ThePalestRider
Poem Published
12th Nov 2024 6:53am
12th Nov 2024 6:53am
Sacrificial Monolith
Beneath the moon’s unwholesome light
Where shadows coil in endless night
There stands a stone of blackened hue
Carved deep by hands no man e’er knew
Before the Slavs, before the Magyar’s tread
A race debauched, both damned and dread
Did rule these lands with rites obscene
In homage to their shadowed queen
They danced beneath the gibbous moon
To pipe and drum, their foulest tune
Their bodies writhed, unbound by grace
A beast-like, dark, forgotten race
Upon this stone their rites did burn
Where life and flesh to...
Where shadows coil in endless night
There stands a stone of blackened hue
Carved deep by hands no man e’er knew
Before the Slavs, before the Magyar’s tread
A race debauched, both damned and dread
Did rule these lands with rites obscene
In homage to their shadowed queen
They danced beneath the gibbous moon
To pipe and drum, their foulest tune
Their bodies writhed, unbound by grace
A beast-like, dark, forgotten race
Upon this stone their rites did burn
Where life and flesh to...
#dark
#death
#evil
#forest
#magic
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4 Comments
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Damon
Damon
Poem Published
12th Nov 2024 4:05am
12th Nov 2024 4:05am
Venomous Kiss Of His Fists
In lieu of a kiss, he used his fist
Felt that she dissed and he got pissed
Used his palms in lieu of a charm
Strangled, she couldn't raise her arms
Recited Psalms then said goodbye
Reached the finale of blackened eyes
She chose the wrong guy for a mate
Hindsight's 20/20; a twisted fate
Felt that she dissed and he got pissed
Used his palms in lieu of a charm
Strangled, she couldn't raise her arms
Recited Psalms then said goodbye
Reached the finale of blackened eyes
She chose the wrong guy for a mate
Hindsight's 20/20; a twisted fate
#death
#DomesticViolence
179 reads
4 Comments
MalcolmG
Poem Published
11th Nov 2024 4:10pm
11th Nov 2024 4:10pm
My love lost until then ...
Endlessly I walk through a blinded dream
Where are you now my darling.
I miss you every minute of everyday,
it seems so long that you have been gone,
I wonder If I saw you again,
Would my name still linger or would it be forgotten to your lips?
Would time have made us strangers?
Could our love be the same as it once was? Would you reach out and hold my hand if we are reunited once more,
Please save me as I slowly slip into a puddle of my tears and drown in despair, ...
Where are you now my darling.
I miss you every minute of everyday,
it seems so long that you have been gone,
I wonder If I saw you again,
Would my name still linger or would it be forgotten to your lips?
Would time have made us strangers?
Could our love be the same as it once was? Would you reach out and hold my hand if we are reunited once more,
Please save me as I slowly slip into a puddle of my tears and drown in despair, ...
#death
#FeelingLost
#love
163 reads
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LunaGreyhawk
Jenn_Leigh
Jenn_Leigh
Poem Published
11th Nov 2024 5:16am
11th Nov 2024 5:16am
Bone Broth
Sometimes you’ve got to die
and somehow go on living;
plant a thriving summer garden
where winter buried your heart.
Fertilize the soil with your sorrows,
composted into lessons learned,
seasons weathered with experiences,
love tended to and abandoned;
how it all withers until it is watered
with compassion and fed perspective.
Knowing that long hours spent
under the light of truth of oneself
were worth the knowing,
and being known in equal measure.
And one day your heart, pruned
will be ripe for love and joy...
and somehow go on living;
plant a thriving summer garden
where winter buried your heart.
Fertilize the soil with your sorrows,
composted into lessons learned,
seasons weathered with experiences,
love tended to and abandoned;
how it all withers until it is watered
with compassion and fed perspective.
Knowing that long hours spent
under the light of truth of oneself
were worth the knowing,
and being known in equal measure.
And one day your heart, pruned
will be ripe for love and joy...
#death
#grief
#learning #LifeCycle
#learning #LifeCycle
156 reads
2 Comments
Green_Arrow
Poem Published
10th Nov 2024 10:14pm
10th Nov 2024 10:14pm
Hello? Who's Out There?
Elizabeth was
taking a shower before
she heard someone step
into the bathroom which made
her say "Hello? Who's out there?"
Russ came home from work
and saw that the front door was
forced open. He went
into the bathroom and found
his roommate slashed with a blade.
taking a shower before
she heard someone step
into the bathroom which made
her say "Hello? Who's out there?"
Russ came home from work
and saw that the front door was
forced open. He went
into the bathroom and found
his roommate slashed with a blade.
#death
#fiction
#mystery
#tanka
#tragedy
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BatPowers
Bat Powers
Bat Powers
Bumped 10th Nov 2024 6:26pm
18th Apr 2024 6:01pm
18th Apr 2024 6:01pm
Seven Times
Some say
we are heading in a very bad direction
time to pack up
need to be moving on
close my eyes
the sun warms my face with reflection
this anger inside
i've got to get it gone
down again
like the other times before
little slower, little grayer
age has no cure
i'm gonna put an application on the other side of that gate
been down seven times
i'll get up eight
our little girl
got sick with the onset of...
we are heading in a very bad direction
time to pack up
need to be moving on
close my eyes
the sun warms my face with reflection
this anger inside
i've got to get it gone
down again
like the other times before
little slower, little grayer
age has no cure
i'm gonna put an application on the other side of that gate
been down seven times
i'll get up eight
our little girl
got sick with the onset of...
