We can all see the dead by retrodude88, literature
Literature
We can all see the dead
Sometimes I forget how many people died,
And it makes me wonder why...
A pain that numbs all other feeling
A pain that only leaves me reeling.
I seek refuge in broken dreaming
It's a sweet pain I don't want healing...
But it's why we're alive today.
crumbling graves that pave our way...
Beneath our feet we feel their names.
And you know they'll never go away...
And in my dreams I trace those faces,
And it's their smiles my finger traces...
With Snowflakes in her Hair by retrodude88, literature
Literature
With Snowflakes in her Hair
It's getting cold,
You can see she's getting old
Her breath is crystalising in the air
She needs a sanctuary,
From her past memories
And you can see the snowflakes in her hair
And from the warm,
you can see the coming storm,
And I know you want to answer her call
She's getting frail,
She stumbles on the trail,
But you can't help, 'till she knocks on your door
She can't see your light,
She struggles through the night,
She won't reach you untill the time is right
You want to give her shelter
From the possessing weather,
But will it ever want to let her
Go
I Don't Know
I couldn't say
If she'll make it through okay,
Or when
I know it's wrong for me to say
I Know Your Pain,
I know it's wrong for me to say
A day like this won't ever
come again
I know I cant say what it is
You Need To Hear
I know whatever I do won't
Help to take away any of
Your fears
I know my touch hasn't the pow'r
To Help You Heal
I know my presence doesn't change
The way about me that I know
You feel
And I don't know why you never
Tell me anything
And I know that smile you give me
Isn't done in thought of more
Hopeful things
Maybe it isn't you I need
To make me whole
And maybe we were never meant
To trust eachother with our
Entwined souls
Now I know it would be bes
Light poured in on them in the early hours of the next day, it shone down upon them like headlights upon a felled tree, the twilight brightness trying to pull them up through persistence alone. Yet it wasn't the light that finally compelled them to rise and peel the sheets away, but the eventual breaking up of the light by the constant movement of feet from outside the basement window, a sign of an alive city, as alert as the doped hipsters that had swaggered through these streets only hours previously in the bleary-neoned nights, Their time.
The first figure to be aware of in the room is that of Remmie, not a native to the city of San Fr
What is this feeling I'm experiencing, what am I feeling right now?
Nostalgia? no not even close, the opposite maybe...
The feeling of being left behind, and the wind blows by you,
as your ride dissappears, leaves dancing behind it **pied piper**
and soon the jalopy has been submerged in the night, and
all there is to do is walk huddled on the road, for the next
Advancement To My Goal.
*And I walk and marvel at the Frosty desert either side of me
glistening in moonlight, it's funny, though, how moonlight can
transcend all pretenses, and how everything looks the same,
by it's unprejudiced light.*
And now I have to stop after this t
There was once a preacher man
Who talked of salvation
It made him proud to think of all those poor souls
That he, for God, had won
He was seen as a strong man
As fair and God-fearing
But he'd never got through a single day
'thout seeing Satan's face leering
Satan managed to wear him down
No more could that man last
The only thing this man now feared
Was the bottom of a glass
I shudder to think of him
To think what he's become
To have taken away from that poor soul
His life that so hard he'd clung
Now, don't think of me as religious
Just keep my messsage in mind
When throw yourself into something
Please never look behind
No
Stretch your imagination
Stretch it like elastic
Stretch your mind until you see
You see the light fantastic
And once you do, you'll be there
Where I have always been
Once your there, i think you'll know
Exactly what I mean
The light, Smoke and Ecstacy by retrodude88, literature
Literature
The light, Smoke and Ecstacy
Smoke
Fractured
By the light
Drifting slowly
Illuminating
Your Oh so pretty face
I watch in sheer wonderment
As you carve your hands through the smoke
Through my fractured consciousness, i see
My body being absorbed into yours
As wet clay, turned into a new being
We are as one, oh pure ectsacy!
We think one another's feelings
We feel one another's thoughts
And the lights, All the while
Turn crimson the walls
Until it's over
We lie, finished,
Just staring
the lights...
Turn..
Off.
