~Blindness~ >>>------------> Expanded to video version!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0xkaHufFCA

I recently found the Windows Movie Maker on my computer and I've taken to playing around with it. I decided to spend the last two days trying to get my poem 'Blindness' to pictures and music, which ended up being harder than I thought! Buuuuut, this is what I got. Be nice; it's a first try!

But please, go ahead and check it out - let me know what you think....I may do another one but use different music for it. Still working on my movie making skills.

Bits & Pieces

Well, here are a few scraps of poems that have never really been finished....or maybe they have and I jut don't know it yet.....

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~The Future ~

Blinding in brilliance, yet full of fear

My heart beats faster as it draws near

So high to climb yet far to fall

My life is but a flicker on this celestial ball

 Before a plan was always held

Every step already decided and beheld

Now the road is gone

My feet are now frozen in the bog

My eyes veiled by heavy smog

Reluctance joins with anticipation

My journey started with hesitation

I feel bipolar in my joy

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Straining against the ties that bind us here

On this celestial sphere

The divine magnet pulls us near

Pleading with us to hear

Throbbing, my soul draws to him

With luminecent face

Christ wipes away my disgrace

Bringing about from ashes - lace

With eyes unveiled, I gasp in awe

The Lord smiles at my open maw

Laid out are His wonders

Beauty and splendor without number

A thousand splendid summers

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~ Good & Evil ~

Evil stirs, sure to inflict burns

A tower of light, to be seen in the night

Truth and love, all of the above

One dark lord will bring the sword

One King of Light will fight the good fight

The fight brings a clash, then a slash

The dark lord seethes, lies he flings

 Light shines forth truth, lies it will smooth

Darkness creeps forward, ever moreward

And yet Light prevailes, ever on it sails

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~ The Darkness Assails Me ~

Long taloned fingers grasp my head and heart

For a moment they latch on, tearing at my soul

But He raises in my defense - throwing them from me

In righteous anger He banishes them

Turning his face to me He sooths my terror

I am secure in His arms - His hold will not fail

I tell Him all, and emotions flicker over His face

Joy, pain, laughter, hurt, pride, and sighs

"Stay ever with me" He repeats to me

"Keep my letters close to your heart" He says

"Clutch My words deep within your soul" He pleads

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The rest I fear is not worth getting on here. I hope to have some more new stuff soon!

~The Pen~

~ The Pen  ~

Scratching across the page

A best friend in the worst of times

Repeating my words and rhymes

My heart flowing from me in black lines

An instrument of my soul

Meets with paper to make music

Lyrics of my thoughts

Yet, unable to fully relay my words

To their complete meaning

I stop

My pen raised my in hand

My brow wrinkled in thought

I begin to chew the end, till

I smile again with a new thought

Scratch goes the pen once more

Again the meeting of the pen and paper

Give off satisfactory results

The words become me

And I become the words

With only the pen between us

My grip tightens and my heart expands

Before my eyes the hand and pen become one

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~The Call of the Sea~

I see this poem as being what a retired sailor felt as he looked out over the sea from a cliff - knowing that his time was over, but still feeling the call of the sea ringing in his ears...a bit melodramatic, I know...

~The Call of the Sea~

Roaring, crashing, calling my name

I long for her, I yearn for her

Her salty aura will not leave my nose

The visage of her roiling depths engraved on my soul

My heart beats in time with her rise and fall

My gnarled hands can only feel rope

My feet cannot traverse a floor that does not shift with the wind

The suns’ rays glint off her – teasing me

“Come away with me” she calls

It pains me to see her O’ so close

Blues, greens, grays and blacks

Ever changing – as moody as a mermaid

A sailor I was and a sailor I am

My blood is tainted by the water

My skin roasted by the sun

My eyes are ever glued to the horizon

But my time has passed – I am now exiled to land

I am suffocating – slowly suffocating

This air is foul and filled with humanity

O’ to again feel the caress of a sea sigh

~Blindness~

I spent all day in Starbucks and Panara with nothing but pen, paper, coffee, and an iPod set on Ludovico Einaudi (AMAZING composer!). This poem is basically inspired from parts of the Bible that talk of how ones eyes are closed to Christ until He opens them for you to see His glory.

*this has not been edited and I don't think I'm finished with it....maybe a revised version will come soon*

~BLINDNESS~

The world is plain for all I see
Shadowed with despair is the vision I see
Sharp, cold and cruel with no majesty
Filled to the brim with tragedy


Black, brown and grey confusion
My head spins with delusion
Hope is suffocated by dark fears
My soul sits in a corner while darkness jeers


What hope is there for my veiled eyes?
Shrouded in wait for my demise
No power on Earth can bring light
No Earthly idol can grant me sight

Suddenly, a soft glow draws near
A warm voice begins to whisper in my ear
The crushing darkness slowly fades
His words leave me amazed

As His soothing voice grows louder
The darkness recedes at His power
Light begins to stream through me
The curtain is drawn back, now I see

A symphony of colors threaten to overpower
My virgin eyes with the shower
His utter grace and beauty revealed to me
My unworthy eyes are awash in a tumultuous sea

Who am I that sight is granted?
I whose sight was stranded
Upon the isle of death and darkness
My eyes only seeing starkness

An yet with a word He has given
Me the clean sight of the forgiven
The glorious vision of His love
Gives me the power to push back darkness with a shove