Best Tempter Poems

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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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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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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My need for love
is never sated
it's not dated
but continuously present
ever feeling
always reeling
from its demands
it gets out of hand
you can't possibly understand
My need for love...

My need...

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Tempter shrouds his cold flame 
hovers dwelling in pleasure,
with no remorse 
to lay a kiss
on the sleeping soul at their weakest
as they lodge in fear.

11/18/2017...

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The great tempter tries, subtly, watching us, lurking to lure.

Preparing, waiting to dazzle us, in times we are unsure.

His flames dance so beautifully, as we...

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Adam was the first man,
perfectly made
But he did not have a godly nature
to resist the supreme tempter,
Satan
Adam left us, his children, a legacy of sin
Disobedience...

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The serpent called her

And as if swans carried her light airy behind
She ran through the cooling blue vines of the garden

Into a jungle that puffed...

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There 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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Now that December has descended
with it's roots of ice and skies of snow
our timber fortress is a sanctuary of ethnographic enlightenment
and embassy that entreats the...

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Do you hear that creaking on the stair?
Have you ever wondered if there’s anyone there?
Well let me tell you, yes there is
And not what you...

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Lucifer

Son of the Morning—
Symbol of false perfection.
Lucifer is thus . . . 
	A tempter and deceiver . . . 
Praise only Almighty God!

Gary Bateman, Copyright...

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THE 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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~The Fallen Star~ 
(Free Verse) 



I can't still believe that millions have fallen and fall for all those lies, 
Yes, I am very aware that...

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Look in this glass, and tell me if you can see a little devil in; 
But, I`m afraid you cannot do it today, so let...

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