October 18, 2006
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Fear Not
In order to understand the full atmosphere of this poem. Download and listen to City Life by IKO here: http://www.ctgmusic.com/song.php?id=2563
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Fear Not :
Fear not the wilderness of night.
Fear not the prairie and plain.
Fear not the trees and the river.
Fear not the dark horizons.
Fear not the towering city.
Fear not the neon lights.
Fear not the mist of the night.
Fear not the lost memories.
Fear not the beckoning bells.
Fear not the call of the choir.
Fear not the hymn of the heathen.
Fear not the fires of heaven.
Fear not the haunting demon.
Fear not the soul-searing siren.
Fear not the red-eyed phantom.
Fear not the blinding flash of white.
Fear not the dancing angels.
Fear not the harp and string.
Fear not the magic carpet ride.
Fear not the blissful sleep.
Fear not the dream of shadows.
Fear not the tendrils of death.
Fear not the call of the raven.
Fear not the wraith and sickle.
Comments (3)
I really enjoyed that poem. Maybe this sounds trite, but all the repetition and exploring of different ideas gets the idea across better than most anything could. I noticed that some of the ideas go together in the stanzas, like shadows, death, raven, and sickle. Are there any connecting themes you wanted to get across, like fear not solitude, cities, religion, mythic type things, heaven, or death? That’s kinda the idea I get from each stanza, overgeneralized.
I wrote it based on atmosphere. Think of the atmosphere while walking down a sidewalk late at night while the mist rises from the ground and the neon lights are flashing overhead. It’s all about the ambience of it all. Every stanza is about the atsmophere of(in order) Nature, City Life(hence the song), A Gothic Cathedral, Halloween(for lack of a better term I guess), Heaven, and Death. I was definitely in a Halloween-ish mood when I wrote that. Glad you liked it.
haven’t heard from you in awhile. you doing alright? hope so. miss talking to you. *hug*
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i really miss bring able to talk to you all the time like we used to.