Poetry competition CLOSED 24th May 2016 3:53am
WINNER
crimsin (Unveiling)
crimsin (Unveiling)
RUNNER-UP:
dejure
CRUELTY BROUGHT THEE ORCHIDS
Poetry Contest Description
Your take on a Cradle of Filth song
In case you didn't know, I am a huge Cradle of Filth fan. Their music inspires me greatly and I have total respect for Dani Filth's lyrical and poetic abilities. So, what I want you to do, dear reader, is give me your best Cradle inspired poetry. If you are unfamiliar with their work then I will supply some links.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_hIsAEH6f5c
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m46c_dBVKHk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIAFYKJZ03Y
TWO WEEKS
TITLE YOUR WORK
UP TO TWO SUBMISSIONS
NEW OR OLD
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_hIsAEH6f5c
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m46c_dBVKHk
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIAFYKJZ03Y
TWO WEEKS
TITLE YOUR WORK
UP TO TWO SUBMISSIONS
NEW OR OLD
Anonymous
Don't fret. . .The week(s) are still young as of yet
.
grey rain
let
me find you
the unsung songs
hidden in the deepest sea
bring you the wicked souls of night
split from the morning dew
let’s sit on tombstones and sing to the remains in the grave
feel the cold rain drops on the faces while we look up at the grey
come with me sweet princess let’s burn down more cathedrals
walking through the flesh of the young bodies with their clerical wardrobes
smoke mist up the atmosphere making a dream to celebrate our love
let’s build a citadel for our selves with the skulls and bones
decorate the walls with in shades of skin tones
I will be the darkness to your light
I will be the one to hold you tight
I will be in the front row in your fight
now sleep tight sweetie,
and leave your
night mares
to me
A blind less
I found the way to spend my time in an emotional way
I prepared a basket with row cockroaches and bugs
a bottle of my useless blood, red crap from a black soul,
and went for a picnic with my grandmother’s horny bones.
I thought to make it the romantic way
but I killed this wanker feeling by crucifying my rock
so I laid a blanket in the middle of a boulevard
wear my black life-glasses and looked at the sky.
The sunset was black and white, I thought I was late,
like death is never on time when you finish getting laid.
Who cares if purple is dead forever?
When you think that white makes you clean
red is coming to predestinate your foolish virginity.
I pray for rain, I see all the birds going crazy,
I eat my fleshless insects and I dig my bed,
made from lime and water, I curse my soul
and all the fake world, I don’t need them anymore.
I sing an anthem to rest my throat before I vomit
all the stupid loves I once vowed like a snake loves the ground
I sing an anthem to rest my throat before I vomit
all the blood I once peed on the face of the west race
I sing an anthem to rest my throat before I vomit
all the religions I never obeyed like a shark can’t bite his blade.
I sing an anthem to rest my throat before I vomit
the bones of your rotten loneliness that made me a blind less.
"I don’t believe in you, dream of dust,
I close my eyes and you appear to be an open wish
a whore from Europe’s nailed borders ready to kill
the black sea is safer than your hope
your flag is transparent but my soul is a plastic fire
what rhymes with life is against the fear
the freedom, the dream of dust, the death of lust.
Before I run to you, I choose to escape from you
Before I run to you, I choose to escape from you
Before I run to you, I choose to escape from you."
I found the way to spend my time in an emotional way
I prepared a basket with row cockroaches and bugs
a bottle of my useless blood, red crap from a black soul,
and went for a picnic with my grandmother’s horny bones.
I thought to make it the romantic way
but I killed this wanker feeling by crucifying my rock
so I laid a blanket in the middle of a boulevard
wear my black life-glasses and looked at the sky.
The sunset was black and white, I thought I was late,
like death is never on time when you finish getting laid.
Who cares if purple is dead forever?
When you think that white makes you clean
red is coming to predestinate your foolish virginity.
I pray for rain, I see all the birds going crazy,
I eat my fleshless insects and I dig my bed,
made from lime and water, I curse my soul
and all the fake world, I don’t need them anymore.
