Submissions by Shadowblood13 (Ashen)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
The ashes that come after a fierce flame, darkness born of light.
LOVE POEM
Published
8th Jan 2017 4:03pm
8th Jan 2017 4:03pm
Welcome Artist
Inside the cage of my ribs
You turn false smiles genuine
Flutter beside my heart
Cure my body of common sin
So carefully I chance to breathe
Lest I scare you from your perch
Root yourself on my pulse
Stay always like some strong birch
I carry myself quietly at night
So as not to wake your sleep
How wondrous you are inside
Enriching the life you could reap
Wielding your hands like a brush
A cruel-kind artist you are
My love-stained ribs do shiver with
Nature's choice to heal or marr
You cling to me so precarious
It makes me...
You turn false smiles genuine
Flutter beside my heart
Cure my body of common sin
So carefully I chance to breathe
Lest I scare you from your perch
Root yourself on my pulse
Stay always like some strong birch
I carry myself quietly at night
So as not to wake your sleep
How wondrous you are inside
Enriching the life you could reap
Wielding your hands like a brush
A cruel-kind artist you are
My love-stained ribs do shiver with
Nature's choice to heal or marr
You cling to me so precarious
It makes me...
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LOVE POEM
Published
6th Jan 2017 11:51am
6th Jan 2017 11:51am
The Monster Is Me
Something gentle once wandered into my domain
To the wild garden where my heart was slain
Its ground is rich with the darkness of an eternity
The branches of its trees stretch the limits of infinity
I hid away from her curious gaze
Praying my garden would hold her in daze
Charmed and enchanted this creature of wit
Still recognized poison when she saw it
Nothing lives now in this garden of mine
No flowers bright no grass no pine
They fled like she did when I offered my hand
My love has turned it into a barren wasteland
My affections often come...
To the wild garden where my heart was slain
Its ground is rich with the darkness of an eternity
The branches of its trees stretch the limits of infinity
I hid away from her curious gaze
Praying my garden would hold her in daze
Charmed and enchanted this creature of wit
Still recognized poison when she saw it
Nothing lives now in this garden of mine
No flowers bright no grass no pine
They fled like she did when I offered my hand
My love has turned it into a barren wasteland
My affections often come...
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LOVE POEM
Published
6th Jan 2017 11:50am
6th Jan 2017 11:50am
Distance
Struck down by such beauty faced
Gentle hands to my body lay waste
There is no living outside this room
Anywhere beyond you is but a tomb
Though you're a death by passion's sin
Your arms will be my only coffin
Distance to conquer distance to cross
I fail to breathe and suffer your loss
You'll be my ground, you'll be my sky
Become my laughter and the tears I cry
Coming home to sweet embrace
Softest flesh concealed with lace
With a quiet whisper she falls into me
Like endless rain into a storming sea
Gentle hands to my body lay waste
There is no living outside this room
Anywhere beyond you is but a tomb
Though you're a death by passion's sin
Your arms will be my only coffin
Distance to conquer distance to cross
I fail to breathe and suffer your loss
You'll be my ground, you'll be my sky
Become my laughter and the tears I cry
Coming home to sweet embrace
Softest flesh concealed with lace
With a quiet whisper she falls into me
Like endless rain into a storming sea
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EROTIC POEM
Published
5th Jan 2017 5:46pm
5th Jan 2017 5:46pm
Cherry Witch
Delicate feet graced the red stained snow
Crimson dripping from her curved lip
Warm breath pierced my shivering soul
A basket of cherries swung at her hip
No taste for even the best of men
The cherry witch with women lied
A smile like a cherry's sweet thin stem
A kiss to leave her girls tongue tied
The sapphic legend rose to my step
Where my fragile weak voice was softly kept
Her precious fruit raised to my lips
As I kissed it gently and desperate I wept
Crimson dripping from her curved lip
Warm breath pierced my shivering soul
A basket of cherries swung at her hip
No taste for even the best of men
The cherry witch with women lied
A smile like a cherry's sweet thin stem
A kiss to leave her girls tongue tied
The sapphic legend rose to my step
Where my fragile weak voice was softly kept
Her precious fruit raised to my lips
As I kissed it gently and desperate I wept
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LOVE POEM
Published
5th Jan 2017 5:40pm
5th Jan 2017 5:40pm
Dark Depraved Day
It was a dark depraved day
Within a coffin so cold I lie
At peace my heart quiets
Listening to your gentle sigh
Gazing up at clean ivory skies
I give in to your twisted desires
Looking up to see heaven’s rain
All the while wishing for hellfires
My love, my dear, come near
One last time return to bed
Lie here with me in my grave
Won’t you stay until I am dead?
