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Dark Haiku

Listen to the sounds--
Eerie, spectral, strange, haunting:
These are cursèd grounds.

Reeking, nauseous smell
Reaching to your very soul--
From the pit of hell.

Darkness and shadows
Fly on the cavernous walls
Like a million crows.

Teeth as black as coal,
Bloodshot eyes and twisted horns--
Satan’s crafty troll.

Flames that leap up high
Damned souls scream in piercing cries:
No respite is nigh.

Serpents intertwine
Around Satan’s very throne
Where demons recline.

Pitch black and blood red
Dominate the ghastly scene:
Where the Devil led.

March 26, 2023

3rd Place
Hell Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori

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Date: 3/27/2023 8:34:00 PM
Great and beautiful picture of hell. Congratulations!
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Ryan Gayagay
Date: 3/29/2023 12:26:00 AM
Thank you, Christuraj!
Date: 3/27/2023 8:11:00 PM
Congrats, Kabayan! Thanks for sharing your "dark haiku" poetically. God bless you.
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Ryan Gayagay
Date: 3/27/2023 9:24:00 PM
Thank you, Kabayan. Thanks so much for the kind words and encouragement.
Date: 3/27/2023 7:34:00 PM
Very visual Ryan. Congratulations on your win! :)
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Ryan Gayagay
Date: 3/27/2023 9:26:00 PM
Thank you all for the kind words.
Date: 3/27/2023 6:57:00 PM
Dark indeed! Congratulations on your third place win!
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Ryan Gayagay
Date: 3/27/2023 9:27:00 PM
Thank you very much.
Date: 3/26/2023 8:21:00 AM
These are brilliant, Ryan, should place high:)
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Ryan Gayagay
Date: 3/26/2023 5:07:00 PM
Thank you, Joanna. You're so kind.

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