I sing an anthem to rest my throat before I vomit
all the stupid loves I once vowed like a snake loves the ground
I sing an anthem to rest my throat before I vomit
all the blood I once peed on the face of the west race
I sing an anthem to rest my throat before I vomit
all the religions I never obeyed like a shark can’t bite his blade.
I sing an anthem to rest my throat before I vomit
the bones of your rotten loneliness that made me a blind less.
"I don’t believe in you, dream of dust,
I close my eyes and you appear to be an open wish
a whore from Europe’s nailed borders ready to kill
the black sea is safer than your hope
your flag is transparent but my soul is a plastic fire
what rhymes with life is against the fear
the freedom, the dream of dust, the death of lust.
Before I run to you, I choose to escape from you
Before I run to you, I choose to escape from you
Before I run to you, I choose to escape from you."
Lilifer
necromancer of the vile
diseased corpses
cast your black magic
bring back my sweet Lily
under a bloodied moon
I kissed her cold lips
as she was laid to rest
then lowered to her grave
reanimate my lover of old
pale of skin, ruby lips, long black hair
languishing without her
digging her up from eternal slumber
pentagram drawn in the Earth
summoning the ancient ones
so much love I have for her
I chant fervently, sweat gracing my brow
chained to the lust
disgraced she was in life
my angelic whore
such a tragic addiction
as the winds howl, rain pours
she climbs from her place of rest
once eyes of onyx
now fire blazes
scorching my soul
my sweet Lily is no more
she's brought all Hell
with her to take vengeance
upon all that nailed her to the shame
crucified for a beautiful nature
she is out for blood
I reach for her but I'm stayed by her cold glare
demons boiling under her skin
she curses in a language I know not
lightening flashes
all fury is brought upon the Earth
she is loosed Queen Lilifer
harvester of lost souls
feeding her blood lust
bleached bones decorate our home
I a prisoner to my beloved
we walk to and froe
consuming all in our path
feeding her never ending appetite for revenge
"Nymphetamine"
necromancer of the vile
diseased corpses
cast your black magic
bring back my sweet Lily
under a bloodied moon
I kissed her cold lips
as she was laid to rest
then lowered to her grave
reanimate my lover of old
pale of skin, ruby lips, long black hair
languishing without her
digging her up from eternal slumber
pentagram drawn in the Earth
summoning the ancient ones
so much love I have for her
I chant fervently, sweat gracing my brow
chained to the lust
disgraced she was in life
my angelic whore
such a tragic addiction
as the winds howl, rain pours
she climbs from her place of rest
once eyes of onyx
now fire blazes
scorching my soul
my sweet Lily is no more
she's brought all Hell
with her to take vengeance
upon all that nailed her to the shame
crucified for a beautiful nature
she is out for blood
I reach for her but I'm stayed by her cold glare
demons boiling under her skin
she curses in a language I know not
lightening flashes
all fury is brought upon the Earth
she is loosed Queen Lilifer
harvester of lost souls
feeding her blood lust
bleached bones decorate our home
I a prisoner to my beloved
we walk to and froe
consuming all in our path
feeding her never ending appetite for revenge
"Nymphetamine"
These pieces are awesome! To wet your appetites further I'm sharing one of my favorite Cradle spoken pieces. I do not own this I am merely sharing it
RISE OF THE PENTAGRAM
"One dark afternoon
Like a shadow I flew
Through the rain that fell sick with lament
To this house of incest
For when we undressed
Blasphemies against Venus were rent
Though a sister removed
Her white body approved
The parade of my heavenly quests
Yet, all tongues are not true
Some are forked or askew
Like an uncivil serpent's at best
For ousted from Eden
I fausted all reason
Hook in mouth like Saint Peter Pan
To haunt fairy groves
And hot virgin coves
Where in the promiscuous swam
I elected lovers and rejected others
Mathistrisses that don't give a damn
But for those that still do
My deep interest grew
The rise of the true pentagram!"
