betray the oracle

Adelaide Hills, South Australia, AUSTRALIA


Joined March 24th 2009

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I enjoy metal, poetry and nature.

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Red

The pale light gleams
Across the darkened wood.
Slowly scraping the strings
The hardned bow
It tells it's own story
As the hands it captivates
Floats like wings in gentle breeze.
The cello, the conducter,
The musician, they are the same.
Everyone is but an audience
As the instrument tells it's tale,
Of blood spilt upon the dreaded stone.
A legend of a timeless, creased rose.
The Journey of a lonely creature.
Together the symbols gathered
Only to mean nothing.
But the melody played on.
Still the bow scraped the strings
To a timeless resurrection
And the audience?
They could never understand
The meaning of rebirth.

18/3/09
Levi Siegmann


Blue (tranquility)

I lean over the silent waters
The reflection ever so clear
Even through the blurred ripples.
Neat pressed shirt
Straight edged tie.
I've never looked so elegant
Aside from the look of my face.
The haunted look of the pale dead.
"I'd be rotten to be with," I say out aloud.
"I'd take you rotten," that's something you say.
Would you?
Could you really?
Why would you do
Such an uncentred thing?
And the return... crushing, shocking.
"Because I love you.
And when you love someone
You don't care how they are.
You just want to be with them.
You just take them at their best,
And you damn well take them at their worst
And love them no matter what happens."
And tears so silver
May just flood soon.
Those words... those heavy words
You could never know how hard and sweet they hit.
But the tears will never get past
The chunk in my throat.
Oh, heavy, shameful, exotic feelings.
I think... it takes two to cry in any case.
What do I mean? I could only mean one thing.
I could only weep with arms locked around me
A cage to keep me in... yes,
Just like the cage that I call my heart.
A prison with a barrier to keep me inside.
Otherwise... I'd be swept away
Nothing solid to keep me here...
I'd get washed away...
or something poetic, just like that.
I slowly wish you were holding me
Just to be honest.
But I've made enough wishes to last a lifetime.
And in all my well presented front
I'll follow the procession.
Looking to the icy sky of shredded blue
I follow my casket.
"Farewell dearly undesired," so I say,
"Rest now in your tranquility."

31/3/09
Levi Siegmann


Pearlescent Grey

I saw you I guess,
So full of shades,
Of pearlescent grey.
Those wings that you spread
They were finally clipped.
No longer radiant,
With the burning light
Of the skies in which to soar.
The eyes that gleamed so white
Now covered in a layer of mud.
Where did the spark,
In your moon like countenance fly to?
I could swear you were dead...
Or am I just lifeless to you?
In the rotting shades
Of all that you dress in,
You've never been
Quite so beautiful as this.
But still you look hollow
Like the chasm of myself.
But that can't be the answer,
No, I've deceived myself again.
It's just a lie, no matter how elegant.
You, my faithless angel of reverence,
Yes it is you that is finally dead to me.

31/3/09
Levi Siegmann


Green

I call to you in a quiet whisper,
"Do not fret my precious friend.
The grass over the hill
Is just the same as this I know.
No more luscious, and certainly
It is no more enticing as this.
The grass is the same shade of ash
and the trees are no more.
But I'll tell you what you will find,
Not a land of the dead as I say,
No, it is a whole new field to scrape.
Comb the dirt for something new,
and tell me the names
Of all the flowers that we walk on."

"Well this one is hatred.
This one is loneliness.
This one despair,
And we call this one envy."
Oh green, jealous envy.
We are not the gardeners
We cannot claim this horrid field today.
It is the dead who line the edges,
They plow the fields at night.
The countless figures who stare
With their cold, ancient eyes.
These we call the majority.
Oh yes, this is all society.

31/3/09
Levi Siegmann


Yellow

To think of the sun above,
Evil, burning with hatred.
The single eye,
In the cold, blue, restless sky
That turns our fields to dust.
The shade to be found,
In the fiery pits of hell.
I could almost applaud
The moving, animated sight
Burning, oh soulless burning.
But what does it burn?
What could I possibly mention?
An entire community,
Helpless against
A sea like army of flames.
Or maybe much smaller...
The skin on our bones,
Slowly caressing it.
Licking it to
Our cells own mutation.
But nothing compares
To the worst yet of all...
The sight of a heart
Full of impure love.
Burning for that
Which was too pure to touch.

31/3/09
Levi Siegmann
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Grey

The gravel beneath my feet might very well
Feel the needless weight of the life I feel.
There is no more walking to the grave I see.
I just stand here, without the care to move on.
Since when did the dark waters of my mind
Turn into the grey cloud of rishing ashes?
Somewhere I ask, "why did I not move quicker?"
"Where did the funeral march stop so soon?"
A life of regret that feeds my remorse.
There are so many things I wish never came.
The birth of my mother, the concieving of me.
The feel of the heavens now crashing.
Just feeds the thought of hope in tomorrow.
The sweet isolated kiss of suicide.
But it never comes for I stopped moving.
The affliction of this personal decision
Takes no specific form that my mind can find.
So it can now be said to all that will hear it
I betrayed the oracle, who spoke into my mind.
I betrayed the one, who made me who I am.

