Disenchanted E-Book

Rowan Knight

• Herausgeber: 22 Lions Bookstore
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

This book presents a collection of poems inspired by alchemy, love and ancient philosophies while portraying a critical attitude towards common social values and their true meaning inside the cycles of an existence filled with turmoil.

In doing so, the author seeks to explain where chaos and balance, as well as order, find themselves. Because, according to him, it is in the combination of observations and emotions that a divine attribute is gained by the seeker of such qualities.

From this perspective onward, more is added, for there is a paradox continually being portrayed between the positive and the negative, common in each one of us, with its relations between happiness and despair, but also truth and illusion, as well as disenchantment and fantasy.

Through this approach, an awakening of emotions pointing at the different stages of consciousness is proposed, and this while stripping the reader from guilt and prejudice, but foremost, naivety.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

About the Publisher

Introduction

Poem 1 - The Death of a Rose.

Poem 2 - Just Being.

Poem 3 - What Ends.

Poem 4 - The Monk’s Dichotomy.

Poem 5 - The Monk and the Villagers.

Poem 6 - The Unseen Gift.

Poem 7 - Twenty-two Flowers.

Poem 8 - The Green Rose.

Poem 09 - Odin’s Heir.

Poem 10 - Secrets of the Dark Side.

Poem 11 - Meditation Under Desire.

Poem 12 - The Purpose of Insanity.

Poem 13 - Beyond Betrayal.

Poem 14 - When Beauty Fades Away.

Poem 15 - The Way of the Rose.

Poem 16 - The Surprise of Losing You.

Poem 17 - Knowing Without Power.

Poem 18 - I Apologize!

Poem 19 - If You Could Contemplate.

Poem 20 - Curse.

Poem 21 - A Prisoner of Insanity.

Poem 22 - Entanglement.

Poem 23 - Ascension.

Poem 24 - World of Sinners.

Poem 25 - Being Someone I’m Not.

Poem 26 - The Desire You Chose.

Poem 27 - How to Love Someone.

Poem 28 - Lovely.

Poem 29 - The Way of the Lost.

Poem 30 - The Seductive Demon.

Poem 31 - The Fear of The Feared.

Poem 32 - Wandering.

Poem 33 - The Mask.

Poem 34 - Unfinished World.

Poem 35 - Desire.

Poem 36 - The Meaning of Life.

Poem 37 - The Colors of Love.

Poem 38 - I Wish.

Poem 39 - So Far and So Near.

Poem 40 - If You Loved Me.

Poem 41 - I Don't Believe You.

Poem 42 - Your Sword.

Poem 43 - Bewitched.

Poem 44 - Queen of the Dark.

Poem 45 - Affliction.

Poem 46 - Who Can Free Me?

Poem 47 - Slayer.

Poem 48 - Complicity.

Poem 49 - Empty Promises.

Poem 50 - The Victory of the Vanquished.

Poem 51 - Adrift.

Poem 52 - Where I Found Myself.

Poem 53 - The Muse.

Poem 54 - Unable to Be.

Poem 55 - The Cross of Light.

Poem 56 - Reverberations.

Poem 57 - Hidden World.

Poem 58 - The Love I Fear.

Poem 59 - Treacherous.

Poem 60 - The Fate of the Damned.

Poem 61 - I Hate this Existence.

Poem 62 - Because I Cannot Love.

Poem 63 - I Believe You are Good.

Poem 64 - Please Be Free!

Poem 65 - Shoot an Arrow!

Poem 66 - Nowadays.

Poem 67 - Our Empire.

Poem 68 - Come and See!

Poem 69 - Omnia In Divina.

Poem 70 - Life Has Pain.

Poem 71 - What a Lie Can’t Conquer.

Poem 72 - Magic.

Poem 73 - No Future Holds the Mind.

Poem 74 - Saints and Sinners.

Poem 75 - Incomprehensible.

Poema 76 - The Nothing You Represent.

Poem 77 - Why Love?

Poem 78 - A Thousand Sensations.

Poem 79 - An Intrigue.

Poem 80 - Pride.

Poem 81 - Lucifer.

Poem 82 - Stupidity.

Poem 83 - Seeing Myself in You.

Poem 84 - Dispensable.

Poem 85 - The Damnable.

Poem 86 - Illusory Love.

Poem 87 - Whoever Asked Me.

Poem 88 - Unbeatable.

Poem 89 - Undefeated.

Poem 90 - Crazy Love.

