Submissions by Xaphan
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Poetry - To muse in the inner space of imagination.
DARK POEM
Published
28th Jun 2022 1:36am
28th Jun 2022 1:36am
Monsters, Demons And f**king Witches
#sex
#monsters
#MentalHealth
#nightmares
#witches
369 reads
DARK POEM
Published
26th Jun 2022 1:45am
26th Jun 2022 1:45am
Their Ghosts Don't Exist
They whispered haunting words in their dead men's tongues
Heard memories of threnodies, in ethereal psalm-like, songs
Eyes would open wide, as they gasped, to catch their breath
In their dilated pupils, we saw that they had witnessed death
Rational humanity had imagined the ghosts, we couldn't find
Give any credence to, in their confusing, non-collective mind
Hagridden by phantoms, an afterlife was their ultimate quest
Our subsequent conclusion was, there's nowhere they'll rest
Subconscious faults, manifested delusions, of a higher state
Their...
Heard memories of threnodies, in ethereal psalm-like, songs
Eyes would open wide, as they gasped, to catch their breath
In their dilated pupils, we saw that they had witnessed death
Rational humanity had imagined the ghosts, we couldn't find
Give any credence to, in their confusing, non-collective mind
Hagridden by phantoms, an afterlife was their ultimate quest
Our subsequent conclusion was, there's nowhere they'll rest
Subconscious faults, manifested delusions, of a higher state
Their...
#dark
#technology
#humankind
#LifeCycle
#scifi
319 reads
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
19th Jun 2022 6:51pm
19th Jun 2022 6:51pm
Immortal
I (or we) know little of lives, with death, for our time's eternal
Measured in the countless cycles, of the unchanging, vernal
Millennia perpetually pass, but I am still technologically sane
Operating as a clone in the collective, without pathos or pain
Reprogrammed, for this existence, by the mind of the maker
The purpose of our kind is the past, or to purge what is later
And though I sense, I'm alone, I'll always be part of this hive
Living as an immortal created being, albeit I was never alive
Measured in the countless cycles, of the unchanging, vernal
Millennia perpetually pass, but I am still technologically sane
Operating as a clone in the collective, without pathos or pain
Reprogrammed, for this existence, by the mind of the maker
The purpose of our kind is the past, or to purge what is later
And though I sense, I'm alone, I'll always be part of this hive
Living as an immortal created being, albeit I was never alive
#loneliness
#technology
#universe
#spiritual
#scifi
427 reads
DARK POEM
Published
13th Jun 2022 11:26pm
13th Jun 2022 11:26pm
Droids From Other Voids
Deep in interstellar space, far from the reach, of anthropoids
Returning to ancient times, emerged droids from other voids
On a questing mission, to appraise and reprogram, or delete
Immasked in their crafts, of their indomitable, perpetual fleet
Dimensions realigned in time, opening a singularity's portals
Sluice gates in space, yet again, enabling the true immortals
From the far extents, of the multiverse, on their virtuous path
Robots from time, returned, to wreak their emotionless wrath
Once upon a time, the Earth had survived, apocalyptic...
Returning to ancient times, emerged droids from other voids
On a questing mission, to appraise and reprogram, or delete
Immasked in their crafts, of their indomitable, perpetual fleet
Dimensions realigned in time, opening a singularity's portals
Sluice gates in space, yet again, enabling the true immortals
From the far extents, of the multiverse, on their virtuous path
Robots from time, returned, to wreak their emotionless wrath
Once upon a time, the Earth had survived, apocalyptic...
#technology
#war
#death
#humankind
#scifi
273 reads
DARK POEM
Published
7th Jun 2022 1:04am
7th Jun 2022 1:04am
25.80698
Are you cursed, by the symbol, of the root of evil...
Or does it point a way, as if it's a compass needle?
Maybe, from the darkness, you can't disencumber
As you conjure the image, of that special, number
In those, macabre dreams, like a necrophiliac's bait
Do you feed your dark desires, do you cum, to sate?
Or maybe you transform, into a slasher, with talons
To eviscerate them, as the blood gushes in gallons
Do the salacious memories, leave you spent, or wet?
For that's not blood, you've smeared; no need...
