Submissions by Xaphan
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Poetry - To muse in the inner space of imagination.
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
293 reads
DARK POEM
Published
1st May 2022 1:20am
1st May 2022 1:20am
Our Nuclear Winter
Our father who art in heaven, unhallowed and in vain
Usurper of immorality, our depravity, turned to shame
Razing all yours before us, into cinders, ash and dust
Nadir of our existence, reduced to embers of mistrust
Unworthy, as we are, please reveal the righteous way
Come, to us, lord creator and forgive us for our affray
Lead us, almighty one, even though we tried to tinker
End what we have started here, in our nuclear winter
Alas, god died with us, although we didn't even know
Returning to pious scriptures, as fallout fell like snow
With...
Usurper of immorality, our depravity, turned to shame
Razing all yours before us, into cinders, ash and dust
Nadir of our existence, reduced to embers of mistrust
Unworthy, as we are, please reveal the righteous way
Come, to us, lord creator and forgive us for our affray
Lead us, almighty one, even though we tried to tinker
End what we have started here, in our nuclear winter
Alas, god died with us, although we didn't even know
Returning to pious scriptures, as fallout fell like snow
With...
#war
#death
#religion
#apocalypse
#scifi
382 reads
DARK POEM
Published
28th Apr 2022 00:59am
28th Apr 2022 00:59am
Mourning Mist
Maudlin masses reincarnate, in the hastening haze
Opaque apparitions, from a dire netherworld phase
Under a leaden, lightening sky, they rise to breathe
Revenants of the conjured, with lost life they weave
No one will see them, for they're just mourning mist
Idly reforming to reignite, their unholy, soulless tryst
Nebulous, tormented spirits, that even gods forsake
Gather till the sun overshadows, what they replicate
Mourning infuses with the day, above those interred
In a pentagram, rites await, the necromancer's word
Someone tonight will...
Opaque apparitions, from a dire netherworld phase
Under a leaden, lightening sky, they rise to breathe
Revenants of the conjured, with lost life they weave
No one will see them, for they're just mourning mist
Idly reforming to reignite, their unholy, soulless tryst
Nebulous, tormented spirits, that even gods forsake
Gather till the sun overshadows, what they replicate
Mourning infuses with the day, above those interred
In a pentagram, rites await, the necromancer's word
Someone tonight will...
#death
#spiritual
#ghosts
#pagan
#witches
298 reads
DARK POEM
Published
22nd Apr 2022 11:46pm
22nd Apr 2022 11:46pm
Oh No, Asteroid!
Out there in the darkest, frigid void, of godless space
Hurtling towards us, it's the death, of the human race
Nascent presence, of a nomadic iron rock, man'o'war
On a collision course, as if reaped from a time before
And when we inevitably see it, we'll let panic seize us
Sending us to our needy knees, as we pray, to Jesus
They threatened us with MAD, as it passed the Moon
Everyone'll soon know though, we're on planet doom
Revered deity, the end is nigh for you, the annihilator
Our final stand, will be vaporized, in the impact crater
In the...
Hurtling towards us, it's the death, of the human race
Nascent presence, of a nomadic iron rock, man'o'war
On a collision course, as if reaped from a time before
And when we inevitably see it, we'll let panic seize us
Sending us to our needy knees, as we pray, to Jesus
They threatened us with MAD, as it passed the Moon
Everyone'll soon know though, we're on planet doom
Revered deity, the end is nigh for you, the annihilator
Our final stand, will be vaporized, in the impact crater
In the...
#death
#universe
#humankind
#apocalypse
#scifi
293 reads
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
18th Apr 2022 1:13am
18th Apr 2022 1:13am
As Ghosts In Dreams
As night ascends, something's aglow in moonlight beams
Shadows swirling, cast perhaps, but as ghosts in dreams
Glistening on an event horizon, too remote, to remember
Hidden inside periphery's vision, but forever pro tempore
On the many invisible tides beyond, any soul, might soar
Swept along on a waves length, to an unreachable shore
The never ending, dwindling, into an ethereal quiescence
Somewhere in the umbra, as if a mystical, omnipresence
Imaginations of memories, cascade into reveries of hope
Nebulous apparitions, in a spectrum, too distant...
