A New Year (and a few more poems)

[Jahaliel]

(a/n some of you may remember one of the last pieces I wrote before the move entitled "Five years and a lot of poems" This follows the same pattern so please be aware some of these links contain language and some are mature in nature.)

Beginning anew is always hard. But we take a breath and smile, then fly away under the Northern lights as the short dream inspires the long dream in us all...

A view into my heart shows the writer's conundrum as I have no words left, in the still dark the mirror weeps. I cannot sustain anger nor can I hold a grudge, I'm just burnt out screaming...

Shhh darling. I'll listen, tell me... says the helpful one. As faded lights fall from winter's sky this rain brings wisdom from the heavens. In the end, its all gone, the sanctuary of hopes lost in the fire leaving me in isolation with hand over heart saying If this is finished then my curse as an altruistic angel is to accept it. I am a daughter of fate and one of two queens to reign here.

This is me: Jah'olor, Rogeina, the lady of grace with a voice like the nightingale. My soul-sister is the Red Queen (who later became Obsidian Goddess who just won't die) and my brother is the prince of Fantasy, a star among men, who weaves magic in phoenix dreams.

Over the years I've honoured the ANZAC's with reverie not revelry and I've never understood the obsession with social media. I've watched the days from sunrise through sunshine and rain until it all goes back to black.

Have you seen the missing poets? The first uncle, the queen of hearts, the subtle poet or the Gleek? I can't even say how much I miss fly boy and the unexpected friend, we were sealed on each others heart breathing gold. Remember when it was just you and me and a recipe for some scones (which makes me wish for a video camera) I''m not actually funny but standing with you proudly declaiming "Jeremy! Jeremy! Why for art thou Jeremy?" led to bright eyes and laughing smiles

Let's talk about the facets of love. Love is arborescent - that which is life and it's the fire of love, the passion of innocence lost. It's never boring, in fact it's journey to seek the divine. It cannot be contained in an ode or any kind of mathematical sequence. There's no onomatopeia for it, just a dream of a sanctuary where the prince and the angel dance to songs in the wind.

But is love the answer or the question? For you see what happens next is the abandonment and the death of a fantasy dreamer for whom "once upon a time" became a nightmare of Serila's grey screams. Love hurts and there's nothing so tragic as just not clicking, that awful dead quiet at the end of the battle.

Enough! The sky of my heart is empty, so what now? I have pondered the question "Can we last? Or are we doomed to be heart's echoing "where's home? forever?"

Hands open a book to tell a tale of Crystal Court that's still untitled. Music, that other woman, steals away all the kindred spirits and so I take a good long look in the mirror as a collection of tears like rain dance to the bridal blues. I turn then and walk away whispering "burn, baby, burn"

This is it, goodbye my family. I've told you my secrets and given you everything I am.

And this is how it ends... I will not return home

[RogueInk]

Absolute genius! How in the world you conjured this idea and then managed to make it coherent is truly jawdropping. How did you link all those in the post!? At any length I tip my hat to you. Is this an actual farewell post?

[Dew]

Wait a minute...a prose cento? Can I call it a Pronto?!!!!! Pleeeeeeez lets coin the idea and call it a pronto!!! I loved this concept jah, and like RI, I thought it was Jahdropping! (like that?)

Go plathlete! Go! We're behind you! XOXOXO - Dew

[everhopeful]

Hehe, a 'Pronto', I can dig that!
A cento is hard enough, but within the prose format it's even more credible that you've managed to make this read so logically and fluidly. Sometimes the way the links are underlined on this site annoys me, yet I think it works in your favour here because it emphasises just how much went into the construction, and what is also very impressive is how a lot of the paragraphs actually relate to the theme of the poems referenced, and aren't just there for being a conveniant fit within this post.

[Jahaliel]

I much preferred the old place's formatting of urls where you had to mouse over to see them. And comparatively this was only a small effort of about 5 hours. The other one took me months to get right.

@RI you can link to pieces using the url function. if you put [url= the page you want to link to]title[/ url ] (without all the spacing i used to make this appear) you'll get a link in your piece to the page. TPS only allows links to other works and youtube vids of you reading your poem/singing your lyrics but these are of course all my own pieces.

Thanks for the love all you guys, I appreciate it. x Heh, pronto. I like it.

[musie]

If I'm not mistaken, I believe that at one time Everhopeful wanted to create a Challenge as to something like this, which would be a great endeavor indeed..and you have done it so eloquently with this great creation of your's Jah...Absolutely JAW Dropping Creation indeed! BRAVO my friend!

[ladylilith]

Sweet work! And I mean 'sweet' as in 'dude cool' not 'aww' - yah know? It takes a lot of patience and a keen eye to be able to put something like this together and make it work with the same flow and meaning that you have managed here. It's a great piece of prose, absorbing and just darn clever! Tres cool!

Lily^^

[Mr D]

awesome creative work, Jah ! must of been bothersome at times ....but you gotta do what you gotta do heh...
again....great idea
cheers and gratz on the spotlight,
D

[Dew]

How appropriate to spotlight this work...so glad it came back for us to admire all over again and just now when we needed it to. A finely constructed monument to dedication...grats on the spot jah - dew

[Josie]

Whatever you decide to call it, Pronto works for me. It is a creative way to catalog your work. You chose to use a prose approach and I see how paragraphs can deliver different themes. Seeing your work like this helps the reader connect more with the poet's style and diversity of techniques. Thank you for a New Year as a way of thinking using a new creative method.