Answer to Poem #2: Spiderleg
Malicefoxspirit was the first person to guess last week's poem correctly. Whoever you are, congratulations, but as you were a guest user and didn't get back to me in time, I wasn't able to take a suggestion from you. I've made a new rule that if you review as a guest user and you don't have an account, and you win, I'll tell you and you have the rest of the week to create an account so we can PM.
It's really late, and I'm really tired, so this week's Poem #3 was pre-written by not me but waterfallphoenix. A loooooong time ago. As in, three years ago. And btw, it's REALLY HARD. I'll be surprised if anyone gets it right. And waterfallphoenix, I added some punctuation and changed it a little from your original. I hope you don't mind. :)
Also . . . another Easter Egg in this poem! I added a two-line reference to Anne McAffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, but it's NOT FROM THE MAIN TRILOGY. Shoutout to anyone who can find it!
Gone, but not gone
Dead, but alive
Spirits in the sky
Watching us
Guiding us
Giving light when there is no moon.
I never see them,
I never hear them,
I cannot scent them,
I can never touch them,
I dream, yet I do not dream
Not of what I should be dreaming of.
I am not guided
I am not watched
I try to believe
But I will never believe
I can never believe . . .
I am alone.
The only one without these spirits.
Even in my heart, nothing lives
Only the living live.
I feel barely alive
Keeping my secret
I could lose all I know.
I will suffer for it, one day.
I could choose to leave
But I must live for my living
Or else I will die.
One secret
It could destroy me
The stars are just specks of light to me
Nothing more than specks of light
Nothing more