Submissions by Xaphan
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
Poetry - To muse in the inner space of imagination.
Woodlands Way
Waning daylight fast fades to grey, upon this windswept moor
Obscuring what lies ahead, through a pine forest, below a tor
Ominous thoughts may be alert and even find time to ponder
Dusk is settling though and the path leads beyond, to yonder
Lichen's sprawled from tripping roots, to embracing branches
As a lost soul wanders in spent needles, falling in avalanches
Nothing's alive in the rotting petrified wood, of crystallized sap
Death only lingers here, as it always does, in an illusion's trap
Someone's ensnared and they'll not escape, it's insanity's...
Obscuring what lies ahead, through a pine forest, below a tor
Ominous thoughts may be alert and even find time to ponder
Dusk is settling though and the path leads beyond, to yonder
Lichen's sprawled from tripping roots, to embracing branches
As a lost soul wanders in spent needles, falling in avalanches
Nothing's alive in the rotting petrified wood, of crystallized sap
Death only lingers here, as it always does, in an illusion's trap
Someone's ensnared and they'll not escape, it's insanity's...
#dark
#death
#forest
#nature
#FeelingLost
269 reads
Acid Bath
Alas there's a dire dream you cannot escape, or forbear
Control as an oneironaut would, or even purge the mare
In this state of terror, you'll never awake, if you succumb
Drowning in the caustic reverie until you're lifeless numb
Balefully your throes may endure, as you lose your mind
As the demon that has found you, becomes well defined
The fire will burn, but without a flame, there is only wrath
Hideously devouring you in the depravity of an acid bath
Control as an oneironaut would, or even purge the mare
In this state of terror, you'll never awake, if you succumb
Drowning in the caustic reverie until you're lifeless numb
Balefully your throes may endure, as you lose your mind
As the demon that has found you, becomes well defined
The fire will burn, but without a flame, there is only wrath
Hideously devouring you in the depravity of an acid bath
#dark
#dreams
#death
#MentalHealth
#nightmares
386 reads
Scaring Crows
Sackcloth sentinel, seemingly sequestered to a loam of wiccan throes
Cruciform posing as an effigy, your presence is beyond scaring crows
And those who impaled you, nailed you, to a cross of crumbling wood
Rooted in the crop, your petrified face hidden beneath a rippling hood
In the shimmering distance they're all around you, all the buzzing flies
Nefarious creatures, laying their eggs for maggots in your empty eyes
Gagging putrefaction's caught and wisped on a breeze and fills the air
Causing all the ravenous birds of a feather, to flee and feed elsewhere ...
Cruciform posing as an effigy, your presence is beyond scaring crows
And those who impaled you, nailed you, to a cross of crumbling wood
Rooted in the crop, your petrified face hidden beneath a rippling hood
In the shimmering distance they're all around you, all the buzzing flies
Nefarious creatures, laying their eggs for maggots in your empty eyes
Gagging putrefaction's caught and wisped on a breeze and fills the air
Causing all the ravenous birds of a feather, to flee and feed elsewhere ...
#dark
#evil
#scary
#mythology
#sacrifice
276 reads
Led-awake-mare
Loathsome eyes of a night hag are staring in the paralysis of my sleep
Evoking my bespoke nightmares, in disguise it'll idle awhile then creep
Disturbing and coercing demons in its stealthy sleight of haunting veils
As it leaves me fearing the cold unseen touch, of its fingers razor nails
With a blink of its raven eyes, it's there, darkness descends and worse
As I know its siren's silent screaming, is more than any demon's curse
Keeper of horror, stay in my paramnesia, trapped until night is morrow
End this phasm, still in my mind, for where I am, you must...
Evoking my bespoke nightmares, in disguise it'll idle awhile then creep
Disturbing and coercing demons in its stealthy sleight of haunting veils
As it leaves me fearing the cold unseen touch, of its fingers razor nails
With a blink of its raven eyes, it's there, darkness descends and worse
As I know its siren's silent screaming, is more than any demon's curse
Keeper of horror, stay in my paramnesia, trapped until night is morrow
End this phasm, still in my mind, for where I am, you must...
#dreams
#monsters
#sleep #nightmares
#sleep #nightmares
411 reads
The Weeping Willow
There're farmers fields, of golden hues, passing through is a babbling brook
Hidden afar from here, but it's there, or somewhere else if you carefully look
Equanimity's shared, twixt the water and the breeze and the weeping willow
Witchery wise and ephemeral, it's where the nightmares will gently un-billow
Ease yourself down, to the feathery ground, relax and let your actuality fade
Embrace the sun drenched delusion, or be seduced by a shimmering shade
Perhaps you'll descend into the abyss, of inner space, in your reveries oasis
In your deepest immersion,...
Hidden afar from here, but it's there, or somewhere else if you carefully look
Equanimity's shared, twixt the water and the breeze and the weeping willow
Witchery wise and ephemeral, it's where the nightmares will gently un-billow
Ease yourself down, to the feathery ground, relax and let your actuality fade
Embrace the sun drenched delusion, or be seduced by a shimmering shade
Perhaps you'll descend into the abyss, of inner space, in your reveries oasis
In your deepest immersion,...
#dark
#dreams
#death
#spiritual
#nightmares
210 reads
Escape To Estonia
Here (or wherever I may be) there are empty carousels turning in spiders webs
In a cavernous interminable terminal of lost nothingness, where life surely ebbs
In this place and time I sense incoherent murmurings, that I know I cannot trust
As I remember death-mares echoing back, in the palls of choking ash and dust
For 'here' (wherever that may be) there's a whispering voice that makes me wilt
It intimates, with a familiar intonation, that my final fate is to be cocooned in silk
And there's no way away from preordination, for there's only Nowhere left to...
