Best Fiend Poems

Dark thoughts and desires are just that for a reason...human beings are prone to irrational thoughts, and we all carry secrets that drip into the blackness of our bleeding souls, extending downward below our fetal positioned graves.
Caught up inside my morbidity, concealed  the mystery...

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A Sound in the Bushes

By Elton Camp

I take this walk most every day.
It helps worrisome cares to allay.
Today’s the first I have heard
A sound different from a bird.

Unless my ear misconceives
It is the rustling of fall leaves.
But what could be around
To make that type of...

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OKAY? WHAT FIEND STOLE THY BODY ELECTRIC!?

thine distorted reflection rippled 
within rain maker's pool upon a midnight clear
full moonlight flooded shallow abyss, 
cleaved fractal structures of silence 
reverberating deathly hallow from 'ere
to infinity, whence magic wand 
whipped out from whereabouts unknown 

wove enchanting spell atop...

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Flames from a fuming dragon's snout,
Igniting all that's in its route,
Rendering to  ash and cinder,
Extinguishes self like tinder.

Such is the nature of fire,
Destroyer of vaunted desire,
Nullifier of unbounded pride,
Death-dealer, with no side.

When Prometheus stole the blaze,
The God's in terrible raze,
To the rock did him...

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Our Technology Fiend

Computer, dear, please come on.
Don’t be so temperamental.
Click, click, no light, no sound.
A pulled wire; oh, that cat.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 20, 2010

Poetic form: Chastushka...

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Fiend Feast
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Ghost toast
Roast host


Poetic Form:  Footle...

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Everyday, I awake, body as stiff as a 
     Board, or a slab of concrete.
     My kidnapper stabs at me all over, no hiding for me,
     So, I limp and gasp at my...

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Thine distorted reflection rippled 
within rain maker's pool 
   upon a midnight clear
full moonlight sonata 
   flooded shallow abyss, 
cleaved fractal structures of silence 
reverberating deathly hallow from 'ere
to infinity, whence magic wand 
whipped out from 
   whereabouts unknown...

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I feel the need...
To feed.
I feel your presence near,
My thoughts have become unclear.
The need is so strong,
Without your love, my heart will not last long.
I draw out your power,
I bathe in your love as if it is a shower.
I will harvest your love like the...

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There is a coward
hiding deep within the walls
of helpless beings
only to strike its hardest
when they are at their weakest.

Indiscriminate
and wielding the power of
a merciless god,
it shreds the soul’s dwelling place,
inflicting pain and sorrow.

This fiend is unseen,
but its attack is gruesome.
In its cruel wake,
Death becomes the...

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How sweet,
so pretty,
to disappear
into smoke.
I am a magician,
with a flourish
and a white dove.
I lie down
in my bed of
green,
this magic trick,
and I share with you
my deceit.
So welcomed, so sweet,
this fiend....

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The fiend of time is preying on the substance of my youth,
I’m smoldering away existence to avoid the awful truth
That time is not my friend and the enemy is myself,
And there’s little more to do but accept its mocking stealth.

In a blink of an eye...

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Your 'friend'? Your 'bestie' ...

You KNOW her face like your own,
Know the many masks she wears -
The lovely guises she dresses in to seduce,
And the lies she whispers, sweet.

You know the world she has left in ruin,
Yet you invite her as you would a wish...

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Karuna, a beautiful nurse with a mother’s heart 
Used to take minute care of patients in her ward
In a Mumbai hospital  
Her services to the patients befitting her name
Were full of compassion:  
All on a sudden as she was changing her uniform
At the...

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Brave Shadow Mane


Falling free at a tremendous velocity
Cursing my decision for acting in haste
Through clouds and frozen rain I could not see the ground
Losing consciousness, in my mouth blood I could taste

Now this was indeed a most desperate time
“Luna,” I cried, “I beg thee come...

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