Tag Archives: dark

Red Alert

My heart has broken Shards of glass spill Red alert There is no hurting It is riven, dead Red alert Call the ambulance Arrives too late Red alert Write the epitaph Words unspoken Red alert (c) Helen Valentina 2013, All … Continue reading

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Cold Case

Our history is a cold case Dissected on a table Dusty memories now covered No-one has looked within For years Our passion is on cold ice Freezing like its birth-right Trapped within a photo A memory mostly forgotten In tears … Continue reading

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Forget Her – For Prompt 14 – The Music of Jeff Buckley

The debris of these many years alights your mind like a firecracker out of season; a chance sighting on the street of similar hair, a similar walk and memories flooded back A dam unstuck, overwhelming And you thought you could … Continue reading

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Mistake

A click on the keyboard A stroke of the pen Decision made in haste Miscalculates, and then All we know of hell And all we’d know of heaven Descends A word brusquely spoken A tear soaked voice Denial of true … Continue reading

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Trenchcoat Song

Trenchcoat covers Neck against a chill That slivers down the alleyway All the way to hell Frost upon the grass breaks As stranger’s feet tread by Players roll their dice to see Who may live or die High heeled, cool … Continue reading

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Model Army

Such skeletal form In garb of darkest hue Direct, emotionless gaze Piercing fashion through Life’s darker mysteries In glances so construed Marching mannequins master Talents known to few Down the boulevard Paparazzi prey Celebrity in hiding Venture out this day … Continue reading

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Dark Parade

I have not yet Been consumed by lust or love I’ve flown above The act while it was made Just curiosity For all the games we’ve played I have not known My soul, this dark parade I have not yet … Continue reading

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Guilt

I am drawn out on this rack Spread like withered newspaper crackling and brown; I have hungered beyond earthly recognition for a moment of almost predatory peace Sweet skeleton irradiates unspoken crimes; days long ago during summer’s idyll, where we … Continue reading

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Kissing’s Sake

I knew you In the moment of the kiss I knew that nothing Would be more or less than this This was it all Just the touch of lip and tongue No serenade to art Or of romance there begun … Continue reading

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Pitiless

Pitiless As Vlad Tepe’s eyes Gazing at the carnage Of his artistry You rise Remorseless as he You remain Against all the cries wrung out From this Symphony of pain Bloodless lips Like his icy kiss Draw back Startling with … Continue reading

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