They say;
Electricity was death to the witch.
Idealistic theorems provoke rheumatic hysterics
From the iron maiden.
Allow her rust to fashion itself
Over your baptism to the cage.
Electricity was nothing more than a fold,
A veil if you will,
To eventually burn the ignorance into their eyes,
With their artificial impotent Gods.
It is a crippled roof 'neath the weight of darkness,
Barbed under her dancing and rites.
Splinters seen as electricity succumbs to the hand of time.
A plea for light to illuminate fears away.
Tears as the dark smoke climbs ivy-like along each shining tendon.
Their blindness is of sorts to invert the colour of colours.
We are the light,
We hide not for buzzes of feigned peace.
Hide behind your profitable neon mask.
You will not see better
In the dark with your tweaked accustomed eyes.
We are the wolf maidens,
The seeds of the moon.
We have been caged by your light,
residing 'neath the filtered forests
While you inject your dazzling dreams.
Without white their is no black.
Though polarity must disdain you.
It would matter not if you're colour-blind
if only you were not blind to see you are
pulling the carpet from beneath your feet
to fall upon realistic shards of darkness.
Author notes
This poem may need a lot of explaining:
Basically it is about anyone who has been victim of injustice. In this case I'm slightly using a Pagan/Catholic example. The 'iron maiden' is not the band; please...be poetic!
An idea you may need to grasp to understand this poem is that darkness and black is not always wrong and evil and sometimes things can be a little colour-blind.
The start of the 7th stanza is inspired from the Dali Lama who has a theory that without day there is no such thing a night as they are a contrast to each other, without one the contrast does not exist. A bit like ying and yang.
The darkness in this poem is simply a symbol for that which has been led to be conceived as evil.
Written October 4th, 2006
In a list
A contest entry
- A Witches Heart by TLRufener.
300 points, ended October 30, 2006, 33 entries
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Gripping "provoke rheumatic hysterics from the iron maiden."
I'm not quite sure if the "It" of stanza 3 is refering back to electricity, a veil, or ignorance. Then I fall to uncertainty again in reaching to understand the "splinters"; are they from the crippled roof, or visual manifestations of electricity?
Love the "light to illuminate fears away" and the great imagery of "dark smoke climbs ivy-like along each shining tendon." Interesting contemplation, to "invert the colour of colours," which presents itself to me as colorless, which ties back perfectly to the title of this piece.
6th Stanza, more lovely imagery!
Brief but strong statement on the essential nature of polar opposites.
Insightful conclusion, that our weaknesses, if acknowleged and compensated for as best we may, are not as crippling as our denial that they exist.
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Aye~I know this only too well
Your pen needed no explaining to me, for they are blinded by their own impotence, with their omnipotent God. There can be no light without darkness, as balancing the polarities is even in their own book, though they refuse to read it. On our path of light, we must not veer too far right, severity, nor too far left, mercy, for if we do inbalance occurs in every aspect of our dimension. They reverse the first lesson; We are spirits of light and energy seeking to be human not humans seeking the light, for light flows into us, light flows through us, light flows from us, as we are all spirits of light and energy.
Great rite, and excellent write.
Blessed Be~
)O(
DragonBlue
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Exquisite wording
Night and day, moon and sun, man and woman
ying and yang, all compliment one another, yet
the poem brings out a unique controversy of good and evil
Well done
Love light and peace
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He's right too you know.The Dali Lama in saying that. "Can be no dark without the light,nor be there wrong without the right"And those who assume the crafts intent is always misleading in dark are a little light headed too.As a rule,it more the reverse.Nice depth in this.
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Brilliant...
I enjoyed the offering of metaphor and truth.
No matter what religious orientation, this will
speak to those who truly care to listen. You
bring focused words to the fight against intolerance.
Blue
PS-"Without white their is no black" should be "there"
"A pleas for light" where plea should not be plural
"In the dark with you tweaked accustomed eyes"
your is missing its r
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yay brill.
ah my dear , you have so many hidden talents i have yet to peruse(",)
i do like the whole night would not exist without day thing. it is really an interesting concept. sile -
oh wow! I love the play and revearsal of black and white in this, its a fabulous poem! The images and symbols are so complex, yet you couln't have made it more clear. Great poem to read after my incident with my religon teacher today!!! xxx
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Stlyish, i really love this poem! It has a kinda "Oh no u didnt!" kinda feel to it, its like anger, except with grace! Kinda like there is spite in it, but it sounds kinda subtle as well. And also the subject matter is really interesting, and something that I have a personal interest in anyway, and its portrayed really well! As well, I love the symbolism in the last few stanzas, about dark and light, and being colourblind, and being totaly blind. The title itself is class, i kinda love anything to do with colour symbolism, especially to do with being colourblind..Also its the name of my favourite song!(yeah i know thats random)lol, But yeah, in all, fantastic, well done!!! xxx
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