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CandlesThe beauty is found in the simplest of things,
In times where you gaze with such wonderful awe,
The means of the end can’t erase the beginning.

Have faith in the world that you always deplore,
The creatures that have not a chance to survive,
While you cut and pollute, forever ignore.

Believe in yourself, feel truly alive,
Open your eyes to the world of your dreams,
Cast away pain from desolate times.

How can reality be all that it seems?
Surely there’s hope in amongst all the mist?
Laughter to combat the desperate screams?

What is the truth? How can honour exist?
Will it revisit the leaders someday?
Or will they remain

Young and WiseI know of many you'd call young,
All so small and yet so strong,
They walk a narrow path right now,
One foot off balance- all goes wrong.

You tease and mock them, call them names,
For they are different from you all,
But while they seem to hide away,
They actually stand very tall.

Can you see them? Watch them grow,
Feel their knowledge hold your hand,
In their eyes their wisdom gazes,
Out upon your troubled land.

"Watch them as they do surround,
In every town they can be found"

Embrace The LightI am regal, noble- proud,
Living in a human shroud,
These words consume my mind today,
They let me speak all I can say.

Feel the power; Feel its wrath,
You see the fire's aftermath?
Its Love will live a life its own,
Pump you with its beauty shown.

Coiled tightly; ever binding,
Love and light are ever shining,
Love will keep the pain at bay,
While Light will blast them all away.

'With one candle burning bright,
Erasing Darkness from thy sight'

Here I am; see what I be,
If you have courage to believe,
In something different and unique,
Can you do it? Will you speak?

Find the peace within thy soul,
Caress it as you do grow ol

ParfaitI was crying, for you so hard,
For I wanted it all to happen,
Yes I wanted it all to happen,
My life is so rich in meaning,
And I didn't know which way to turn then.

The grain of wood goes one way,
And so our lives are made to use,
Yes our lives were made to use,
We live in His plan for us,
And we do our best with what he has us do.

This world of waterfalls and life,
Is ours to enjoy,
We lean so close beside the fire,
And we sing as we watch the sun go down.

I was crying, for you so hard,
For I wanted it all to happen,
Yes I wanted it all to happen,
We live in His plan for us,
And we do our best with what he has us do.

This

Memory, Time, Life

She wanders through her life
Tides of memory flow
In ...out ...in ...out ... in ...out

And strewn upon the beach
A tangled, driftwood past
Laid down like crumbs of time
Left there to guide her home

She wanders through her day
Storms of living blow
Around and round-about

And drawn now to the sea
To brave the tempests blast
Waves of rage will roll
Then soften in the foam

She wanders through her thoughts
Winter white as snow
Warm within not without

Then on a mountain trail
There ... a light at last
Soft and far it's glow
Held trapped within the stone

She wanders through her life
Tides of memory flow
Through a driftwood pas

The Angel I Cannot ReplaceYou are so gorgeous, make me smile,
With hair in eyes, you do beguile,
Yet you don’t know what’s really true,
The beauty people see in you.

You do the things that others scoff,
That radiance you can’t turn off,
The sunshine smiles within your face,
You’re someone that we can’t replace.

Music is your soul indeed,
Your very blood that you would bleed,
The guitar lifts you up right now,
Gives you strength and hope somehow.

Don’t think that no one sees your light
Every moment it lies in sight,
Showing all how great you are,
How special that you are by far.

Listen to these words my friend,
Let them wa

A Tribute To A NoblemanWhen I was born you held me close,
I shushed up as you kissed my head,
And while I fought and screamed with her,
You could calm with no words said.

I wanted to be just like you,
Big and strong; so noble -kind,
I watched you as you fought each day,
A greater man no one could find.

You worked yourself away for us,
While she worked to pierce your soul,
It took her years to win that fight,
For your heart was made of gold.

'Sing a little song for you,
With eyes wide open; heart so true'

Humour; music your escape,
While love your blessing and a curse,
For she used what she knew best,
Hit you; struck you where it hurt.

You taught m

Love's ResponsibilityMost people live not knowing it,
Yet constantly it grows,
It wraps its wings around the world,
So all its joy can flow.

While people think they know its touch,
When things are going great,
Euphoric is the thing they feel,
Love is one of fate.

To love, it shows true courage,
To cut your heart in half,
To flame those fires in your soul,
To care, despite how hard.

In this world of coldness deep,
You settle for an easy gain,
You leave the love you could have had,
For something dead; so plain.

Heart beat pulsing in my chest,
Its power surging throughout me,
I want him now, yet he escapes,
I watch him till I cannot see.

To love,

What Lies Between the Lines...What Lies Between the Lines...

They don't tell you about the nights when you'll cry; when you'll curse and rave and throw wadded up tissues at the monitor. They don't tell you about the number of times you'll want to throw your pencil or brush or tablet pen in the garbage disposal and flip the switch.

They don't tell you about the time spent painting insane detail onto tiny things that no one will ever see, ever appreciate, ever understand except to say "nice" or "pretty" or "wow"--none of which ever come close to how you felt when you painted it. How you felt when you stepped back and stared and were awed for a moment that you had pulled s

This Is Not Tom WaitsThe bone gull dances over the shore,
And I pull my heart out
From the jawbones of the sky,
Ice-rimmed and fiercely brittle
In my dripping hands,
My fingers broken by hope,
And shadow stained nails
Clutch at a scalding vodka soul.