Cradle of Filth,
From Thornography
RISE OF THE PENTAGRAM
"One dark afternoon
Like a shadow I flew
Through the rain that fell sick with lament
To this house of incest
For when we undressed
Blasphemies against Venus were rent
Though a sister removed
Her white body approved
The parade of my heavenly quests
Yet, all tongues are not true
Some are forked or askew
Like an uncivil serpent's at best
For ousted from Eden
I fausted all reason
Hook in mouth like Saint Peter Pan
To haunt fairy groves
And hot virgin coves
Where in the promiscuous swam
I elected lovers and rejected others
Mathistrisses that don't give a damn
But for those that still do
My deep interest grew
The rise of the true pentagram!"
Cradle of Filth,
From Thornography
Anonymous
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I roam
My grave my home....
And bits of my gowns lace around
Fingers that probed too far....
Felt my wanton
And insecurity....
Made a ghost of the true me...
I roam..
And freedom from guilt
Binds me to hell...
I am but a shell
Shocked
Woman
And retribution
My new love song.
.
My grave my home....
And bits of my gowns lace around
Fingers that probed too far....
Felt my wanton
And insecurity....
Made a ghost of the true me...
I roam..
And freedom from guilt
Binds me to hell...
I am but a shell
Shocked
Woman
And retribution
My new love song.
.
Darkest Lord
unleash on me let me feel your wrath
wrap me in your serpentine arms
constrict my heart as it pounds within my chest
threatening to burst from my bloodied cavity
feeling your rage the apocalypse that is you
crashing through the doors of my mind
forcing me to submit to your will of steel
I bow before your throne
calling to you my Darkest Lord
from the place of oblivion
where you reside in a desecrated tomb
enthralled by your forked tongue
that delves deep within my soul
in the place of purgatory where I am imprisoned
free me from this state of nothingness
tear the veil from my face that leaves me confounded
oh Dark one my lust for you is unbridled
as I writhe in dreams at midnight
feeling your terror as it enflames me
come upon me my Lord tear into this lowly denizen
feast upon my offering
let the beast in you loose
upon pale wanton flesh
splayed on your blackened altar
feed me your cummunal offering
from your forked member
let me see visions of you
in all your darkened glory
unleash on me let me feel your wrath
wrap me in your serpentine arms
constrict my heart as it pounds within my chest
threatening to burst from my bloodied cavity
as I wail out my lament
I await you on hands and knees
your wretched slave
collared for your pleasure
writhing in insane torment
your power the fire I give into
greater than I in Hell's domain
I succumb to your greatness
feeling your rage the apocalypse that is you
crashing through the doors of my mind
forcing me to submit to your will of steel
I bow before your throne
Nymphetamine
unleash on me let me feel your wrath
wrap me in your serpentine arms
constrict my heart as it pounds within my chest
threatening to burst from my bloodied cavity
feeling your rage the apocalypse that is you
crashing through the doors of my mind
forcing me to submit to your will of steel
I bow before your throne
calling to you my Darkest Lord
from the place of oblivion
where you reside in a desecrated tomb
enthralled by your forked tongue
that delves deep within my soul
in the place of purgatory where I am imprisoned
free me from this state of nothingness
tear the veil from my face that leaves me confounded
oh Dark one my lust for you is unbridled
as I writhe in dreams at midnight
feeling your terror as it enflames me
come upon me my Lord tear into this lowly denizen
feast upon my offering
let the beast in you loose
upon pale wanton flesh
splayed on your blackened altar
feed me your cummunal offering
from your forked member
let me see visions of you
in all your darkened glory
unleash on me let me feel your wrath
wrap me in your serpentine arms
constrict my heart as it pounds within my chest
threatening to burst from my bloodied cavity
as I wail out my lament
I await you on hands and knees
your wretched slave
collared for your pleasure
writhing in insane torment
your power the fire I give into
greater than I in Hell's domain
I succumb to your greatness
feeling your rage the apocalypse that is you
crashing through the doors of my mind
forcing me to submit to your will of steel
I bow before your throne
Nymphetamine
secular flames
what you sca---r----r---e---d……,
is not me---e---e---e…..,
your fear is, of what you will become
when you are with me
I have seen what lies beneath your perfect skin
shredding one after another to contain
