reformed;
Take your place in its future-
Live ever on!
All around you the world is slowly reviving,
Rising from the Phoenix ash of the past-
The beginning has ended and made way for you;
Reborn and begun in the Phoenix's Egg,
It unfolds!
Vestiges of the past;
Corrupting what should be new-
A world proven tainted...
Misborn from the Egg.
A nightmare before a dream;
What is to become of the new tale;
How can it continue on like this?
Gather up your will and desire;
We must fight to cleanse away this taint-
To war we shall now march.
Baptize the new world in blood.
We will never surrender this tale;
Yet too much like the past it already is;
Lost in the shadow of our nature....
Stand and fight for your world;
You cannot stand down, you cannot run away.
Begin your tale in the blood of the past-
This is the beginning of your fate, your new tale;
Fight on!
Raise your eyes to the sky above,
Life is an existence ruled by death;
Know what awaits there....
Live if you wish to shape it;
Close your heart to all fear;
Die if you cannot...
Prepare for what is to come....
This world is only just begun,
Is it to be already damned?
Only just now finding its place in the Weave;
The tale has just started,
Life has barely begun;
This is not how it should end....
----
Italicized lines are the stars.
-------
Part III: Dreamless Rebirth
-------
Falling, drifting came the stars,
Bringing mercy and rage in their wake;
Raging, slaying the lost dreamers-
Leaving our world naught but ash.
Hear us now, ancient stars;
We hear you call...
See us rise again from ash.
We see your pride...
Our new life needs not you,
Shall it be false?
We will find our own path.
May it treat you well....
Now, raise our wings high....
See the world rise beneath our hands;
Reborn not by gods but by us;
A gem of purest green and blue hidden away.
Only for us, wipe away the stars.
This world needs only us,
No divine Dream of ancient times;
We turn our eyes from the stars.
We will find our own path.
The days of Dreams have long ago passed;
There are only the days of flight and life.
Our world sheds its mantle of gray once more;
Showing the life that rose beneath.
Shielded from stars and Dreams.
Look far away,
Leave us be oh stars....
Your eyes only burn us-
We need not you ever again;
Let us be, keep your Dreams.
Glorious in life we stand,
Deities in our own right....
Ah, they begin to lose their way,
With no Dream to guide them...
We rule our own lives,
Our lives rule this world;
Life shaped as we see fit.
If this does not make us gods,
Then what ever could?
We shall guide it truer than the stars,
Ah, you fools...
We shall revive this world free of dreams,
You are already lost...
Nothing shall ever hinder us.
Falling, drifting down from stars;
The cycle begins anew....
Arrogance and loss is all they spread,
The only lot of this world..to ever die...
--
Note: Italicized lines are the stars.
-------
Part IV: Ashes of the Dream
------
Rising from our ashes,
Children, phoenix-born....
Do you rise in purity?
Only time shall tell,
Oh bitter stars above...
A world of ruin is what you left us,
A world cold, unwilling to live-
This is your mercy?
Your redeeming of the children of the fallen?
Your way of showing us the truth?
How cruel you are....
Rise children of failed and lost Dreams,
Bring life to your world once more,
Be not so proud as those before.
How can you demand this?
Sin of the Father is that of the Son,
Shame of the Mother is that of the Daughter-
Is that how you judge us, oh stars,
Forever guilty?
We stand amid the ruined past you left,
Cloaked in the ice laden ash you laid,
Are we in no way redeemed to you,
Cruel stars of the past?
Walk the path we lay before you,
With humbleness and purity;
Cast away the past vices of your forebears,
And you shall know your place in this world!
Your words are kind but your actions cold;
No Dream do you give us,
A Nightmare is all this world now is, oh stars;
Cold and burning....
Do you refuse us now,
After pleading with us so?
We have given you a path as you wished.
A path no one can walk and live,
An unrealistic Dream of life in ruin...
This is a Dream destined to fail,
No one can follow it and live here!
See us here below,
Cruel stars above,
See what you have made of us...
Ash eases no hunger,
Ice quenches no thirst-
You've condemned us to die...
Wasting slowly away beneath you,
Illuminated by your worthless Dream...
Does it please you to see vengeance done?
Our hatred goes with you, oh worthless stars-
Look upon the cold husk of this world forever,
And remember how you betrayed us,
For eternity....