#anger
#death
#despair
#hope
#redemption
200 reads
16 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
10th Nov 2024 11:19am
10th Nov 2024 11:19am
Road f**king Kills
A ride to salvation so rudely disrupted
I'm looking for revenge on the road
I just got laid off and I'm ready to blow away
The blood lust ready to go
I can’t make the light till this asshole takes flight
My stabbing hand is yearning to fight
To beat you to shit you slow fucking prick
Leave you bleeding and stranded to die
Road Fucking Kills
Splattered around
Road Fucking Kills
And watch you die
I rev up the shift, I’m right on your six
Move over pedestrian scum
Collateral damage is all that they are
I'm not...
I'm looking for revenge on the road
I just got laid off and I'm ready to blow away
The blood lust ready to go
I can’t make the light till this asshole takes flight
My stabbing hand is yearning to fight
To beat you to shit you slow fucking prick
Leave you bleeding and stranded to die
Road Fucking Kills
Splattered around
Road Fucking Kills
And watch you die
I rev up the shift, I’m right on your six
Move over pedestrian scum
Collateral damage is all that they are
I'm not...
#cars
#death
#horror
#MentalHealth
#violence
94 reads
6 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
10th Nov 2024 2:54am
10th Nov 2024 2:54am
Morbid Curiosity
#animals
#death
157 reads
10 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
7th Nov 2024 7:47pm
7th Nov 2024 7:47pm
Time
As my mind traces back
voices from within
tell me to soul search
a personal energy
that resonates
changing my perspective
as multiple beings
alert me when my time will expire
voices from within
tell me to soul search
a personal energy
that resonates
changing my perspective
as multiple beings
alert me when my time will expire
#death
#identity
#memories
131 reads
11 Comments
LostViking
Lost Viking
Lost Viking
Poem Published
7th Nov 2024 1:15pm
7th Nov 2024 1:15pm
Roadkill Prayer
As I passed by where her body lay, a silent prayer I shared,
Who felt the ripple of her death on this morning's gentle air?
Were there fawns yet to be mothered, lives she’ll leave untouched?
What dreams lived within her, now forever crushed?
Would she have chosen differently if choice were hers to make?
A noble end by hunter's bow, a fate she'd gladly take?
Or did she dream of tender love, a young buck's bounding lust.
in her final breath today, she began her path toward dust.
Who felt the ripple of her death on this morning's gentle air?
Were there fawns yet to be mothered, lives she’ll leave untouched?
What dreams lived within her, now forever crushed?
Would she have chosen differently if choice were hers to make?
A noble end by hunter's bow, a fate she'd gladly take?
Or did she dream of tender love, a young buck's bounding lust.
in her final breath today, she began her path toward dust.
#death
#love
#lust #motherhood
#lust #motherhood
153 reads
1 Comment
ThePalestRider
Poem Published
6th Nov 2024 9:01pm
6th Nov 2024 9:01pm
Brine Song
Priest kissed those cold clay lips
Form mutilated on battle between ships
A gift given back from grey seas
Fish and brine ate up everything below the knee
Once a man of honor, strong and bold
A warrior forged in fire and mold
He sailed beneath both storm and star
To find his fate in realms afar
A tale of powder’s burn and sabres’ flash
Of cannon’s roar and timbers’ crash
Where mortal form on reefs was dashed
And hope, like sails, to tatters lashed
The waves bore witness, fierce and grim
As bloodied waters...
Form mutilated on battle between ships
A gift given back from grey seas
Fish and brine ate up everything below the knee
Once a man of honor, strong and bold
A warrior forged in fire and mold
He sailed beneath both storm and star
To find his fate in realms afar
A tale of powder’s burn and sabres’ flash
Of cannon’s roar and timbers’ crash
Where mortal form on reefs was dashed
And hope, like sails, to tatters lashed
The waves bore witness, fierce and grim
As bloodied waters...
#conflict
#dark
#death
#sea
#water
87 reads
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ThePalestRider
Poem Published
6th Nov 2024 10:15am
6th Nov 2024 10:15am
Up On Castles High
Upon the jagged peak it stands
A keep of dark, forbidden dread
Not wrought by mortal minds or hands
But gods long cursed and left for dead
Its towers scrape the ashen skies
In shadows veiled, unblessed by light
Here numbers breathe, and symbols rise
To twist the stars in dreadful rite
Nine pillars hold that cryptic place
And seven gates of rusted woe
Through thirteen paths, in jagged trace
The lost and damned are bade to go
O faithless spires, accursed throne
Where demons tremble, saints despair
Their...
A keep of dark, forbidden dread
Not wrought by mortal minds or hands
But gods long cursed and left for dead
Its towers scrape the ashen skies
In shadows veiled, unblessed by light
Here numbers breathe, and symbols rise
To twist the stars in dreadful rite
Nine pillars hold that cryptic place
And seven gates of rusted woe
Through thirteen paths, in jagged trace
The lost and damned are bade to go
O faithless spires, accursed throne
Where demons tremble, saints despair
Their...
#dark
#death
#evil
#gothic
#rhyming
140 reads
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