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FEATURED ARTIST - LADY ILANA

The Creature

In the winter of the night
In solitary stands
a creature of earth and sky
Whose reach exceeds its grasp
In fires light that pierce the night
Heralds a day of atonement
When all is clay once more
The sea sinks deep in rock
The end will near
The Creature bows its head in silence

Wings

One wing of paper
The other of feathers
Flap one and you shall rise
Flap the other and you shall burn

Poet Meshugeh

Hear the noise
The children playing
The honk the screeching
Birds chirping, laughter
Poet sits in wasted room
With sea of paper looming tall
Ink splats soaking
The sunlight moving on
Poet sulks moodily
Draining his thoughts with pen
Wind thru open window sweeps
The sea becomes a fury Circling the poet viciously
Cunning quick cutting deep
Poet sits In ruin waste

Clockwork Angels Narrative

Clockwork angels
Heads of glass
Wings of brass
Hang flightless in the air
Hourglass is turned
They shift in measured stride
Blinking slumber from their workings
Their bodies stuffed with gears
That would fill their bodies with life
And now they dance

Up one comes with wings out stretched
The light alights on brassy wings
Glittering in the murkiness whirling slow to steady pace
Slanting down they glide flapping softly with a clink
Brassy murmur

Quickly one ascends
flaunting its gleaming wings
against the night
darting here and there they play
flittering, quiver, flutter shimmer
in delicate dance

The last sand falls
sluggishly they slow
the flapping wings sedated their heads hang low
Their dance has ceased
Clockwork angels
Heads of glass
Wings of brass
Hang flightless in the air

For more of Lady Ilana's photography and poetry, please visit her Empire profile:

Lady Ilana

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Tags: museum, ray, gun, exhibit, steampunk

SteamPunk Playing Cards: Visions of Class Strife

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Comment by JF Alfaya on May 28, 2013 at 10:19am: Many thanks for your suggestion Camryn Forrest Danjoux, no doubt we should invigorate that thread too... :)

Comment by Camryn Forrest Danjoux on May 27, 2013 at 8:26pm: Melieth and JF Alfaya ... don't forget you can also add to this thread here so we can see your pics.

http://www.thesteampunkempire.com/group/societyofsteampunkartists/f...

Comment by Melieth on May 25, 2013 at 2:43pm: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ClockworkBunny?ref=si_shop 10% off with code SUNNYDAY1. To celebrate the yellow ball in the sky turning up and hopefully sticking around for a while.

Comment by Colonel Nigel Pennington on May 22, 2013 at 6:40pm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRLJoQEpupU

Comment by Colonel Nigel Pennington on May 22, 2013 at 6:38pm

Comment by JF Alfaya on May 2, 2013 at 3:06am: I would like to share with one of our latest creations... the Vigilat Planchette. 19 grams of sterling silver to give shape to this delicate jewelry piece with Steampunk (or may I say Steamgoth?) inspiration :)

Comment by Melieth on April 20, 2013 at 4:03pm: https://www.etsy.com/listing/124920605/time-for-tea?ref=shop_home_a... more shiny things made

Comment by Randall Chambers on April 15, 2013 at 11:43pm: Hey Everyone We're trying to raise funds to create 11 more silent films in this Series - "The Steampunk Queen of the Silent Age" Visit our indiegogo Indiegogo

Comment by Melieth on April 14, 2013 at 12:47pm: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ClockworkBunny?ref=si_shop my etsy store is up and running !

Comment by Prof. Boffins Bunker on March 22, 2013 at 9:49am: Thank you for the kind comment & I apologise for my unintentional hijacking of the TINKER thread. Opps.

Alas no power to the Kraken sculpture, it is a static sculpture (my first venture into polymer clay use). Although the idea of using the clips to connect to a power source to power it as a lamp...is inspirational and has me scratching my noggin as how I might attain that (to many projects on the go already, how will I fit it in).

I'm still navigating my way around the Empire & clearly I make the occasional foopah posting.

There are more of my various tinkering creations which may be found in my profile photo albums (with more to come, I'm trying to pace myself on image releases).

Prof. Tinker Copperbottom