CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Yes, I probably should use my old thread, but it's gone and forgotten by now. Instead, I will use this new thread to put my poetry into CAA.

First, a little interview with the intellect:



A short stumbling there in the middle, but overall a smooth thought flow. Or at least, in my opinion. Now let's have your opinions.

Alright, since that last one didn't go over very well, maybe I can slip another one past without anyone noticing.

Just To See Your Smile

Outside the broken structure,
He sits with blood-stained hands.
And waits for things to come about,
Return unto his lands.
He goes before the officers
Who praise him for his style;
Still he'd give it all up
For a little while,
Just to see your smile.
He with the others now commune,
With unprecedented speed,
His life takes on a softer tune,
"What does my brother need?"
He lives to make life easy,
To go the extra mile;
And still he would yet
Give roof and tile,
Just to see your smile.
To know he's not forgotten,
To be with you for a while
And, just to see your smile

I would tell the story behind this poem, but Kanrad would probably give me a lesson concerning just exactly how mortal I truly am. I'm not ready for the hard learning just yet.

Hey, good stuff!

You actually remind me of a gentleman in my Honors English evening class. Do you teach martial arts, by any chance? (and if you ARE the gentleman from English, feel free not to ID yourself)

Deep poetry, stream of consciousness-type stuff. Cool. I can't write poetry for anything, I'm a prose kid all the way. I like short prose, though, bordering on unrhyming poetry.

So... Write more! Do you have any prose up? I should look, but I'm feeling lazy today (I'm exhausted). Feel free to pm me with links, or just chatter! I'd love to talk shop with another writer!

To put it in one sentence, I do not teach martial arts.

Aha, poetry only, then.

(makes me feel better, because the martial arts instructor is a wee bit on the violent side!)

Did your one sentence, by tacet implication, mean that you do not have prose up?

With less verbosity,
Hari

I think I posted this one on the other thread, but here it is again now.

Another poem, this one a bit of a stumble.

Look, a poetry thread, with my name on it, bearing many poems that I have written. Just for lack of else to do, I'm going to post a bit more.



Don't go getting any wrong ideas. This poem was inspired by a circumstance given in the Nafa-Talamh story.

And a bit more. This is fun. A nice, private corner to come and put all my thoughts.



Another poem inspired by the Nafa-Talamh story. This one is primarily about the events occuring during Kaelan's little excursion into the Ronin base on Nafa-Talamh.

One for the risen
One for the fallen.
One for the bliss
One for the call.
Given a moment
Given a try
What a man would do
Just to survive.
The life's blood runs freely
I can only pray
That I will see
Yet another day.

This one for a friend in an interesting situation.

Do you still do these, Magekind?

i'm very impressed Magekind...tho of course i could not expect nothing less...
lol Hari...i'm a martial arts instructor we are not violent! well ok maybe a little

anyways,
you have a unique style...personally i find your first poem interesting.
it had a nice flow and i think could go very deep...very nice

u have a nice structure and can keep a nice rhyme in your poetry that i never am able to do lol but i suppose thoughts come out into different ways ^^

i am looking forward to reading more of your poetry and i am also looking forward to learning from it as well *Bow* *ninja poof out* heh everyone has to have a trademark i suppose

girlninja wrote:i'm very impressed Magekind...tho of course i could not expect nothing less...
lol Hari...i'm a martial arts instructor we are not violent! well ok maybe a little

anyways,
you have a unique style...personally i find your first poem interesting.
it had a nice flow and i think could go very deep...very nice

u have a nice structure and can keep a nice rhyme in your poetry that i never am able to do lol but i suppose thoughts come out into different ways ^^

i am looking forward to reading more of your poetry and i am also looking forward to learning from it as well *Bow* *ninja poof out* heh everyone has to have a trademark i suppose

Thanks, girlninja. Structure and rhyme, unfortunately, almost seems to take precedence. I also have been doing this really weird song-thing that I've been trying to get away from. I'm writing poems, not songs.

Anyway, I will. One of these days.

