A Flower of Yellow by Mr-Scarlet-Nokitsune, literature
Literature
A Flower of Yellow
"There once was a flower, pretty, beautiful and yellow,
she slipped some things in and poisoned a few fellows.
Beautiful, amazing, bold and sure,
Even as the fires burned, even as she fought through a war,
Within and without, emotional damages were dealt,
no time had she for these complicated emotions, no time was spared for them to be felt.
She was shoved off somewhere else, into other people's hands,
passed around, and falling right into the midst of these people's plans
Alas the world saw her as something to be used and to be played with,
to remove from her the beauty, to rip from within her all of her pith.
She wandered into a place, a
Up from the moor
comes a large black beast
it walks along the shore
and travels to the east
its body shines without light
as it plods along the yielding ground
taking down animals in a single bite
when the beast comes around
there is a great strain to its gait
as it brings down a farmer's cow
its stomach hangs low, its body stands straight
the bovine's knees give out, it bows
they say the great beast has been there so long
it forgets where it came from, or where it goes
but the years have taken nothing, it stays strong
only vanishing when morning comes, and when it snows
the beast harms not the farmers, kids, or humans it crosses
only th
Standing Out From The Crowd by sevvysgirl, literature
Literature
Standing Out From The Crowd
What can I do to stand out from the crowd?
Should I be bold and also quite loud?
Playing it subtle never seems to work
Guess I need something that has extra quirk …
Sometimes it seems that I’m trying too much
As I’m not used to bragging or boasting and such
My own reserved nature makes it quite hard
To push myself out – and go the extra yard
But if I just sit back and wait for the chance
It just never comes to offer advance
Hoping to be ‘discovered’ is not the best way
Guess a voice in the background is how I will stay
We’re in the same deep water
You and me
The bottom is fathomless;
A veritable sea
We need to keep swimming
Can’t end up face down
As we’re in this together –
We either float or we drown
It’s a mad world;
The more that I see
The madder it gets
People do damage
But they have no regrets
Those doing it right
Often pay
A high price …
But I just can’t be nasty
And would rather be nice!
Chocolate eggs for all to gorge on
Fluffy bunnies and chicks to play
Gaudy wrappings and plastic wreaths
Are SO unrelated to Easter Day …
Celebrations abound around us
Food and drink the order of the day
Whilst the real significant meaning
Like much else has just gone away …
Though I’ve done nothing truly wrong
I still feel bogged down in the silt
Whilst others won’t admit their fault
It’s me who then feels all the guilt
I carry too much on my shoulders
It can feel like the weight of the world
And in trying to lighten the burden
I have to dodge more that is hurled
But then when I dig my way out
Is the hatchet quite buried and dead?
Of course it jolly well isn’t …
It’s embedded well deep in my head!