Submissions by ThePalestRider
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Inspired by the Boreal and fueled by the blistering.
DARK POEM
Published
18th Feb 2025 4:42pm
18th Feb 2025 4:42pm
Saints Decay
In hallowed ground where whispers cease
Stands the saint, in rain’s soft grief
A figure draped in shadow's lease
Amidst the world’s withering leaf
With head bowed low, a crown of moss
His flesh a canvas pale and worn
Each droplet’s kiss, a silent gloss
Upon the scars of love—now torn
Around him lies the fading light
The flowers wilting, petals fall
Each heartbeat mourns the creeping night
As silence binds the earth in thrall
The heavens weep for days gone by
For souls entwined in sacred breath
Yet still...
Stands the saint, in rain’s soft grief
A figure draped in shadow's lease
Amidst the world’s withering leaf
With head bowed low, a crown of moss
His flesh a canvas pale and worn
Each droplet’s kiss, a silent gloss
Upon the scars of love—now torn
Around him lies the fading light
The flowers wilting, petals fall
Each heartbeat mourns the creeping night
As silence binds the earth in thrall
The heavens weep for days gone by
For souls entwined in sacred breath
Yet still...
#death
#graveyard
#rain
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DARK POEM
Published
18th Feb 2025 4:32pm
18th Feb 2025 4:32pm
Emancipation From The Sun
In vaulted night where whispers dwell
A fell being, cloaked in shadowed spell
Drew breath of twilight, dark and deep
Amidst the silence that shadows keep
Beneath the gaze of the sun’s harsh eye
Chained by brilliance, yearning to fly
It cried to the moon in tones of despair
“Grant me release, from this radiant snare!”
“Thy golden rays, they scorch and bind
I seek the solace of the night to find
For in the gloam, my spirit can soar
Awake the dreams that darkness bore.”
Echoes of silence where phantoms tread ...
A fell being, cloaked in shadowed spell
Drew breath of twilight, dark and deep
Amidst the silence that shadows keep
Beneath the gaze of the sun’s harsh eye
Chained by brilliance, yearning to fly
It cried to the moon in tones of despair
“Grant me release, from this radiant snare!”
“Thy golden rays, they scorch and bind
I seek the solace of the night to find
For in the gloam, my spirit can soar
Awake the dreams that darkness bore.”
Echoes of silence where phantoms tread ...
#dark
#despair
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
16th Feb 2025 5:01pm
16th Feb 2025 5:01pm
Gilded Damnation, Canto II
Towers rise where shadows feast
Ruins worn by wind and time
Etched with shapes of sacred past
Marking paths once seen divine
Skulls ignite in silent flame
Hollow eyes like stars aglow
Their whispers thread the brittle air
Telling truths none wish to know
No voice proclaims the coming light
No trumpet sounds in distant skies
Only the fire
Only the void
Only the fate that silence cries
Geometric scars upon the stone
A map of loss, a fractured vow
Where priest and prophet walked alone
And none...
Ruins worn by wind and time
Etched with shapes of sacred past
Marking paths once seen divine
Skulls ignite in silent flame
Hollow eyes like stars aglow
Their whispers thread the brittle air
Telling truths none wish to know
No voice proclaims the coming light
No trumpet sounds in distant skies
Only the fire
Only the void
Only the fate that silence cries
Geometric scars upon the stone
A map of loss, a fractured vow
Where priest and prophet walked alone
And none...
#angels
#apocalypse
#religion
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
16th Feb 2025 4:48pm
16th Feb 2025 4:48pm
Gilded Damnation, Canto I
From high vaults unseen by mortal sight
Where dawn is woven in golden thread
He fell—not cast, nor willed to flight
But sent, a herald where hope had fled
By Name he was called, though tongues now fail
A flame once pure, now veiled in ash
Bound by word and sacred trail
To tread where ruin meets the lash
He pierced the clouds, the burning veil
Through winds that howled of sundered grace
And saw below, a world made pale
Its heart defiled, a barren waste
No psalms were sung, no voices raised
No watchful saints to...
Where dawn is woven in golden thread
He fell—not cast, nor willed to flight
But sent, a herald where hope had fled
By Name he was called, though tongues now fail
A flame once pure, now veiled in ash
Bound by word and sacred trail
To tread where ruin meets the lash
He pierced the clouds, the burning veil
Through winds that howled of sundered grace
And saw below, a world made pale
Its heart defiled, a barren waste
No psalms were sung, no voices raised
No watchful saints to...
