30 Days of Haiga 2022: Knot of Tears

 

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knot of tears wraps tight

I wish that I had gone too

on the day you left

notes

The Senryu was inspired by this week's prompt from Six Sentence stories. Yes, I know this is only a Three Sentence story.

https://girlieontheedge1.wordpress.com/2022/09/18/sundays-six-sentence-story-word-prompt-230/

Prompt word: Knot

One of my favorite songs is Albatross by Judy Collins. It contains the line "the knot of tears around your throat is crystallizing into your design." I've always felt that line described me.

I created the Haiga with Pixlr.com and a free use image from Open Clipart Vectors.

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You are welcome to use the Haiga, but if you do, please credit Cara Hartley/Ornery Owl and provide a link back to this blog. 

Lost Time (Senryu)

 

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I thought it was you

I wish it could have been you

this time, the last time

~cie~

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2020-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-7

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OctPoWriMo 2019: Day 9: What My Eyes Saw

I Blinked and the World Was Gone

Photoshop Manipulation by The Real Cie

My eyes saw that in the end

Everything was just a lie

Seeing is not believing

Hearing is deceiving

Truth is but a silent sigh

Perspective nothing but perception

Reality is, on one hand, subjective

And on the other hand as objective

As a knife to the spine

My eyes are but windows

To the lies my soul tells

~Cie~

NaPoWriMo 2019: Day 4: Unwanted Girl

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Will you ever leave

Me alone you damn

Stupid girl who I

Once happened to be

Why won't you be gone?

Why must you come

Back into my

Psyche why don't

You remain dead

Little girl

Zombie girl

Girl I was

Why don't 

You stay

Gone

~Cie~

Notes:

The NaPoWriMo prompt was to write a sad poem.

Come on, y'all, that isn't even a challenge! I write two kinds of poems: dark and silly.

The form I used is a diminishing hexagram.

I really wish I'd done the A to Z challenge on this blog this year because I'm crushing it!

Oh, one more thing.

The effects of abuse and bullying last a lifetime.

I learned to hate myself long ago.

I still have trouble tolerating myself, still hear the cruel words admonishing me that I'm ugly, stupid, unwanted, and will never amount to anything.

It isn't like I'm eighteen and just out of school.

I'm fifty-four and the setbacks I've had during the past few years only reinforce the belief that I am nothing.

NaPoWriMo 2017: Day 17: N is for Nocturne

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I want to sing you to sleep

When you wake

You will be far away from this place

And all the pain you have known

Remember who you are

Remember your kindness and your principles

Know that someone always loves you

More than anything

Please forget me

And the sorrows you've been through

In this terrible world

My heart will always be true

Only to you

Forget me, my love

For I can only bring you sorrow

And you have known more than enough of that

Sleep now

Wake again in the world of the Yellow Sun

Princess Ondina

for her Serab

Notes:

Princess Ondina and Serab are two of the primary characters from Team Netherworld's WIP novel, Fetch. The story can be found at peppersfetch.blogspot.com

Cross-posted to:

poetryofthenetherworld.blogspot.com

peppersfetch.blogspot.com

strandsofeternity.blogspot.com

OctPoWriMo 2016: Day 24: Fantastical

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Fantastical

I never meant to hurt you, my dear love

In a world full of pain and suffering

You are an angel from above

I live for every message that you bring

You gave to me such comforting

Your Earthly situation made me grieve

In this world of othering

Your love became too fantastical to believe

We fit together like a hand in glove

I wanted to heal you with my nurturing

Never has another made me feel so beloved

But I so fear rejection's sting

It's my soul you'd end up murdering

I'm so afraid you'd only leave

That my need for you is smothering

Your love became too fantastical to believe

With soft feathers like a peaceful dove

I would stroke your angel wings

You were everything I was dreaming of

But I fear I don't deserve anything

So I end up losing everything

I fear to give and to receive

You were too good for this world to bring

Your love became too fantastical to believe

I gave you my heart on a string

Then left you alone to grieve

My sad angel with the broken wings

Your love became too fantastical to believe

 For Gerry Clifford

from Pepper Baiij

Form:

Ballade

  a, b, a, b, b, c, b, C and the envoy b, c, b, C.

V is for Ville-nelle

Ville Valo

There are styles that start with V which have already been invented, one of the most famous of which is the Villanelle. I was thinking of using that one, but then I thought to myself, why not instead pay tribute to one of the most talented modern vocalists and songwriters, Ville Valo of the fabulous Finnish melodic metal band H.I.M.? Thus, lovers of music and verse, I give you the Ville-nelle. First mine, and then a sample from the master.

Ville's song lyrics are characterized by dark and romantic subject matter. There is often a sense of longing or heartbreak, and the setting of the piece tends to allude to the supernatural.

Alone in the Night

Tossed about like driftwood on a stormy sea

I prayed that you would see me through the eyes of love

But there was nothing real within your heart for me

The angels turned their backs and closed off the heavens above

Left broken-hearted and alone in the night

There is no reason left for me to fight

I was just a toy to you, and nothing more

You don't know my heart is broken

Because you don't care at all

You got what you wanted, and you went on your way

You are a dark shadow hanging over my life

I try to escape the memories of you

But I can't find a way to tear you from my heart

Even in death, I'd only dream of you

Although you no more dream of me

You're still the only vision I see

~Tempest Nightingale LeTrope~

**************

 Kiss Of Dawn

Album: Venus Doom

Blinded I am and so are you

By shedding tears

Confusion that separates us two

We hold dear

Just look into my eyes

Kiss our fears good bye

[Chorus:]

I'm reaching for your shadow drowning in

The kiss of dawn

Touching the pain that you left me with

At the kiss of dawn

I'm tired of the games I'm playing with you

When you're not here

Death frees from the fear of dying

it's true, have no fear

Let me look into your eyes

and see death pass us by

[Repeat chorus 2x]

You've read it, now hear it!

