Silver Words on Burned Pagesby Silver ThreadChaptersWater-child Flame :: Derpy HoovesThe Tempest :: Tempest StormMail Mares Can't Call In Sick :: Derpy HoovesThe Company of Others :: Tempest MoonBlooms :: ApplejackAlways Dreaming :: Princess LunaFinis Vitae Sed Non Amoris :: Princess CadanceMoonlust :: Tempest MoonUnheard :: FluttershyCalm Before The Storm :: Tempest StormThe Choice is Yours :: Princess CelestiaWater-child Flame :: Derpy HoovesSoft do hooves trod cloud-cover Damp beneath these shards that carry Click the ice but never wary As the feather never falls Memories adrift A mind in flurry, memories Swarm around her soul; she sees These things she'd once forgotten A mare in only age Infinite in broken wisdom Feathers singed by judging glares Smashed; she is eternal Born in error, always seen Try to change what she has been She shall never alter ways In the eyes of early days She, the child flame Born mistake and now beloved We're her children, all be-gloved With a purposed heart All our eyes upon her Hers to one way and to that The silent mare that hides within Our all-connecting truth The Tempest :: Tempest StormThe Tempest For she is born of the winds Sky around her twisting in a cacophony of whispered things Shall she be moral? Shall she be nice? All depends how the world treats her, and her inner spark And so with Tempest Moon Who awakens in the dead of the cold night Blanched of color and hope and dreams For in the seasons of the dark, sometimes we are weak The Tempest Storm prevails For the most part, anyways She brings new ideas, little thoughts thought before but new to her Until she falls again, unreal Is she Tempest Storm or Moon? Colorless or full of life With a husband, as a wife Or wishing she'd always been alone and never cursed him with her presence I trot home beneath the lamplights Broken with determination beyond me Because those of us gifted as a hope for this world Very rarely want to live; because only those that suffer can dream Mail Mares Can't Call In Sick :: Derpy HoovesDowny lies the tired fay Silken-born in soft dismay As does end the tired day She shan't see the sky Cold the wind, so crisp with dew She shall be the sea in lieu Of the ocean's kiss of blue May it bring some rest As with many fillies now As the tired Moon does bow And the sun does peak her brow Never did she sleep Thoughts like spears in candied hooves Wrack her mind while wake ensues Another restless night to use To take another day Sleep the day, and no tomorrow For the night best cradles sorrow Maybe now she can but borrow An aching head, and a waking day All this world means for rite Work the day into the night So for Drip Drop comes the light And sleep, another day The Company of Others :: Tempest MoonUnder the soft moon, upon the new-fallen snow She felt the colors pulled from her like a cover Unblanketing her inner fears but known to lovers For all the spiteful world to see her cringe Though keratin protected her from nipping This winter's cold still dove and danced her branches Each a mortal twig placing a foot in nature's gift A crunch a-kin to breaking bones and limbs Each thought varied but all the same painful scene And the dark, deep sky was lit by the little city Keeping away the thousand-starborn tapestry As the tiny moon began to raise her head And in this quiet did the mare seem changed Her forcèd frown no longer joy betrayed She was alone, under the moon, a broken dove Blue hair gone silver, and coat dark smoke Still the eyes regarded the moon as a beauty The only thing in the chilling silence of cold To try and keep her from giving in To darkest desires born of ages old Upon her flank, a moon shined, gibbous and unwhole And eyes reflected pains only the night could know She ran from the silence to the comfort of her lover For loneliness is desperate, and alone... Blooms :: ApplejackBrother, can ya hear me? Ah know ah cannot reach ya But ah feel if ah keep tryin' to That maybe you kin see Ah still remember mammy Belly all a-squirmin' with Y'all lil appleseeds inside An' ah just cudn't wait Ah did'n know... n'un did 'Bout the pains n' blood n' thangs 'Bout her age'n what it brangs When ya'r havin' twins N'then, Big Mac wuldn't talk no more N' Granny got all protectiv' Ah wan'id to see ya, brother Ah did'n know ya... Ah rememb'r what she told me She said, "Applejack hunny, Be ah good sistuh to whoever pops out Teach 'em tah be proud n' strong If'n it blooms ah gurl, Teach dat Apple Bloom how to act Make her stronger'n Big Boy Mac And don' let nopony hurt her An if'n it blooms a boy, Tell Big Mac tah be his ahdol But teach'm how tah treat-a lady Make mah Bloomberg strong" Ah did'n know, ah swear to ya Else ah woulda stayed with'r An maybe..ah..coulda... ...saved ya both... Li'l brother, Ah know ya'll arnt a pony no more But bloom strong now, for me n' for The one who didn't... Always Dreaming :: Princess LunaI look down upon the