#angels
#apocalypse
#religion
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
14th Feb 2025 5:48pm
14th Feb 2025 5:48pm
Display of Silence
Walk the earth
A pittance paid
Bloodied coin ‘neath weeping sky
Praise
Praise upon lips
Hollow hymns in hollow halls
Songs sung
Yet the tongues do tremble
A tumultuous fire
A searing wail
The crack
The crack of lightning
A flash
A breath
Then silence
Silence
Of whispers long dead
Of prayers lost to time
Names blown
Blown
Like dust on the wind
A pittance paid
Bloodied coin ‘neath weeping sky
Praise
Praise upon lips
Hollow hymns in hollow halls
Songs sung
Yet the tongues do tremble
A tumultuous fire
A searing wail
The crack
The crack of lightning
A flash
A breath
Then silence
Silence
Of whispers long dead
Of prayers lost to time
Names blown
Blown
Like dust on the wind
#ghosts
#silence
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
14th Feb 2025 5:41pm
14th Feb 2025 5:41pm
Sublimation of Higher Choirs
I am Master
I take from sinners’ lips
From tongues defiled
From voices drowned in woe
I stand ‘fore Mine Maker
In light too dread to bear
Yet still, I gaze
And in that gaze
I forgive thee all
Thy sins—willing, unwilled
Buried deep or sung aloud
Branded ‘pon thy withered soul
Lo, I purge, I stain, I sanctify
A blade, a fire, a whisper cold
Flesh and spirit, dust and breath
Bound in sorrow, torn by time
Kneel
For I am holy
Kneel
For I am immortal
I take from sinners’ lips
From tongues defiled
From voices drowned in woe
I stand ‘fore Mine Maker
In light too dread to bear
Yet still, I gaze
And in that gaze
I forgive thee all
Thy sins—willing, unwilled
Buried deep or sung aloud
Branded ‘pon thy withered soul
Lo, I purge, I stain, I sanctify
A blade, a fire, a whisper cold
Flesh and spirit, dust and breath
Bound in sorrow, torn by time
Kneel
For I am holy
Kneel
For I am immortal
#heaven
#religion
#spiritual
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STORY POEM
Published
14th Feb 2025 6:08am
14th Feb 2025 6:08am
The Flayed Hand Cometh
Winds sigh low
Whispers slither in the dust
Fires wane, embers choke
The flayed hand cometh
Sky turns grey
Sun bleeds thin behind the veil
Roots twist, drinking deep
The flayed hand cometh
Ash coats the tongue
Water blackens in the wells
Statues weep from hollow eyes
The flayed hand cometh
Walls split wide
Stone and bone collapse alike
Screams dissolve into the void
The flayed hand cometh
Veins run dry
Flesh peels back in offering
A name unspoken stirs awake
The flayed hand...
Whispers slither in the dust
Fires wane, embers choke
The flayed hand cometh
Sky turns grey
Sun bleeds thin behind the veil
Roots twist, drinking deep
The flayed hand cometh
Ash coats the tongue
Water blackens in the wells
Statues weep from hollow eyes
The flayed hand cometh
Walls split wide
Stone and bone collapse alike
Screams dissolve into the void
The flayed hand cometh
Veins run dry
Flesh peels back in offering
A name unspoken stirs awake
The flayed hand...
#dark
#despair
#fear
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DARK POEM
Published
14th Feb 2025 6:03am
14th Feb 2025 6:03am
Carved
Etching in moonlight
Dancing around the totem
Ghost drums
Marks in the stone
Tongues long forgotten
Night hums
Blood on the roots
Spilled in the pattern
Flesh numb
Smoke forms a sign
Black stars are watching
Oath sung
Limbs twist in prayer
Eyes turned to nothing
Veil strung
Shadows take shape
The hunger awakens
Doomed drums
Dancing around the totem
Ghost drums
Marks in the stone
Tongues long forgotten
Night hums
Blood on the roots
Spilled in the pattern
Flesh numb
Smoke forms a sign
Black stars are watching
Oath sung
Limbs twist in prayer
Eyes turned to nothing
Veil strung
Shadows take shape
The hunger awakens
Doomed drums
#dark
#death
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
13th Feb 2025 4:58pm
13th Feb 2025 4:58pm
Stone Angels. Crystalline Demons
Crack of lightning
Clap of thunder
Tears of the clouds
Dead silence
Spires reaching heavenwards
Salvation found
Choirs guide the new saint
Temptation awaits
Trepidations of the fallen
A seven-course sin
On fine silver
In palaces of blood
I see you
Ichor of the Beast
Crown of bone
Form beautifully translucent
A reflection of corruption
Sigils writ in shifting light
Grant the relief of faith clad
Heavy as stone
In the arms and song of the highest
Veiled in...
