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Best Underworld Poems

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Categories: underworld, friendship, god, heartbreak, lost
Form: Shape



Premium Member Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Achilles, His Heart and Soul Were Mortal
Part One- (Years Before Troy)

Achilles* woke, his slain foes calling out his name
hearing merciless woes, his sharpen sword they...

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Categories: underworld, courage, fantasy, hero, history,
Form: Rhyme
Scarlett
Scarlett thought she was promised permanent security. 
Satchels of resilience bound her fragile wrists. 
Woodland deities hailed her.
Underworld demons feared her.
The curious townsfolk simply stood...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: underworld, irony, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Darkest Destiny
Out of hell’s breath the Devil’s Coachman comes and turns
around the tale to woe twists as the world creeps backwards
underneath the clay slithering sacrificial savagery...

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Categories: underworld, dark, halloween, horror, imagination,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Darkest Destiny
Out of hell’s breath the Devil’s Coachman comes and turns
around the tale to woe twists as the world creeps backwards
underneath the clay slithering sacrificial savagery...

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Categories: underworld, dark, halloween,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member Untethered
Salt tears drip from leaves, 
to land on tea-colored pages.
Hopes and dreams, 
written in the ink of history,
slowly blur and drip 
into the underworld of...

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Categories: underworld, memory, perspective, sad, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Possessed
“Possessed”



The scarlet of her heart opens
where she blooms deepest
from the cuts 
of Past’s insanity
her windows 
full green undressed
him, in his mind;
he confessed,
in quiet reflection, 
he...

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Categories: underworld, muse, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Darkness of Night
Darkness of night,
introduce me to what lurks
underneath your enchanting moonbeams.
I know that I should stay away,
yet, I am drawn to these silent things
that could easily...

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Categories: underworld, dark, death, goodbye, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Dowry of Dreams
Dreams are approaching my Love
following the stars to your heart,
beside your body I breathe and gaurd your lips 
the sentinel of your stellar song, the...

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Categories: underworld, angel, beauty, devotion, heart,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Medusa's Love
Medusa’s Love

Medusa is a hideous and vile creature of Grecian yore. 
Medusa, once a high priestess in the Temple of Athena,
Suffered Athena’s unforgiving wrath for...

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Categories: underworld, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Breakfast With the Mafia
breakfast with the mafia
an early burbs Thursday
we watch them through the window
trying to figure out what they're saying
 
eating their new york bagels
while they plan...

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© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: underworld, funny
Form: Verse
Premium Member Once Upon a Rainbow
The new tomatoes were
Little bumps
On the
Vine
Showing off to the
Universe
Before sundown
On the fourth of
July
Waiting for the 
Celebration
To begin

Duckweed choked
The pond
Set back in the
Woods

Baby
Painted Turtles
Full of hope
Sunning...

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Categories: underworld, art, universe,
Form: Lyric
Africa,All I Need Is Love
She has the eyes of a lion and the smile of a fairy
She has the claws of a bear and the cuteness of a kitten
She...

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Categories: underworld, africa, deep, desire, imagery,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Rainbow Nation
Rainbow Nation

Blanca is white like beautiful snow in the Drakensberg Mountains
              ...

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Categories: underworld, addiction,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Knowing Right From Wrong
It's the pain laced cold reality check
crashing winds hurricane blowing 
the tail end landing with news processed 

Suffering human rights ignored pains
through prides green eyes...

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Categories: underworld, angel, beautiful, faith, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs