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Posted by: Haldur 21-May-2004, 05:13 PM
The embrace of the music
Living inside
As a well of comfort
And inner peace

On the footsteps of giants
Treading waters
Long lost in shadows
Far away now

Their drums are beating
Rhythms alive
Time holds no bearing
On the wild wings

Where monoliths and tor
Fall under stars
In the night of music
Lost in afar

Posted by: Haldur 21-May-2004, 05:16 PM
To not leave anyone out in the cold, I started this poem as an ode to the beauty that is the experience of listening to and making music! As a musician (vocals and acoustic guitar) I find it hard to fully express everything in one moment...the past couple weeks have been different in that I have been researching many different genres (not to mention, listened to!) and through that have grown as a musician! I was very excited and wanted to share this poem with the hook of getting everyone else's input on the music they listen to, create, record, and herald as their love! If you want, add your own thoughts (as I have) and feel free to write your own "ode" or "embrace" of music in your life!

Posted by: urian 21-May-2004, 06:23 PM
The french called it an exquisite corpse. An experiment in collective thinking.


Drums resonate in the twilight
Bringing dancers to the campire
to let their shadows temp the flame

Spirits rise as the pace quickens
Souls soar with the nocturnal winds
as ther drumming calls for ancient feelings

now they are primal and uncontrolled
Released in a frenzy of ecstacy
Shadows make love to the flame
pulling forth the old ways and old worlds

and the drums play on
as the dancers feel the embrace of the music

Posted by: wizardofowls 21-May-2004, 08:57 PM
Feet trip lightly o'er the ground
As hearts beat in time to the rythym
Lost in the rapture of losing themselves
To the thumping drums and flickering flames

Without thought to care or strife
The dancers whirl and leap in celebration
Knowing only joy, only peace
Only the love of the music that prods them on

(Not much of a poet... just wanted to give it a try! wink.gif )

Posted by: Haldur 22-May-2004, 06:55 AM
These are some great additions...I love the imagery and I can hear the sounds in both! Thank you and excellent work!

Pulses ramble under the moonlit sky
As eagles soar and spirits cry
Never haunted but in their sleep
Inside the rhythm our blood boils deep

Feet in sand and tainted land
Dry from autumn's death abode
Not alone yet suffered still
The fumes of industry sought to kill

But the drums linger
But the shadows falter
And an inner force is born
With the life of song

Posted by: urian 23-May-2004, 12:20 PM
As the drums fade and the flames flicker
Pipes are rising in the west to summon forth the day

Melodies bounce from leaf to leaf and tree to tree
to invite life from its slumber
to coerse those to embrace the dawn

The piper talks with the birds and whistles with the cricketts
Keeping time with their beats in perfetc syncronisity

The sun hears the invitation and climbs from the nether world
to join in the celebration
the rebirth
the new dawning

The world is born again
embraced by music


(eh...)

Posted by: Haldur 22-Jan-2005, 08:18 PM
Thought I'd resurrect an old post...hope all will join in again in due time!

I draw a line in the sand of light
Twinkling stars aglow with wonder
Many sleepless nights I lie awake
And watch the northern border

Upon the mounting waves I ride
Drawing manna from the gods above
As the moon resides upon the starry throne
All the world embraces the order
Of the sun

She walks about the crystal waters
A queen in robes of fin and gold
The birth of night upon all wonder
Between the stories the fishers told

Into the cold of waking splendor
Drawing power from the moon above
In the cave where wolves stole blood
And all is kindness and wonderful love
Under the sun

Posted by: Haldur 24-Jan-2005, 03:33 PM
The flute and the lire
In the circle 'round the fire
Be it Autumn or the first of Spring
Let the voices rise in the night
In the night

Far away in a emerald-clothed land
Not so far away from my heart
By the river wild we shall stand
Far away but not apart

...that was a little blossom of a stream I discovered while listening to HR!

Don't know where they come from, but they come!

Posted by: urian 26-Jan-2005, 08:06 PM
OOOOOOOOH! That Haldur tongue.gif

I remembered this post..enjoyed it immensely.
cant add anythign tonight(head headache) but I will later.
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Royal05.gif

Posted by: Haldur 26-Jan-2005, 09:08 PM
How I missed this thread so, urian! Glad to see you back...hope your headache heals and you can post again soon! smile.gif

Posted by: Haldur 30-Jan-2005, 01:41 AM
So as to not create a separate thread, I figure I'll use this one to post some of other poetry work. As most of my work is lyrically inspired anyway, figured this would be as good a place as any to post.

