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Penny Dreadful
Dreadful but beautifully
Draped in her penny sun dress
Spider-webbed and leather skin
She never fails to rob my breath
Takes my heart away
Each day in moldering tombs
I light thirteen black candles
To enhance the gloom
Morbid with a sense
Of Carpathian grace
Each time she has me
Coming with desire
The fire burns away
That witch was absinthe braced
I can sense the succubus
Right beneath the skin
I am waiting, salivating,
For the sin to begin
Under vistas when the sun goes down
Bestial screams heard all across the town
Jesus wept when shadows crept
In throes of the underworld
Winds that swept out from the depths
Together we watch the end unfold
At the precipice where
The living and the dead are wed
I still kiss her granite lips
At the abyss, from whence I beg
All those fanciful
Tall tales underneath full moons
She comes to life bursting
Out from undying wombs
Venturing forth on
Plague winds calling on black sails
The sweetest voice now
Among the devil’s choirs
So dire when incantations
Are resounding in Hell
The great sea constantly
Pounds against the hull
Announcing the coming
Of Miss Penny Dreadful
Under vistas when the sun goes down
Bestial screams heard all across the town
Angels slept when demons stepped
On hooves in the underworld
And we crept across shipwrecks
Together we watch the end unfold
Dreadful, Penny Dreadful
Your kiss tastes like the bloom of deadly nightshade
We exist in sepia shades, never to fade
Our claws reach out from the eternal nightmares
When we embrace on the outskirts of lasting warfare
Dreadful, Penny Dreadful
The time has come to desecrate the scriptures
Necromaniacs entwine in hardcore pictures
May you be my bride, I’ll be your Mr. Hyde
We are the horror show at the end of crimes
Quando venit hiems
Cum nix furiae
Et in ea sanguis effundam
De cerussa
Ego flexis
Tamen ante vos
Nox aeterna meam Domina
Creatures of the abyss
Shine with the reaper’s caress
Have never known jealousy
At the skeletal hands of Death
‘Til they saw her corpse
Bathed in the light of the moon
She made my heart beat fonder
At the coming doom
So fascinating
With Carpathian lace
Trimmed with black bondage
On a binge with friars
The liars chase away
That witch was nectar graced
Draped with sacrifices
Sipping from the skull
Trumpeting the coming
Of Miss Penny Dreadful
Under vistas when the sun goes down
Bestial screams heard all across the town
Angels slept when stepped
On hooves in the underworld
And we crept across shipwrecks
Together we watch the end unfold
Dreadful, Penny Dreadful
Your kiss tastes like the bloom of deadly nightshade
We exist in sepia shades, never to fade
Our claws reach out from the eternal nightmares
When we embrace on the outskirts of lasting warfare
Domina, Domina
Amplexabitur me, Domina
Under vistas when the sun goes down
Bestial screams heard all across the town
Jesus wept when shadows crept
In throes of the underworld
Winds that swept out from the depths
Together we watch the end unfold
Dreadful, Penny Dreadful
The time has come to desecrate the scriptures
Necromaniacs entwine in hardcore pictures
May you be my bride, I’ll be your Mr. Hyde
We are the horror show at the end of crimes
(c) 2015 Frank Green
Draped in her penny sun dress
Spider-webbed and leather skin
She never fails to rob my breath
Takes my heart away
Each day in moldering tombs
I light thirteen black candles
To enhance the gloom
Morbid with a sense
Of Carpathian grace
Each time she has me
Coming with desire
The fire burns away
That witch was absinthe braced
I can sense the succubus
Right beneath the skin
I am waiting, salivating,
For the sin to begin
Under vistas when the sun goes down
Bestial screams heard all across the town
Jesus wept when shadows crept
In throes of the underworld
Winds that swept out from the depths
Together we watch the end unfold
At the precipice where
The living and the dead are wed
I still kiss her granite lips
At the abyss, from whence I beg
All those fanciful
Tall tales underneath full moons
She comes to life bursting
Out from undying wombs
Venturing forth on
Plague winds calling on black sails
The sweetest voice now
Among the devil’s choirs
So dire when incantations
Are resounding in Hell
The great sea constantly
Pounds against the hull
Announcing the coming
Of Miss Penny Dreadful
Under vistas when the sun goes down
Bestial screams heard all across the town
Angels slept when demons stepped
On hooves in the underworld
And we crept across shipwrecks
Together we watch the end unfold
Dreadful, Penny Dreadful
Your kiss tastes like the bloom of deadly nightshade
We exist in sepia shades, never to fade
Our claws reach out from the eternal nightmares
When we embrace on the outskirts of lasting warfare
Dreadful, Penny Dreadful
The time has come to desecrate the scriptures
Necromaniacs entwine in hardcore pictures
May you be my bride, I’ll be your Mr. Hyde
We are the horror show at the end of crimes
Quando venit hiems
Cum nix furiae
Et in ea sanguis effundam
De cerussa
Ego flexis
Tamen ante vos
Nox aeterna meam Domina
Creatures of the abyss
Shine with the reaper’s caress
Have never known jealousy
At the skeletal hands of Death
‘Til they saw her corpse
Bathed in the light of the moon
She made my heart beat fonder
At the coming doom
So fascinating
With Carpathian lace
Trimmed with black bondage
On a binge with friars
The liars chase away
That witch was nectar graced
Draped with sacrifices
Sipping from the skull
Trumpeting the coming
Of Miss Penny Dreadful
Under vistas when the sun goes down
Bestial screams heard all across the town
Angels slept when stepped
On hooves in the underworld
And we crept across shipwrecks
Together we watch the end unfold
Dreadful, Penny Dreadful
Your kiss tastes like the bloom of deadly nightshade
We exist in sepia shades, never to fade
Our claws reach out from the eternal nightmares
When we embrace on the outskirts of lasting warfare
Domina, Domina
Amplexabitur me, Domina
Under vistas when the sun goes down
Bestial screams heard all across the town
Jesus wept when shadows crept
In throes of the underworld
Winds that swept out from the depths
Together we watch the end unfold
Dreadful, Penny Dreadful
The time has come to desecrate the scriptures
Necromaniacs entwine in hardcore pictures
May you be my bride, I’ll be your Mr. Hyde
We are the horror show at the end of crimes
(c) 2015 Frank Green
Published 24th Apr 2015
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24th Apr 2015 2:42pm
Thats a dreadfully dark Poem and I enjoyed it. I am still thinking you have a pretty dark muse. HadesR.
25th Apr 2015 3:27am
1st Mar 2017 6:56pm
You outdid yourself on this one, the first stanza is amazing, the whole thing is so well written and shows amazing vision, it's great.....
1st Mar 2017 7:52pm
The addition of the "Bump" here is an exception idea. When I first posted this piece I felt it flew under the radar but now it has a chance to shine again. I'm overjoyed you liked it. Thank you.
I loved this immediately due to the Title. One of my favorite books by Baer. Made me think about this trilogy I love so much, thank you. <3
2nd Mar 2017 3:08am
