My collection of poetry

[SirSteel]

Written poetry for a number of years. Rather than creating threads for each one I thought I might aswell post some of them here from time to time.

The Mountain Goat

Way up on the mountain side
 A goat did stand against the tide
 He steadfast stood against the gale, the wind,
 the rain, the icy hail.
 
 He bleat defiant, he called the storm
 He scolded thunder to perform
 "perform!" He cried for not enough
 Was the Storm against his bluff
 
 His horns he shook at clouds abound
 For in their swarms they shroud around
 Around they shroud the mountain side
 Where stood the goat in all his pride
 
 His hoofs upon the ground did tread
 Did tread into the night ahead
 For unafraid of dark this goat
 Way up on the mountain side



Post Merge: October 17, 2015, 06:17:02 PMThe Sun, Moon and Tree

In a time where there was no time
 In a universe, alone
 Without chorus
 On a planet, dying
 Where there was no death
 Beneath a Sun
 Proud, defiant and ever glowing
 In a land, without ever knowing
 There stood a tree
 
 Scorched and Parched
 Bent and Arched
 
 Arid earth, gave home to the tree's roots
 Hot winds, gave breath to the tree's branches
 And the tyrant of the sky, the fiery star
 Reigned, uncaring, from afar
 
 Apathy, grew in The Sun
 And it turned it's eyes away from the world
 Abandoning it to darkness
 For it had seen another
 Glowing, so softly
 Haloed with lucid, luminous light
 Romancing the intimate black and white
 
 Her radiance, touched the world
 And sought out the lonely tree
 Her gentle, caring embrace
 provided a nurture no sun could ever understand
 So the tree grew a leaf of silver colour
 That radiated a delicate light
 In the cool luminescence of the moonlit night
 
 A fruit then grew out from the tree
 Until, heavy with new wanderlust
 It split from the tree, and fell
 Never moving forever more
 Wasting away until the seeds inside
 Lay upon the arid earth
 And they, with a shy nature
 Dug deep into the ground
 With nary a sight or sound
 
 The Sun now looked back to it's domain
 And saw the tree kissed by the moon
 A silver leaf, upon it's branches
 Enraged the molten heart with fury
 Such that the land did shake, quake
 And sprout up mountains tall and dire
 Spewing forth, ash, lava and fire
 
 But The Moon, ever watchful, saw the sun
 Play it's game of death and doom
 And so she sent out from the gloom
 Wisps that grew and grew and grew
 Until great clouds she then sent forth
 Darker than the ashen sky
 
 The clouds, they gathered above the tree
 And poured a tempest of rain and thunder
 Lightning broke the rims of mountains
 Collapsing the fortresses of The Sun
 And quenching the fires of his madness
 So now The Sun felt only sadness
 
 The Moon, she left her clouds to watch
 And forever more they stay above
 A shield to guard Earth from The Sun
 And in the craters from the battle
 They made the oceans, seas and lakes
 The waves, the tides, they'd not forsake
 
 And when the Sun and Moon gazed down
 At the tree that stood alone
 For aeons countless, clung to life
 They saw no trunk, no branch, no leaf
 For Lava and fire had attacked and killed
 Lightning stung and torrents drowned
 
 The Moon and Sun, they wept and wept
 and clouds did rain a gentle rain
 The Sun caressed with tame and tender
 Beams that warmed the Earth
 When suddenly a crack did render
 Both celestial angels quiet
 For out the ground the seeds now woke
 Green and small and fresh
 
 The Moon and The Sun
 They both rejoiced
 They danced all through the day and night
 And still they dance both day and night
 When it's dark,
 When it's light
 And as the new born trees grew
 All the world did sing anew
 A chorus for The Universe
 A symphony of Life