Threnody

I have carried this burden
From here to there and back again
The weight on my soul unseen but always felt

Now I pass along this burden
For you to hide away
Keep it hidden, keep it safe

From the darkness that draws near
From shadows, from the fear

Once it takes hold of you
Never will it let you go

Cold be heart and hand and bone
Cold be travelers far from home
The rhyme of a soul whose endless need
has drawn us here, drawn us near

They do not see what lies ahead
When sun has failed and moon is dead
One stage ending, one begins

Through the darkness we draw near
Through the shadows we all fear
In the darkness one sees clear
In the darkness, drawing near

Speed and secrecy now
All things on these depend

I know your face
I see you

Don’t you leave me here alone
Don’t go where I can’t follow
We have not come this far to
Leave it all behind

Blood has spilled upon this night
And we see the red sun rise
Beacon’s fire, deadly light

And the darkness now is here
In the shadows we all fear
In the darkness one sees clear
In the darkness we all fear
From the darkness

Lyrics by: Colleen Gray

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Synesthesia

Sit and talk with me
You would not believe
All your words are colors spinning round and round

Share with me your thoughts
Mem’ries that are lost
Paint for me a canvas with your voice embossed

I’m reactive
So attracted
I’m erotic
Life’s exotic

Rainbow in your eyes
All the world’s disguised
I am trapped in a vision spinning upside-down

Senses inside-out
Makes me scream and shout
Let me tell you what my twisted life is all about

I’m erratic
So ecstatic
Stimulation
Inspiration

Synesthesia – synesthesia

Watch me in my sleep
Dreaming vision deep
Heat spins a symphony – burning, passion, sense

I’m reactive
So syntactic
Feels chaotic
So neurotic

Lyrics by: Rowen S. Poole

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Nightfall

Navigating dreams and visions
Oscillating memories
I’m as tight as a wire on a fence
Electric as your eyes
Dancing in spheres of reason
Riding astral wings through the tides
Riding through the tides

Are you safe from my touch?
Are you safe from my sight?
If you stop the starlight
You will drown in the dark of night
Are you safe from my reach?
Are you safe from my thought?
If you stop the moonlight
You will lose in the dance of darkness

Run between the fate and destined
The doorway now lies open
Explore the world before you
And hide behind its blinds
Can you grasp the walls of quicksand
As you seek the warm and calling light?
Warm and calling light

Are you safe from my touch?
Are you safe from my sight?
If you stop the starlight
You will never see the falling night
Are you safe from my reach?
Are you safe from my thought?
If you seek the sunlight
You will fall in the dance of darkness

Are you safe from my touch?
Are you safe from my sight?
Lose the moonlight you will drown
Are you safe from my reach?
Are you safe from my thought?
Insanity screaming
As the walls are closing in
All the stars, we didn’t know at all
And we see a crimson glow

Totality!!!

Lyrics by: Rowen S. Poole

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Mist
Temple in Time – Part I

Ephemeral, a countenance
Surrounding me, wrapped in Mist
Shifting images like ripples
To the shore

Unfettered by analysis
Wholly human, partly myth
Leave a memory untouched
To keep it pure

Our interlude, so fleeting
Only hours in a dream
‘Till the sunlight interceded
And I awoke

Reality meeting
It might surpass remembered scenes
Still, I cherish my elusive
Wisps of smoke

Twilight falling
Shadows staining the rail
Traveling across the sea
Where storm winds fall silent
And leave us an empty sail

To seek the mystic isle
Hidden by the mist
What Dragon’s Breath will shelter
Fades into time
Avalon comes calling
With a future not yours or not mine
Yours or not mine
Yours or not mine

To seek the mystic isle
Hidden by the Mist
What Dragon’s Breath will shelter
Fades into time

On the shoreline is a castle
Built of silver sand and stone
Just a temporary structure
Fleeting power overthrown
With the ocean as the mortar
And the moonlight as my guide
The monarchy gives up the throne,
And changes with the tides

Golden past in dark decline
Future shaded stormy gray
A crumbling temple falls to Time,
The Bane of Nimiane.

Moonlight as the beacon
Seawater as the Mortar
It serves as a reminder
That the shoreline
Gives No Quarter!

Twilight falling
Upon the Land we once knew
Casting spells across the World
Where magic once prevailed
Of us I have found there are few

To seek the mystic isle
Hidden by the Mist
What Dragon’s Breath will shelter
Fades into Time
Avalon comes calling
With a future not yours or not mine
Yours or not mine

Lyrics by: Kelly Fletcher and Rowen S. Poole

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Nimiane
Temple in Time – Part II

Between shadows
One day to the next
Lay the edge of sad waters
Deepest blue
Golden waves and gleaming blade
The steel of the sword
Brings the weight of the world

Storm gray and the morning rose
Am I ‘what’ do you suppose?
Silver wings on hollow doves

Deepest secret, a wrinkle in time
Cold laughter upon my face
Lose not the faith that you have taken
Want to want
What you cannot have
Let your faith not be shaken