Enjoy and keep posting here...I'd love to have more folks posting in this thread with me!

smile.gif

Posted by: Haldur 30-Jan-2005, 01:45 AM
Self-Destructing

I'm trying hard not to fail
But you just don't understand
It broke the will of my body
Though I gained the upper hand

I'm losing face again
I'm self-destructing from within

We lived for years with the void
We bought from pain and disease
You felt deceived and annoyed
It brought you down to your knees

I fought so hard to break you free
We are self-destructing

I can't deny you
Apart from life I'm going insane
All this hiding
Is crashing down on all that remains
How do I live
With these wounds you ignore?
You can't fight it
So what are you running for?

Posted by: Haldur 30-Jan-2005, 01:47 AM
[Self-Destructing, continued...]

The fix don't give you relief
But satisfies your intent
To cross the lines of release
And bleed your heart 'til its bent

You don't need to wonder when
The self-destructing ends

(sorry about that, missed the rest of the song/poem as it was on the back of the page!)

Posted by: Haldur 30-Jan-2005, 01:52 AM
window of hell

I've seen the face in the dark
It surrounds all my nightmares
And wades through my conscience
As a horror, in black

Help me now
I can't see out
Beyond the tainted well
I'm at the window of hell

He hears the perfect intent
Through every spell in the fire
He bears the burdens of death
And wallows in our desire

Upon death's door
Seven tiny taps
As of needles of ice
Bleeding, ever needing more

Sepulchre drowned
Lost in the sacred spell
Seeking the sharp-toothed hound
Opening the window of hell

Posted by: Haldur 30-Jan-2005, 02:01 AM
the other night
i had a dream
and opened my eyes
the shallow disguise

a face of grey
within the glass
pale thoughts in the night
don't turn out the light

hearing my breath
a vapor stood
alone i did pass
the wavering glass

the sun arose
through curtained panes
awoke to the day
the ghost ran away

Posted by: Haldur 30-Jan-2005, 02:05 AM
I've got a room with a door
I'm having trouble leaving anymore
There are beams of sunlight running down the walls
And I try to sleep to make sense of it all

I'll keep in touch in the meantime
While I fool around, living this life
Well I assure you I will be just fine
In my box of a room where nobody dares to climb

While all the lights are burnt out
On the other side of town
I can't sleep looking back
I'll walk the hundred miles
Just to fall face first at her door
Underneath her window at the top of the world

Posted by: Haldur 30-Jan-2005, 02:20 AM
the morning

Hear the war drums calling
See the warriors falling
The mountain's mist rolls through the dale
Masking the horrible wail

The smell of the forests burning
A sense that the tide is turning
Go run for the river shall guide you
And shelter you all way through

Sleep, my child for I'll find you there
Sleep, my child and you never fear
For the drums of war shall sound in the deep
And I'll be with you, my child...sleep

Feel the earth a trembling
Leave this land remembering
Your father met their swords with his sword
And mind my every word

Sleep, my child for I'll find you there
Sleep, my child and you never fear
For the drums of war shall sound in the deep
All I'll be with you, my child...sleep

I'll always be with you, my son
Now, sleep

Posted by: Haldur 30-Jan-2005, 02:22 AM
I'm afraid that's all I'll post for now...I'm exhausted!

Posted by: Haldur 30-Jan-2005, 07:24 PM
the artist dissected

if i could paint a painting of words
each line a brushstroke of love
no fear of mistake or rumors unheard
but assurance of sunlight above

i hear all the words
and i see what i've made
and i'm happy, fulfilled to be here
all the songs i've not heard
lest my hearing doth fade
where i find her, the muse, walking near

in all that i see, a walk on a bridge
in the lamplight with rain falling slow
cold breaths in the night on the wavering wind
will awaken the dreams from below

drip...drip
the rain falls down
and lingers upon my furrowing brow
drip...drip
the tears start to drown
my worries and fears here and now

Posted by: Haldur 04-Feb-2005, 08:37 PM
rain falling down on our back porch
trickles slow to the muddy grass
i know it don't look like much
but it keeps her captive like a flaw in glass

if you should ever spy her wondering
'round these streets by the moonlight
shimmering all around her
is she real or is she fantasy?

as the days get shorter
she loses sleep on nights like this
when cryin's the only part of her day
she thinks she's happier that way
she happens to feel better
today

Posted by: Haldur 04-Feb-2005, 08:41 PM
From where did we come?
And where are we going?
My questions seep through the fog
Into the sun

Too deep to fall forward
The circle is complete...

The circle...

Posted by: Aaediwen 05-Feb-2005, 08:27 PM
QUOTE (Haldur @ 04-Feb-2005, 09:41 PM)
From where did we come?
And where are we going?
My questions seep through the fog
Into the sun

Too deep to fall forward
The circle is complete...

The circle...

...Needs more smile.gif

What do you find, when you peer into the fog?

about "The Artist Dissected"

Wow! NICE image of the muse biggrin.gif Almost makes me think of Na Bean Sidhe. Lost in a world where one is happiest when sad.