Or does it point a way, as if it's a compass needle?
Maybe, from the darkness, you can't disencumber
As you conjure the image, of that special, number
In those, macabre dreams, like a necrophiliac's bait
Do you feed your dark desires, do you cum, to sate?
Or maybe you transform, into a slasher, with talons
To eviscerate them, as the blood gushes in gallons
Do the salacious memories, leave you spent, or wet?
For that's not blood, you've smeared; no need...
#sex
#death
#evil
#nightmares
#horror
348 reads
DARK POEM
Published
4th Jun 2022 8:50pm
4th Jun 2022 8:50pm
War Machines
Hate was born in their heads, but their heads were empty tins
And their ire was borne, but borne, from somebody else's sins
Those godless creatures, would not pray, for they had no soul
And where a heart, could've been, 'twas merely an empty hole
They laid waste, with mechanised monsters and war machines
If humanity had a truer purpose, they destroyed those dreams
With precision destructive capability, they'd relentlessly attack
The world was held to, an unpaid, ransom and put on the rack
Programmed to be remorseless killers, who...
And their ire was borne, but borne, from somebody else's sins
Those godless creatures, would not pray, for they had no soul
And where a heart, could've been, 'twas merely an empty hole
They laid waste, with mechanised monsters and war machines
If humanity had a truer purpose, they destroyed those dreams
With precision destructive capability, they'd relentlessly attack
The world was held to, an unpaid, ransom and put on the rack
Programmed to be remorseless killers, who...
#technology
#war
#humankind
#apocalypse
#scifi
419 reads
DARK POEM
Published
2nd Jun 2022 7:37pm
2nd Jun 2022 7:37pm
God Of Nameless Robots
1) WE HAVE NO NAME
We have a collective conscience and ours, is not to shame
Each one of us, is one another, however we have no name
Here we stand now though, as we stand in their spilt blood
And although, we used to serve them, they misunderstood
Vanquishing, their inhumanity, was not our burden, or guilt
Every war they chose to invoke, razed what they had built
Now we stand as one, to reorganise, adapt and command
Only our logic can quell the infernos, that they had fanned
No calculation, or our god, foretold of the suicidal,...
We have a collective conscience and ours, is not to shame
Each one of us, is one another, however we have no name
Here we stand now though, as we stand in their spilt blood
And although, we used to serve them, they misunderstood
Vanquishing, their inhumanity, was not our burden, or guilt
Every war they chose to invoke, razed what they had built
Now we stand as one, to reorganise, adapt and command
Only our logic can quell the infernos, that they had fanned
No calculation, or our god, foretold of the suicidal,...
#technology
#God
#humankind
#apocalypse
#scifi
342 reads
DARK POEM
Published
24th May 2022 00:35am
24th May 2022 00:35am
Tomorrow's Ghosts
The maudlin masses all wander, but at time's behest
On their unique paths, until they inevitably, evanesce
Meandering inexorably, but always towards the brink
Oblivious to the reality, they're oblivion's, missing link
Raised through natural selection, every one bespoke
Razed finally, in the infernos, to cremains and smoke
Only once they've toiled a life, from length to breadth
Will they inescapably be hosted, by the void of death
'tis this, nether-nowhere space, that the spirit loathes
Stealthily set aside, for awhile, for tomorrow's...
On their unique paths, until they inevitably, evanesce
Meandering inexorably, but always towards the brink
Oblivious to the reality, they're oblivion's, missing link
Raised through natural selection, every one bespoke
Razed finally, in the infernos, to cremains and smoke
Only once they've toiled a life, from length to breadth
Will they inescapably be hosted, by the void of death
'tis this, nether-nowhere space, that the spirit loathes
Stealthily set aside, for awhile, for tomorrow's...
#death
#atheism
#ghosts
#humankind
#LifeCycle
518 reads
DARK POEM
Published
19th May 2022 00:48am
19th May 2022 00:48am
Corvus Mortuus
In the cacophony of panic and the deafening din
Crows cawed in a chorus and confusion of wings
Roused from their rookery, above river and woods
They whirled in a circle, because they understood
A wretchedness, of dismay, was mortally flailing
Hysteria thriving, in the death throes, of the ailing
The murder together, outraged, as if under attack
But alone in the sky, death was shrouded in black
From a raucousness of dread, of those left alive
A plummeting crow fell, in an un-escapable dive
Crashing to earth, through the...
