Submissions by ThePalestRider
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Inspired by the Boreal and fueled by the blistering.
DARK POEM
Published
Today 4:13pm
Today 4:13pm
Brimstone Aeons and Perfidious Sulphur
ons smoulder in brimstone’s breath
the stars doth fade, unblest
Foul winds through heav’n’s vault doth sweep
where angels find no rest
The firmament, once bright with flame
now blackened, torn asunder
The reek of Hell, like cursed smoke
doth choke with dreadful thunder
No voice of saint, nor monk’s pure prayer
can cleanse the taintèd sky
The smell of sin, in aeons past
doth make the seraphs die
In shadows deep, ‘neath Heav’n’s fall
the damned do writhe and scream
The cosmos groans, like Judgment come ...
the stars doth fade, unblest
Foul winds through heav’n’s vault doth sweep
where angels find no rest
The firmament, once bright with flame
now blackened, torn asunder
The reek of Hell, like cursed smoke
doth choke with dreadful thunder
No voice of saint, nor monk’s pure prayer
can cleanse the taintèd sky
The smell of sin, in aeons past
doth make the seraphs die
In shadows deep, ‘neath Heav’n’s fall
the damned do writhe and scream
The cosmos groans, like Judgment come ...
#dark
#hell
#universe
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STORY POEM
Published
Today 4:09pm
Today 4:09pm
Wrath of Bent Shadows
In shadowed depths where stars did wane
I sought the truths that none dare name
With tome and sigil, darkly scrawled
I pierced the veil, the void’s cold thrall
The heavens spun in twisted rhyme
and space did stretch, untouch’d by time
I gazed into that maw so vast
where light did bend and breath could pass
A gate, I thought, to realms divine
where God and daemon intertwine
But what I found, in endless dark
was neither flame nor holy spark
The void it pulled, it drank me whole
an unseen hand that stole my soul ...
I sought the truths that none dare name
With tome and sigil, darkly scrawled
I pierced the veil, the void’s cold thrall
The heavens spun in twisted rhyme
and space did stretch, untouch’d by time
I gazed into that maw so vast
where light did bend and breath could pass
A gate, I thought, to realms divine
where God and daemon intertwine
But what I found, in endless dark
was neither flame nor holy spark
The void it pulled, it drank me whole
an unseen hand that stole my soul ...
#astronomy
#dark
#universe
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STORY POEM
Published
Today 6:53am
Today 6:53am
Primordial Calculus
Before the dawn of bone or breath
when light was young, and time was death
there stirred beneath the primal sea
a sorcery of strange decree
Not runes nor tongues of man yet born
but numbers etched in ancient form
primeval codes that coiled and bent
through sacred math, the void was rent
Arcane equations, writ in flesh
where sine and curve in shadows mesh
No theorem known, no proof designed
could grasp the fractal depths entwined
In depths of silt, in churning mire
the laws of forms did twist, conspire ...
when light was young, and time was death
there stirred beneath the primal sea
a sorcery of strange decree
Not runes nor tongues of man yet born
but numbers etched in ancient form
primeval codes that coiled and bent
through sacred math, the void was rent
Arcane equations, writ in flesh
where sine and curve in shadows mesh
No theorem known, no proof designed
could grasp the fractal depths entwined
In depths of silt, in churning mire
the laws of forms did twist, conspire ...
#magic
#rhyming
#science
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DARK POEM
Published
Today 6:46am
Today 6:46am
A Hammer To Break The Stars
Foul spores upon the winde are cast
From void they come, a shadow vast
Shapes flee swift 'neath skies that break
Pale light doth rise, the dark to wake
Strange sounds from pools where stillness lies
Marks unseen upon men’s eyes
The hidden signs, burnt in their wake
In silent corners shadows quake
The winde, it bears a breath unknown
Of ancient doom, in whispers sown
'Tis not the stars, nor sky, nor sea
But something else, unseen, set free
What stirs beyond the tornèd veil
Doth sow the seed, yet leaves no trail ...
From void they come, a shadow vast
Shapes flee swift 'neath skies that break
Pale light doth rise, the dark to wake
Strange sounds from pools where stillness lies
Marks unseen upon men’s eyes
The hidden signs, burnt in their wake
In silent corners shadows quake
The winde, it bears a breath unknown
Of ancient doom, in whispers sown
'Tis not the stars, nor sky, nor sea
But something else, unseen, set free
What stirs beyond the tornèd veil
Doth sow the seed, yet leaves no trail ...