world from my perch This place that was once a prison And now Again My own And see my beautiful children I feel so alone Eternally I move my dearest moon to light their night And fend off deadly nightmares Oh how I wish They knew my plight For one as I am is plagued by the Fates themselves Burdened to rest during the day And stay awake As all my little ponies rest And dream And break a little in their sleep, at times But the day tires me as the night tires all And I find myself weary I cannot stand I fall And only peruse sparse daydreams in my slumber So difficult it is to truly capture their nightmares Lock up the terrors and save my children I watch over them At night But am burdened to never reach them Oh Fates, why did you curse me the likes of this? I am born to tread upon gossamer dreams But you wake me And hold me Until the night Is through "Sleep, but no dream" A ponet once said A curse I wish It were another way I can walk the dreams of all my children I can chase off demons in their sleep But I can rare ever rest beside them Because the night Is my day And I am so tired of mixed blessings I could cry Finis Vitae Sed Non Amoris :: Princess CadanceThat spark that rises up within Like fire through our heart and limb Reminding us of love we hold When hearts beat slow, and doubt grows bold Forgotten were your loves for he Or scattered feelings had of she Bitter was the taste it bore Heart grew pained and love grew sore I see your pain; I know it well And never need you say or tell This pain you wear...it hurts you both Despite your vows, at lack your oath We are but ponies, mortal, here With minds like rivers borne with fear That cloud with memories our sight As luck would have it, I'm the light All your pains show clear to me Heart so bound to sadness be Let me gift you sight you've lost Never should your love it cost Remember the warmth inside Heart aflutter in the bride Or the stallion, with his mare Beautiful behind her hair Let me gift you new love's spark Let it light your times grown dark See your love through puppy's eyes Truest love, she never dies Moonlust :: Tempest MoonIt's so, so tempting to wander with moonlust So, so appealing to try to be As cold, as hard, as desolate, As dead as thee, as thee Pray Luna whisk me off to be A dimple on her muzzle A piece of the monochrome wanderer As dead as eyes can see Unheard :: FluttershyHow Can one So fraught with love, Admirers abound... Gaze out the panes To trodden lanes For that Which shan't be found The cold pain of rejection Shall not be known to me I see The hurt it causes others And I'm so weak... So won't I flee? No, it is safer Not to walk And not to fly And not to talk For risks not taken cannot go bad I'd rather not know Than risk be sad ... But still... You never really know, do you? Beyond those trees where the sun sets on life Where a voice so silent as mine Makes me wonder... So another day Passes Another chance goes And I wish but for warmth From these winter snows Calm Before The Storm :: Tempest StormFrom the cloudlands doth I settle Winds doth take me unto the earth Landing by a thicket nettle Watching close the pegasi birth Rainbow catches wander-strays Snowflake will the clouds condense Drip Drop scans the silver maze To fill the holes before commence And such the flyers dance the skies Bringing now a rain of two Miss a week, a threat shall rise In the form of storms o'erdue So off they go, their tasks now done Home to hide from rains of war To now await a later sun To Tempest Storm, the sun's a bore Gentle first the voice does carry A bellow thunderous and strong Behind her vocal chords, be wary Of the gust that is her song Catch the wind the filly did Wings aloft in the current gift Thunder louder, voice amid The howl of zephyr and her lift Carried now ,the mare could see The slate blue storm --- the angered sea With bolts to split the strongest tree And more at home she could not be Her hoofsteps touched so gentle and quick Upon the surface of the beast Static biting every click Of hoof upon the water-fleeced The wind around her seemed to follow Never pushing, always kind The storm beneathe her seemed to swallow Angry bolts before their time A calm took hold her very being Froze her still upon her throne And suddenly she was now seeing The thing that she could call her own The storm went on, an adversary But calmer now beneathe her step For all its freedom was now wary As the sheep before its Shep Calm before the storm is priceless Calm ensuing, such a bore Still, her venture was now timeless As the mark her flank now bore The Choice is Yours :: Princess CelestiaAtop my throne I watch my children Free to grow without such strife The weight of sun and moon now lifted I gifted ponykind with "life" I bore upon the world, a Seed That always grew, but never bloomed A freedom... Choice, to do and say What they would wish, and not be doomed So long as they were true to Choice And never took it from another One could do whatever wished From simple things, to lusting fire If you doth take away the Choosing Of a stallion, or a mare, All your rights will fall to dust; Let the Court decide your fare Take away the Choice to breed Lose your foaling for your life Take a life before its ending All of yours shall be in strife Choose to be your Destiny Or Choose to give it all away But never take away a Choice Or I will take your Summer's Day
Water-child Flame :: Derpy HoovesSoft do hooves trod cloud-cover Damp beneath these shards that carry Click the ice but never wary As the feather never falls Memories adrift A mind in flurry, memories Swarm around her soul; she sees These things she'd once forgotten A mare in only age Infinite in broken wisdom Feathers singed by judging glares Smashed; she is eternal Born in error, always seen Try to change what she has been She shall never alter ways In the eyes of early days She, the child flame Born mistake and now beloved We're her children, all be-gloved With a purposed heart All our eyes upon her Hers to one way and to that The silent mare that hides within Our all-connecting truth
The Tempest :: Tempest StormThe Tempest For she is born of the winds Sky around her twisting in a cacophony of whispered things Shall she be moral? Shall she be nice? All depends how the world treats her, and her inner spark And so with Tempest Moon Who awakens in the dead of the cold night Blanched of color and hope and dreams For in the seasons of the dark, sometimes we are weak The Tempest Storm prevails For the most part, anyways She brings new ideas, little thoughts thought before but new to her Until she falls again, unreal Is she Tempest Storm or Moon? Colorless or full of life With a husband, as a wife Or wishing she'd always been alone and never cursed him with her presence I trot home beneath the lamplights Broken with determination beyond me Because those of us gifted as a hope for this world Very rarely want to live; because only those that suffer can dream
Mail Mares Can't Call In Sick :: Derpy HoovesDowny lies the tired fay Silken-born in soft dismay As does end the tired day She shan't see the sky Cold the wind, so crisp with dew She shall be the sea in lieu Of the ocean's kiss of blue May it bring some rest As with many fillies now As the tired Moon does bow And the sun does peak her brow Never did she sleep Thoughts like spears in candied hooves Wrack her mind while wake ensues Another restless night to use To take another day Sleep the day, and no tomorrow For the night best cradles sorrow Maybe now she can but borrow An aching head, and a waking day All this world means for rite Work the day into the night So for Drip Drop comes the light And sleep, another day
The Company of Others :: Tempest MoonUnder the soft moon, upon the new-fallen snow She felt the colors pulled from her like a cover Unblanketing her inner fears but known to lovers For all the spiteful world to see her cringe Though keratin protected her from nipping This winter's cold still dove and danced her branches Each a mortal twig placing a foot in nature's gift A crunch a-kin to breaking bones and limbs Each thought varied but all the same painful scene And the dark, deep sky was lit by the little city Keeping away the thousand-starborn tapestry As the tiny moon began to raise her head And in this quiet did the mare seem changed Her forcèd frown no longer joy betrayed She was alone, under the moon, a broken dove Blue hair gone silver, and coat dark smoke Still the eyes regarded the moon as a beauty The only thing in the chilling silence of cold To try and keep her from giving in To darkest desires born of ages old Upon her flank, a moon shined, gibbous and unwhole And eyes reflected pains only the night could know She ran from the silence to the comfort of her lover For loneliness is desperate, and alone...
Blooms :: ApplejackBrother, can ya hear me? Ah know ah cannot reach ya But ah feel if ah keep tryin' to That maybe you kin see Ah still remember mammy Belly all a-squirmin' with Y'all lil appleseeds inside An' ah just cudn't wait Ah did'n know... n'un did 'Bout the pains n' blood n' thangs 'Bout her age'n what it brangs When ya'r havin' twins N'then, Big Mac wuldn't talk no more N' Granny got all protectiv' Ah wan'id to see ya, brother Ah did'n know ya... Ah rememb'r what she told me She said, "Applejack hunny, Be ah good sistuh to whoever pops out Teach 'em tah be proud n' strong If'n it blooms ah gurl, Teach dat Apple Bloom how to act Make her stronger'n Big Boy Mac And don' let nopony hurt her An if'n it blooms a boy, Tell Big Mac tah be his ahdol But teach'm how tah treat-a lady Make mah Bloomberg strong" Ah did'n know, ah swear to ya Else ah woulda stayed with'r An maybe..ah..coulda... ...saved ya both... Li'l brother, Ah know ya'll arnt a pony no more But bloom strong now, for me n' for The one who didn't...