the flames of passion through your iris
spreading contagiously like a virus
my sweet princess don’t let it annihilate you
undo these sacred chains so I can take you
let your flames burn my chains
let me ease all your pain
and by your side I'll remain
together we'll find a way in…
through the pillars of uncertainty
to an undecaying eternity
fly with the ravens over purity
to slay the swans with their vanity
release the nightmares when the wolves starts howling
unfold the darkness when the mice starts crawling
drown the sun back to the depths of the ocean
stretch the night and kill the stars with notions
burn the houses with a cross on their roofs
slay the ones who would come to oppose
suck the blood out of every living thing
this is our land you’re the queen am the king
let your voice echo through the mist in the dark
spread your wings and show them who you are
send the slaves to bring you blood on a skull
let them paint red on all the cathedrals
dig the tombstones let the maggots resurface
let it rotten, let it reek, its the evil catharsis
my sweet princess all this can be ours
only if you release me from these sacred cuffs
my sweet princess, you are not scared of me
you scared of what you will become, with me
the purity of your soul retain
the lurking darkness within
how long would you contain
these secular flames
let your flames burn my chains
let me ease all your pain
and by your side I will remain
together we will find our way
(together…...…...r !)
(forever………….r !)
what you sca---r----r---e---d……,
is not me---e---e---e…..,
your fear is, of what you will become
when you are with me
I have seen what lies beneath your perfect skin
shredding one after another to contain
the flames of passion through your iris
spreading contagiously like a virus
my sweet princess don’t let it annihilate you
undo these sacred chains so I can take you
let your flames burn my chains
let me ease all your pain
and by your side I'll remain
together we'll find a way in…
through the pillars of uncertainty
to an undecaying eternity
fly with the ravens over purity
to slay the swans with their vanity
release the nightmares when the wolves starts howling
unfold the darkness when the mice starts crawling
drown the sun back to the depths of the ocean
stretch the night and kill the stars with notions
burn the houses with a cross on their roofs
slay the ones who would come to oppose
suck the blood out of every living thing
this is our land you’re the queen am the king
let your voice echo through the mist in the dark
spread your wings and show them who you are
send the slaves to bring you blood on a skull
let them paint red on all the cathedrals
dig the tombstones let the maggots resurface
let it rotten, let it reek, its the evil catharsis
my sweet princess all this can be ours
only if you release me from these sacred cuffs
my sweet princess, you are not scared of me
you scared of what you will become, with me
the purity of your soul retain
the lurking darkness within
how long would you contain
these secular flames
let your flames burn my chains
let me ease all your pain
and by your side I will remain
together we will find our way
(together…...…...r !)
(forever………….r !)
Anonymous
lifeline
don't drop the candle now
one good breath could bring me back
and I need to see it's yours
here at the edge of night
feet dangling off the ledge
moonlight is for bleeding truth
too scary for the day
behind the veil we've died together
a thousand times until now
restraint fails again
I'd take the penalty eternal over these moments
deprived of
even your tears
only the silver of stars and steel could release
the dream you've left in me
and I'll cut pathways from my core
back to your hell
unless you save me from myself
open your eyes to the darkness
on the altar I've arranged
lift the goblet and I'll promise
pure surrender
don't drop the candle now
one good breath could bring me back
and I need to see it's yours
don't drop the candle now
one good breath could bring me back
and I need to see it's yours
here at the edge of night
feet dangling off the ledge
moonlight is for bleeding truth
too scary for the day
behind the veil we've died together
a thousand times until now
restraint fails again
I'd take the penalty eternal over these moments
deprived of
even your tears
only the silver of stars and steel could release
the dream you've left in me
and I'll cut pathways from my core
back to your hell
unless you save me from myself
open your eyes to the darkness
on the altar I've arranged
lift the goblet and I'll promise
pure surrender
don't drop the candle now
one good breath could bring me back
and I need to see it's yours
