“Facet”
by Pyrex Shards

We are two snowflakes, 
destined to fall, 
destined to melt, 
flowing in the breeze, 
of a cold winter morning. 

You're falling slower than me, 
but a fate of wind intertwines us, 
our destinies forever locked, 
as we tumble together, 
a beautiful dance of tragedy, 
your facets reflect another world, 
one that I get lost in.

I know the sun will come out, 
and we shall evaporate, 
those facets will never shine again.
Oh how I want fate to claim us,
together as we sit pondering our demise!
But if you melt first I shall shatter, 
and if I fade first, 
it's better. 

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May you dream,
of the stars,
that shine
in the dark pools
of your eyes,
and take flight 
like a bird,
through the heavens, 
upon your 
white dove wings,
for you are capable
of touching the sky,
and stealing the hearts 
of mortal men,
and you have stolen mine.

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Glass Viking Longship
by The RoboNerd

The little glass longship,
sailing on a sea of agate quartz,
with its little glass men aboard,
too clear for me to see.

Tumbling through a raging storm,
an accident in human form,
that buffeted and pulversized,
that tiny little glass ship.

It never sank to my surprise,
it just sat frozen in place,
as if to say "help me please,
don't let it end this way."

I picked up the pieces carefully,
many parts and many pieces,
splinters of sailors and crystals of wood,
and bits of glass canvas sail.

The pieces shimmered in my eyes,
light danced through rough edges,
I held them up into the sun,
that came to the sky through the window.

It amazes me what happened next,
every piece sailed again,
a short descent into the trash,
though beautiful at that.

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Written whilst listening to "Before Today" by Everything but the Girl (as presented on the "Urbal Beats" electronic music collection CD).

Silicareality
by The RoboNerd

E-mail friendships,
chatroom hardships,
E-lectronic age of wires,
circuits,
and fires of human ambition.

Electronic age,
the present burden,
multiplied by the Nth energy,
of fantasy and chaos calmed,
to a windy chill in the back of the mind.

Higher and more are trivial,
all is better,
that's the way,
life spins in this silicareality,
we have built for our humanity.
self-fulfillment for the general masses,
is the message to the generation,
buying more silicon instantality.

Seeking nothing from spirituality,
preferring not to believe,
in anything other than will.

Green replaced with petrol plastic,
synthetic monetary financiality,
replacement for the self,
with want instead of need.

Looking for the next level,
of future advance.
Is there one?
More than none?

Simplicity is none,
of numbers one and zero,
but takes its form anyway.

That's the way it is,
how it fits,
into myth, legend, fact, and fiction,
equations bound and formulas lifting,
the way it is,
in this silicareality.

TDLDBD!!!