This one is just as spontaneous as my sudden accidental discovery that Kalen's "social experiments" weren't all as fruitless as he'd hoped.

1:
A purpose once was granted
A path had once been marked.
A God stretched out his hand and said,
"My son, hear ye, yea, hark"

Long since the time is passing
The line seems now so blurred
Our life so short in lasting as we've
Forgotten what we've heard.

Chorus:
Death-
Of the Magekind
The End
To its flight

The power-
That kept it moving
has been put to rest
Tonight

2:
The blur and streak of motion
Is still with this new scene
And yet through the commotion
Was this end not unforeseen

Still it seems as though it lasted
Through the hardest trials yet
Its faith has to be blasted
Know the demons don't forget

(Chorus)

3:
And so
With the passing of life
To know
All the truth and the right
Become
One with your philosophy
A passing, short-lived entity
the end.

(Chorus)

I know it's evil of me, but I'm bumping these in case I ever use them again.

YAY mage posts again!!! hey bro this is awesome ^_^ a little different in rhythm then you usually do ^^ very very very good ^^

Yes, I apologize, I've been gone for forever. Honestly, I wrote Death of the Magekind thinking it was going to be my last one, but I just had to come back.

The Thief's Trial

Now rise the sun on prison scum,
and ye behold this thief.
Who thru the night all pity-like
plead thus unto his king:
"My life ye spare, for wrongs I've done
not for my sake nor good;
But for my ailing friends I've sought
this cursing men call food.
And lo, I'd but have kept my paths,
and not have gone astray,
Had not the guards and keepers-of-law
called out my name that day.
And follow certainly I must,
lest had they found my den;
'Twas not a case of wanderlust
that put me in thy pen.
Now see my folly, hear my plea,
my importuning cry;
That my dear friends again I see
Before the time we die."

Then still the court and silence fell
The words considered he
Who oversees his land and still
Unto his people king.
"Tonight a-prison shall ye rest,
Remaining there the day.
And on the morrow, acid test
Your loyalties display.
For child mine has streetward moved
And at the inn she'll sleep
Now bid unto you, ere you've proved
In safety she ye'll keep."
Now silence falling once again,
Broken by moving chains.
Unto his rest he went to keep,
And fear the coming day.

Now rise the sun, as once I've said
Upon this lowly thief;
And lo he rises to his fate
And to his promise keep.
The day now passes, hot and dry
The thief his charge well keeps;
And now the darkness coming nigh
And monarch's child sleeps.
Still at the inn our hero stands
He watches at her door,
And keeps the outer walls as well
His promise keeps, no more.
Then in the night, a wail arise
From in the darkened room
This hero unto charge now flies,
And sees not but his doom.
The night obscures, but not so much
as to never give a glimpse.
Our hero only can he cry,
And curse those evil imps.

No greater effort could he give,
No more could he exert
To ascertain that she would live,
Returning home unhurt.
But now he kneels beside her bed,
Her fate to soon be known
To pine for one that now is dead
Thus coming soon his own.
And rises now the morrow's sun,
This thief back in his cell.
The king's tears dry, and now he comes
To give the sentence fell.
Need more be said? There rolls the head
Of this misfortuned thief.
Who gave his best, but now is dead
For causing royal grief.
Too long have I now taken
To tell you of this thing,
Yet we know that he'll find justice
In the courts of a greater King.

*claps* welcome back bro

Nice prose ^^ I like it a lot and though this may be considered morbid found it slightly amusing. I liked it alot and as always look forward to reading more ^_^

My next poem is going to be a treatise on that. Almost anyone that tries to really get into it always gets lost. Although, seriously, it's a shallow poem. And yes, it was fun. I must be morbid too.

Sorry, the treatise never happened. This is to remind myself not to get too set.

Very good poems! I notice that many of them use an abab rhyme skeam in them. Nice, That is a feat I know it's very hard to do. Most of my poems are freeverse. Anyway good work

Actually, it's generally xAxA, with x being no rhyme.

I see.