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Best Eldritch Poems

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Premium Member Eldritch
We skate the frozen face of reality
Above the deep dangerous dark
We make our superficial marks
Not too deep
For fear The Dark will mark us
And visit...

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© Lee Leon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: eldritch, angst, dark, deep, extended
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ravenous Eldritch Wrath a Collab With James Fraser
RAVENOUS ELDRITCH WRATH

The darkening skies in choir of wrath;
The wind brisk banging blows;
The withering of trees;
The falling twirling leaves;
The branches sudden irate tweak and split.

Giving...

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Categories: eldritch, holiday, horror, imagery,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ravenous Eldritch Wrath a Collab With Olive Eloisa Guillermo
RAVENOUS ELDRITCH WRATH

The darkening skies in choir of wrath;
The wind brisk banging blows;
The withering of trees;
The falling twirling leaves;
The branches sudden irate tweak and split.

Giving...

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Categories: eldritch, angst, dance, dark, death,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Eldritch Dark
The things that lurk I dare not lark
For nothing is ever what it seems
In that lonesome and eldritch dark

Sounds of melancholy lark
Harboring thoughts that suddenly...

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Categories: eldritch, dark, lonely, mystery,
Form: Villanelle
Eldritch Quest
Heartbeat ringing in my ears
Wondering why I am here
Eldritch quest of many years
Farewell, love to you always, my dear

To the alabaster summit I longingly stare
Somehow...

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Categories: eldritch, horror, myth,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Captive Bird - 12 Bars 12 Dreams
12 BARS

Twelve  brazen bars, one frozen lock!
Confined, sublime, an ancient Roc
endures inside a barren cage,
her catacomb in sundown sage.

Of former days there is no...

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Categories: eldritch, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Full Moon Makes Faces Tonight
The Full Moon Makes Faces Tonight 

Gazing out my picture window on this darkest of night,
The full moon shone sky-high with the brightest of light.

I...

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Categories: eldritch, allegory, beautiful, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member To Mock Butterflies
My existence seems like a timeless tragedy,
ticking away in the harmony of misophonia and me.
I've been reluctantly raised in the arms of trauma,
hiding from the...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: eldritch, anxiety, mental health, mental
Form: Free verse
Nearly To Hell
Through eldritch streets I walked alone
With shadows on my track,
Full jellied was  my every bone,
I thought my mind would crack.

Through mist and morbid mire...

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Categories: eldritch, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shove It! (Adult Content)
The relativity of wealth and poverty
Amazing.
Einstein’s formulations pale
In juxtaposition to universal carnage.

Obese pigs of a glam, 
filled holes of cultural blacktop.
“Get your plump white asses...

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Categories: eldritch, history
Form: Free verse
The Old Crone In the Woods, Part Ii
II.
Liesel spent months worrying about this,
about dark minions and young souls that hurt,
she even started fearing for herself
for questioning the teachings of the church.

She did...

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Categories: eldritch, anxiety, baby, children, heaven,
Form: Epic
Goodbye, Cruel Colleague
Appearance was your entire routine.
But truth is found if one looks deep enough.
A walking good first impression machine,
Yet something else when we cut through the...

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Categories: eldritch, betrayal, evil, social, trust,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
The Choice
The World

My work is over time to head on home
Made lots of money trading stocks on-line
I told my secretary she could leave 
Askance my traders...

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Categories: eldritch, christian, evil, faith, fear,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Eye of Dark
Follow the path
in the dark of night
past the Well of Wyrd

In the forest deep
the Witch Trees keep
names in a book of blood

Eldritch is plucking something
strange...

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Categories: eldritch, dark, dream, magic,
Form: Free verse
Fog
Fog
Tenebrous veil
From eldritch quietude
Shapes emerge and evaporate
Mysteriously...

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Categories: eldritch, weather,
Form: Cinquain

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