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Post by pagan on Jul 6, 2008 6:23:58 GMT -8
Child Soul
Death of my soul as it rips apart Torn into peaces Fragments of my tattered existence Floating onto to the ground like blackened snow Melting each snowflake with iced heat Blacking everything it hotly torches Failing parts of my iced heart Heart shattered by the pain of gain and loss Childs cry of the past of grey nightmares Closing of walls onto the bitter air I breathe Lost and trapped in the cruel world I wish to escape There is no escape of bitter words and torment Grey Nightmares and bared teeth The cold hearted people of the world’s nations A soul in runes A blackened heart A failed existence Lost to the way of the weeping child
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Post by Josh on Jul 6, 2008 16:56:51 GMT -8
pain of gain and loss
i like this line. it's insightful to see the potential for pain in gain as well as loss.
lost to the way of the weeping child
this phrase has an effective ring. adds some mystery too.
a soul in runes
did you intend the word "runes" instead of "ruins" because if you do that could be a nice play on words, especially if you're going for some pagan imagery. i've always thought it was interesting that the two words, so closely associated, sound so similar.
thanks for sharing. that takes guts.
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Post by pagan on Jul 7, 2008 6:42:56 GMT -8
Just because im Pagan doesnt mean my poetry is pagan....
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Post by Josh on Jul 7, 2008 8:53:29 GMT -8
sry... didn't mean to imply that you were attempting to write "pagan poetry".
Believe me, when it comes to art, as a Christian, I don't feel very comfortable with the term "christian art". i prefer to see "art" as "art" whether it's created by a christian, a pagan, a buddhist, or an agnostic, etc..
Part of the reason for that is because I think humans have a tendency to place boundaries around people's art- put artists in boxes and consign them to our particular expectations of what a "christian" or "pagan" artist is/ should be saying through their art.
The other part of the reason that this is important to me is that I think God can speak through most (maybe even all) forms of art, regardless of who the artist is.
That said, I do think an artist's beliefs do shine through in their art and I think that's a natural thing. I hope something of Jesus is apparent in any art I create, but not always in an overtly preachy way, but perhaps in subtle ways. Christians don't need every song of theirs to rehash their entire theology, just like I wouldn't expect a pagan to talk pagan belief in every poem they write.
Jesus can shine through in a poem or song about romantic love; I'm sure your beliefs can shine through in some ways in poem on a variety of subjects.
But, back to the question at hand, you couldn't get more pagan than "runes" ;D ;D ;D
P.S.: keep in mind I'm a super huge fan of Lord of the Rings, etc.. Runes make me immediately think of Dwarven kingdoms, Elven blades, etc...
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Post by pagan on Jul 7, 2008 11:15:12 GMT -8
Rune's arnt pagan... They are jused used as a form of divination...
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Post by Josh on Jul 7, 2008 11:43:43 GMT -8
Runes were the form of writing that the pagan (pre-christian) germanic-language tribes of europe used.
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Post by pagan on Jul 7, 2008 11:45:18 GMT -8
the runes pagans uses is the viking ones
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Post by steve on Jul 7, 2008 13:28:42 GMT -8
Runes were a sort of scratched together crude formed alphabet of the early germanic tribes which borrows heavily from greek and latin. Makes sense too. Because the germanic peoples wandered over into western Europe from the Black Sea area and fought everbody along the way. I liked the poem too!
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Post by pagan on Jul 8, 2008 1:53:24 GMT -8
Pic's used runes and they were the scots
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Post by steve on Jul 8, 2008 3:06:27 GMT -8
Yes they did, but they only borrowed them. There own language was the pictish dialect of gaelic. Gaelic or (celtic) also has it's roots in the black sea area. Probably related to greek.
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Post by Josh on Jul 9, 2008 13:33:57 GMT -8
bump
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Post by pagan on Jul 15, 2008 10:14:48 GMT -8
y are u bumping my poem....
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Post by Josh on Jul 15, 2008 11:15:34 GMT -8
Hi Klayer, Nice to see you again. I bumped it because I transferred an older post to this sub-forum and when I do that it goes to the top even though it's older. I don't like that because I like the most recent post on top, so I bumped it.
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