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Best Nightshade Poems

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Premium Member I Think of You - Ground Zero - 1
I Think Of You - Ground Zero (Part 1)

Leaving under a blood moon
            ...

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Categories: nightshade, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Confessions of a Baby Snatcher
This is my last confession; there will be no more.

I am impercipient and slow from last night's sleeping pill,
wincing away from the harshness of day.
Kitchen...

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Categories: nightshade, baby, loss,
Form: Free verse
The Nature of Wisdom
Every flower has its own color
With annual observation,
this we springtime discover

Give a womb kernel cede
of acknowledgment
To the spectrum birthright
of each other

We are all one,
tho’ from...

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Categories: nightshade, metaphor, nature, truth, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Her Eyes
Her eyes

“In her eyes, I saw the light of a thousand futures, in a single glimpse” – Chris Green

Her eyes are the sunrise
that beckons my...

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Categories: nightshade, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Reaper's Return
The cockroach crawling inside a satin evil darkness
as one clown weeps into silken soft sensual feelings, 
as a blinking starlight beacon awaits a tense message
of...

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Categories: nightshade, dark, deep, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Beauty of Magical Forest
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Forest of stars...

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Categories: nightshade, beauty, magic,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Pale Horse and the Yellow Submarines
This year's Halloween edition....





"Pale Horse and the Yellow Submarines"



There approaches 
One

Light bringer
rides a dead pony

albino 
red eyed, no gun

or so 
the story goes

pale 
as death

hear...

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Categories: nightshade, halloween, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Bound By the Melody of the Sea
Melodious tides serenade along a foam dipped coast line,
we drift as a single composed symphony,
seduced by a pounding surf, its sensuous rhythm pulsates
flooding our hearts,...

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Categories: nightshade, love, ocean, passion, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beautiful Faerie
~Beautiful Faerie~ 
(Rhyme) 


Beautiful Faerie,Beautiful Faerie 
Where are thee beautiful maid 
The day outside is turning so aerie 
And the light it's nearing to fade....

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Categories: nightshade, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Baroness Von Knaughty

Kinky boots ... 
kicking naked truth
Stripped bare
down to the nightshade roots

Temptress gaze ... 
collecting laundered money 
off the dirty parquet

Her pay-for-play
get the tilted short cups
ice...

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Categories: nightshade, allegory, sexy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member Beautiful Faerie -Modern American Sonnet
~Beautiful Faerie~
(Modern American Sonnet)


Beautiful Fairy! Beautiful Fairy!
Where are thee so very beautiful maid?
The day outside is turning so aerie
And all the light now it's nearing...

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Categories: nightshade, beautiful, beauty, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Intoxicating Poison
Beauty bows and surrenders at her bare feet,
The gold glitters jealous of her glowing skin,
Her bright eyes light embers of passion within,
   ...

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Categories: nightshade, addiction, analogy, death, love,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Premium Member The Winsome Gate of Winterborne
Uplift the scent of stars from nightshade.
Sprinkle moondust upon unearthly skies.
Portals light up
And smile within.
Welcome to the garden of breathless night.

Swings the cedar from the...

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Categories: nightshade, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Belladonna
Nightshade, O how you taunt,
Seductive is your flower, dark purple, 
Give yourself over to Her night.

Wine of Circe, Sweet the sleep you give,
A kiss of...

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© Megan Rung  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nightshade, death, life, nature, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Vanilla Killer - trigger warning
Another shift ends. I'm dead on my feet.
Too shagged to even eat.
The word leads (inevitably) to you...
I slipped the timesheets from work today.
Another incident occurred...
Sweetie,...

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Categories: nightshade, child abuse, murder,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Shattered Sighs