Submissions by Highway62
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I like playing with language. I love the satisfaction of structuring a whole poem from just a single line or thought, and making lines rhyme or fit. I like poems that have a dark intensity and a flow to them, and that's what I try to create with mine.
DARK POEM
Published
8th May 2014 5:23pm
8th May 2014 5:23pm
The Call of the Void
As night descends the darkness bends around your troubled mind
Tugging at the strings of heart tied tight to hope they bind.
The cries of silence call your name, in tongues of silk veneer
Though the only words you recognise are cast from fires of fear.
You sail a distant sea of dreams, your life was lived in thoughts
You tried to paint a masterpiece, connecting all the dots.
Within the blind you wish to find a somber guarantee.
The comfort of the shackled black give heed unto your plea.
Waves of moonlight out of sight, grease the gears that grind...
Tugging at the strings of heart tied tight to hope they bind.
The cries of silence call your name, in tongues of silk veneer
Though the only words you recognise are cast from fires of fear.
You sail a distant sea of dreams, your life was lived in thoughts
You tried to paint a masterpiece, connecting all the dots.
Within the blind you wish to find a somber guarantee.
The comfort of the shackled black give heed unto your plea.
Waves of moonlight out of sight, grease the gears that grind...
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LOVE POEM
Published
10th Oct 2013 00:19am
10th Oct 2013 00:19am
Time the Healer
Life's too fast to see the past, but it calls to you at night
It drips into your darkened thoughts and drenches them in light.
The ghosts of those whose souls were sold, throughout your troubled days
Unfold beneath the sky of dreams, and set themselves ablaze.
Enchanted by their fire, in a warmth of pain and lies
The wind will never cease to cry, the sun will never rise.
The smoke of hope will fill your lungs, the poisoned air of death
Forever will forsaken love be tasted on your breath.
Life's too slow to feel the flow, but the ebb of swaying tides...
It drips into your darkened thoughts and drenches them in light.
The ghosts of those whose souls were sold, throughout your troubled days
Unfold beneath the sky of dreams, and set themselves ablaze.
Enchanted by their fire, in a warmth of pain and lies
The wind will never cease to cry, the sun will never rise.
The smoke of hope will fill your lungs, the poisoned air of death
Forever will forsaken love be tasted on your breath.
Life's too slow to feel the flow, but the ebb of swaying tides...
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LOVE POEM
Published
11th Aug 2013 4:09am
11th Aug 2013 4:09am
Blinded by the Truth
I lay amongst the hills of shattered dreams. As the valley cries I hear it scream between the dark unordered pillars of the mountain's stark, majestic beams. From here it seems, the sky reflects the silhouettes of cold regrets and wets them in the streams of light, which once had captured stars in flight, now flowing fast and flashing past my weary, troubled head. A body broke by feelings dead. Your ghost beside me in this bed of life that I have made. Strong as ice but still afraid, that heat of tongues will part me with an oral blade, and melt away your comfort's shade. I prayed in times of...
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LOVE POEM
Published
12th Feb 2013 6:19am
12th Feb 2013 6:19am
Aftermath
From shacks of darkness, a cold love was cast to the rain
Time grew us heartless, the voids of our lives now remain
Silently gliding, we languished in each other's pain
The sigh of the tide, could be heard as it poured from your vein
All that had bound us, in seeking the light as we frayed
Was soon to have drowned us, in memories lost and made
We swam to our grave, through seas that our anger had laid
With each crashing wave, we learned why our hearts had strayed
On the arc of night, history glows in the flame
Huddled in tightly; the days that it...
Time grew us heartless, the voids of our lives now remain
Silently gliding, we languished in each other's pain
The sigh of the tide, could be heard as it poured from your vein
All that had bound us, in seeking the light as we frayed
Was soon to have drowned us, in memories lost and made
We swam to our grave, through seas that our anger had laid
With each crashing wave, we learned why our hearts had strayed
On the arc of night, history glows in the flame
Huddled in tightly; the days that it...
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LOVE POEM
Published
4th Feb 2013 6:20pm
4th Feb 2013 6:20pm
Gone But Not Forgotten (Ormeau Road)
On the city the shadow of history is nailed, as a warning to those whose beliefs have wailed through the ages, dividing the charters and pages of peace in the name of god. Lonesome I trod, a stranger to its streets and lands of light, drenched in the deep unflagging night, the stench of a nearby fight broke free as a bar door swung, it's hard to say who won as I shuffled by, with dreams in my hand and love in my eye, fixated on a girl I left behind. Past it's pristine parks of hope, and on towards the frayed rope roads and wispy lanes that twisted my brain as I tried to find my bearings, the...
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LOVE POEM
Published
26th Aug 2012 10:00pm
26th Aug 2012 10:00pm
The Light of Your Day
Out of place, and slowly dying
Like a rose upon the shoreline lying
Soaked by waves of darkness in my past
Beneath the stars of heaven's light
Your dawn of beauty out of sight
A vision of a sky so blue and vast
To once have comfort kept in thought
To once by your soft hand be caught
Life in your bright beams was all I asked
So long your sparks of sun had glowed
Our fearful hidden hearts had showed
The tide of your bright day could never last
As dusk approached my tilted head
My dreams were torn as I was led
Drenched...
Like a rose upon the shoreline lying
Soaked by waves of darkness in my past
Beneath the stars of heaven's light
Your dawn of beauty out of sight
A vision of a sky so blue and vast
To once have comfort kept in thought
To once by your soft hand be caught
Life in your bright beams was all I asked
So long your sparks of sun had glowed
Our fearful hidden hearts had showed
The tide of your bright day could never last
As dusk approached my tilted head
My dreams were torn as I was led
Drenched...
