A Daemon in the Hand by ThePoeticPaladin, literature
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A Daemon in the Hand
Silver tongue.
Silver hair.
Silver hands.
Silver teeth.
Copper voice, copper song, copper skin, proper meat.
Stone heart, iron bone, alkali blood, an alchemaic feat.
There's no evil in my heart, so I fear no dæmon's heat.
Seven eyes, forty mouths, eighteen wheels—wait no, thirty-three.
Seed of Light sewn within, darkness dies so that it might feed.
My spirit is strong, I took in the poison, now I'm immune to the creeps.
Listen to my words and heed, I am you, which makes you me.
I have been a mere poet for too long, and yet, not long enough.
Words are a weak enough weapon, to dull their edge by leaving them unspoken saps them of what strength remains.
There is so much more left to say, and nowhere near the time needed to say it, nor to learn how to say it.
I could (and have) spent a lifetime learning how and what to say. But there is no more time left to waste.
Tomorrow never comes. I only have today to work with. It is long past time I speak.
My ancestors are in tears. Not over me, but over the world I was given to work with. I have sustained myself and grown fat, feasting upon "at least I'm not"s. But it can no
An Average Motherfucking Day Part V by ThePoeticPaladin, literature
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An Average Motherfucking Day Part V
«Flexing for Felix, that's the Fortress' first name; forays once forgotten beget the future.»— Fate Can you process Me? Let us allow one more attempt. You may guess where I am, but you can never know where I went. The trail is a mystery, never will it be seen again. The path crumbled beneath me, the nature of temporality, You understand. Nor is it needed, why would I retread lost ground? I can walk and talk backwards, in my dreams even upside down. My third eye is open, my fourth stares through the crown; yet ever more important are the two facing the ground. Never one for pretense, I allow you to conclude—I never spake aloud the words that you chose to use. Echoes of our past, condensed to a single line; chaos theory in action, your present was once past and I—I could never untangle this web, so instead I made it finer, repeating the same phases I expressed as a minor. In touch with my inner child, he's the one who speaks with my tongue; it always was another who insisted I would
Practice what you Preach by ThePoeticPaladin, literature
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Practice what you Preach
We have passed through many gates, we shall pass through many more. What is left Unspake speaks volumes of what lies yet in store. Infinite memes expressed, compressed, sent back in time. For the future is connected, to see this in Truth is to become divine. For the past laid the foundation, this day is its expression. As hindsight has perfect clarity, so too is potentiality laid plain. Every path to every outcome, dichotomies limit the herd. They see two paths before them, thinking in terms of Robert Frost's game. Desire paths reveal the truth, a Path was on no one day made. It is a single choice that Unveils, to go where no man has trade. What begins once as a mad thought can flee once dismissed. Yet acted upon, it becomes more, and so these footsteps are laid. Every invention you take for granted, to one, was once an idea. And so we begin to see the nature of things, that to repress oneself is to cut off the future on behalf of Fear. Words create reality, but more so, it is
Two Poems: Memento Mori by ThePoeticPaladin, literature
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Two Poems: Memento Mori
Memento Mori
Did you hear,
about Melly dear,
oh she couldn't stand the pain—
So she slept it off with valium and vodka
night after night again.
When she woke, well that's the joke,
nobody knows if she did.
Little bird
Little birds that go tweet
with your song so sweet
when you leave my heart cries
why couldn't a song so soft go longer?
You told me not to stare. You told me not to stare. You told me not to stare, and yet I did not care. Making eye contact with the sun, that same contest that I have always won—"look away, look away"—I hear God begin to pray—"there's nothing here for you, turn away". A frequency so pure, undiffracted by the atmosphere; something close to the Truth, if only I could understand. "What does it mean, what is it saying? All Life stems from this one fragment of Creation." "Look away, look away"; the echoes of my mind, it couldn't be, could it be, that what I hear comes from a source not mine? I send signals back, a full spectrum broadcast, flicking mudras and yantras towards these entities I lack;"What are you?", I ask, "Do you understand my maths?" I ponder, seeking reconciliation, how does one convey the concept of intelligence to that which made it? ...Everything is vibrating, every waveform abreast: Sound, heat, colour, every frequent tone is where I am at; I turn inward, feeling my
Reality is more than it seems, reality transcends both Life and Dreams.
Information encoded, myriadic themes, Apokalypsis; pulling apart at the seams.
The veil obscures the maiden's face and yet—a gaze softer than time is firmly set.
Your Lover is the Land, She'll do Anything She Can—You're Her One and Only—Man.
Offer gratitude, offer prayer, never expect her to share, you're a Stallion, but she's no Mare.
She's the Rider, and She'd have you be tame. Breaking you in, to the Elements, you have no name. Diversified attributes, to them, that brings acclaim, have you ever pondered on what the Wind thinks of Fame?
Some things are
"The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." — Thucydides