S is for Shadow Sonnet

Image source

 

Standing In the Shadows Of

Shadow of my former self casts shadow

Over life I sometimes wish was over

Her broken dreams are all that's left of her

Wishing she had more than hopeless wishing

Disappointment causes disappointment

Soul haunted by dreams lost is a sad soul

Shattered wishes in a heart that's shattered

Impossible wishes impossible

Delusion begets only delusion

Sorrow can only beget more sorrow

Tomorrows replaced by new tomorrows

Her dreams of love impossible to her

Yesterday's dreams remain as yesterdays

Visions remain as only lost visions

~Cie~

Shadow Sonnet

The Shadow Sonnet was created by Amera M. Andersen, may be written in any sonnet style. The Shadow takes place at the beginning and ending of each line as the words are identical or homophonic. Since all poetry was originally meant to be sung or recited out loud, homophonic words are acceptable, these are words that sound alike such as “see and sea”. (Rules: 14 lines, 9 or 10 syllables per line. The poem should have a volta or pivit; iambic pentameter is not necessary.)

Example #1:

Spirit to Spirit

So many things have turned my spirit so.
Yet I do resist and yield to it yet.
Know that I give my strength for you to know.
Forget you? Nay, I shall never forget.

Left with my sandpaper dreams since you left.
Love lies in my spirit, for you my love.
Theft of your presence is not spirit theft.
Above all my dreams, I hold you above.

You now have returned, I knew it was you.
Waiting so long as my heart was waiting;
few have returned, yet you're one of the few.
Aching for you as my soul was aching.

War takes so many; yet, you've beaten war.
Door of my spirit, come enter my door.

Copyright © 2007 Amera M. Andersen

Love is Like

Love is Like

Love is like

A knife through the heart

A whispered lie

A dream that you wake from weeping

A tsunami

A hurricane 

A tornado

Love is like falling through space

Love is like a black hole

Love is a mystery

Love is always in the future

Love is something that happens to other people

Love is like an urban legend

Love is like the medication they put you on after an accident or an operation

Love is addiction

Love is withdrawal

Love is like being lost in a house of mirrors

Love is like loneliness

Only more so

~Koni~

Yesterday's Dreams

 

Yesterday's Dreams

 

It’s not likely that anyone will ring soon

Asking me to star on stage or screen

That ship long ago sailed away

On the dark water of yesterday’s

Dreams that never came true

 

~Faycin A Croud~

 



Fading

Image found here

The dreams of my youth

Fading into the distance

With my dreams of love

~Dolly~

Heart of Night

 

The night is filled with infinite lies

Most of them told by you

After what you've done, you ignore my cries

You think you're the only one whose feelings matter

You like to pretend you're misconstrued

But because of you, my heart is far sadder

I thought you were my sweetest dream

But this is completely untrue

For you have never been what you seem

 

~Rose~

Eyes

Image created by Cie Cheesemeister

Eyes

by

Eleonora Usher-Rigby

My eyes have seen you

But yours have never noticed me

I am not a pretty thing

I am not the kind of woman that men see

Or notice

Or remember

My heart has loved you

But yours has never noticed me

If you are not a pretty thing

You are not the kind of woman that men love

Or dream about

Or notice

Plain women go about life quietly

No-one thinks of us twice

It is a sad thing to know 

That I have zero chance of catching your eye

Even less than that of holding your heart

The Gods did not grant me beauty

One night I dreamed of you

Your soul forgot the vanity of your eyes

Your heart forgot for a time the rule

Against loving something that is not pretty

But then you woke and remembered

And I was forgotten as before

My eyes have seen you

My heart has loved you

I have dreamed of you

And you of me

But you do not remember

And you do not notice me

~Eleonora~

A to Z Blogging Challenge: M is for Monody

 

A to Z Blogging Challenge:

M is for Monody

by

Illsa Gorrey

 

A monody is a poem of lament for the death of another.

 

July 16, 1981

 

Another summer day

Going to the pool with my brother

Sister had to work her shift at Dairy Queen

Hank and I planned to come by after swimming and bother her

 

At two o clock, Mom came to the pool

By the look on her face we knew something terrible had happened

Dad had been in an accident

He was in the hospital

 

There was never a chance

The guy driving the pickup was going 100 miles an hour

On the wrong side of the road, trying to pass the car ahead

The pickup hit Dad's motorcycle

 

Dad was wearing his helmet

He was always careful

It didn't matter at that speed

He was dead on arrival

 

I was fifteen years old

My father never made it to thirty-eight

 

~Illsa~

Alphabe-Thursday: R is for Rain

R is for Rain

by

Tempest Nightingale LeTrope

I wish it would rain

Gloomy day with gray haze

Like the not quite sorrow in my brain

The sky won't cry

Neither will I

Guess neither of us have it in us to try

I have too much

But not enough

Too much trouble

Not enough of the right stuff

I wish it would rain

Wash away my weariness for just a while

I wish the sky would cry

So I wouldn't have to.

~Tempest~