OpenLinkNight

The Eternity Remains

Posted by Raivenne on March 22, 2018

Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, Just Me, Being Me, OpenLinkNight, Poetry. Tagged: #dversepoets, death, dVerse ~ Poets Pub, love, OpenLinkNight, Poetry. 11 Comments

My days dream of your return
My nightmares are of your leaving
You entered my life full of sound
Listened to the crazy man I am
Then left without a goodbye

Trapped in this blood’s ebb and flow
The eternity remains in the end
And I miss you

It is forever winter in my soul
There is no hope of spring
Thanatos is a cruel thief
To take you but leave me

As I die with each day I’m living
The eternity remains in the end
And I miss you

What trial need I finish?
What deadliest path by far?
Tell me and I will take on any challenge,
If it but gains us a few mere moments more!

Tell me! I beg screaming into the yawing silence
The eternity remains in the end
And I miss you

I who once thought to have everything
Find myself bereft of all
You were our voice
I am now the silence after your echo
That goes on without you

Seasons come, days go
The eternity remains in the end
And I still miss you

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dVerse ~Poets Pub | OpenLink Night #216

All That Glitters

Posted by Raivenne on April 6, 2017

Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, National Poetry Month, National Poetry Writing Month, OpenLinkNight, Poetry, The Present, Thinking Aloud. Tagged: #dversepoets, Fibonacci Spiral, NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month, OpenLinkNight, Poetry, poetry forms. 7 Comments

Eyes

Glittered

In the dark

That is what you said

As you walked towards me slowly

It was the perfect kind of night for new beginnings

As I lift my face

That it was among

Things that you

Had loved

Then

You knew

That tonight

As you stepped to me

With a kiss and then walked away

That right then with the witness of Luna in the night

You could not begin to admit

That shine in my eyes

Was just the

Start of

Tears

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National Poetry Writing Month 2017 – Day 6
Write a poem that looks at the same thing from various points of view

The Daily Post | Daily Prompt – Denial

dVerse ~Poets Pub | OpenLinkNight: 193

Labels

Posted by Raivenne on March 20, 2017

Posted in: Daily Prompt, dVerse ~ Poets Pub, OpenLinkNight, Poetry, Short Story, The Daily Post. Tagged: #dversepoets, dVerse ~ Poets Pub, OpenLinkNight, Poetry, poetry forms, The Daily Post. 6 Comments

On her knees, she reflects on her days up to these moments of her life. Say what they may now – she has earned this. The slurs of her heritage were a weight heavily carried on her back. The vitriol flung her way because of the lower caste into which she was born, a constant susurrus in the back of her mind, no more. The drive to disprove the mocking stereotypes subjected to her kind a crown of thorns that gave cold comfort. Some let the burden of them wear them down. Today she would show a different way to wear those labels – with pride.

She bows her head one last time, as the mantle of the choices that brought her here become a different kind of weight. Lifting her head, she rises from her knees before the vicar with grace, as he proclaims her to all. She begins her life anew with the only appellation that mattered now, Queen.

To what you answer
Will always outweigh the things
To what you are called

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The Daily Post : Label
Write a new post in response to today’s one-word prompt

dVerse ~ Poets Pub: Open Link Night #192

Beaned

Posted by Raivenne on December 15, 2016

Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, Just Me, Being Me, OpenLinkNight, Poetry, The Funny SIde, The Past, The Present. Tagged: Coffee, dVerse ~ Poets Pub, humor, life, OpenLinkNight, Poetry, Starbucks. 11 Comments

The bean’s the scene, potency gleaned
It’s the dark daily grind by far, har- har!
A buck’s a deer, yet scales appear,
What do mermaids have to do with stars?

Now I do insist on non-instant
For getting into hot water is tough
And granted thirty will leave me quite quirky
But a venti is never enough.

It’s derision, this double vision
To work uphold, I must first upend
It’s a blip, a drip, a tip, a sip
Hello darkness my old friend!

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Hmmm, maybe I do need more coffee…

dverse
dVerse Poet’s Pub – Open Link Night # 186

The Call…

Posted by Raivenne on August 11, 2016

Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, Just Me, Being Me, OpenLinkNight, Poetry, Thinking Aloud. Tagged: Devil, dVerse ~ Poets Pub, OpenLinkNight, Poetry, Sin. 22 Comments

There’s a demon sitting on my shoulder
Whispering things and it’s getting bolder

A susurrus of dark and dangerous things
Makes the sinner in me want to come out and sing

And it’s getting stronger (you know you want to…)

Leaving its score on dark parts to remind me
Desire for such is within not behind me

Right now I know I’m the one in control
Of what’s clawing and braying to get to my soul

But for how much longer? (you know you want to…)

There’s a demon sliding along my spine
Twixt my head and my heart claiming “both will be mine”

I’m crying for the call of it chills me
I’m lying for the call of it thrills me

And it’s getting stronger (you know you want to…)

Though I feel the rumble of defiant laughter
I do not give in to the dark it’s after

But for how much longer? (you know you want to…)

I feel the scratching on the surface of my skin
Hear the voices dripping with inevitable sin
Scraping and tearing at what fight’s left within
Let me in! Let me in! Let me! Let me in!