Clap of thunder
Tears of the clouds
Dead silence
Spires reaching heavenwards
Salvation found
Choirs guide the new saint
Temptation awaits
Trepidations of the fallen
A seven-course sin
On fine silver
In palaces of blood
I see you
Ichor of the Beast
Crown of bone
Form beautifully translucent
A reflection of corruption
Sigils writ in shifting light
Grant the relief of faith clad
Heavy as stone
In the arms and song of the highest
Veiled in...
#angels
#Christian
#devil #morality
#devil #morality
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DARK POEM
Published
13th Feb 2025 4:46pm
13th Feb 2025 4:46pm
The Thing. That Voice. This Darkness
Hallowed Hells
Midnight bell chimes
Whispers on the wind
Something came in
Click. Clack
Steps on stone
Measured, patient
Drawing near
Scratch. Scratch
Nails on wood
A slow, deliberate greeting
Creak. Groan
Shadows swell
Heavy with breath unseen
Hush. Hush
A voice, dry as withered leaves
Calling a name I’ve never spoken
Drip. Drip
From nowhere, from everywhere
The scent of earth, of rot, of time undone
Thud. Thud
A weight against the door, ...
Midnight bell chimes
Whispers on the wind
Something came in
Click. Clack
Steps on stone
Measured, patient
Drawing near
Scratch. Scratch
Nails on wood
A slow, deliberate greeting
Creak. Groan
Shadows swell
Heavy with breath unseen
Hush. Hush
A voice, dry as withered leaves
Calling a name I’ve never spoken
Drip. Drip
From nowhere, from everywhere
The scent of earth, of rot, of time undone
Thud. Thud
A weight against the door, ...
#dark
#death
#fear
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MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
13th Feb 2025 6:21am
13th Feb 2025 6:21am
A Decayed Longing
Planets Align
The dying claw at the sky
Under the beating of profane wings
Echoing the fall of the Eight
Usurp life
Insanity rides this epoch
A copulation of the mad
The Black Sophia whispering in tongues of flame
Its gaping maw
Hungers for the lush life beneath
A throne of writhing roots
Fed on the marrow of saints
Sealed by the Ninth Gate
Longinus pierces His side
The water that was spilled
Baptized a dead world
A birthright of sin
A tetrad of blood, salt, ash, and bone ...
The dying claw at the sky
Under the beating of profane wings
Echoing the fall of the Eight
Usurp life
Insanity rides this epoch
A copulation of the mad
The Black Sophia whispering in tongues of flame
Its gaping maw
Hungers for the lush life beneath
A throne of writhing roots
Fed on the marrow of saints
Sealed by the Ninth Gate
Longinus pierces His side
The water that was spilled
Baptized a dead world
A birthright of sin
A tetrad of blood, salt, ash, and bone ...
#death
#magic
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DARK POEM
Published
13th Feb 2025 6:11am
13th Feb 2025 6:11am
A Blow To Shatter The Void
Lunar Hex
Your deathly arts
That would bathe this world
Surge
Give me the sign
Fourfold towers burning
The watchers' damnation
’Neath the howling star
Death’s blessing
Shade between worlds
Eclipse of emptiness
Burning
The fold of creation
Assaulting the heavens
A crimson moon
Rending existence
Blooms of fire
Chaos rites awakened
Break the cosmos
Swallow the void
Come
Come
Come, ye deathless
Your deathly arts
That would bathe this world
Surge
Give me the sign
Fourfold towers burning
The watchers' damnation
’Neath the howling star
Death’s blessing
Shade between worlds
Eclipse of emptiness
Burning
The fold of creation
Assaulting the heavens
A crimson moon
Rending existence
Blooms of fire
Chaos rites awakened
Break the cosmos
Swallow the void
Come
Come
Come, ye deathless
#dark
#universe
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