#astronomy
#curse
#rhyming
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DARK POEM
Published
Yesterday 9:05am
Yesterday 9:05am
Taste of Blight
It touches first, a breath of dust
a bitter kiss on air
a taste that sinks beneath the skin
and lingers, unaware
The Blight, it moves with purpose slow
a poison bred in dark
it spreads like ink in veins of earth
a stain without a mark
It tastes of ash, of copper blood
of iron ground to rust
a weight that presses on the tongue
and turns all things to dust
It grows, it knows—beneath the taste
there’s something worse within
A hunger, vast and sentient
with rot beneath its grin
It whispers...
a bitter kiss on air
a taste that sinks beneath the skin
and lingers, unaware
The Blight, it moves with purpose slow
a poison bred in dark
it spreads like ink in veins of earth
a stain without a mark
It tastes of ash, of copper blood
of iron ground to rust
a weight that presses on the tongue
and turns all things to dust
It grows, it knows—beneath the taste
there’s something worse within
A hunger, vast and sentient
with rot beneath its grin
It whispers...
#dark
#death
#illness
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STORY POEM
Published
Yesterday 8:58am
Yesterday 8:58am
Nightmare Parallax
I walk the halls where shadows cling
where nothing living stirs
The walls are wet with blackened veins
that pulse with broken words
Each step I take, the ground recoils
or is it I who shift?
This place, alive with writhing thoughts
twists like a cosmic rift
A door appears, its frame a mouth
its teeth like jagged stone
It yawns, a breathless, deathless void
I enter, not alone
A figure stands, but lacks a face
its limbs a tangle, bare
It lifts its hand, but there’s no hand
just fingers made of air ...
where nothing living stirs
The walls are wet with blackened veins
that pulse with broken words
Each step I take, the ground recoils
or is it I who shift?
This place, alive with writhing thoughts
twists like a cosmic rift
A door appears, its frame a mouth
its teeth like jagged stone
It yawns, a breathless, deathless void
I enter, not alone
A figure stands, but lacks a face
its limbs a tangle, bare
It lifts its hand, but there’s no hand
just fingers made of air ...
#dark
#dreams
#nightmares
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DARK POEM
Published
5th Oct 2024 1:11pm
5th Oct 2024 1:11pm
Wooded Vales and Howling Winds
The wind is old in the wooded vales
its voice a rusted knife
it carves the air in fragile tones
where twilight sleeps with life
A shape has stirred; you see it not
but feel its ancient crawl
in breaths between the withered leaves
where shadows rise and fall
The trees are brittle silhouettes
they strain, they stoop, they stare
but it’s the wind, the wind alone
that presses through the air
Or is it? For something darker hums
a lull beneath its cry
A hunch, a sense, a phantom brush
of wings that...
its voice a rusted knife
it carves the air in fragile tones
where twilight sleeps with life
A shape has stirred; you see it not
but feel its ancient crawl
in breaths between the withered leaves
where shadows rise and fall
The trees are brittle silhouettes
they strain, they stoop, they stare
but it’s the wind, the wind alone
that presses through the air
Or is it? For something darker hums
a lull beneath its cry
A hunch, a sense, a phantom brush
of wings that...
#dark
#forest
#scary #wind
#scary #wind
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DARK POEM
Published
5th Oct 2024 1:04pm
5th Oct 2024 1:04pm
The Sea
I stand upon the shore, the night grown deep
The stars above in silent vigil keep
Yet as I gaze upon the endless sea
A nameless dread doth rise and gnaw at me
What swimmeth there, beneath the moonless tide
Where darkness moves and ancient horrors bide?
The waves, they whisper secrets I shan’t know
And in their depths, the foulest creatures grow
I hear the swell, a low and eerie sound
As though some beast below were winding 'round
Its form unseen, its presence yet I feel
A weight that presses, cold and sharp as steel
...
The stars above in silent vigil keep
Yet as I gaze upon the endless sea
A nameless dread doth rise and gnaw at me
What swimmeth there, beneath the moonless tide
Where darkness moves and ancient horrors bide?
The waves, they whisper secrets I shan’t know
And in their depths, the foulest creatures grow
I hear the swell, a low and eerie sound
As though some beast below were winding 'round
Its form unseen, its presence yet I feel
A weight that presses, cold and sharp as steel
...
