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Best Erebus Poems

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Erebus and Terror
Held fast!

Ruthlessly trapped in a white sepulchred vice
that slowly, inexorably, crushes all hope.
Starving we wait, with lips black and caked,
all frozen in a wasteland of...

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Categories: erebus, death, history,
Form: Free verse



L*o*v*e*
As I watch her from across the open squares way ~

Beneath this black and white zebrad umbrellas, curtain and stage....

Navigating, throughout the hurried animated crowds

While...

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Categories: erebus, love
Form: I do not know?
L*o*v*e*
As I watch her from across the open squares way ~

Beneath this black and white zebrad umbrellas, curtain and stage....

Navigating, throughout the hurried animated crowds

While...

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Categories: erebus, friendship, life, love, time
Form: I do not know?
Moon Rise
Facing west
Flaming gold descends 
Light extinguished
She sleeps with Poseidon

Phoebe rises from Poseidon's seat
Silver light on Erebus' shadow
Rebirth promise of beginnings
Herald of the dawn...

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Categories: erebus, ocean, sea, sky,
Form: I do not know?
Desire
Craving to know both side of your story: Helios and Erebus....

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© Diana Bosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: erebus, love, mystery, mythology, wisdom,
Form: Monoku



Premium Member Mighty Night
Oh mighty night,* 

You, daughter of Chaos and Darkness,

Mother of Sleep, of Dream and of Death, 

Whenever you embrace me

The enchanting lullaby of Sleep I...

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Categories: erebus, death, life, Lullaby, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bedtime On Tramp - Part Two
He helped himself up to the wind's foremost blow
On a hillock where the moon searched his impecunious pockets,
Waking a flood in his eyes like swelled...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: erebus, life, time, cat, time,
Form: Narrative
Why the River Hebrus Murmurs
When drifting water of the river Hebrus murmurs 
a heartrending cry surges from the bottom of the river, 
and when this cry reaches the midsummer...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: erebus, heartbroken, horror, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Requiem Ii
carried by the wind, where have you been the lonely soul 
who returned to the riverside; and now, why are you asking 
the way to...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: erebus, dark, death, funeral, lonely,
Form: Verse
Palm of Morning
In our world plenty of light has got brutally put out
 
In our faces a lot of orange leaves no more sprout
 
In your sorrow just  hollow...

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Categories: erebus, happiness, health, heart, hope,
Form: Verse
A Ghost Longing For Mother
There was a man who survived through 
everything against his will while he was alive.

One day this man’s ghost arose, walked out of his grave...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: erebus, longing, mother, son, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
My Love's Sweet Repose
Your eyes have taken me deep within
The essence of your soul
Showing me love that I've never known
A love you emote so well- 
You have breathed...

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© Jan Cannon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: erebus, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Death of Love
The sand under my feet
burning bright;
the sky, a black hole of Erebus;
not a soul, not a whisper,
a feast of jejune sight!

My eyes, a saga of...

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Categories: erebus, depression,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Elements
Am I god's breath

Dawn's first breath caresses dew-wet glade,
yellow catkins quiver in spring's tender breeze,
eastern sunrise fuels passerine serenade.
Sulphur-yellow butterflies, black and golden bees
time for...

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Categories: erebus, meaningful, nature, spring, sunset,
Form: Quintain (English)
Who? (For Rizzy of Sami)
Who'd  dare the exacerbation of the cloud
and cut the fire for the grave;
tell  the Epaulette he's a bum;
break the choking silence
and burst the...

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Categories: erebus, confusion, death, sadnight, night,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs