Palimpsest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest
An odd word and an ancient one...but one that fittingly describes how our electronic age is oft times ephemeral and words we place here today may be gone in an instant, flicked away by a stray electron or perhaps preserved for our children's children's children. No immortal guarantees are placed on these pages. Only hopes and dreams, thoughts and feelings, all shared through the medium of words. I invite you to read on, comment on what you see and perhaps be inspired to place a little something of yourselves here as well.
:hiding: Varda
Oh, and if you find the concept of palimpsests interesting you may wish to see how some of Archimedes' writings have recently been brought to light.
Look here: http://archimedespalimpsest.org/
Palimpsest
DESCENT
My mind walks down the shattered streets of memory
Enshrouding darkness dims my vision
Makes thoughts tumble like errant feet on broken stone
What path leads me on?
Where will my unfettered wanderings leave me?
Stranded and alone…a blasted island in a roiling dark sea
Wind-scoured, forlorn and barren, no….this is not a home
My soul, yearning for peace
Races frantic and distressed along life’s road
Tripping over memories and pain, all become entangled
And I fall into the maelstrom of doubt
What shall guide me to a less troubled way?
How will I find the balm to soothe my wearied mind?
Bereft of hope, the tatters of my soul whipped mercilessly
By the ever cruel and unceasing winds of fate
My heart, how painfully it rattles in my chest
The one last reminder of how tenuous a hold on life I’ve been given,
How frail a thing love can be and how easily it can slip away
To be lost in the vast darkness…devoured in the drifting void
Fate, whose winds grind one’s heart to dust
Its countless grains ever flowing
Condemned to never coalesce into something whole
Has claimed it’s overlordship of me and I am unmade
*~V~*
My mind walks down the shattered streets of memory
Enshrouding darkness dims my vision
Makes thoughts tumble like errant feet on broken stone
What path leads me on?
Where will my unfettered wanderings leave me?
Stranded and alone…a blasted island in a roiling dark sea
Wind-scoured, forlorn and barren, no….this is not a home
My soul, yearning for peace
Races frantic and distressed along life’s road
Tripping over memories and pain, all become entangled
And I fall into the maelstrom of doubt
What shall guide me to a less troubled way?
How will I find the balm to soothe my wearied mind?
Bereft of hope, the tatters of my soul whipped mercilessly
By the ever cruel and unceasing winds of fate
My heart, how painfully it rattles in my chest
The one last reminder of how tenuous a hold on life I’ve been given,
How frail a thing love can be and how easily it can slip away
To be lost in the vast darkness…devoured in the drifting void
Fate, whose winds grind one’s heart to dust
Its countless grains ever flowing
Condemned to never coalesce into something whole
Has claimed it’s overlordship of me and I am unmade
*~V~*
Ah, and here I thought there were writers...I've seen Haiku and re done song lyrics... :scratch:
In My Dreams
Thy form appears
through the night,
through the day
Awake, with it my fancy teems
In sleep, it smiles in fleeting dreams
Your vision charms the hours away
and bids me curse Auroras ray
in breaking slumbers of delight
which make me wish for endless night.
*~V~*
In My Dreams
Thy form appears
through the night,
through the day
Awake, with it my fancy teems
In sleep, it smiles in fleeting dreams
Your vision charms the hours away
and bids me curse Auroras ray
in breaking slumbers of delight
which make me wish for endless night.
*~V~*
Volition
No longer conformed
I seek the new
Treading unknown paths
Swathed in morning's dew
Ever seeking
No quest left unfulfilled
No dreams left fading whilst sleeping
No thoughts e'er quelled
Twould be the greatest sadness
The deepest loss
A shattered view
To think and never act
Upon those thoughts
Ever bright and new
*~V~*
No longer conformed
I seek the new
Treading unknown paths
Swathed in morning's dew
Ever seeking
No quest left unfulfilled
No dreams left fading whilst sleeping
No thoughts e'er quelled
Twould be the greatest sadness
The deepest loss
A shattered view
To think and never act
Upon those thoughts
Ever bright and new
*~V~*
Questions…
Who will be there
To lift me up and support me
To hold my hand
When I am old?
How will I know
My surroundings
When my sight has gone
And my touch is cold?
What will I have
As my reason for living
For my heart’s continued beating
Still wishing to live a life so bold
Where will my thoughts roam?
In hallowed halls of beauty
Or cast off, unregarded
Like bazaar junk unsold?
So many questions
No sure answers ever told
So many are the reasons
How our lives unfold
Is it wrong to ask…
Why??
*~V~*
Who will be there
To lift me up and support me
To hold my hand
When I am old?
How will I know
My surroundings
When my sight has gone
And my touch is cold?
What will I have
As my reason for living
For my heart’s continued beating
Still wishing to live a life so bold
Where will my thoughts roam?
In hallowed halls of beauty
Or cast off, unregarded
Like bazaar junk unsold?
So many questions
No sure answers ever told
So many are the reasons
How our lives unfold
Is it wrong to ask…
Why??
*~V~*
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Tazcrosblade_
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no, but a resounding "WHAT????!??!?!?!?" would not go amissvarda wrote:Questions…
Is it wrong to ask…
Why??
*~V~*
Its Pronounced Taz-Cross-Blade, not Tazer-Blade, not Taz-Crows-Blade, not Taco-Blade, Taz-Cross-Blade
Tazcrosblade_ wrote:no, but a resounding "WHAT????!??!?!?!?" would not go amiss
What what are you whating about?
It's a poem, you scupper swilling slug....interpret it! Let it make you think!! Allow it to seep in and color your emotional palette!
*~V~*
How can we cope
With that which is denied
Are we not masters
Of our own life’s tide?
Watching the pain behind the pain
The agony of doubt and
Longing in your eyes
I so want to free you
Make your pain take wing
Take it within myself
Roll it up tight and fling
It far, far away
Anything! That’s what I’d do
Everything, within my power
To spare you from the blackness
If even for an hour
I want the world to be
Good and Right and Whole
But I am sunk in despair
A blanket of frustration
Is smothering my soul
And when I think I no longer
Can breath, when my inner
Eye can no longer see
A simple smile, a bit of laughter
Sets my captive heart free
For that, my friends
my gratitude eternal
*~Varda~*
With that which is denied
Are we not masters
Of our own life’s tide?
Watching the pain behind the pain
The agony of doubt and
Longing in your eyes
I so want to free you
Make your pain take wing
Take it within myself
Roll it up tight and fling
It far, far away
Anything! That’s what I’d do
Everything, within my power
To spare you from the blackness
If even for an hour
I want the world to be
Good and Right and Whole
But I am sunk in despair
A blanket of frustration
Is smothering my soul
And when I think I no longer
Can breath, when my inner
Eye can no longer see
A simple smile, a bit of laughter
Sets my captive heart free
For that, my friends
my gratitude eternal
*~Varda~*