//------------------------------// // Part One // Story: By The Moonlights Gaze: A collection of poems // by Ocean Heart //------------------------------// Rhapsody: By AugieDog I sing now of Ponyville! Praise to its name! My spot of redemption, the spot where the blame Of centuries' arrogance washed from my sides As surely as seas sweeping out with the tides! Illumined by friendship, that glow from within, The town and its ponies shone soft on my sin And welcomed me back when I'd long gone astray, Uncertain and lost to the light of the day! A stone had a better existence than I, Ensconced in my exile, for stones cannot cry And rage with all impotence, shrieking, insane. Resounding excuses and threats through my brain, I stormed as both maelstrom and ship, tempest-tossed, Despair digging deep for the world I had lost: The trust of my people, my ponies, and you, Celestia, sister, as pure as the dew. Obscenities—echoing, foul, and disturbed— Arose there like flowers as seldom I curbed My temper to cultivate anything but The falsehoods that filled me and clenched my mind shut. I called you the villain, but not you alone: All ponies were monsters in blood and in bone. Ignoring and slighting me, they were the things That needed correction, that needed my stings. I had no sensation of time trickling past. Absorbed in my sorrows, I played the outcast, Unwanted, unloved, and all misunderstood: My actions in my mind were nothing but good. Delusional, yes, but what's worse, unashamed: Acknowledging fault in all others, I blamed My deeds on their actions, their flaws, their ennui Without any thought that it might just be me. Creatively bankrupt, I couldn't admit How lost I'd become in self-doubt, too unfit To exercise truly the duties my post Demanded. Instead, I grew angry, engrossed In trivial matters of status and rank— And "rank" in this case means the same thing as "stank"! My foolishness that of a child—nay, a brat!— I sought all outside me for things to combat. Until on that night, hollowed out and unwell, I shattered and cracked like some poorly-cast bell. A lunatic, ignorant, blinded, enraged, Obsessed with escaping, I kept myself caged, Awaiting my chance to return all afire With madness, destruction my only desire. The world had so wronged me, I knew in my heart, Equestria had to be taken apart. Ideas absorbed from some dusty romance, I crashed into Ponyville, took up my stance, Let peal my maniacal laughter and shout— And doomed my pretensions. Of that, there's no doubt. The shell that entombed me, the lies I embraced, They crumbled against the true power I faced. Unbalanced, I needed a push—nothing more— To shatter me, gasping and sprawled on the floor. In seeking perfection, I lost all I had. Accepting their flaws, these six friends beat me bad. Defeat was a victory—mine, yours and theirs: I needed a kicking, and these were the mares. Undaunted, resilient, enchanting, and strong, They showed me quite clearly how far I'd gone wrong. The lesson they taught there to welcome me home Will flourish within me wherever I roam! The Ballad of Nightmare Moon: By The Mechanic Every day, I bring forth the moon and the stars, to bolster it’s glow yet my ponies shun my nightly show Sister says they will love me soon Day after day the pain only grows teaching me to tighten my heart close They curse my name and the night that I bring creatively jest with new words to sting No mind can comprehend No one can try to pretend to know of my condition my life’s sole mission The tears have long since gone leaving my soul devoid of happiness one so lonely can long I am dried of any joy Filled now with anger’s spite In my eyes there is a light One not there before tonight all of the injustice I will make right The time to act is at hand to put to work, my malevolent plan so soon will be the end the sun will never rise again The mountains will burn, and the fields will freeze I shall be Queen of the chaos strewn For I am The Nightmare Moon Her Downfall: By Decibel I’m always looming there in the back of your mind; Like a silent stalker you know exists but the royal guard can’t find. Feel my breath on your neck and hear my heavy breathing; Get used to it, unless you get all you deserve that feeling’s never leaving. I’m always going to be a problem like prejudice and poverty; Can only resist temporarily, solely you know the truth in my mockery. Every happy scene played before you only makes my presence stronger; Why does she get what you deserve? And why do they want her? Most of my victims cry and almost all lash out angrily; You can’t ignore me for long, for my name is Jealousy. Moonlit Field: By Shadowflash173 In a field of golden daffodils I lie; Beside a lake and beneath the trees. While my heart can only trudge on and sigh, The field remains in its state of beauty and ease. I look up to my smiling crescent moon, And her smile, for me, dips low To mend my crescentfallen heart. And with my crescent shaped tunes, Of adoration and gusto, I will lasso my moon- so that from me she will never part. As she glanced into the moonlight Dressed in black lace He settled behind her With a tender embrace Starring into the midnight sky As the stars fluttered Illuminating the heavens Creating a romantic scene, like no other The night flourished Into a stimulating atmosphere And she was lost in admiration Nearly in tears ‘An immutable desire to see into your night blue-flower scented dawn blooms from my insides -it waters the desire to be within fixed proximity to you.’ And with skin touching- the aroma of a deity has on me come upon. And her glow - mooding our seeding, wishes aridity adieu. An inexperienced arousing then buds; which flowers into moments of efflorescent passion- where Soft rouge lips rest, osculate against the skin, Lips so warm-balmy evoke my heart’s thuds, and your petal-light hands keep on passing- Until to your touch,sensual and delicate, I submit; “my love, permeate in!” Though the night was made for loving And the day returns too soon Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon . Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she peers, and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees; One by one the casements catch Her beams beneath the silvery thatch; Couched in his kennel, like a log, With paws of silver sleeps the dog; From their shadowy coat the white breasts peep Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep; A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws, and silver eye; And move-less fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream. Cheering at moon rise and changing out of this confining disguise. Dancing in the starlight howling at the moon. The joy of full-moon night. A Creation Only Shown In Luna's Domain By icedude94 Luna's sky i see, beauty is gleeming aminst of the stars bright in the night, yet i see an event even more, it's mystical movement, it's light green color out-shining the rest stealing the show even from the moon, and please luna do not gloom for it is your creation that brings it out making it a part of your night even the name is standing out..........Aurora Borealis The Northen Lights makes my heart soothen nights Bitter Solitude by Toric Bitter Solitude What could I have done so wrong To end up with this fate? What did I do to deserve Such overwhelming hate? Upon a vacant rock I sit And pretend it is my throne. Upon a shining star I wish To flee this cell of stone. They look right at me every night And never know I’m there. They forget me more with every day Does anypony care? I wished for love and loyalty I wished with all my might. But they all deserted me Alone in lonely night. Should I return would they still know My title, face, or name? Or will they hate and fear me And reject me just the same? Equestria, Equestria, I’ve missed you all these years. But still you turn away from me And ignore my falling tears. Then let me declare here and now My just and fiery hate. I vow before the stars and moon My vengeance will be great. I will escape this wretched place And come to claim my right. And it will be you, Equestria Condemned forever to night.