I travel through the Texas plains
knowing how I went nor came
Engine throbbing beneath my feet
I'm always in the driver's seat
I have always been on my own
Not having freinds, even a home
Large parts of my memory's missed
my family, my sweetheart's kiss
Jack of all trades, mother of none
I work for night's accomadation
always moving from town to town
always running, not slowing down
I have always been on my own
Not having freinds, even a home
Large parts of my memory's missed
my family, my sweetheart's kiss
Have you ever seen the moonlight
Touch the desert sand at midnight
Experienced the the rising sun
Coming over the hori
To sough is to reap
To bow is to weep
And to slow down a step
Is to die
T'say this is to keep
all rights to my sleep
And not to get caught in
The tide
In these troubled times
We mask truths with these rhymes
To free the grinning man
Who tried to bomb the ban
And terror becomes the police
Die Peace!
What they use to keepup
Is what we try to hold down
And our only defense
Against these blood-soaked clowns
But I guess, in the end
What has happened we cant mend
In these troubles, in these truths
We can't hear the Eagle's swoops
In therse troubled times
We mask truths with these rhymes
To free the grinning man
Who tried to
No title, but'll have 1 soon by retrodude88, literature
Literature
No title, but'll have 1 soon
We begin with a hand, a nondescript hand,in the corner of the shot we see the side of a plaque, which gives us the name ofthe hand-owner, which is Norman Exile. by it's suit cuff you can tell it belongs to a man who works in the office, we do not see the man's face or anything else, the hand is writing, we do not see what it is, but can just see the occasional word.
We hear a door close with a loud click.
The hand stops writing, pauses:
Seated man:"you're here aready?"
the next shot is of the man who comes through the door, nothing but the man's hand is seen, the hand is holding a gun, it is not pointed at the seated man, but is held a
Thick and soaked with blood
Is the soil beneath my feet
The blood of many soldiers,
Met with cold defeat
We were fighting for our lord
A strong and a proud man
To die for him, an honour,
The leader of our strong clan
But alas, the spell is broken
The feud, a scam, the lord, a fool
But I have made up my mind,
This foolish man shan't rule
That was many years ago
The lord had me dismissed
Honour beckoned me to leave
With the clenching of my fists
But on this soil is now a farm
To bring me sweet revenge
The destruction of the clan
The aim of this blood-henge
It's no normal crop of wheat
But dead warriors From the feild
With
A person's hands are godly things
That create aswell as destroy,
they turn the feelings of the soul
To tangible reality
To think god created sunsets
And Atilla raped and pillaged
using a pair of these
For me to write this
for you to view
to accept a gift
and to recieve one
To express, to help
To kill
to use and abuse
As you see my freinds,
The hands are a gift
From God and Satan combined
But how you use them
no-one can demand
It's just how you decide
That will show all where, and why you stand
Hello Demons, Hello Freinds by retrodude88, literature
Literature
Hello Demons, Hello Freinds
There's faces on the road
There's faces in the rain
More faces seem to appear
With more ground I gain
There are demons on my tail
The demons in black suits
They're intent on chasing me
From my deep old roots
But maybe, this is best
For I have way too long
Lived a life of shamelessness
Replaying the same old song
Now it's time, the song will change
The faces are too much
I'm turning round my thoughts
A man who has been touched
Hello demons, hello freinds
But then you're all the same
Broken faces from the past
You like to see my shame
Why should I change, if all you are,
are murderers, and petty crooks
Two-faced and whispe
Dreamless people drift this life
The dead, they are known as
But really, they are just us
our shadows beneath the ground
They're the ones on the other side
Just waiting, waiting for us
Their only time to contact
Is in our dreams, our nightmares
Don't become one of these men
They're souls are crushed to dust
Living suicidal lives
Craving our attention
Probing the walls of reality
We must shut them out
Fighting to stand at our sides
In our weakest times
In this life we have few joys
My freinds, they pull us down
Playing on our fears, our doubts
We must not join them there
Spilt milk And Lost Balloons by retrodude88, literature
Literature
Spilt milk And Lost Balloons
they will tell you where they went
And how they got there too
But untill you're discovered
The world will not know you
Spilt milk and lost balloons
Picture books and toys
None of this will truly last
I tell you girls and boys
Some men find their life's purpose
When they're young and brave
But others find their lives legend
When they're beyond the Grave
