Poetry
I Am: A Riddle
By Brooke Weber
I am the wind, the sky, the
water
I am the phoenix who questions the fire of your heart
I am the
protector of the stars, of those who have been
I am a dancer whose arms
entwine like the threads of the silk that some dress me in
I am the great
one, who has three eyes
I am split into many grains of Nile sand, crushed
under monuments of my past reigns
I am the hand that moves the moon and
sun
I am a myth, a legend, a hero, a champion
I am an overseer, a spy, who
strikes terror in the souls of some and will punish
those who don't obey the
rules
I am nothing to fear; I don't even exist
I am the creator
I am
your creation
I am…
War
By Caitlin Woodall
Not bad but miserable
Drenched
in gray sadness, lonely grief handed
Out to all, people dying, children
crying
Families torn apart, animals wasted.
Creating hate, losing hope,
choosing death not life
Innocence betrayed by guilt, guilt smothered in
murder
Murder and bloodshed…bloodshed, death
Lurking in streets,
blackness, no light, no faith,
No hope, no life…
Leaving by Moonlight
By Naomi Edelman
The second time to meet
you
Memories stirred from the past
The aura of peace is surrounding
us
Sealing away the pain
It won't let us fall
If even for a night, we
can share
I wanted to let my soul radiate into you
It's me, and there's no
way out
You seem to understand the beauty I love
Minutes soar swiftly past
the brazen, glimmering orb of sun
Sometimes I get swept away;
I close my
eyes and become the earth
My body vaporizes
Letting me freely combine into
a surging, swirling spiral of raw energy
Unscarred and new, tender and
beautiful
I drift with the pure silky clouds that gracefully flow against the
azure ocean of air
I see the tiny shining hills of snow and hibernating
trees
Little houses where little people live
Enclosed in their bodies just
like me
When I come back I am breathless
Nature intoxicates me
I feel
this inside you
Your spirit touches me, gently but powerfully
I know you
too can feel the icy tingle of rippling stream water playing
on your
lips
so we walk by mystical moonlight
I can see your soul within your
eyes
We embrace…and say goodbye
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Last updated on Friday, April 18, 2008.