Shadows swirling, cast perhaps, but as ghosts in dreams
Glistening on an event horizon, too remote, to remember
Hidden inside periphery's vision, but forever pro tempore
On the many invisible tides beyond, any soul, might soar
Swept along on a waves length, to an unreachable shore
The never ending, dwindling, into an ethereal quiescence
Somewhere in the umbra, as if a mystical, omnipresence
Imaginations of memories, cascade into reveries of hope
Nebulous apparitions, in a spectrum, too distant...
#dreams
#death
#spiritual
#ghosts
#LifeCycle
333 reads
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
11th Apr 2022 1:27am
11th Apr 2022 1:27am
Heaven & Hell
Beneath the ethereal, silent void, reconfigured by ancient lore
In the present, before the future and what has passed before
Is an ephemeral, pastoral surrealism, amidst an ocean's swell
Where everything that is living, is realigned, by Heaven & Hell
In a parallel world though, adrift in swirling clouds of angel dust
Are sagacious elders, enriched by the harmony, of mutual trust
Where they watch over, an old idyll, with their sympathetic gaze
As the droves weave a dreamscape, of whimsical wending ways
But where there's light, there's...
In the present, before the future and what has passed before
Is an ephemeral, pastoral surrealism, amidst an ocean's swell
Where everything that is living, is realigned, by Heaven & Hell
In a parallel world though, adrift in swirling clouds of angel dust
Are sagacious elders, enriched by the harmony, of mutual trust
Where they watch over, an old idyll, with their sympathetic gaze
As the droves weave a dreamscape, of whimsical wending ways
But where there's light, there's...
#atheism
#religion
#heaven
#hell
#LifeCycle
481 reads
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
3rd Apr 2022 3:15am
3rd Apr 2022 3:15am
Dark Domain
Though some may wend their way, in heartfelt prose and verse
They should look around them, at a world, under a devil's curse
For the flock is without a shepherd, for there are no gods above
With no one to protect them, from an iron fist, in a velvet glove
And if you're there, a special one, amongst the bustling throngs
You're as ethereal as a memory and unable to right the wrongs
Mayhap your invisible way is righteous, but what thrives is pain
As the silent masses, bow obedient heads, in their dark domain
There's a path they...
They should look around them, at a world, under a devil's curse
For the flock is without a shepherd, for there are no gods above
With no one to protect them, from an iron fist, in a velvet glove
And if you're there, a special one, amongst the bustling throngs
You're as ethereal as a memory and unable to right the wrongs
Mayhap your invisible way is righteous, but what thrives is pain
As the silent masses, bow obedient heads, in their dark domain
There's a path they...
#hope
#dark
#atheism
#spiritual
#WritingPoetry
428 reads
DARK POEM
Published
22nd Mar 2022 10:59pm
22nd Mar 2022 10:59pm
Tyranny & Mutation
Without truth, there is no accountability
Without accountability, there is no self-determination
Without self-determination, there is no free will
Without free will, there is only tyranny...
...tyranny & mutation
Mesmeric monsters quelled all the passive masses
With atomic explosions, after the poisonous gases
And their once paradise planet, was razed to rubble
By a satanic insanity, where the doctrines befuddle
The inevitable end began, as the collective conscience abated
As the psychopathic, non humans, new Creation was...
Without accountability, there is no self-determination
Without self-determination, there is no free will
Without free will, there is only tyranny...
...tyranny & mutation
Mesmeric monsters quelled all the passive masses
With atomic explosions, after the poisonous gases
And their once paradise planet, was razed to rubble
By a satanic insanity, where the doctrines befuddle
The inevitable end began, as the collective conscience abated
As the psychopathic, non humans, new Creation was...
#corruption
#war
#death
#apocalypse
#scifi
457 reads
DARK POEM
Published
17th Mar 2022 2:22am
17th Mar 2022 2:22am
This Is MAD!