Spilt milk and lost balloons
Picture books and toys
None of this will truly last
I tell you, girls and boys
What I'm trying to tell you is
Innocence does not stay
Pick yourselves up off the ground
And find your own way
Spilt milk and lost balloons
Picture books and toys
No
Trouble in the Neighbourhood by retrodude88, literature
Literature
Trouble in the Neighbourhood
Litter's dancing dance of death
Thunder rolls nearby
Lock clicking like grasshoppers
While a baby cries
I can smell it in the air
like the smell of blood
There's going to be trouble
In the Neighbourhood
The rain has finally come
and has made moist the air
And with it have rolled the mists
Cloudy as a dead man's stare
I can smell it in the air
Like the smell of blood
There's going to be trouble
In the neighbourhood
Trouble on the old estate
Cracks in the pavement
A web of fear and hate
That fuels the cruel hunt
I can smell it in the air
Like the smell of blood
There's going to be trouble
In the neighbourhood
You're too sadistic for me
I should get up and leave
but your mind is just too sharp
I could not have believed
I'm rolling in the corner
and am bleeding now
You're proud of your work on me
why don't you take a bow
One of these days I'll get up
And take a real good aim
you will not know what hit you
And who from it had came
But for now you're still in charge
sharpening your tools
While I scurry round the house
playing it by your rules
your back is turned, now's my chance
I lunge forward and take a stab
You buckle, then begin to sag
you fat oaf, weighed down by your flab
I live inside a shoebox
And someone's looking in
Spi
A lady shot a man to death
In the spring of may
And her reason for this was
That she was having a bad day
Is this love
Is this Hate
No it's not
It's just fate
A teenager charged with theft
Is serving five years
All because he joined the crowd
And to help his peers
Is this love
Is this hate
No it's not
It's just fate
A man killed himself today
Because of his wife
She wouldn't let him see his son
He was the centre of his lifeIs this love
Is this love
Is this hate
No it's not
It's just fate
Why d'we live upon this world
Filled with such Injustice
It's wound tighter than a spring
Or a vicious clenched fist
Is this lo
On sin
I ask you, what is sin? What is this human concept that spreads itself through all culture, creeds and religion? The popular definition is the transgression from God's will and the condition of estrangement arising from such transgression. Since I was brought up in a household void of religion or any of the Christian God's teachings, does this mean I am free from sin, or that every act I have ever committed is classed as sin? Is God necessary for sin? In a matter of speaking yes, but if we look beyond the Judeo-Christian walls imposed upon us we would see a much older concept : wrong. I, living without religion as I do, still understa
He holds her hand with tears falling
He would have saved her if he heard her calling
But she was silent and words were not said
She was preoccupied of the need to be dead.
Her beautiful skin, now white from no life
Her eyes now dim, they'll never sparkle with light
Her body is still, there's no laughter or shouts
But for once she won't feel the haunting self doubts.
He touched her check as he glared at her blood
It was her life drained from her vein, resembling a flood
He wished he had known that she wanted to die
But she slipped from the world with not even a cry.
hear the sound of silence falling,
in the shadow of lilac vale
the whispering pines drenched in rain
breathe a soft and meaningful tale.
How soft and sweet the rain can be
the calmn and cold around the fields
the sun may sleep fo now, today
behind a clouded, steel-gray shield.
the waters wash upon the earth
and flow with serene purpose
the listening phase beneath the moon
rises above the surface.
the wind can howl and cry with pain
the thunder can rumble with might
lightning can shatter a world in shadows,
shadows darker than night.
in these words may you find
a way to halt and cease the heart
a heroic voice beneath the wave
No more crying after all
you're finally gone
I walk across the pavement
and wonder why it took so long
I cannot help but glance back
at the grave
It's so dead quiet forgive the pun
but that is where you lay.
Heaven help you now
You are out of my hands
the memory of you is washing away
may you be damned.
This phantom is a plague to me
I cannot forget
Wash it off in heated water
and just let
Phantoms of memory
I have returned
to where you rest
I hope you've learned
I'll go away lest I stay...
I hold your tombstone tight
my tears come fast
This phantom memory won't release me
Even though your time is past.
I finally come
The Diary of Mitch and Angeles by Shadoling, literature
Literature
The Diary of Mitch and Angeles
This Diary Belongs to:
Mitch and Angeles.
