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Best Hellfire Poems

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Premium Member Interlude
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this performance we call life,
my spirit searches for an...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hellfire, angst, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm Into the Darkness
A Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm into the Darkness

Entering the dark side of a moonbeam on this evil lens of life,
A gruesome old man recreates...

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Categories: hellfire, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Old Dark House
The Old Dark House

This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is...

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Categories: hellfire, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member - a Psychedelic Whistle Plays a Rhythm Into the Darkness -
Entering the dark side of a moonbeam on this evil lens of life,
A gruesome old man recreates a murder time and time again, 
As the...

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Categories: hellfire, dark, evil, fantasy, horror,
Form: Narrative
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down...

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Categories: hellfire, creation, dark, evil, god,
Form: Narrative



Fading
"Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more, in the leafless root there is no less"...

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Categories: hellfire, angst, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ante Bellum
“ANTE BELLUM”


BEIGEBest served where it can’t be seen
On Stirling Silver platters
With redruM narcotics
Delivered by sharp Blood-Red
Well-mannered talons
Strutting in sleek wet rolling tight-skirted
Long French Silk Stockinged...

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Categories: hellfire, america, bible, corruption, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Revive the Breakage
High upon the highest heights
I see the most tremulous sight
A small girl, fair and tranquil
Smiling strangely, sitting still
Beneath a sobbing willow tree
She recites a verse...

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Categories: hellfire, allegory, death, devotion, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Russian Evil Will Thrive If Good Men Do Nothing
The west went in guns blazing to help their fellow man
In Syria against the Islamic State and in Iraq and Afghanistan
They brought an end to...

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Categories: hellfire, conflict, death, war, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Regrets Of The Raspberry Moon

When cyan night's 
raspberry moon
is dipped in softness 
of the afterglows, 
I gaze at that glossy
first evening star between 
creamy fingers of 
my cherry palm,...

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Categories: hellfire, dark, deep, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Keep It Turnin' To the Right
Oklahoma cowboy, tough coal miner’s son
Born in Henryetta, south of Tulsa some
Raised by daddy’s momma, taught him wrong from right
Daddy taught him ropin’, taught him...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hellfire, day, earth, funny, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - the Old Dark House -
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each...

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Categories: hellfire, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each...

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Categories: hellfire, dark, dream, evil, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Striking Deeply a Painful Reminder
Striking Deeply a Painful Reminder 

Striking deeply a painful reminder comes of you now.
Salt falls inside my open wound bringing untold pain.
My soul has one...

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Categories: hellfire, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Striking Deeply a Painful Reminder
Striking Deeply a Painful Reminder 

Striking deeply a painful reminder comes of you now.
Salt falls inside my open wound bringing untold pain.
My soul has one...

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Categories: hellfire, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things