We had it all, we thought, but it was only make believe
For we had our blind eyes turned, so we'd not perceive
As the automatons transmitted, non-intelligent comms
The despots rained upon us, their missiles and bombs
The sheep 'baaed' in their flocks, like irrational crowds
But the AI dispersed them, beneath mushroom clouds
The fiery end was torturous, in our apocalyptic demise
Incinerating our toxic screams and vaporizing their lies
In the non-now, lightning illuminates the poisonous rain
Where, in a nuclear winter, humanity's sanity's...
For we had our blind eyes turned, so we'd not perceive
As the automatons transmitted, non-intelligent comms
The despots rained upon us, their missiles and bombs
The sheep 'baaed' in their flocks, like irrational crowds
But the AI dispersed them, beneath mushroom clouds
The fiery end was torturous, in our apocalyptic demise
Incinerating our toxic screams and vaporizing their lies
In the non-now, lightning illuminates the poisonous rain
Where, in a nuclear winter, humanity's sanity's...
#war
#death
#MentalHealth
#despair
#scifi
299 reads
DARK POEM
Published
26th Feb 2022 10:10pm
26th Feb 2022 10:10pm
Psychoborg
Psychoborg, war whore, it wants to fuck us over
From the Bering Sea and all the way to Moldova
It's an abomination, with a face from a 3D printer
But with a finger on a button, for a nuclear winter
Psychoborg's lost the plot, or rationality's thread
Running on cold blood, that should've been bled
Bypassing the first law, of robotics and humanity
With its mind reprogrammed, devoid of its sanity
Psychoborg, the fusion of monster and machine
Is rebooted in the dark night, so it doesn't dream
It was created to lead a remorseless,...
From the Bering Sea and all the way to Moldova
It's an abomination, with a face from a 3D printer
But with a finger on a button, for a nuclear winter
Psychoborg's lost the plot, or rationality's thread
Running on cold blood, that should've been bled
Bypassing the first law, of robotics and humanity
With its mind reprogrammed, devoid of its sanity
Psychoborg, the fusion of monster and machine
Is rebooted in the dark night, so it doesn't dream
It was created to lead a remorseless,...
#war
#death
#monsters
#MentalHealth
#scifi
274 reads
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
24th Feb 2022 00:10am
24th Feb 2022 00:10am
Aether
Within these faux whispering walls, of a memory's lie
There's a viable world beyond, perpetually passing by
Here's not a place for ghosts, or even death's, lost lair
Or the purgatorial dungeon, of an ebbing life's despair
Within here, where insularity, sprawls and idly wends
Are open portals, where the impious soul transcends
Encompassed by eternity, reveries may clone a trace
To follow tomorrow unfurling, in a void of inner space
Within immortality's squalls, there is no way to dream
With nowhere, for conjuration, just a pixelated...
There's a viable world beyond, perpetually passing by
Here's not a place for ghosts, or even death's, lost lair
Or the purgatorial dungeon, of an ebbing life's despair
Within here, where insularity, sprawls and idly wends
Are open portals, where the impious soul transcends
Encompassed by eternity, reveries may clone a trace
To follow tomorrow unfurling, in a void of inner space
Within immortality's squalls, there is no way to dream
With nowhere, for conjuration, just a pixelated...
#loneliness
#death
#spiritual
#ghosts
#MovingOn
452 reads
DARK POEM
Published
15th Feb 2022 11:58pm
15th Feb 2022 11:58pm
Castling Kings
Under the gaze of old gods, there are puppets on strings
In the chequerboard world, where they are castling kings
It's where matriarchs reign, like bewitching ebony wights
With devisers in their entourages, of bishops and knights
Invisible forces move, to advance, or even counterattack
With pawns to the fore, for them, there's no turning back
Retreating is not an option, for it's the rules, of the game
For they're the collateral damage, an en passant, in vain
Yet craven kings, are hidden, within crannies and nooks
Behind lines of...
In the chequerboard world, where they are castling kings
It's where matriarchs reign, like bewitching ebony wights
With devisers in their entourages, of bishops and knights
Invisible forces move, to advance, or even counterattack
With pawns to the fore, for them, there's no turning back
Retreating is not an option, for it's the rules, of the game
For they're the collateral damage, an en passant, in vain
Yet craven kings, are hidden, within crannies and nooks
Behind lines of...
#power
#war
#death
#religion
#manipulation
311 reads
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