January 19, 2005
ANGELES
(Prologue...of sorts...)
Welcome to the society where werewolves, vampires, demons, etc, are considered the everyday for some folks. Not that they accept us. Aw, hell no. So, me, Angeles the werewolf and my partner, Mitch, the vampire, decided to help out the society by getting rid of demons. We sort of live in California, and yet...we sort of don't. I decided to keep a diary, so you can see what we do in our everyday life...
HOWEVER...
this must not, under any circumstances, fall into the wrong hands. Should it, you, us, and the whole world, maybe, could be in BIG, BIG
No title, but'll have 1 soon by retrodude88, literature
Literature
No title, but'll have 1 soon
We begin with a hand, a nondescript hand,in the corner of the shot we see the side of a plaque, which gives us the name ofthe hand-owner, which is Norman Exile. by it's suit cuff you can tell it belongs to a man who works in the office, we do not see the man's face or anything else, the hand is writing, we do not see what it is, but can just see the occasional word.
We hear a door close with a loud click.
The hand stops writing, pauses:
Seated man:"you're here aready?"
the next shot is of the man who comes through the door, nothing but the man's hand is seen, the hand is holding a gun, it is not pointed at the seated man, but is held a
Current Residence: Barry, wales Favourite genre of music: boff-rock, punk-rock, glam-rock, modern rock, old rock, blues, etc Favourite photographer: ? Favourite style of art: Anime Operating System: XP (first ever pirate copy available, take that, Bill Gates!) MP3 player of choice: don't use 'em Shell of choice: rocket shell Wallpaper of choice: The one in my room Skin of choice: my own, or my enemy's Favourite cartoon character: Spike (cowboy Bebop) Personal Quote: "Mcdonalds is Evil, Heed My Words!!!"
Favourite Visual Artist
Leonardo Da Vinci
Favourite Movies
pulp fiction, resevoir dogs
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
pink floyd, Hawkwind, Nirvana,
Favourite Writers
Jack kerouac, Burgess, Ken Kesey,
Favourite Games
GTA: Vice city, or Doom **DIE!!! DEMONS**
Favourite Gaming Platform
XBOX (just face it)
Tools of the Trade
The thoughts of many, the brain of one
Other Interests
Playing the guitar, writing, hitting brick walls, etc
yes, I know, I haven't been around for, like ever, but really, when you leave school and go straight into the working world, you realize just how it seems to drain youof any creative impulse, I've spent the last 6 months wishing that I could pick up a pen and paper and write something, anything. poems become grounded no further than the first verse, and an impotent mix of lethargy and procrastination have prevented me from even attempting to carry on 'Remmie's Briefcase', and besides, I'm genuinely doubting it's literary quality and value, thinking it's only going to wind up a cheap pulp-doppelganger to Kerouac's On The Road.
One thing I th
So, yeah, I'm really beginning to get pissed with this Writer's block thing, it's been a while, I know, and I really am in the mood for writing some more, but there's no drive, I recently saw "Walk the line" and that sorta put me in the mood for writing some Cash-style songs, yes most invariably about buying Guns and shooting stuff, but anyhoo...
But that's not all, I feel I could write some more of the "Remmie's Briefcase" thing, I recently finished readig Kafka's "The Trial" and I heard in writing that he started with the first and last chapter, and filled in the middle, it wasn't even completed, anyway. So I really need to find some writi
It's been long due that I write one of these, I've been loging on much more often these days and I thought the new year would be a good excuse to start afresh...
It's funny to think I learnt 'Auld Lang's syne' in august and come 31st December I've totally forgotten it, oh well, maybe next year. One thing I'm gonna be puttin' up real soon is the first song I've ever written to a tune composed on guitar by yours truly, it doesn't stand great as a song, but if you were to read most chart song lyrics most make little sense or great reading.
But anyways, what's everyone's new years holding for them, this year is my last one in schol, final exa
Ahh well, it's all because you did such a great job of it! Or maybe it's because I'm too lazy to find another, who knows?
It's mainly the first reason, though
There's nothing I enjoy more than reading works by someone who is a better writer than I. That so nets you a position in my *Creepily Watched* section.