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Best Stygian Poems

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Premium Member Someone Who Used To Be You
When splendor of love spun dreams ecstatic
Musings of fantasy waltzed joyous themes
On blossoms of meadows in prime of spring
And giggles of streams donning green prairies

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Categories: stygian, dream, lost love, love,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member A Shout Into the Void
Upon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent,...

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Categories: stygian, anxiety, emotions, life, stress,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Enlightenment
Quietude endows hushed mystical space
Admonishing words have no role to play—
Look how in solitude its posture bends
Bowing in deference to calming intellect.

Listen to the utterance...

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Categories: stygian, deep, endurance, introspection, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Vanity of Pleasure
A transitory phenomenon, a grand adulation of opulent desire,
Seeking mirth of heaven on earth, passions ablaze ignite fire,
A destination sought after; pleasure is aim of...

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Categories: stygian, desire, happiness, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Internal Inhibition
How fondly he recalls when doting moon stared
Blush of her radiant smile gleamed opaline skies
While cuddling stellar vibes love they declared 
And embracing her allure...

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Categories: stygian, angst, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Rhyme



Empyrean Perfumes

"We can't ever fathom, 
     when the ceasing flicker of hope 
         ...

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Categories: stygian, deep, emotions, fantasy, flower,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Phantom of Love
All alone you sit there in grip of graveyard, hosting demonic thoughts,
Listening to cries of tombstones, squalling from lovers’ somber epitaphs,
Recounting how you chased prospects,...

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Categories: stygian, death, lust, sorrow,
Form: Verse
Scroll of An Oracle
Memory or dream from hell I cannot tell
The vision of stygian forests where harpies dwell
And men from them among men spawned
Greedy gullibles that on pagan...

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Categories: stygian, historymen, men,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Pale Shelter
Ashen was the sky 
That rejected hand of sunrise
Sullen was the heart
That stumbled in affection,

Incapable of lauding
Ruby blush of budding rose
And pink passions on horizon
Defying...

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Categories: stygian, angst, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cover My Nakedness
Through shoveled loam I glimpse pale light
   Hands dare intrude into my burial crypt
Exposing the devastation of my decay
   Dignity of...

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Categories: stygian, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Each Passing Cloud
Aimlessly wander veiled memories of yore
Each passing cloud subtly brings to fore
Recalling regrets, where laments agonize,
Thinking of you, searching forsaken skies,
Muting spent emotions of anguished...

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Categories: stygian, grief, lost love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reflections In Silence
Reflecting within silence of my thoughts
I feel the ills of world in its stygian form--
Its music devoid of the melodic sound
Echoing in humanity’s tenebrous bawl.

On...

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Categories: stygian, angst, conflict, deep, silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There Is a Star With My Name On It
When I am reveling in love of family
Toasting virtues of revered friendships
Savoring freedoms that let me be
Luxuriating on sandy white beaches
Endowed with means to live...

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Categories: stygian, blessing, introspection, life, star,
Form: Verse
Premium Member When Life Encounters Opaque Space
When gusty winds blow, riling my troubled dawn in gelid woes
Squall of my throes dissipates in scented whiffs of budding rose.

As brazen fog shrouds mind,...

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Categories: stygian, angst, endurance, feelings,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Once There Was a Love
Together they sat by the side of a jumping cataract
Watching the sunlight dancing through the smoky vapour
With every droplet mirroring a spectrum of shades
Dreamt of...

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Categories: stygian, lost love, pain, romance,
Form: Free verse

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