Category Archives: Poetry

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Dominion

This time we will have true dominion This year we will take control This moment is poised for our victory And all of our virtues extol The crown and the spectre are waiting Our place is best there on the … Continue reading

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Magician

The magician draws the night About his shoulders as a cloak His ritual is deep delight A fire rising from its smoke Dimensions open to his word And spirits rising from their graves A bloodied heart, a fiery sword Damnation … Continue reading

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Artist

Be for me an artist of my memory These shining links which fill the void-less universe are only you Your hand which binds enchains me in your brittle grasp Sweet Eros on the hunt throw out your snares for I … Continue reading

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Mirror

If I held a mirror Closely up to you Could you see yourself Could you witness true? Could you see the dissonance Tween what you say and do Could you see yourself Could you witness true? In your world a … Continue reading

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Aftermath

We will till the fields in the aftermath We will grow new harvests We will tend new paths We will dream of better days As gods dance and laugh We will till the fields in the aftermath We will lay … Continue reading

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Choice

It’s habitual The choice that I Return to Like a ritual All others that I Burn through Its methodical The process I Adopt here Pathological As to patterns I will adhere So predictable The vote that I Will cast now … Continue reading

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Madness

The madness of despair rides through her She breathes discontent and lability, her frown one moment turns to joy then darkens once again She is contradictions in all forms and cannot find the centre of herself let alone her world, … Continue reading

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Softly

Softly falling rain Against the window pane Undulates a rhythm Sings a sad refrain Gently falling snow As above, below Crystalline and bright Icy inner glow Deftly written line Ode to the Divine Only of the best Aging, vintage wine … Continue reading

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Solace

Where find such solace When inevitable decay Spreads its diseased tendrils Across each and every pathway? Once friends and now so other Though I tried To still the tide You are yourself Can be no other Can be no other … Continue reading

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Feeding Time For Fools – for Prompt 24 – Vixen

They have named me vixen These shrewd, careful boys In a word they have captured All elements, all meanings As though in describing thus I am therefore contained It’s just feeding time for fools And only fools here remain They … Continue reading

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