Posted by: Haldur 06-Feb-2005, 07:01 PM
Yeah, I was thinking about adding more to that last one...smile.gif

Its always great to get feedback on poetry! "The Artist Dissected" was sort of this whole theme running through my head at the time, don't know really where it come from, but I sure know that is related to certain bittersweet attributes of life!

Posted by: Haldur 06-Feb-2005, 07:06 PM
Okay, here's a fuller vision of "The Circle"

From where did we come?
And where are we going?
My questions seep through the fog
Into the sun

Too deep to fall forward
The circle is complete...

The circle...

...remains complete
What falls under my feet
When I walk through the mist?
My dreams come into view
Time and time again

But as I seek my answers
I smile at the rising sun
And realize all has purpose
And our time here is short

And I appreciate...
My time here, and my friends
The loved ones so dear
And the revolving winds

Now the fog has cleared
And I am once again whole
Where I was blind and dead
I have started to breathe

Anew...binding the circle
The circle is one

Posted by: Haldur 07-Feb-2005, 07:14 PM
the song of the bards

from the silk roads they rode on dark steeds
bearing the lyre and the drums
they brought their songs through war and love
until they met the gods above

green rivers and streams flowed gently
as they walked beside their fate
lonely songsmiths long ago
listen to the rivers flow

for seven years they trod the roads
and climbed over mountains tall
where the valley was empty and peaceful
there they made their resting homes

they told their stories in the moonlight
they told their stories in the firelight
they sang the songs through the dark night
they sang the songs through the midnight

into the mists of erin
they made their abode
and through the forests and vale
on their steeds still rode

watching the stars they rode on
from village to village
telling their stories and singing songs
all they studied and all they knew

spill the water, spill the wine dear
fill the flagon, fill the flagon here
drink to life and drink to health
drink to life and drink to death

after years of lone existence
the armored men came riding
they brought their swords and burning
and turned the lands into hell

they conquered all and pushed away
all the knowledge gathered
they watched it fall, the lonely people
the people of the stars

see the bleeding, hear the crying
spill the wine and fear the burning
take these words with you and run away
take these words with you and remember

Posted by: Aaediwen 08-Feb-2005, 04:16 PM
Very pretty image smile.gif Reads well too. I'd shorten some of the lines by a syllable myself. Just personal opinion though

Posted by: Haldur 08-Feb-2005, 05:57 PM
What's messed up about that last piece is that I was hearing it through two different Iona songs during the Iona hour last night! Kinda cool, but I do see what you mean there. Always room for improvement!

Posted by: Haldur 10-Feb-2005, 10:06 PM
m' lady from the heavens

her voice was faint in the winter's fog
waiting for m' lady to come
to edge of the shore where i stood
in a long boat made of ashen wood

her skin was pale in the morning light
i never spied such wondrous beauty
and in her hair were the may flowers bright
shining over the waters of bremenway

the voice of an angel a long, long time ago
reached out to greet my cold lips in the winter snow
upon her steed through the mountains she strolled
alongside m' lady from the heavens

Posted by: Aaediwen 12-Feb-2005, 08:08 PM
nice image smile.gif although it get's a little blurry at the end as to who is where in the scene.

Posted by: urian 13-Feb-2005, 03:03 PM
I enjoy reading your work very much, hal

Posted by: Haldur 14-Feb-2005, 02:16 AM
Thank you, urian...more to come as I fill my little journal with my little murmurings from that vast, poetic well that I seem to draw from! wink.gif

I think we can all attest to visiting that place a time or two!

Posted by: urian 14-Feb-2005, 07:31 PM
QUOTE (Haldur @ 14-Feb-2005, 02:16 AM)
Thank you, urian...more to come as I fill my little journal with my little murmurings from that vast, poetic well that I seem to draw from! wink.gif

I think we can all attest to visiting that place a time or two!

true, hal.
though sometimes we seem to lose the directions to get to it.

Posted by: Haldur 18-Feb-2005, 08:04 PM
So you've been suffering from minor writer's block just as I have? If so, I feel your pain...that's why the poetry is a good, smooth transition. Just writing stories alone can be taxing at times!


