Submissions by Grace (IDryad)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
A letter from the Mountains
Dear John
The ice is thick the snow is deep
The sky is blue but unmerciful still
Its heated cauldron is so up high
Since we landed on this white wasteland
The jagged peaks around us loom
Like dragon’s teeth planted on the ground
My heart is breaking as I say this
Our son, yours and mine
He breathed his last today
He was broken deep inside
In both his body and his spirit
I weep, no, I wail, I grief
For him our only son
Born of my womb
Consecrated with your love
Our first born
Our beloved
Would that I died in his stead...
The ice is thick the snow is deep
The sky is blue but unmerciful still
Its heated cauldron is so up high
Since we landed on this white wasteland
The jagged peaks around us loom
Like dragon’s teeth planted on the ground
My heart is breaking as I say this
Our son, yours and mine
He breathed his last today
He was broken deep inside
In both his body and his spirit
I weep, no, I wail, I grief
For him our only son
Born of my womb
Consecrated with your love
Our first born
Our beloved
Would that I died in his stead...
725 reads
3 Comments
Un-amused
I am un-amused
When someone judge others
By what they can see from the outside
An ugly face may have a beautiful soul
I am un-amused
When someone deigned to be called intelligent
Starts calling lesser beings names and think
It’s their God-given right to kick the less enlightened
I am un-amused
With beautiful women
With angelic faces
Hide such bitter disdain for the less attractive
I am un-amused
by politicians who promise
the world to their voters
and leave them behind after the elections
In...
When someone judge others
By what they can see from the outside
An ugly face may have a beautiful soul
I am un-amused
When someone deigned to be called intelligent
Starts calling lesser beings names and think
It’s their God-given right to kick the less enlightened
I am un-amused
With beautiful women
With angelic faces
Hide such bitter disdain for the less attractive
I am un-amused
by politicians who promise
the world to their voters
and leave them behind after the elections
In...
702 reads
3 Comments
From the dark side of the Moon
Flying in with hooded cape
Billowing with unfelt wind
Black outside with reddish seams
Hugging me with its soft satin
Of dark wishes, needs and desires
I am he, she, it who comes
From the dark side of the moon
I come with a bag of wonders
Like an inverted Santa Claus
For men and women who wish
For more than they do have
To make their wish come true
For dreams to become real
To realise gossamer webs of visions
For you my voluptuous maiden
With pendulous breasts that begs
For needy lustful release ...
Billowing with unfelt wind
Black outside with reddish seams
Hugging me with its soft satin
Of dark wishes, needs and desires
I am he, she, it who comes
From the dark side of the moon
I come with a bag of wonders
Like an inverted Santa Claus
For men and women who wish
For more than they do have
To make their wish come true
For dreams to become real
To realise gossamer webs of visions
For you my voluptuous maiden
With pendulous breasts that begs
For needy lustful release ...
1181 reads
15 Comments
My love II
My love for you is as water
For without I would die of thirst
Its like that of food
For without I would be dead
Its like that of air
Without which I would expire
Its like that of earth
Without which I would float away
My love you are my life
My heart beats with yours
Never leave
For I cannot live
With half a heartbeat
My love….
For without I would die of thirst
Its like that of food
For without I would be dead
Its like that of air
Without which I would expire
Its like that of earth
Without which I would float away
My love you are my life
My heart beats with yours
Never leave
For I cannot live
With half a heartbeat
My love….
795 reads
5 Comments
Incantations from the other side
The plains are vast
The land is free
Out you hunters
Out you farmers
Live in the land
For it is yours to use
Leave not your arrows
Leave not your spears
On the sills of your mother’s house
Go forward and roam free
To hunt and bring back venison
In these deeds do not forget the gods
For the gods that guard
For the spirits that guide
Let the blood be presented
On the crescent golden bowl
On the altar of sacrifice
Hold up the bowl towards the east
To appease the spirits of dawn
That gives you light ...
The land is free
Out you hunters
Out you farmers
Live in the land
For it is yours to use
Leave not your arrows
Leave not your spears
On the sills of your mother’s house
Go forward and roam free
To hunt and bring back venison
In these deeds do not forget the gods
For the gods that guard
For the spirits that guide
Let the blood be presented
On the crescent golden bowl
On the altar of sacrifice
Hold up the bowl towards the east
To appease the spirits of dawn
That gives you light ...
676 reads
7 Comments
Hecate's Moon
I am the moon
I spell an otherworldly chant for you
words heard by but a few
I shine on you
children of the night
worshippers of Hecate
I am the moon
I see the footsteps
you will leave
upon the sands of time
some will allow roses
to grow, and others, thorns
I am the moon
I weld power beyond your ken
beyond the knowledge
and understanding of man
for nearer to ingenuity
Is the path to insanity
I am the moon
I walk in the darkness
path illuminated by visions ...
I spell an otherworldly chant for you
words heard by but a few
I shine on you
children of the night
worshippers of Hecate
I am the moon
I see the footsteps
you will leave
upon the sands of time
some will allow roses
to grow, and others, thorns
I am the moon
I weld power beyond your ken
beyond the knowledge
and understanding of man
for nearer to ingenuity
Is the path to insanity
I am the moon
I walk in the darkness
path illuminated by visions ...