Always Dreaming :: Princess LunaI look down upon the world from my perch This place that was once a prison And now Again My own And see my beautiful children I feel so alone Eternally I move my dearest moon to light their night And fend off deadly nightmares Oh how I wish They knew my plight For one as I am is plagued by the Fates themselves Burdened to rest during the day And stay awake As all my little ponies rest And dream And break a little in their sleep, at times But the day tires me as the night tires all And I find myself weary I cannot stand I fall And only peruse sparse daydreams in my slumber So difficult it is to truly capture their nightmares Lock up the terrors and save my children I watch over them At night But am burdened to never reach them Oh Fates, why did you curse me the likes of this? I am born to tread upon gossamer dreams But you wake me And hold me Until the night Is through "Sleep, but no dream" A ponet once said A curse I wish It were another way I can walk the dreams of all my children I can chase off demons in their sleep But I can rare ever rest beside them Because the night Is my day And I am so tired of mixed blessings I could cry
Finis Vitae Sed Non Amoris :: Princess CadanceThat spark that rises up within Like fire through our heart and limb Reminding us of love we hold When hearts beat slow, and doubt grows bold Forgotten were your loves for he Or scattered feelings had of she Bitter was the taste it bore Heart grew pained and love grew sore I see your pain; I know it well And never need you say or tell This pain you wear...it hurts you both Despite your vows, at lack your oath We are but ponies, mortal, here With minds like rivers borne with fear That cloud with memories our sight As luck would have it, I'm the light All your pains show clear to me Heart so bound to sadness be Let me gift you sight you've lost Never should your love it cost Remember the warmth inside Heart aflutter in the bride Or the stallion, with his mare Beautiful behind her hair Let me gift you new love's spark Let it light your times grown dark See your love through puppy's eyes Truest love, she never dies
Moonlust :: Tempest MoonIt's so, so tempting to wander with moonlust So, so appealing to try to be As cold, as hard, as desolate, As dead as thee, as thee Pray Luna whisk me off to be A dimple on her muzzle A piece of the monochrome wanderer As dead as eyes can see
Unheard :: FluttershyHow Can one So fraught with love, Admirers abound... Gaze out the panes To trodden lanes For that Which shan't be found The cold pain of rejection Shall not be known to me I see The hurt it causes others And I'm so weak... So won't I flee? No, it is safer Not to walk And not to fly And not to talk For risks not taken cannot go bad I'd rather not know Than risk be sad ... But still... You never really know, do you? Beyond those trees where the sun sets on life Where a voice so silent as mine Makes me wonder... So another day Passes Another chance goes And I wish but for warmth From these winter snows
Calm Before The Storm :: Tempest StormFrom the cloudlands doth I settle Winds doth take me unto the earth Landing by a thicket nettle Watching close the pegasi birth Rainbow catches wander-strays Snowflake will the clouds condense Drip Drop scans the silver maze To fill the holes before commence And such the flyers dance the skies Bringing now a rain of two Miss a week, a threat shall rise In the form of storms o'erdue So off they go, their tasks now done Home to hide from rains of war To now await a later sun To Tempest Storm, the sun's a bore Gentle first the voice does carry A bellow thunderous and strong Behind her vocal chords, be wary Of the gust that is her song Catch the wind the filly did Wings aloft in the current gift Thunder louder, voice amid The howl of zephyr and her lift Carried now ,the mare could see The slate blue storm --- the angered sea With bolts to split the strongest tree And more at home she could not be Her hoofsteps touched so gentle and quick Upon the surface of the beast Static biting every click Of hoof upon the water-fleeced The wind around her seemed to follow Never pushing, always kind The storm beneathe her seemed to swallow Angry bolts before their time A calm took hold her very being Froze her still upon her throne And suddenly she was now seeing The thing that she could call her own The storm went on, an adversary But calmer now beneathe her step For all its freedom was now wary As the sheep before its Shep Calm before the storm is priceless Calm ensuing, such a bore Still, her venture was now timeless As the mark her flank now bore
The Choice is Yours :: Princess CelestiaAtop my throne I watch my children Free to grow without such strife The weight of sun and moon now lifted I gifted ponykind with "life" I bore upon the world, a Seed That always grew, but never bloomed A freedom... Choice, to do and say What they would wish, and not be doomed So long as they were true to Choice And never took it from another One could do whatever wished From simple things, to lusting fire If you doth take away the Choosing Of a stallion, or a mare, All your rights will fall to dust; Let the Court decide your fare Take away the Choice to breed Lose your foaling for your life Take a life before its ending All of yours shall be in strife Choose to be your Destiny Or Choose to give it all away But never take away a Choice Or I will take your Summer's Day
