Various poems inspired by the world of MLP and/or various art pieces that were also inspired by the same.
I thought these poems would be appreciated more here than on deviantart. Poems will be posted here as I'm inspired to write them. I hope you all enjoy! Also, because this is kind of an add-to-it-as-I'm-inspired piece, character tags may shift around from time to time.
Many thousands of years ago Long before thoughts of you or I Two gifted sibling alicorns In harmony governed the sky
Celestia, the elder mare Summoned the sun's light and warm beams, While Luna of the twinkling mane Brought forth the moon, bright stars, and dreams
And for time immemorial These sisters sought to balance keep Until the roots of discontent In Luna's heart began to creep
For though she labored every dusk To place the moon and stars on high All ponies shunned to grace her night None admired her dazzling sky!
Her shining stars! Her blazing moon! Their beauty lost on every one Of those same ponies who, each dawn, Rose joyously to greet the sun
For decades she her silence kept Hoping time would bring remedy But all the while, through her heart spread The dark venom of jealousy
And too soon envy turned to greed, And greed grew into coveting And her covet became her need, Until she had no other thing
But to FORCE night upon the land And with her heart by spite consumed She proclaimed that Equestria To everlasting night was doomed
Her heart grown cold, her powers did With madness and evil attune And into shadow Luna fell And in her wake rose Nightmare Moon
Celestia, reluctantly, Tried reasoning the Nightmare down, But no appeasing could be done For Nightmare scorned her sister's crown
Celestia, of course, refused To abandon the land to night Thus began the Great Sky Battle Where darkness clashed with blazing light
The earth trembled, the heavens quaked, The oceans roiled, the mountains wept Bolts of fell lightning split the sky And thunder through the torn land swept
How long they fought is still unknown For though Celestia's skill was great She could not overcome Nightmare Who's strength waxed greater with her hate
And so, with no other recourse, Celestia, sorrowfully, Unleashed the greatest magic known The Elements of Harmony
For though Nightmare's power ran deep As the blackness of the night sky Harmony's strength was far too much For even darkness to defy
Thus with her power overcome The nightmare queen was bound and chained And banished to a prison in The very moon o'er once she'd reigned
The darkness gone, Celestia, With leaden heart and tearing eyes, Took up her fallen sister's task And brought night and day to the skies.
Since that dark day an age has passed An age of plenty, peace, and love Where ponies laugh at old mares' tales And do not fear the moon above
Scoffing at ancient prophecy Ignoring signs from star and moon Heedless of the clarion call That someday coming, someday soon
Some day heralding the Spring's end Will be the day that, loyally, The stars will shatter Nightmare's chains And set the Queen of Darkness free
And, full of vengeance, she'll return To see at last her dark will done She'll usher in her endless night And banish evermore the sun.
Many have laughed, and many jeered, And many mock the things I've said, But children, hear me when I voice The thought that chills my heart with dread;
A thousand years to dwell on hate, Twisted dreams, rage, and memories ill A thousand years of maddened thoughts, A thousand years to hone her skill
And when that grim day comes to pass Can even fair Celestia Hope to hold back the ebon tide From shrouding all Equestria?
I have no answer children, but Know the lesson this tale imparts Harmony kept Nightmare at bay, So hold it ever in your hearts
And should you see the sky grow dark With no sign of a rising sun Stand hoof to hoof with cherished friends Hearts bound together, strong as one!
One of the tales of Longmane the Woodswalker at the Canterlot Festival of Foals, approximately three years before the millenial anniversary of the Solar Reign.
It began with attempt to drown the sun An irony as cold as glacial ice It ended bleakly as oblivion By terrible, unforseen sacrifice
The song of the single breath that was drawn And followed by the stark silence of Dawn
Equestria was safe with little lost But, right though Celestia's actions had been She never knew the true terrible cost Of the cruel event she had helped begin
Unwittingly Celestia was a pawn In the grim twist of fate that darkened Dawn
Upon the moon the Nightmare had been bound Trapped on the endless, grey-duned lunar shore With helpless rage filling her heart she frowned Ignorant of the budding life she bore
Mind still on vengeance, she thought only on Her failed attempt to stop her sister's dawn.
Soon though she saw the signs she was with foal Which filled Luna with strength as ne'er before With iron will she wrested back control And renewed by protective love she swore
"When my newborn foal's face I look upon Nightmare will fade in the glow of my Dawn"
The spite of Nightmare proved a fortune fair For, knowing she'd failed to bring low the sun She'd filled her lungs with Equestrian air A single breath in petty vengeance won
A breath that Luna now set hope upon To breathe lasting light and warmth into Dawn
As her belly grew swollen Luna thrived On magic, hope, and steel resolve alone And when at last her birthing day arrived Her heart, though eager, grew as hard as stone
For no matter the pain, the breath she'd drawn Would not pass her lips unto lifting Dawn
In labor's pain, though wrenching agony Each pang a dissonance both loud and long She ignored her flesh's cacophony Wearing visage grim, determined and strong
Through crawling hours, mind held fast upon The tender, peaceful, warming touch of Dawn
At last upon the ageless sands of grey With a crimson rush and a soundless thud Came a foal colored as the blooming day Upon a tide of pain, release, and blood
And though drained, twas air Luna pranced upon As her loving gaze met the infant Dawn
Starlight glistening on her pink, still-wet coat And silent coughs wracking her tiny frame Until magic gently opened her throat And warm air rushed in exhaled with her name
Her miniscule chest rose, her first breath drawn And Luna's heart soared as the sun at dawn
As she'd held it, Luna'd the breath infused With every trace of magic she could spare In order it could be endlessly used Til her foal grew beyond the need for air
But, by the dark plan of a foe thought gone That breath had not the power to raise Dawn
Though buried, Nightmare had not been destroyed, And deep in Luna's mind began to plot Setting a trap Luna could not avoid Through subtle whispers of misleading thought
Thus in secret Nightmare had slowly drawn The vital magic from the breath of Dawn
At Dawn's first gasp Luna froze, petrified, Her mind in the tumult of shock and fear Until with all her lingering strength she cried A cry she begged would reach Celestia's ear
A desperate plea that, the cold moon upon The Sun Princess would save her sister's Dawn
But by the spell that Harmony had wrought Nightmare's prison was unbreachabley sealed And even Luna's desperate might could not Drive her voice through the Elemental shield
Thus was she forced to look helplessly on As the light slowly faded from her Dawn
Too soon the newborn's coat ebbed cold and pale Her chest rose once more with that hollow breath Then fell as she passed through the mortal veil And sank into the still embrace of Death
And Luna, heart by disbelief withdrawn Softly whispered "You were to be my Dawn. . ."
As the loss at last struck home Luna screamed The foundations of her hope blown apart A flood of shining tears down her face streamed As Nightmare's laughter echoed in her heart
No crueler irony e'er did fate spawn Than the triumph of Nightmare over Dawn
Thus with the fragments of her hope and joy Engulfed in the crushing maw of despair Luna was lost, her body but a toy To be used by the cold hate of Nightmare
For the last spark of her great love was gone Lost in darkness eternal with no Dawn
Go not into the blight of the northern white and the frigid wastes of old Full of vicious beasts who will gladly feast on a traveler's corpse gone cold Most of all beware of the caverns there 'neath the wind and ice and snow Where the Dark King sleeps, and the land still weeps for the gem lost long ago
Equestrian folk saying, circa Year 520 of Celestia's reign