The Raven In Our Minds

[ShadowsCool]

What Is Man?

What is Man?
I have taken to the Isle of Man to find out;
Is he just flesh and bones
Peering out
At the empty blue?

I have roved these sands
Throughout the Isle of Man
Bare toed,
Stepping on shells,
Seeing my heart
Buried beneath the sand.

I have kneeled
Before the golden cross,
Felt my heart flutter
At the belief
That I found someone
Who understands my soul.

Or Am I just flesh and bones
Walking this island alone?
To roam...
Above the endless sands,
Longing to find me
At last.




The Raven In Our Minds

An Idea,
A thought.
An ever glimpsing picture of the raven
That flies through our minds,
Ever finding new methods to expose
The wilderness of our temperament
The future of man.
We glimpse,
We wonder
Where he'll fly next.



Terminal Bed

As I rage in silence
In this cold sterile room,
I lay on my terminal bed
Having said my daily curses.

Thinking I'm too young to die,
Yet here I am, not yet forty,
Diagnosed with a fancy word
I never heard of.

Thinking of free birds in the sky
Wishing I was one of them,
Flying over this crumbling world
Into the arms of nothing.


O' Rich Man

O' rich man high in your heaven!
Listen not to me for your wisdom is folly.

Spare me your hopes and your apathetic dreams
As tempting they may be to my want ears.

I cover my ears from your piddling pain
For you have nothing of me but disdain!

Your gold that glitters, glitters not what I found,
I see your condemnation laugh at you like a clown.

[Twota]

Shadows, i really like them, especially -O' Rich Man- :D , but -Terminal Bed- i like the least, i just don't quite understand it. ;o

[ShadowsCool]

Twota: Terminal bed is me imagining what it's like to lay there in bed knowing that you are young and will be dying. I agree, not one of my best lol. Thanks for liking O' Rich Man. :thumbsup:

Shadows

[Delta40]

That's strange because I loved Terminal Bed. You see Shadows, you can please some of the people some of the time....!

[hillwalker]

I certainly understood what lay behind 'Terminal Bed' - although I suggest you research the difference between 'lay' and 'lie' (2 totally different verbs).

As for 'What is Man' -having once spent a holiday weekend on the Isle of Man I found the entire poem totally bizarre. Why mention the Isle of Man in this context? It's just weird.

H

[yuka]

Thinking of free birds in the sky
Wishing I was one of them,
Flying over this crumbling world
Into the arms of nothing.

----I especially love this stanza. Sounds like....I oftenly imagined I was a bird, flied freely in the sky. just thinking of that, will make you feel pleasure :)