Posted by: Haldur 01-Mar-2005, 02:40 PM
hauntings

out of the rain walks a tired, lonely man
threadbare and weary his countenance carved
warm teardrops of summer flow through skin and breath
and leave his heart longing wildly for something greater
something larger than life itself

take this gray temple and strike it to bits
but leave behind mortar and remnants of bread
for my meals have been few and far between these days
and as of late I've had no place to lay my head

heavier the rain falls
down on my brow, leaving me shivering
leaving me old in my years
drowned in her tears
from so long ago

my blessed camille
with her long, amber hair
her shadow but a reckoning
where my hollows despair
i long for her gaze, her sweet
tender stare

and in the mirror i ask myself
questions of lore, memories of her
is this the shadow i have grown to be
or am I looking through an invisible me?
these are the hauntings

of which I am free

Posted by: Haldur 07-Mar-2005, 10:56 PM
the awakened dream (part 1)

whispered words in the night
left unheard upon my pillow
i wake suddenly to find
that my sweet, sweet love has gone

and as i find my way back
to the mind i'm meant to live by
i find solace in my reckoning
and a place to shed my fears

from the corner of my eye
i can hear the footsteps calling
ever nearer to my room
where i reside a sleeping

as my frantic nerves race on
i find nothing in my midst there
no intruder under my roof
and i rest inside my bones

all alone i walk ever onward
to the room i sat before
i pass the weary baubles
and the artifacts of yore

and when i quickly 'proach the door
i'm gasping in wide wonder
at a small, raven-haired girl
whom i know not as another

Posted by: Aaediwen 08-Mar-2005, 09:36 PM
Nach eine traum, zum woerten geschrieben. Sehr schoen. Nicht alles die selbe, aber ich weiss was das ist nach was du sagen hat.

Posted by: Haldur 11-Mar-2005, 12:44 AM
My thoughts exactly! lol.gif

Posted by: Haldur 14-Jul-2005, 12:21 PM
I fall asleep in the broken river
That runs through fields of open rain
She leaps o'er fire and soon she'll whither
And ponders constantly the remnants of her pain

I look foward to tomorrow
I hope she senses my presence there
Free from darkness, free from sorrow
She stands around me for she's everywhere
I go

The time has come to give a little
And take a risk upon my second chances
The love has fallen, worn and brittle
And grows no more than the first day I took the miser down

I look forward to tomorrow
I hope she senses my heartache there
Free from shadow, free from sorrow
She stands around me for she's everywhere
I know

The water rushes over me
Her golden eyes are all I see
Bleeding fingers in the mass of recognition
Look through the mirror, I heard her say
And I don't think that way

I feel I'm scorned forever now
Chastened, threatened, madder than hell
I feel I'm terrible at everything
Broken, limited, and madder than hell

I look forward to tomorrow
I hope she senses my heartache there
Free from shadow, free from sorrow
She stands around me for she's everywhere
I know

Posted by: Haldur 14-Jul-2005, 12:23 PM
I find it strange that I haven't posted on HR for a while...even though I did have dial-up, I still had some work access.

What baffles me even more is why I didn't at least post some poetry I've been writing as of late. I'll be posting it here, of course, over the next few days. Composing a lot of music can really do that! wink.gif

As always, enjoy.

Posted by: Aaediwen 16-Jul-2005, 08:47 PM
*gasp*

Haldur.... I don't know if I read that poem at the right time or the wrong time :'(

My heart hears endless agony
relayed by messages they may be
sought by me in this darkened time
relayed in music and in rhyme

The world it's mysteries laid to rest
within my soul I hear you best
drawn in between the endless lines
For those unknown I still do pine

carry your message for all to see
behind the veil it shall not be
drawn out with ink, each blessed line
Immortal words be these of thine


And it fit so well with the rythem of what I'm listening to right now smile.gif

Posted by: Haldur 19-Jul-2005, 07:25 AM
smile.gif Did you write that or was it I?

Whoever did, it sounds great! The funny thing is, most of the time that I write poetry is when I'm listening to music, have just listened to music, or have another artist's song or one of my own in my head.

Posted by: Cale the Celt 19-Jul-2005, 09:31 AM
haldur, you're work is pretty good

Posted by: Aaediwen 20-Jul-2005, 04:43 PM
QUOTE (Haldur @ 19-Jul-2005, 09:25 AM)
smile.gif Did you write that or was it I?

Whoever did, it sounds great! The funny thing is, most of the time that I write poetry is when I'm listening to music, have just listened to music, or have another artist's song or one of my own in my head.

Just what I thought of after reading your poem.

Posted by: MaggieCarroll 09-Aug-2006, 09:42 PM
Ancient rhythms
Heartbeat sounds
My soul no longer
Touches ground

Heels and toes
Batter clatter the floor
The sound enough
I need no more

The music curls
Through wooded glen
Lures me back
Way back to when

O 'tis more than I ask
All else does pale
The bodhran my heartbeat
This song is my tale...

Posted by: Rhymer 06-Jan-2011, 12:03 PM
From out of parting mist
figures grey and ethereal
are walking towards the fire
to the tune of a wooden lyre.

with trepidation and a little fear
they sat beside me
and into the flames thay did peer
what they saw none can tell.

music arose from in the mist
pipes and drums amidst cannon fire
cries and shouts and clashing blades
told of battles amidst the glens.



Rhymer

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