3 Poems
Night Being (Freeverse)
Society in Overdrive (Freeverse- aa.bb.aa.bbb.c rhyming sequence)
The Shapeshifter (Freeverse)
Night Being
I am a being of night,
In day I am a shadow lost.
I walk among the stars and moon
For they are my cousins.
The owl and the wolves
Are my brothers,
While shadow and darkness--
My sisters.
Only light from cousins
Do I need to find my way,
For I am a being of night
And in darkness I am alive.
The sun is my deepest fear
As well as my worst enemy.
I cower in the shadows
Casted by the sun's rays.
I will wait until it passes,
Until the sun has died away.
Then I will come out and walk
Once more with my cousins and siblings.
I am a being of night
And will be forever.
Until shadow and darkness
Are gone from my sight.
Society in Overdrive
Alas! What is this?
My, something is amiss.
To chance another try,
To risk another lie.
I care not for a diss,
Nor for a nothing kiss.
I would rather die
Then to wonder why
You need to feel so high
And mighty.
The Shapeshifter
The howling wind calls my name
As I shed my identity,
Just as snakes shed their skins.
The forest and the skies call to me
As I pass them by.
Barefoot in the road of rushing waters
Sent from the mountain pass,
I turn as the wet road turns
Into the wilderness.
How I long to run as the stag does,
Darting in and out of sight.
How I wish to fly as a bird,
Either a Raven or a Crow.
I would fly at night
Never seen by passersby.
And as the night ends
And the sun rises,
I will fall dead from the sky,
And the wet frozen waters from the road I once walked on,
Will carry me forever, until I am sent back
By the turn of the tides.
Society in Overdrive (Freeverse- aa.bb.aa.bbb.c rhyming sequence)
The Shapeshifter (Freeverse)
Night Being
I am a being of night,
In day I am a shadow lost.
I walk among the stars and moon
For they are my cousins.
The owl and the wolves
Are my brothers,
While shadow and darkness--
My sisters.
Only light from cousins
Do I need to find my way,
For I am a being of night
And in darkness I am alive.
The sun is my deepest fear
As well as my worst enemy.
I cower in the shadows
Casted by the sun's rays.
I will wait until it passes,
Until the sun has died away.
Then I will come out and walk
Once more with my cousins and siblings.
I am a being of night
And will be forever.
Until shadow and darkness
Are gone from my sight.
Society in Overdrive
Alas! What is this?
My, something is amiss.
To chance another try,
To risk another lie.
I care not for a diss,
Nor for a nothing kiss.
I would rather die
Then to wonder why
You need to feel so high
And mighty.
The Shapeshifter
The howling wind calls my name
As I shed my identity,
Just as snakes shed their skins.
The forest and the skies call to me
As I pass them by.
Barefoot in the road of rushing waters
Sent from the mountain pass,
I turn as the wet road turns
Into the wilderness.
How I long to run as the stag does,
Darting in and out of sight.
How I wish to fly as a bird,
Either a Raven or a Crow.
I would fly at night
Never seen by passersby.
And as the night ends
And the sun rises,
I will fall dead from the sky,
And the wet frozen waters from the road I once walked on,
Will carry me forever, until I am sent back
By the turn of the tides.