Storm gray and the morning rose
Am I ‘what’ do you suppose?
Fingers dark, ever spinning webs

Want to want
But you cannot have

Lyrics by: John Tallent and Rowen S. Poole

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Soliloquy of a King
Temple in Time – Part III

Cursed from the beginning
Destined to be king
The last man to wield this sword
I have broken this ring

My shadow fades to nothing
I become one with the mist
My heart is beating slower
The blade is taken from my fist

Shattered hearts and broken spirits
The days of this tortured soul
Have come to a brutal end

Deceived – My sin lies with the temptress
In love – Shamed by the woman that I chose
At war – My cause is those that I have led
Empty – I find honor in my friend

Betrayed by my true love
I decide to thrust my steel
Into the spine of the dragon
Ending a life that wasn’t real

Powerless on my own
My strength comes from the dragon…

Lyrics by: Steven Hogue

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Camlann
Temple in Time – Part IV

When the beast is full of my flesh and blood
Justice and peace will prevail
I ride his wings and view my world
And rule by the thrust of his tail

The dragon breathes lightly as we are sleeping
Expiring a mist through the dawn
When night falls so heavily, it exhales so deadly
The fiery light by which all of our battles are won

The sword of kings
Pulled from the stone
The sword of kings
The circle was formed

Now a king without his sword
Must learn to rule by his word

The creature lies dying, the breath that comes forth
Envelops the land in a fog
The world as we know it has come to an end
As the land that once flourished sinks into a dense, dark bog

The sword of kings
Pulled from the stone
The sword of kings
And now it is gone

One final breath of his fire
Ignites my funeral pyre

Lyrics by: Steven Hogue

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Avalon
Temple in Time – Part V

I wonder if our Fate was written
By the hand of an ancient long ago
It’s been a journey from night into day

Exposing hopes and dreams unknown
To hold your hand was like sailing
From misty dawn into Avalon

You have touched me
You have kissed me
Given me hope to dream
You have been there in the shadows
In the shadows I remain
And have given us warmth
To our possibility

Can wise men tell us
Why we live and love?
Can they tell us why,
Why we feel such joy?
Can wise men tell us
Why we live and die?
Can they tell us why,
Why we touch so much pain?
Can they tell us what we are
And what we are supposed to feel?
Can they tell us what we should be?

You have touched me
You have kissed me
Given me hope to dream
You have been there in the shadows
In the shadows I remain
Illuminated my future
Revealed where I’ve been

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam
Teer gon chong-ga, teer gon on-um

I sail into eternity
And Darkness falls upon my eyes
I will taste your sweetness
And waken to a sated sky
Close my eyes, hold my breath
And hope you’re there in tenderness

When all else has come and gone
I hope we stand together
Upon the shores of Avalon

Lyrics by: Rowen S. Poole and Karin L. Nicely

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Android Dreams

Twilight scenes and an Android’s Dream
Nothing in logic is reality’s scheme
Cable transmission
Linear regression
Perfect patterns in an Android’s Dream
Electron emission
Signal reception
Island’s in an Android’s Dream
Circuits are on, all switches thrown
What is shared isolated, alone?
Compilation begun, syntactic breakdown
Hidden code, energy zone

Electron blueprint, glowing wire
Sensors burning in a phosphor fire
Photoinduction, reality dysfunction
Nightfall comes to an Android’s Eye
Program submission
Dream ignition
Reflections in an Android’s Dream
Circuits are on, all switches thrown
What is shared isolated, alone?
Compilation begun, syntactic breakdown

Lyrics by: Rowen S.Poole and Karin L. Nicely

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Alien Embassy

Wound up tight in protean flight
Sweet Apollo in an emerald bright
Yellow hues in the desert sand
Meet mountain green in Hestia’s hand

Soft illusion, smooth terrain
Pulsar rhythm in an alien brain

Consciousness – Sweet caress
Alien addiction to loneliness

Illusion’s prism bends the light
Open a door, but close it tight
Hidden agenda in the master plan
Evolution’s always in demand

Fear is bound in procreation
Lost to chemical elimination

Morning mandala – Lingua Franca
Ignore the populist propaganda

Covert flight in apollo’s night
Dark eludes the lovers’ sight

Knowledge leads to silent pain
Keep on searching till they go insane
Transformation in the fire
Each level only takes them higher
Transformation in the fire
Each level only takes them higher

Electric arms invade the space
Bend to conform to an alien race

Bend the knee and bind the brain
Bleed till they don’t feel the chains
A leap ahead of every step they take
Beat them down until they break
Bend the knee and bind the brain
Bleed till they don’t feel the chains

Technological prison deep
Communication – Wireless sleep

Leave behind the comfort zone
Normative dogma – Overthrown

Consciousness – Sweet finesse
Union is the wilderness

Consciousness – Sweet caress
Addiction to loneliness

Lyrics by: Karin L. Nicely