26/2/09
Levi Siegmann

White

I wonder if you're suffering as the night draws nigh
For I know how it changes me in the groves of eternity.
The black twisted trees scratch out the stars of the sky
Blinding the stratosphere so it can no more blaze glory.
If only the sunrise lasted through our whole life's sway
The ever growing brightness never finding itself a peak.
But every morning feels more like yesterday's carcass
Just never letting go with hands of lifeless rigor mortis.
This much shifting of my mind says that white is the feeling.
I don't even think that I can try to explain what that means.
The entire soliloquy that opens up before my thought's edge
Couldn't understand the purity that it found through indestinct dark.
So are you corroding inside this world ablaze with the void?
Do we share the shape of an obscure haze in misunderstanding?

27/2/09
Levi Siegmann

Black

The trees around me blaze to life
Shadows whipping past at a deadly pace
As the light of life rapidly passes by.
I do not miss it for I know not what it was.
In the surrounding silence I weep my bitter tears
Oh, how I wish that all the suns would cease.
As each day passes quicker than the last
The speed of white savagely blinding me
To the growing darkened nights of new.
And if a noise does pierce this realm
It brings an anger that haunts me still.
So for the times when the orb of the sky sleeps
Let me drown alone in the quiet stream of black.

28/2/09
Levi Siegmann
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Winter In Summer 3 part series

March 24th 2009 03:37
Three poems I wrote this summer.

Winter In Summer (a midnight tale)

The sky is now filled
With a soft subtle grey.
It covers my world
Like a formless substance.
So tell me summer, where is you sky?
What happened to the stars
Like a glass of milk spilt upon your floor?
For all I seer is the winter's claw
Stealing your sacred night.
And it troubles my heart
That it's come down to this,
Your life has been stolen
By the soul of another.
But for now I lie watching
The lights wrapped in fog
And I'll wait for you summer,
Oh I'll wait for you yet.

3/2/09
Levi Siegmann


Winter In Summer (a day drowned in darkness)

The thorns arise from the cracks below
As I walk the path to my dusty past.
It has been quite some time now
Since we shared this haven together.
And I ask what has happened
To my ghosts long forgotten.
Brown murky waters poisen the stream
Where we once shook up dirt with a stick.
The blackberries crawl and choke up the earth
and all the flowers have long since wiltered.
Maybe that's the reason I chose
To trudge this lonely boardwalk.
I had to know this wasn't an illusion.
And my heart...?
Devoured
By the frozen winter-like wind.
Trapped beneath the colourless sky
It's never been so easy
To forget one knew the sun.
Trying together a boquet of weeds
With a lock of my hair
I drop it now to the water's cold depths.
Farewell dead memories, I bid you farewell.

8/2/09
Levi Siegmann

Winter In Summer (at the end of the day)

I walk along the empty road, the sun burning,
Burning through the low clouds before me
Turning the world into rich vibrant colour.
Something like a nova of the sun,
A world of searing hues. the sun dipping,
Dipping below the horizon.
Then all too quickly each colour fades
Fading into a formless mass of grey.
Fading like my strength.
My knees tremble and crumble below.
I fall to the same position
as a million other times.
Back down, face to the sky.
The clouds boil and swell over me
Grouping towards me, over me.
I feel numb. My senses have been dulled.
As I lay there my heart pulls, calls for the storm.
It responds, stretching, growing, grouping, covering.
My entire sky is now a living grey.
And as I watch, there... that moment.
That feeling of pure ecstacy in that second of horror.
That was it, the time of the day where my heart died.
Numb. Consumed by the sensation of lifelessness.
And that is the beauty of endless happiness
Found in the solace of eternal oblivion.

11/2/09
Levi Siegmann
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Recent Comments

Comment by betray the oracle
on Demotivational Posters

March 26th 2009 09:41
Noooooo. I haven't lured anyone else to Adeliade.... yet... =P I'll have to go find some of my own posters of this kind.


...but later.

Comment by betray the oracle
on Demotivational Posters

March 26th 2009 06:46
I like your spirit. hahaha.
You should come to adelaide and chill with me sometime. =D

Comment by betray the oracle
on Demotivational Posters

March 26th 2009 02:19
lol. That's ok Wilson. Just shut the fuck up and eat it.

Comment by betray the oracle
on Demotivational Posters

March 25th 2009 07:03
I must say I do rather like the Ebay one the Expression one and the Manwich. Good finds.

Comment by betray the oracle
on Agalloch - The White EP

March 24th 2009 03:40
I rather like this band. I always have been a fan of Folk/Pagan style music. Good find.

Comment by betray the oracle
on Corpsepaint, yes or no?

March 24th 2009 03:23
Nice corpse paint job. Good bracelets too. Those are illegal in Australia though. I personaly think corpse paint for black metal is more of a tradition thing. It's for the few and not so much for all the bands/fans.