#dark
#sea
#water
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
5th Oct 2024 4:14am
5th Oct 2024 4:14am
Heavenly Glories Unmatched
By seven stars, the heavens weave their thread
In sacred numbers, secrets are outspread
The One who speaks in fire and still, small voice
Hath formed the world in sevens, by His choice
In threefold power, mysteries doth arise,
The trinity concealed in earth and skies
For three and one, the paths of light are shown
By twelve, the gates of heaven are made known
Twelve tribes, twelve stones, the pillars of the land
And twelve the stars that crowneth wisdom’s hand
By forty days, the flood doth cleanse the earth
By forty...
In sacred numbers, secrets are outspread
The One who speaks in fire and still, small voice
Hath formed the world in sevens, by His choice
In threefold power, mysteries doth arise,
The trinity concealed in earth and skies
For three and one, the paths of light are shown
By twelve, the gates of heaven are made known
Twelve tribes, twelve stones, the pillars of the land
And twelve the stars that crowneth wisdom’s hand
By forty days, the flood doth cleanse the earth
By forty...
#heaven
#magic
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DARK POEM
Published
5th Oct 2024 4:10am
5th Oct 2024 4:10am
Gates of Understanding
Yon dark gate, where stars doth brightly gleam
We tread the path of shadow, light unseen
The heavens wide, where spheres of wisdom sing
Doth call us forth to learn the hidden thing
Oh, whither goest thou, who seeketh sight
To pierce the veil ‘twixt dark and burning light?
The cosmos vast, with voices ever still
Doth whisper truths unto the seeking will
By aeon’s breath, by sacred flame enshrined
We seek the gnosis, secrets of the mind
Gates of thought, where matter doth not reign
The silent soul its ancient lore doth gain ...
We tread the path of shadow, light unseen
The heavens wide, where spheres of wisdom sing
Doth call us forth to learn the hidden thing
Oh, whither goest thou, who seeketh sight
To pierce the veil ‘twixt dark and burning light?
The cosmos vast, with voices ever still
Doth whisper truths unto the seeking will
By aeon’s breath, by sacred flame enshrined
We seek the gnosis, secrets of the mind
Gates of thought, where matter doth not reign
The silent soul its ancient lore doth gain ...
#dark
#magic
#religion
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DARK POEM
Published
4th Oct 2024 7:34pm
4th Oct 2024 7:34pm
Despoiler
Of its own sweet caress, the dusk doth fall
A shadowed hand that creeps across the lea
The air is thick with whispers, faint but call
And twilight bends in strange, malign decree
Prey for a threefold mandible doth roam
With careless step beneath the fading light
The shadowed despoiler claims his home
Where rustic eve gives way to endless night
Flesh gnawed off for less than hunger’s cry
For what is taken now, none shall reclaim
The stars above, unblinking, cold, and high
Bear witness to the spoils of lust and flame
...
A shadowed hand that creeps across the lea
The air is thick with whispers, faint but call
And twilight bends in strange, malign decree
Prey for a threefold mandible doth roam
With careless step beneath the fading light
The shadowed despoiler claims his home
Where rustic eve gives way to endless night
Flesh gnawed off for less than hunger’s cry
For what is taken now, none shall reclaim
The stars above, unblinking, cold, and high
Bear witness to the spoils of lust and flame
...
#curse
#night
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STORY POEM
Published
4th Oct 2024 7:28pm
4th Oct 2024 7:28pm
Night's Behest
In shade we bathe in worry and unrest
Our fury bound behind a stony wall
With cloven hoof and tongue of flame unbless'd
The serpent slinks within these shadowed halls
The rivers of the night o’er gardens sweep
Like horses wild, from mortal chains set free
Wicked course through darkened roots doth creep
And drink their fill of foul iniquity
The unclean cometh, yet no blood doth stain
His snowy coat, nor horn as white as bone
Are we to fall upon his blade of pain
Or choose to bleed and make the choice our own?
...
Our fury bound behind a stony wall
With cloven hoof and tongue of flame unbless'd
The serpent slinks within these shadowed halls
The rivers of the night o’er gardens sweep
Like horses wild, from mortal chains set free
Wicked course through darkened roots doth creep
And drink their fill of foul iniquity
The unclean cometh, yet no blood doth stain
His snowy coat, nor horn as white as bone
Are we to fall upon his blade of pain
Or choose to bleed and make the choice our own?
...
#dark
#night
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