

Troubador I spin my soul in the sunset,Troubador by ~ElbagArpie
It glistens in the rain.
Like this web of deceit
I will never be the same
He will never fondly call my name.
Night falls, clouds drift
A pen moves, purposefully, swiftly,
I watch from the shadows
Cast by his form
As he waits in his office,
Bemused and alone
Eight furry legs stretch out where I stand.
Your fear and loathing feeling no attraction
Of course my appearance must justify your reaction.
Another night, beautiful, sleeping creature
How to make you mine?
I shuffle along your spine
This tender sigh and golden eye
Bathed in milky moonlight
Oh, the spite, the sheer spite
That I was cast in


Your Creation The magical mortal you perceiveYour Creation by ~ElbagArpie
Stands here in the mask you painted
The boundless love that you receive
Is a perfection you smudged from the tainted
The fractured spirit
Frozen in place
Would heedlessly abandon
All who dared to wrap her arms around them
She would walk away
At the roll of a dice
No tears in her eyes
Queen of the ice
But you taste her
As you place her
On your pedestal of virtue
Yet floundering in anticipation of how she might hurt you
As though a child could etch love with a crayon!
Do you know that her torment plays on
Through the night?
Now Helena, in blazing fury
To be told a man could love her
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Violet Eyes Quarter past threeViolet Eyes by ~ElbagArpie
The clouds are plums and peaches,
The sky is cream.
You have violet eyes.
The lake is oil splashed with silver
Frost and mist hang in the air,
The room is smudged with darkness
But you have violet eyes.
My heart holds onto a secret
I'll give it wings and let it fly
Perhaps though, I might keep it,
You have violet eyes.
The sun swallowed the rain
Through the bitter touch of the breeze
That must be a rainbow, so pale in the sky
Because you have violet eyes.
The pages of the newspaper
Cascade from the fourth floor window.
I didn't want to read it;
Someone had written
That you had violet eyes.
We walked tog