And behind my hair-run-ragged,
A broken door gapes wide,
And the wounded shack sulks, silently,
Waiting to cradle
The heart that I pulled
From the clenched jaw of the skies,

But the sky pulled back
On my tender dream of meat.
Stretched tendons and bloody drops
Run out into the iron froth,
Marring the sparks of weeping eyes
And turning the blood aside to flood
The iron-blind tarmac street.

AnguishThere is so much I want to say,
so much I feel I need to say.
And yet, words seem so hollow.
The simple elegance is tarnished,
the skill we once shared, weakened.

A chain has been broken.
Something precious, stolen.
I cannot find the rhyme or reason.
All I know is what was taken,
cannot be replaced, cannot be repaired.

I prayed, long and hard.
I wept, pleading, begging for a miracle.
Unfortunately it was not to be granted.
Perhaps a greater need elsewhere
called and took what was ours.

It is not easy, I cannot let go.
Even now, it is a harsh, cold dream,
stealing the warmth from my soul,
taking all the comfort

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Dragon Smiles: Entries

by ~Flynn-the-cat, Jan 6, 2009, 5:09:03 AM
Literature / Poetry / Humor / Traditional Fixed Forms

CONTEST
There's a dragon in my head,
And he's watching me and smiling,
And for sure I do not like this,
For he's thinking of me dying,

There's a selkie just behind,
And she sets my belly roiling,
And although I block my ears,
Her laughter there's no foiling,

There are bane-sidhes in my dreams,
And I'm really getting nervous,
For we all know what they mean,
And they like to sing in chorus,

And the pixies skip round me,
Whenever I dare look away,
Poking, pinching, prodding, prodding,
With fingers sharp and fey,

I wondered how a dragon smiles,
With jaws so full of teeth,
But I can live without knowing,
Of the gullet that lies beneath...

Entries!

There's a harpy in my eyes
and she's uglier than sin
but she takes a pretty guise
and tempts me from within
pegacorna2

The sounds of claws across the glass
Titter softly through my sleep
While dragons breath fogs up the night
As across the road it creeps.
MadMikkie

His teeth are so sharp,
his scales so defined.
While his breath stays hot,
his eyes stay kind.
Desopilar Random winner

A caterpillar stands out bold and clear
Against the moonlight gloom
While Dragon pauses, glances now
And tempts me to my doom
MadMikkie 1st place

A flower fairy showers me
with petals light as air
Distracting me while all her friends
tie elf-knots in my hair
Brigaurdylian772nd place

I wondered if a dragon cries,
of what sorrows he would speak,
his scaley mouth a sharp toothed frown,
tears like diamonds on his cheek.
Aseamlessbond3rd place

Sirens sing their subduing tune
Loudly into my head
I cannot escape their call
Nor can I escape the dread
Nickelpat

my head is now dizzy
my hands begin to shake.
the demons surround me,
there's tablets i need to take.
KNOTTBOLD

A mermaid floats serenely by
and offers me her hand,
I tremble at the knowledge
that she'll drown me if she can
Brigaurdylian77 Won popular choice

Links to illustration entries below.

Dragon Smiles: Entriesby ~Flynn-the-cat

Literature / Poetry / Humor / Traditional Fixed Forms

Still and always accepting contributions

Full permission granted to participants (pending everyone involved's acceptance) to resubmit with all credit and links included (will note you the html if you want).

THE CONTEST News article: [link]

Random draw: =Desopilar

1st place ~MadMikkie
2nd place *Brigaurdylian77
3rd place*Aseamlessbond

...wow, one after the other

Won by *Brigaurdylian77 proof: [link]

1st place picture ~elexti - In the Forest...

Write another verse of your own, or illustrate one of the existing verses (including your own

) by May 31st

the News Article

And we have our first rhyme entries.
=pegacorna2
=Desopilar
~MadMikkie
*Aseamlessbond
~KNOTTBOLD
~Nickelpat
*Brigaurdylian77

Picture Entries
*Aseamlessbond - Dragon Smiles
=Desopilar - Dragon Smiles Picture
~elexti - In the Forest...

Wrote this on Christmas Day when my internet was down... wrote about eight poems, plus scraps actually.

This one isn't great but it bounces.

(tip - bane-sidhe = banshee. I just want to spell it the older way, because it looks 'right'

)

Crit is good; I think all the line syllables match, not sure about the actual beat in places though.

Hmmm... also, if I get four or more verses following on, I'll do a journal feature. Preferably from different people.
Yes. You heard me.
WRITE ME ANOTHER VERSE!

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~ray72285 Jan 18, 2010 Traditional Artist

Just sending you a congratulations for being featured in this month's issue of The Dragons of deviantART - [link]

*victortky Jun 6, 2009

its an excellent one.

=elexti May 31, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I... submitted on your journal entry instead because I'm an idiot and didn't read, but here it is again anyway. I did get it done before the deadline though, yay

[link]

Hope you like.

~Flynn-the-cat Jun 1, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

that's alright ^_^
thank you! sorry, I'm having computer issues.

it doesn't the internet or... well, anything, and keeps freezing and crashing.

=elexti Jun 2, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

oh that sucks...

I feel your pain. Cheers for getting back to me though.

~Brigaurdylian77 May 29, 2009

ENTRY!
Just because everyone was using powerful and scary creatures I wanted to do the complete opposite. Flower fairies are always though of as tiny innocent beings. But they can be very mischevious!

A flower fairy showers me
with petals light as air
Distracting me while all her friends
tie elf-knots in my hair

and a darker one just for the hell of it:

A mermaid floats serenely by
and offers me her hand,
I tremble at the knowledge
that she'll drown me if she can