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LOVE POEM
Published
21st Jul 2012 1:30am
21st Jul 2012 1:30am
Man o' War
Ships of passion sailed upon the seventh sea of hearts
Other vessels lost before the men could plot their charts
Capsized by waves of love that rose above the shanty lies
Swallowed by the swelling tide of fear within their eyes
Flags of hope were flown to lonely lovers on the beach
Hoisted full-sail, painted black, and sewn across the breach
Waving in the winds of time, they bore a signal true
Fear not these daunting waters, for we will guide you through
Cannon fodder dreams were scuttled deep into the black
Tangled in the...
Other vessels lost before the men could plot their charts
Capsized by waves of love that rose above the shanty lies
Swallowed by the swelling tide of fear within their eyes
Flags of hope were flown to lonely lovers on the beach
Hoisted full-sail, painted black, and sewn across the breach
Waving in the winds of time, they bore a signal true
Fear not these daunting waters, for we will guide you through
Cannon fodder dreams were scuttled deep into the black
Tangled in the...
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LOVE POEM
Published
8th Jul 2012 4:22am
8th Jul 2012 4:22am
A Day Unbroken
I unsealed the door of the storm-soaked night, and rolled my eyes along the light, seeping, from above the wide, unfolded, black horizon. I wrote my lies down, and headed to the old unfaithful side of town. At the other end of the wind, where god had sinned, my life the only hope I had as darkness thinned. A Bridge's struts were thrashed with tidal powers; they stood like golden gates of towers, built to bring me closer, to she who always fell so far behind. Who followed me until the dark had stabbed her eyes, and made her blind. Forever searching, for the sleeve of her heart and frame of her...
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LOVE POEM
Published
22nd Apr 2012 4:51am
22nd Apr 2012 4:51am
A Night by the Fire
Time draws long and folds within the darkness of it's past,
My eyes too old and dim to lay at night and watch it pass.
A withered frame, a dying flame, a beckoning of doom,
All life was now extinguished, as she strode into the room.
A gush of wind extruded from the interrupted door,
And travelled high on by the chair, where I sat forevermore.
Her shadow caught me lingering, on life I gave to thee,
And in her heart she cried as though her face was blind to see.
The cold air grazed my flacid arm and shivered down my spine,
Awakening a...
My eyes too old and dim to lay at night and watch it pass.
A withered frame, a dying flame, a beckoning of doom,
All life was now extinguished, as she strode into the room.
A gush of wind extruded from the interrupted door,
And travelled high on by the chair, where I sat forevermore.
Her shadow caught me lingering, on life I gave to thee,
And in her heart she cried as though her face was blind to see.
The cold air grazed my flacid arm and shivered down my spine,
Awakening a...
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LOVE POEM
Published
30th Nov 2011 10:55pm
30th Nov 2011 10:55pm
Your Deadly Tune
Your beauty is a perfect silent song
Sirens sing your notes the whole night long
That deadly tune, to which I croon
Brought me to the gallows here at dawn.
Your Mona Lisa lips are apple smooth
From that fruit my love in vain could not remove
A forbidden taste I tried, before I choked and nearly died
Now here I am with nothing left to prove.
Your voice was like an esoteric orchard
Where words were grown on trees of truth, and captured
When a sudden shift of violence, exhumed the grave of silence
And whispered in my ear as I was tortured....
Sirens sing your notes the whole night long
That deadly tune, to which I croon
Brought me to the gallows here at dawn.
Your Mona Lisa lips are apple smooth
From that fruit my love in vain could not remove
A forbidden taste I tried, before I choked and nearly died
Now here I am with nothing left to prove.
Your voice was like an esoteric orchard
Where words were grown on trees of truth, and captured
When a sudden shift of violence, exhumed the grave of silence
And whispered in my ear as I was tortured....
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UPBEAT POEM
Published
14th Nov 2011 00:55am
14th Nov 2011 00:55am
The Paths That Crossed Again
Deep within the forest
In the shadows of the cold
I thought I caught a flicker
Of a torch you used to hold
A whispered light broke free that night
In search of an eye to see
I never told a soul of this
But it spoke of you and me
My hand came to life as I clutched my knife
And carved into a tree
Words that spelled out loud and clear
"With you I want to be"
Sticks that broke beneath my feet
With every step back home
Awoke the ghostly thoughts of doubt
Which through the forest roam
As I woke in mornings...
In the shadows of the cold
I thought I caught a flicker
Of a torch you used to hold
A whispered light broke free that night
In search of an eye to see
I never told a soul of this
But it spoke of you and me
My hand came to life as I clutched my knife
And carved into a tree
Words that spelled out loud and clear
"With you I want to be"
Sticks that broke beneath my feet
With every step back home
Awoke the ghostly thoughts of doubt
Which through the forest roam
As I woke in mornings...
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LOVE POEM
Published
2nd Nov 2011 6:10pm
2nd Nov 2011 6:10pm
Shut Out
Never have I felt so out of step, denied existence by mortal gods of much importance and swagger. All the world is dead now: I felt no hope amongst the ne'erdowells, the scavengers, the time drunk thieves of thought who cried pity to their solitude, and sipped with one hand blood from a stone cup. The very idea that he who was not born shall be redeemed is stifling, even in the eyes of the betrayers of lost souls, hung like wolves pelts on rusted hooks of cold denial.
The other offer was blind salvation, but through the gods that promised hope no soul would turn a blind eye to a...
The other offer was blind salvation, but through the gods that promised hope no soul would turn a blind eye to a...
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