Best Mephistopheles Poems
Below are the all-time best Mephistopheles poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mephistopheles poems written by PoetrySoup members
An English Adaptation of Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea From FaustThere was a king once reigning
Who carried a great, big flea—
And far from him complaining,
The flea filled the king with glee!
For to him that flea...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, allegory, humorous, irony, political,
Form:
Light Verse
The Nocturnal Delight of Mephistopheles - Part OneOne dark, dreary night while working on a poem of hellish, hideous and
Horrible fright, I became at once quite so fatigued and could barely...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative
The Nocturnal Delight of Mephistopheles - Part TwoTHE NOCTURNAL DELIGHT OF MEPHISTOPHELES - PART TWO (CONTINUED):
The stage was now set . . . from nowhere, Mephisto handed me a missive in
Medieval...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative
Heeling Mephistopheles
"Heeling Mephistopheles"
murdering crows
flies in on the bow
of a Stradivarius
strange webs cleared
from the mind of
Machiavellian insolence
insisting life written
by dancing fingers
pressing...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, muse,
Form:
Free verse
We DancedI penned a couplet for you today.
Rather, a quill manipulated
my hand and scrawled mendacity.
The misanthrope's who read the ode
applauded with flippers on.
Such insight. Such depth.
Mussolini...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, introspectionme, me,
Form:
Free verse
Peristalsis of DarknessRecumbent, crippled: a conscious corpse
Life calling for me to follow
Mentality, it warps
Why does my skull feel hollow?
As I wait for the...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, anger, anxiety, depression, mental
Form:
Rhyme
An Bee Cailleach
“Éagmais croí a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Faoi dhíon taobh istigh de na blianta seo.
Fanacht i bhfianaise, a dhíscaoileadh ar gach eagla.
Ós rud é go ndearnadh...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, fantasy, imagery, joy, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Parlor of Prometheus - Part Four -" She was born in 219 A.D.,
I met her in 235 when she was 16 years old.
I was working hard with her father as a...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, creation,
Form:
Ode
AddictionI'm Mephistopheles, you, my Faust
I'm to your mind what a fluorescent bulb is...
To a fly. I take perverse pleasure
In trapping you in my undertow
I'm a...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, addiction, drug, metaphor, write,
Form:
Personification
My Voodoo BrideMY VOODOO BRIDE
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Married only three hours still in jubilation
My beautiful bride natures finest creation
A seaplane trip to an island just east of Haiti
I...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, betrayal, conflict, evil, grief,
Form:
Rhyme
The Parlor of Prometheus - Part Five -" Mephistopheles became a river whose current flowed in the wrong direction,
he believed that suffering could be eradicated from life,
absurd as lead being wieghtless,
his deviance...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, creation,
Form:
Ode
Limerick Crochetes: Once Angela Signed Pact With Doctor JeckelLimerick crochetés: Once Angela signed pact with Doctor Jeckel
Once Angela signed pact with Doctor Jeckel
Needed urgent help her kitchen all pell-mell
In far-off torn country
People turned...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, angel, hero, political,
Form:
Limerick
FaustusFaustus was a very curious man
Obsessed with burning desire
To feel see and to understand
The secrets of God’s universe
He was not afraid to make...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, anxiety, dark, desire, passion,
Form:
Ballad
The Faces of Man
"The Faces of Man"
The faces of Man
transformative
held in the hand
of Mephistopheles
blood sells white and red
pontificating with two fingers
consuming greed for
want of...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, dark, humanity, psychological,
Form:
Epic
The Devil PersonifiedIf ever I put a face to Mephistopheles
It would be this man’s
Smooth beauty, inviting but aloof smile
Such velvety black skin
Over the bones of an exotic...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, evil, sin,
Form:
Narrative