Poem 91 - Between Demons.

Poem 92 - The Essence of Myself.

Poem 93 - The Other Side.

Poem 94 - Reflections.

Poem 95 - Lost.

Poem 96 - Change.

Poem 97 - I Can Only Create.

Poem 98 - Selfish Love.

Poem 99 - The Risk of Loving You.

Poem 100 - Lost Souls.

Poem 101 - Dreaded Love.

Poem 102 - Who Doesn’t Feel Me?

Poem 103 - What You Assume.

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Title Page

Disenchanted: Poems by Rowan Knight

By Rowan Knight

Copyright © Rowan Knight, 2019 (1st Ed.) All Rights Reserved.

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Introduction

This book presents a collection of poems inspired on alchemy, love and ancient philosophies, while portraying a critical attitude towards common social values and their true meaning inside the cycles of an existence filled with turmoil.

In doing so, the author seeks to explain where chaos and balance, as well as order, find themselves. Because, according to him, it is in the combination of observations and emotions that a divine attribute is gained by the seeker of such qualities.

From this perspective onward, more is added, for there is a paradox continually being portrayed between the positive and the negative, common in each one of us, with its relations between happiness and despair, but also truth and illusion, as well as disenchantment and fantasy.

Through this approach, an awakening of emotions pointing at the different stages of consciousness is proposed, and this while stripping the reader from guilt and prejudice, but foremost, naivety.

Poem 1 - The Death of a Rose.

I found a rose

of a bright red,

and one day,

far from expected,

the rose became dark as lead.

Upon a closer contemplation,

foretelling the death of my dear rose,

I dropped a tear in the night,

but the rose remained unmoved,

and, within my sight,

unchanged.

And yet, inside of me,

I felt scared,

and also confused,

for I could not understand

why this rose of mine

had succumb

to such ungrateful descend.

In this overwhelming darkness,

I felt alone and deprived,

for it was permeated

with an unbearable void,

which could only be filled,

whenever more tears dropped,

for what had finished,

while awakening in me something deeper

— a more profound meaning;

and my heart was beating faster,

as I was realizing

what couldn’t be avoided;

I was being spiritually pressed,

towards the chaos of my soul,

filled with emotional turmoil.

Now into waterfalls

my tears had turned,

while more within me was unfold,

brought forth

by what had been suppressed.

And in front of the rose I shouted

due to the heat of what within me battled;

and down I went,

deeper into my pain;

the entirety of which

I struggled in vain.

I finally died a spiritual death,

and accepted to confront my fate,

while surrendering to this state.

And this is when my rose died,

and the petals fell on the ground,

while its roots begun to rotten,

for its purpose had been fulfilled,

never to be forgotten.

The life of this rose in me perpetuated,

and in doing so was immortalized,

for it never truly vanished.

And then I understood

why my rose was never afraid,

for it was through me that it reflected

that which within me was created

— illusions making me deluded,

and in such lie keeping me fooled,

while from the truth detached

and from my true self ignored.

The peaceful death of my rose,

made my entire inside revealed,

for within this death I awakened

to the love for a life once sacrificed,

and which should always be remembered,

because the love which I ended

was the same love once envisioned;

both conditions within me emerged.

Poem 2 - Just Being.

Someone was just being,

and in my love for this person,

I trusted the feeling,

neglected any needing,

and overlooked any giving,

assuming,

that love was what I was seeing,

or thinking

and doing.

In this naiveness,

I wasn’t manifesting,

for I trusted

that love was merely a feeling.

But that person was truly loving

and took such love from me away,

for I couldn’t change my being,

and this to my dismay.

And now I understand,

that someone has loved me,

while seeing nothing,

not even at the end,

which ended a future

I couldn’t foresee

while in another perception immersed,

despite the emotions in me stimulated.

That one who could only be,

was, in actuality,

me.

Poem 3 - What Ends.

What ends

awakens the spirit,

and makes you reveal your heart,

while forcing from a state to depart.

Such duality that is experienced,

deceives the eyes,

towards what never existed,

or was transformed,

but merely reflected,

and for a goal changed.

And in doing so, you went

from darkness to light,

while burning from the inside,

to reveal what you tried to hide,

just to avoid such inner fight.

For such is the cycle,

behind any miracle,

depicted in any oracle:

From nothing to nothing we go,

creating meanings

which are never our own,

so that others

may also participate

in this theatre of egos,

deceived through what is known,

and forcing everyone to cooperate,