She dances
She leaps
Across the stage
With a whirl of movement
And a burst of unmitigated energy
She grabs at their attention
And emotion
And twists herself up in it.
But I cannot help but see
With every soaring success
Shadows behind her
Young faces, eager faces
Unseen to most
Barely felt by her,
That when she swoops
Trip and soar behind
And as she grabs at the audience
Watch behind her
Entreating them.
And when the show is done
The seats vacated
The theater gutted and echoing,
I stand alone
And still their shadows flit
In and out of memory,
Lost dreams.
I know,
For I see my own visage there among them
Walking t
Why Keep Out the Rain by supernova8041, literature
Literature
Why Keep Out the Rain
Why keep out the rain?
Why keep out the storm?
Why be frightened of the sharp smells
The damp, static air,
That whirls life into a musty room?
Why shield yourself from water of the heavens
That has traveled so long to find you?
Why close the windows to their soft
Persistent voices?
Why not have your hair whipped into
A new configuration,
Your world seen in a fresh perspective?
Why not breath in the smell of life?
The smell of change?
The smell of the earth's timeless cycle?
Why sit docile and hidden under stagnant air.
When you can fly above with
"a hey ho, the wind and the rain"?
Paint bucket and Two Spoons by supernova8041, literature
Literature
Paint bucket and Two Spoons
With a paint bucket
and two spoons
he placed himself on the side of the street
And played a rhythm.
A slow and steady one,
never faster, never slower,
like a human heart.
And he became blended
with the rest of the city,
to people
who passed him every day
without glancing once
in his direction.
His drum was a sound,
a puzzle piece,
that made up the picture
of that street.
But one day,
for some reason,
he didn't show up.
And the people
who walked by his post every day
without a second thought
stopped
and said to one another
that something was missing
in the picture of that street.
A puzzle piece was missing.
What cou
Broken, clamboring, mirrored surface.
Rippled and bubbled,
an everchanging mosaic recording all movements.
I forget that I am a creature of land and air.
I lay and stare at sky-bound oceans up above
through a glass of infinite potentials.
I lift a hand and all senses are thrown into confusion
as fingers break from the rippling surface to shatter into air,
and suddenly I remember what weight feels like.
Jewels of half light, half water
fly for a brief second
as my face follows, bursting into cold wind.
Like emerging from bed,
from a dream,
from make-believe.
I walk these never-ending halls,
never-ending,
for I fail to see
a destination,
a place to be,
where these never-ending halls
are meant to be leading me.
The halls diversify themselves
from carpet to tile
and muffled to white echoes.
I appreciate their attempts
but I still sense there an unmistakable air
of uninterrupted monotony.
For still doors line the walls with frowning knobs
and still, distant figures join me
in the wanderings of these halls.
And still there is that specter
my eyes refuse to see,
for to my ears where red blood pounds,
come the whispy, steady sounds
of my footsteps following me.
And as I continue
Dark thunder flashed in the Black Queen's eyes,
her face hard and her body tense
with that deathless drive which, waiting, lies
in the throbbing heart of the human breast.
She waited, 'neath clouds of clotted gray,
'gainst winds shrieking by with no end
while 'round her finite figure lay
slain bodies of foe and friend.
The Black Queen's hair danced up towards the sky
as she stood awaiting her fate.
For reflected in those steady eyes
the White Knight glimmered in wait.
His war mare pawed the battlefield
as he steadied his lance over blood soaked lands.
He peered through his visor at the battered shield
and the bloody sword c