Some member poetry

Here are a few I wrote after my first and second floods respectively. 

    
last full moon of winter

Oh Demeter I've cried with you
When I was still just a young fool
On the edge of a precipice deep
I nodded sweetly off to sleep

In the dark of a moonless night
She feels her child, but no sight
Persephone bound in torture and rape
Mother can offer no escape

Escape for Mother can be attained
Relief from her Heart's greatest pain
Plucking a poppy from her crown
She hears a scream from beneath the ground

Can this be my Persephone hark?
Cries the great Mother in the dark
But their screams are too far to meet
And they must face the great defeat

She walks the path back to her hearth
And brews the tea which warms her Heart
The tea has steeped, she takes a sip
And eases the quivering of her lip

Greatest sadness a daughter lost
Miles below the glistening frost
But only from lost, one may claim
Can come the joy of found again

I am awakened from my sleep
And gaze down the precipice deep
The view makes my stomach bend
But it is good to be awake again

 The big 5

I seek a cup of flesh and bone
I seek my mother and my home
I wander the earth in search of these
Over the mountains and through the trees

To find a blade of the hardest steel
It swings like a gust when aimed to kill
And when the sword has found it's aim
I stand victorious, I lay my claim

Where is this coin of the purest gold?
That is for every man to hold
Most will dig a lifetime into the earth
Only to find they held it since birth

There is a stick that conjures flame
A budding rod by another name
And when this branch is in my hands
I shall burn brighter than any man

What lofty goals I have set
Of good and evil to forget
To rise into the aether high
My spirit shall fill the entire sky

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rusticotter· 19 Jul 2026

Tracking the Future Guarded by a predisposed inclination The journey awoke through veneration A bloodstream accustomed to this vital substance Genetic memory beaming customs The root purging of all excess Hidden faults emerging as it detects Surgery performed in the most precise detail Adorned with a feather swallowing the holy grail An interpreter enters the word of being The inevitable merger with the third eye all seeing Speaking through figments of a greater whole The microcosm which plays an even larger role Two sides of reality break through the core Beauty of love immune to the agony of war Polarities may disturb the body but counsel the soul The iboga spirit instructs ones ultimate goal A waking dream becomes a photographic memory Taking what comes is the only way to ecstasy No rational human could register our species' ability And no corrupted sapien could infer their futility Lines will be drawn in the sand of consciousness Defined by how we treat the land in the process The horror of deviancy will end in cannabalism Locking whole societies into self imposed prisons PlanTanary angels hold the balance of our true missions Utilizing what God endowed to earth The practice of reincarnation finds rebirth In one lifetime equating with all those forgotten The coming together from the highest to the bottom The new world disorder knows to leave Gabon alone The sophisticated magic of the bwiti will turn them into stone Ngangas and curanderos are fed up with the abuse Be very careful what you ask for is what you choose The precipice is spinning at a rapid pace Only one human race could end the rat chase Pygmy children hold our anscestors in tact Many evil sorcerers will attempt to distract

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guenevere_walks· 19 Jul 2026

mushroom & IP, You guys are great! I feel like a real leaker posting poems from other people. I do thank you for your efforts, which somehow encouraged me to write a little something. Stark and simple it is, but it appears all I can do at present. ~ et To increase this, limit that. To nurture this, starve that. To nurture that, starve this. To balance this? To balance that? To nurture balance is balance. Balance and harmony play a sublime duet.

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brightwillow· 20 Jul 2026

Excellent work my friends, I am impressed. Keep it coming, I see genuine talent and heartfelt inspiration here...gives me an impetus to not be chicken amongst you badasses. I am very private about my poems and stories, but I think having this board here will loosen me up. Thanks to you all for sharing, magnificent words, beautiful and authentic...

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