#mythology
#mystery
1038 reads
12 Comments
Wanderings
Within this forest
My heart does beat
For wander I so lost
A soul searching for a mate
Or a kindred soul to meet
So dark this forest
so dusky so frightening
and yet, compelled, I traverse on
I quest and search for someone
To take my hand and lead me out
This forest live within my existence
Engulfing passion clutching my being
Lives on and on, ever darkening
Grasps me it in merciless love
I wander on touching each falling leaf
Thus I meander as I wait
For haloes of breaking lights
To guide me...
My heart does beat
For wander I so lost
A soul searching for a mate
Or a kindred soul to meet
So dark this forest
so dusky so frightening
and yet, compelled, I traverse on
I quest and search for someone
To take my hand and lead me out
This forest live within my existence
Engulfing passion clutching my being
Lives on and on, ever darkening
Grasps me it in merciless love
I wander on touching each falling leaf
Thus I meander as I wait
For haloes of breaking lights
To guide me...
906 reads
10 Comments
What is Hell
Eternal flames in cauldron burn
A lake of brimstone
As far as eyes can behold
Smell of sulphur of burning bones
Of sinners unrepentant
Of their evil wrong doings
That is hell
Of gnashing of teeth
And tormented wails
Of screaming for surcease
From punishment vile
Of unheard prayers
From the truly damned
That is hell
The man at the pulpit
With flashing eyes
Spittle spraying the altar boys
Scream this version of hell
To all that would listen
He is the conductor
For he knows hell
He knows the...
A lake of brimstone
As far as eyes can behold
Smell of sulphur of burning bones
Of sinners unrepentant
Of their evil wrong doings
That is hell
Of gnashing of teeth
And tormented wails
Of screaming for surcease
From punishment vile
Of unheard prayers
From the truly damned
That is hell
The man at the pulpit
With flashing eyes
Spittle spraying the altar boys
Scream this version of hell
To all that would listen
He is the conductor
For he knows hell
He knows the...
940 reads
12 Comments
I am I
I am Grace
I am a child of the earth
A flower of the air
I am a child
I am ancient
I am the shadows at the corner of your eye
I am the blueness in the midnight sky
I am the dew on a blade of grass
I am the song of the winds
I am no one and no one am I...
Words shape me
What would you like me to be
I am a child of the earth
A flower of the air
I am a child
I am ancient
I am the shadows at the corner of your eye
I am the blueness in the midnight sky
I am the dew on a blade of grass
I am the song of the winds
I am no one and no one am I...
Words shape me
What would you like me to be
686 reads
1 Comment
Tunnels of Love
The look a flash of blue
Of weak-kneed me and passionate you
A smile a touch
A tight hug a kiss from you
We entered the tunnel
Too engrossed in looking
At each other’s face
Lip-locked
The darkness engulfed
And still we embraced
Your hands on my thigh
My breasts on your chest
We were lost in the tunnel of love
On and on we went with the flow
Engrossed in each other
We flowed together
We became each other
Entwined and entangled
And when at last the journey
Was over, the tunnel was just a dark highway ...
Of weak-kneed me and passionate you
A smile a touch
A tight hug a kiss from you
We entered the tunnel
Too engrossed in looking
At each other’s face
Lip-locked
The darkness engulfed
And still we embraced
Your hands on my thigh
My breasts on your chest
We were lost in the tunnel of love
On and on we went with the flow
Engrossed in each other
We flowed together
We became each other
Entwined and entangled
And when at last the journey
Was over, the tunnel was just a dark highway ...
868 reads
3 Comments
A passing experience
Touches the wind
like gossamer fingers
My cheeks it caresses
like an ardent lover
Gently rumples my hair
Spreading it over my face
Like a naughty friend
The rain kisses my cheeks
I taste the salt of my sweat
Wet hair embracing my skull
Water going into my eyes
My eyes feel the sting of salt
Tears flows, unbidden
Mixed with the falling rain
Running towards shelter
Feet pounding the sand
I hear the soughing of the wind
Over the treetops
The crash of thunder
The bolts of lightning
The storm has...
like gossamer fingers
My cheeks it caresses
like an ardent lover
Gently rumples my hair
Spreading it over my face
Like a naughty friend
The rain kisses my cheeks
I taste the salt of my sweat
Wet hair embracing my skull
Water going into my eyes
My eyes feel the sting of salt
Tears flows, unbidden
Mixed with the falling rain
Running towards shelter
Feet pounding the sand
I hear the soughing of the wind
Over the treetops
The crash of thunder
The bolts of lightning
The storm has...
738 reads
5 Comments
One Minute
Eyes meeting across the room
A look exchanged
A smile replied
With a raised eyebrow
Fingers on lips
Love sets to bloom
A look exchanged
A silent wave
Eyes averted
Smiles tremulous
Touches of fingers
Breakups in process
That one minute
Of acts given away
Decides the path
Of come what may
An over-bright smile
A look, a sigh
In one Minute
They give it away
A look exchanged
A smile replied
With a raised eyebrow
Fingers on lips
Love sets to bloom
A look exchanged
A silent wave
Eyes averted
Smiles tremulous
Touches of fingers
Breakups in process
That one minute
Of acts given away
Decides the path
Of come what may
An over-bright smile
A look, a sigh
In one Minute
They give it away
857 reads
15 Comments
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