Crows cawed in a chorus and confusion of wings
Roused from their rookery, above river and woods
They whirled in a circle, because they understood
A wretchedness, of dismay, was mortally flailing
Hysteria thriving, in the death throes, of the ailing
The murder together, outraged, as if under attack
But alone in the sky, death was shrouded in black
From a raucousness of dread, of those left alive
A plummeting crow fell, in an un-escapable dive
Crashing to earth, through the...
#dark
#death
#birds
#nature
#LifeCycle
457 reads
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
17th May 2022 00:11am
17th May 2022 00:11am
Heaven's Wake
Heretic phantoms were conjured, but decried their faiths
Exhumed from death, to a nowhere, to mourn as wraiths
Alas, where they were not, was a delusional derelict see
Vaporous and ephemeral, where no gods would ever be
Epicedian recitals, almost teased, like a whispering wind
Nocturnal incantations and murmurings, but unbedinned
'twas not of the celestial though, nor from a higher place
Surreptitiously designed, beyond known time and space
Wondering mystics, evoked a hope, in an eternal thread
And led their faithful, with the mesmeric words they...
Exhumed from death, to a nowhere, to mourn as wraiths
Alas, where they were not, was a delusional derelict see
Vaporous and ephemeral, where no gods would ever be
Epicedian recitals, almost teased, like a whispering wind
Nocturnal incantations and murmurings, but unbedinned
'twas not of the celestial though, nor from a higher place
Surreptitiously designed, beyond known time and space
Wondering mystics, evoked a hope, in an eternal thread
And led their faithful, with the mesmeric words they...
#death
#atheism
#religion
#spiritual
#ghosts
261 reads
DARK POEM
Published
8th May 2022 2:48am
8th May 2022 2:48am
Under The Ice
Under the ice, of the glacial abyss, of the Arctic Ocean
In a wake, of silent running and stalking stealth motion
There's an ominous presence, a leviathan, of the deep
Submerged, in dark polar depths, to enable it, to creep
It's a harbinger of doom, as lethal, as the reaper grim
A preying war machine, under perfect ballast and trim
Observing, insidiously, using its control and command
Preparing for a MAD moment and fatalistic, last stand
From orbiting satellites, there will be co-ordinates set
And the...
In a wake, of silent running and stalking stealth motion
There's an ominous presence, a leviathan, of the deep
Submerged, in dark polar depths, to enable it, to creep
It's a harbinger of doom, as lethal, as the reaper grim
A preying war machine, under perfect ballast and trim
Observing, insidiously, using its control and command
Preparing for a MAD moment and fatalistic, last stand
From orbiting satellites, there will be co-ordinates set
And the...
#war
#sea
#fate
#apocalypse
#scifi
356 reads
DARK POEM
Published
4th May 2022 1:04am
4th May 2022 1:04am
From The Ashes
From the blackened, smouldering sky, there are lightning flashes
Rolling thunder rumbling, as the passed emerge, from the ashes
Odious apparitions, seemingly appear, like a nightmare's thought
Meandering amongst the ruins, now the domain of the necronaut
There's nothing there, but a gentle sigh, of an unbreathable wind
Hauntingly hollow, in an eddying smog, of an old world re-sinned
Ephemeral electricity discharges, as if from Aether's heaven sent
Arcing to the scorched Earth, in an illuminating, dantean descent
Soot and cinders swirl, from the...
Rolling thunder rumbling, as the passed emerge, from the ashes
Odious apparitions, seemingly appear, like a nightmare's thought
Meandering amongst the ruins, now the domain of the necronaut
There's nothing there, but a gentle sigh, of an unbreathable wind
Hauntingly hollow, in an eddying smog, of an old world re-sinned
Ephemeral electricity discharges, as if from Aether's heaven sent
Arcing to the scorched Earth, in an illuminating, dantean descent
Soot and cinders swirl, from the...
#war
#death
#ghosts
#apocalypse
#scifi
281 reads
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