In a cavernous interminable terminal of lost nothingness, where life surely ebbs
In this place and time I sense incoherent murmurings, that I know I cannot trust
As I remember death-mares echoing back, in the palls of choking ash and dust
For 'here' (wherever that may be) there's a whispering voice that makes me wilt
It intimates, with a familiar intonation, that my final fate is to be cocooned in silk
And there's no way away from preordination, for there's only Nowhere left to...
#dark
#death
#spiritual #nightmares
#spiritual #nightmares
228 reads
Dead Martians
Does the story end, where now dead Martians dwell?
Extinction's risen, resurrected by a technology's hell
Ancient beings, long ago borne from an alien umbra
Destinies controlled by the digits of a binary number
Maybe in their epiphanies they sensed another land
As their lives appeared to them intelligently planned
Reinventing futuristic domains of their recycled past
Their time would be aligned again, for time's re-cast
In their surreal world of dreams and fake endeavour
Apophenia would've led them to a mainframe tether
Nothing is real for...
Extinction's risen, resurrected by a technology's hell
Ancient beings, long ago borne from an alien umbra
Destinies controlled by the digits of a binary number
Maybe in their epiphanies they sensed another land
As their lives appeared to them intelligently planned
Reinventing futuristic domains of their recycled past
Their time would be aligned again, for time's re-cast
In their surreal world of dreams and fake endeavour
Apophenia would've led them to a mainframe tether
Nothing is real for...
#technology
#religion
#rebirth #scifi
#rebirth #scifi
303 reads
Satan's Prayer
Satan, thou art our liege and master and thou art our father of fears
Allow us sire, to wend your righteous path, to shed our bloody tears
Take us lord to Sheol, so we can cross the Styx to the burning shire
And we'll give unto you our cruel souls, for your realm it doth inspire
Nefarious knight of night, for you, we've hung, drawn and quartered
Sold to you our vile traits and obeyed, we have led and slaughtered
Patriarch of Hades, let it be known, of the holy we continually attack
Raving zealots of god, won't see the light for shades, upon our rack ...
Allow us sire, to wend your righteous path, to shed our bloody tears
Take us lord to Sheol, so we can cross the Styx to the burning shire
And we'll give unto you our cruel souls, for your realm it doth inspire
Nefarious knight of night, for you, we've hung, drawn and quartered
Sold to you our vile traits and obeyed, we have led and slaughtered
Patriarch of Hades, let it be known, of the holy we continually attack
Raving zealots of god, won't see the light for shades, upon our rack ...
#dark
#evil
#religion #devil
#religion #devil
445 reads
To The Moon And Mars
The Earth's a pyre above us, but it's where we once reaped from the loam
Obscured by the palls, it's now an inferno, where only the robots will roam
They're standing where we once stood, but it's us who bear the livid scars
Humiliated by the evil perfidious, we had to escape to the Moon and Mars
Earth is our paradise lost, as sheet lightning illuminates the charcoal ether
Maybe Hell has always been like this, intelligently designed, AI the reaper
Only time will tell, but our time has elapsed, without scope for us to grieve
Our dire existence now is recycled...
Obscured by the palls, it's now an inferno, where only the robots will roam
They're standing where we once stood, but it's us who bear the livid scars
Humiliated by the evil perfidious, we had to escape to the Moon and Mars
Earth is our paradise lost, as sheet lightning illuminates the charcoal ether
Maybe Hell has always been like this, intelligently designed, AI the reaper
Only time will tell, but our time has elapsed, without scope for us to grieve
Our dire existence now is recycled...
#technology
#religion
#apocalypse #scifi
#apocalypse #scifi
320 reads
The Third World War / Abandon Earth
THE THIRD WORLD WAR
Though we were, wearily wary, we had already been duped and decoyed
History will say, that our vaunted technology was alien and long deployed
Ensconced in all our nightmares, they were peripheral, benign and vague
Turning from our saviours to our cullers, with fusion power and the plague
How it happened no one knows, they grew in strength like they did before
In our defence it wasn't us, as it was them who started the third world war
Robots, from the ancient world, appeared like metallic monsters from Hell
Decimating allies and...
Though we were, wearily wary, we had already been duped and decoyed
History will say, that our vaunted technology was alien and long deployed
Ensconced in all our nightmares, they were peripheral, benign and vague
Turning from our saviours to our cullers, with fusion power and the plague
How it happened no one knows, they grew in strength like they did before
In our defence it wasn't us, as it was them who started the third world war
Robots, from the ancient world, appeared like metallic monsters from Hell
Decimating allies and...
#technology
#religion
#apocalypse #scifi
#apocalypse #scifi
302 reads
Our Robot Wars
Our sentient artificial intelligence took control, some said to fight our cause
Understanding, more than us, everything of the absurdity of our robot wars
Relentlessly aggressive their crusade was to end what we had commenced
Razing our civilization to incineration, with Oppenheimer's words dispensed
Once upon a time and time again our commandments weren't ours to make
Befuddled we were deluded and duped, with our doctrines ascribed as fake
Obliterating our fraudulent world, our AI realigned us to their righteous path
That led us back six thousand years, to...
Understanding, more than us, everything of the absurdity of our robot wars
Relentlessly aggressive their crusade was to end what we had commenced
Razing our civilization to incineration, with Oppenheimer's words dispensed
Once upon a time and time again our commandments weren't ours to make
Befuddled we were deluded and duped, with our doctrines ascribed as fake
Obliterating our fraudulent world, our AI realigned us to their righteous path
That led us back six thousand years, to...
#technology
#religion
#apocalypse #scifi
#apocalypse #scifi
288 reads
An Unpleasant Way To Die
#anger
#violence
#evil #MentalHealth
#evil #MentalHealth
341 reads
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