Rise like Fire

Rise like Fire

Burned to ash, then built up higher—

When I rise, I rise like fire.

I’m fanning the flames of panic,

I’m ready to make some static.

Burned to ash, then built up higher—

When you rise, you rise like fire.

This is the menace of our shame,

It calls us by every sort of name.

Burned to ash, then built up higher—

When I rise, I rise like fire.

Burned to ash, then built up higher—

When we rise, we rise like fire.

We are the phoenix flying higher—

Now we rise, and we are fire.

— Raederle Phoenix

April 21st 2025

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Sparks in the Dark

 

Sparks in the Dark

You are dark,

And I like you that way.

You still have spark

That never decayed.

They say we’re wrong,

But we’ve known all along,

That the place that hurts

Makes the best song.

I’m an outcast,

And you love me that way.

I’m shining stardust,

That didn’t blow away.

They say we’re wrong,

But we’ve known all along,

That the place that burns

Makes the best song.

I know we’re right

When we open up wide.

We shine the light

On the fight inside.

You’re a box of treasure

Locked away tight.

The keys to your forever

Lit up the night. 

I am a spark,

And you are the mark

Let’s make a blaze

Like we’re not afraid.

You’re a box of treats,

Out past the shallows,

Where the secrets sleep,

Held tight in the shadows.

I’m an alchemist, 

I’m turning my

Backstory leads into backlash gold.

Using my head

To let my heart unfold.

I know we’re right

When we open up wide.

We shine the light

On the sight inside.

— Raederle Phoenix

April 20th 2025

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The Price of Silence

 The Price of Silence

by Raederle Phoenix

If they can get you asking the wrong questions,

They don’t have to worry about the answers.

This is the price of silence.

This is the height of mindless.

Suppress the inner violence,

Soothe the chills – and freewill.

Popping pills, chronically ill

Wondering when we’ll be well.

Don’t worry about the fee —

Insurance can poison you for free.

Trust the prescription, obey the direction,

Can’t get an erection? 

Minor side effect, like minor insects

Drop dead on glyphosate snacks

in your breakfast.

From sky, to land, to your head,

Eating your Roman daily bread,

Wired to a screen, the circus.

This is the price of blindness.

Popping pills and compliance.

Suppress the inner violence,

Soothe the chills – and freewill.

Feels like the flu,

But doc says there’s nothing wrong with you,

It’s time to take that cue,

Unlock these clues:

Raze the trees, the fire in me.

Replaced rainforests with ranches.

No topsoil, just a roil 

of guts filled with spam and junk.

Isn’t this the land of the grand

And free? As long as you’re not a she

or a zi. Then the land of the free

will yield you poisons a’plenty.

Packaging, pricing and pretty frames,

Designed to trick you into eating aspartame.

It reads sugar-free, what exactly are you putting in me?

The label lies, read between them lines:

Microplastic plays hack-a-sack,

Modified fats and chemical crap,

Cancer is right around the track.

This is the price of silence.

Popping pills and compliance.

Suppress the inner violence,

Soothe the chills – and freewill.

Macro or micro, the biome is on fire.

Feeling tired? Take your pot, tooth rot;

Receding gums? Cigars rolled with tar.

Drink your pop, down your fries,

Tell me it’s too costly to stop, to rise.

What’s more expensive than your own demise?

Excuse me while I point out

what life about:

Connecting, creating, laughing.

Growing, giving, gifting.

Caring, and truth-blaring.

Who wants to live forever

suffering in misery?

I’d rather be history!

This is the price of blindness.

This is the height of mindless.

Suppress the inner violence,

Soothe the chills – and freewill.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions,

They don’t have to worry about the answers.

Why don’t we eat the dandelions?

We’re hypnotized by taboos

around all our foods.

Gas prices, groceries,

All our worries

But:

What’s more expensive

than fatigue and wasted weekends?

I refuse to comply,

I break this link

In the chain of lies.

I’m my own goddess.

My body is my temple,

Each meal is an offering.

Food is my revolution.

A frontline for restitution.

I demand transparency, sustainability.

This is the rise of defiance.

We choose life; we break the silence.

Hear our cries of truthful science —

We got our friends – and freewill. 

The media’s function: information corruption.

Now stop the false information circulation,

This corrupt and blatant manipulation.

This isn't progress in the food industry,

This is the world's most obvious conspiracy.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions,

They don’t have to worry about the answers.

By Raederle Phoenix

Note: This is kind-of a remake/remix of my prior work, Obvious Conspiracy, from 2011.

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Same Storm

Same Storm,

I tear you down

Because you made me small.

You shut me out

the way you were ignored.

I play the part of pretty;

I pretend I’m perfect.

Yet in your cracks

I see myself.

I looked into your eyes

and met a war I’d fought inside.

We are the same storm,  

raging in different skies.

You play the part of petty;

You pretend to win,

But you just guard

The ache within.

We are the same storm,  

raging in different skies.

There is no victor

In this tailspin.

The worst in you

is in me too.

If I forgive

the wound in me

I set you free.

You never were

my enemy.

We are the same storm,  

raging in different skies.

Pouring out.

Raining down.

Falling, falling, falling…

Finding, finding, finding…

Home.

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Fractal Dolphin

The 2025 Remake

By Raederle Phoenix

I’ve slept for years, 

afraid to cry. 

My salt tears 

mist the sky. 

I wake in shards,

a rising tide.

Memories swirl,

both truth and lie.

I am the ocean,

I am the stream.

I am the emotion

of a true dream.

I am a dolphin

jumping waves.

I am the savior

Waiting to be saved.

I am the blessed,

I am the cursed.

I am a fractal

of the u-ni-verse.

I won’t obey

I won’t fade away

I fight ghosts within

I plant my heart again.

I am the mirror

and the flame.

I burn illusions

and carry names.

Today, my invention,

Tomorrow, my ascension.

I’ve carried eons 

in these bones; 

A thousand lifetimes, 

not my own.

I am a dolphin

jumping waves.

I am the mirror

Waiting to be saved.

I am the river,

I am the stream,

I am the giver

of a true dream.

I am a dolphin.

I am waves.

I am stormskin.

I am saved.

I’ve carried eons 

in these bones; 

A thousand lifetimes, 

not my own.

I am a dolphin

jumping waves.

I am the savior

Waiting to be saved.

I am the blessed,

I am the cursed.

I am a fractal

of the u-ni-verse.

I wake in waves,

a rising tide.

A thousand lifetimes, 

but not my own.

Today, my invention,

Tomorrow, my ascension.

I am a fractal

of the u-ni-verse.

From Stormskin

by Raederle Phoenix

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