No!

Let me in! Let me in! Let me! Let me in!

Nooooooo!

Let me in! Let me in! Let me! Let me in!

Nooooooooo…

There’s a demon crawling under my skin (you know you want to…)
A sadistic lover calling from within (you know I want to…)
And it’s getting stronger (I know you want to…)

Ooooooooooooh…

Not much longer (I know I want to…)

Ooooooooooooh…

I know I want to…

I want to…

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dverse

dVerse ~ Poets Pub | Open Link Night #177

Desire

Posted by Raivenne on June 23, 2016

Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, OpenLinkNight, Poetry. Tagged: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, love, NaPoWriMo, OpenLinkNight, Poetry, Sex. 6 Comments

Your finger and tongue’s smooth groove
Jolts my pulse into a spin
I barely conceal the brazen desire
To bay at the moon
I aspire to nip at your nectar instead

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dVerse ~Poets Pub | Open Link Night #175

Dandelion Wishes

Posted by Raivenne on June 9, 2016

Posted in: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, Just Me, OpenLinkNight, Poetry. Tagged: dVerse ~ Poets Pub, OpenLinkNight, Poetry. 13 Comments

Blown soft against the gentle bloom
Bloom of the most, tender of white
White fluff to fly, upon the winds
Winds soft under, warm summer nights
Nights just like this, where clouds are naught
Naught like true love, thought ne’er to find
Find just for her, but now she feels
Feels of that chance, once deemed declined

Declined to ones, money denied
Denied like her, of lower class
Class of poor – she, he – class of clout
Clout that declares love of the lass
Lass who now dares, to dream of life
Life like only, the rich have known
Known not by her, she felt ‘till now
Now with the prayer, she’s gently blown

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Today’s form? Chain Verse

Chain verse has two known forms: one repeats the last word or syllable of a line with the first word or syllable of the next line, while the other repeats the last line of each stanza with the first line of the following stanza.

While not required, I created a complete chain where the last word of the poem is also the first word.

dVerse ~Poets Pub | OpenLinkNight #174

Raivenne-lations

Doing what you like is freedom; liking what you do is happiness.

OpenLinkNight

The Eternity Remains

All That Glitters

Labels

Beaned

The bean’s the scene, potency gleaned
It’s the dark daily grind by far, har- har!
A buck’s a deer, yet scales appear,
What do mermaids have to do with stars?

Now I do insist on non-instant
For getting into hot water is tough
And granted thirty will leave me quite quirky
But a venti is never enough.

It’s derision, this double vision
To work uphold, I must first upend
It’s a blip, a drip, a tip, a sip
Hello darkness my old friend!

The Call…

Desire

Your finger and tongue’s smooth groove
Jolts my pulse into a spin
I barely conceal the brazen desire
To bay at the moon
I aspire to nip at your nectar instead

Dandelion Wishes

See me more clearly

Love me more dearly

Follow me more nearly

The bean’s the scene, potency gleaned It’s the dark daily grind by far, har- har! A buck’s a deer, yet scales appear, What do mermaids have to do with stars?

Now I do insist on non-instant For getting into hot water is tough And granted thirty will leave me quite quirky But a venti is never enough.

It’s derision, this double vision To work uphold, I must first upend It’s a blip, a drip, a tip, a sip Hello darkness my old friend!

Your finger and tongue’s smooth groove Jolts my pulse into a spin I barely conceal the brazen desire To bay at the moon I aspire to nip at your nectar instead

See me more clearly

Love me more dearly

Follow me more nearly

The bean’s the scene, potency gleaned
It’s the dark daily grind by far, har- har!
A buck’s a deer, yet scales appear,
What do mermaids have to do with stars?

Now I do insist on non-instant
For getting into hot water is tough
And granted thirty will leave me quite quirky
But a venti is never enough.

It’s derision, this double vision
To work uphold, I must first upend
It’s a blip, a drip, a tip, a sip
Hello darkness my old friend!

Your finger and tongue’s smooth groove
Jolts my pulse into a spin
I barely conceal the brazen desire
To bay at the moon
I aspire to nip at your nectar instead