Crimson sins drip from your hands
Which I take to my lips to kiss
Of all the darkness in your body
Your fragility is what I will miss
Beloved, I give you...
Within a coffin so cold I lie
At peace my heart quiets
Listening to your gentle sigh
Gazing up at clean ivory skies
I give in to your twisted desires
Looking up to see heaven’s rain
All the while wishing for hellfires
My love, my dear, come near
One last time return to bed
Lie here with me in my grave
Won’t you stay until I am dead?
Crimson sins drip from your hands
Which I take to my lips to kiss
Of all the darkness in your body
Your fragility is what I will miss
Beloved, I give you...
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LOVE POEM
Published
4th Jan 2017 3:25pm
4th Jan 2017 3:25pm
She, The Universe
In her eyes, I see the galaxies
Her hair makes the distant seas
An embrace like a black hole
I never hope to escape or control
In place of eyes are planets pearled
Glittering with promises of a new world
Her breath is an atmosphere
Drowning me to keep me here
This lovely place, vast new land
Completely contained within her hand
She steps forward on gentle feet
Offering forth the starlit heat
Grasped so tightly in her orbit’s grip
Her teeth upon her bottom lip
Such a being made to tempt
The minds of artists so unkempt
She’s a...
Her hair makes the distant seas
An embrace like a black hole
I never hope to escape or control
In place of eyes are planets pearled
Glittering with promises of a new world
Her breath is an atmosphere
Drowning me to keep me here
This lovely place, vast new land
Completely contained within her hand
She steps forward on gentle feet
Offering forth the starlit heat
Grasped so tightly in her orbit’s grip
Her teeth upon her bottom lip
Such a being made to tempt
The minds of artists so unkempt
She’s a...
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LOVE POEM
Published
4th Jan 2017 3:22pm
4th Jan 2017 3:22pm
Careless Confession
My love is the brush and the palatte
She is the oil and the turpentine
My love is the softest flesh
And the gentle cloth covering mine
My love is the sensation of desire
She is the heavy scent of musk
My love is the cajole of morning
And the pale persuasion of dusk
My love is the ink spilt on the page
She is the parchment and the quill
My love is the insistent restless whisper
And yet she is the quiet still
My love is the meagre mist over dawn
She is the dust in the evening air
My love is the demure fold of hands
And...
She is the oil and the turpentine
My love is the softest flesh
And the gentle cloth covering mine
My love is the sensation of desire
She is the heavy scent of musk
My love is the cajole of morning
And the pale persuasion of dusk
My love is the ink spilt on the page
She is the parchment and the quill
My love is the insistent restless whisper
And yet she is the quiet still
My love is the meagre mist over dawn
She is the dust in the evening air
My love is the demure fold of hands
And...
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DARK POEM
Published
3rd Jan 2017 3:33pm
3rd Jan 2017 3:33pm
Hanging Tree
Deep in the forest there grows a seed
raised to fill the heartless’ greed
stretching its arms into a hanging tree
its strong embrace one day held me
cradled by these strands of wheat
I rocked in the winds of summer’s heat
the rustle of leaves and their gentle caress
fluttered to touch the hem of my dress
bowing my head into a sudden dream
crimson thread on skin like cream
deep in the forest there grows a tree
with bodies to accompany the lonely and free.
raised to fill the heartless’ greed
stretching its arms into a hanging tree
its strong embrace one day held me
cradled by these strands of wheat
I rocked in the winds of summer’s heat
the rustle of leaves and their gentle caress
fluttered to touch the hem of my dress
bowing my head into a sudden dream
crimson thread on skin like cream
deep in the forest there grows a tree
with bodies to accompany the lonely and free.
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LOVE POEM
Published
3rd Jan 2017 3:31pm
3rd Jan 2017 3:31pm
Sea Bound
My lover is the ocean
My lover is like the sea
Every morning and every night
I explore her most tenderly
Crashing into me at dawn
Her tantrums change my heart’s landscape
Fearful of her wrath I trembled
Yet given a way I refused escape
Well past dusk her calm sculpts instead
Patterns and promises into the sand
I watch them as her waves kiss my feet
Standing like a pirate stranded on land
With fondest affection I watch her waver
Like the tide she comes and goes
My love leaves often and without remorse
But within my heart it only...
My lover is like the sea
Every morning and every night
I explore her most tenderly
Crashing into me at dawn
Her tantrums change my heart’s landscape
Fearful of her wrath I trembled
Yet given a way I refused escape
Well past dusk her calm sculpts instead
Patterns and promises into the sand
I watch them as her waves kiss my feet
Standing like a pirate stranded on land
With fondest affection I watch her waver
Like the tide she comes and goes
My love leaves often and without remorse
But within my heart it only...
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Jul 2013 2:20pm
29th Jul 2013 2:20pm
Setting Sun
A strange feeling took over me
As I opened my eyes
I watched and stared
The warmth on grass lies.
I touched it to my fingertip
What wondrous feeling!
I sighed and gazed at the sky
I watched the sun bleeding.
Upon an old log beside me
Stood a young crow
Watching the sun setting
Eyes shining with things it knows.
So enraptured it was!
That it took flight
And spread its wings wide
Straight into the fading light.
I only wish that I had wings
So that I too may take to the sky
To see that crimson sun so...
As I opened my eyes
I watched and stared
The warmth on grass lies.
I touched it to my fingertip
What wondrous feeling!
I sighed and gazed at the sky
I watched the sun bleeding.
Upon an old log beside me
Stood a young crow
Watching the sun setting
Eyes shining with things it knows.
So enraptured it was!
That it took flight
And spread its wings wide
Straight into the fading light.
I only wish that I had wings
So that I too may take to the sky
To see that crimson sun so...
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UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
29th Jul 2013 2:17pm
29th Jul 2013 2:17pm
The Dawning
Amidst the morning mist
I glimpsed the dawning sun
My heart thrummed in my chest
It was my soul, my only one.
Across the shaded sky
Across the coloured expanse
There lies the moon
Graced in celestial dance.
I am lifted, inspired!
Imagination runs wild
My breath is trembling
I watch with wonder of a child.
But the dawn cannot stay forever
The day must move on
So before they depart
And the beauty gone.
I looked up at those two
One fading in the sky
And another being bold
Painfully so I raised my...
I glimpsed the dawning sun
My heart thrummed in my chest
It was my soul, my only one.
Across the shaded sky
Across the coloured expanse
There lies the moon
Graced in celestial dance.
I am lifted, inspired!
Imagination runs wild
My breath is trembling
I watch with wonder of a child.
But the dawn cannot stay forever
The day must move on
So before they depart
And the beauty gone.
I looked up at those two
One fading in the sky
And another being bold
Painfully so I raised my...
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SELF POEM
Published
27th Jul 2013 5:12pm
27th Jul 2013 5:12pm
The Flow of My Writing
Behind pale sky, dark clouds
Strikes the sharp lightning
Somewhere there
Lies the flow of my writing.
Amidst the cries and noise
The blood of fighting
Someone there
Sees the flow of my writing.
Among the scent of lilies
The sense of dying
Something there
Hears the flow of my writing.
Along the black alley
A mother walks weeping
Someone there
Feels the flow of my writing.
On the pure white paper
My black ink tainting
I am there
To write the flow of my writing.
Strikes the sharp lightning
Somewhere there
Lies the flow of my writing.
Amidst the cries and noise
The blood of fighting
Someone there
Sees the flow of my writing.
Among the scent of lilies
The sense of dying
Something there
Hears the flow of my writing.
Along the black alley
A mother walks weeping
Someone there
Feels the flow of my writing.
On the pure white paper
My black ink tainting
I am there
To write the flow of my writing.
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