Ghost
...By Michael Parker
The winter storm has settled above me like a dark continent,
aubergine and gray, and has eaten the moon and her children.
The oracles, because of this, are choked and di...
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Categories:
caliginous, 12th grade, pain,
Form: Free verse
We never fall
...For many times we've been down,
Are we not still standing now?
At dawn we petition the divine,
Hoping for renascence into the sempiternal.
Be it luminous sun or caliginous night, neither is opt...
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Categories:
caliginous, africa, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Silence in a Shattered World
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Written: July 2, 2025, for contest by: Sara Jama
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Ashen, wispy shades flicker
awash in caliginous candlelight.
His dark eyes peek out from b...
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Categories:
caliginous, adventure, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Poe Ravenscroft Marmosett The Dark Goddess
...(A lone voice whispers)
Like a lone argus-eyed oblique tattered caliginous silhouette
Moving extremely cautiously in the severe, deadly silence
The Mistress of the Voices of the Dead
Poe ...
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Categories:
caliginous, deep, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Pulse of the Poet's Abyss
...In my chambers where phantasmagoria undulate
not as vigilant watchers but as mnemonic parasites
I ruminate—
no longer a singular entity but a disjointed duality
my qui...
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Categories:
caliginous, emotions, gothic, halloween, imagination,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Refining Consciousness
...“instrumentalising mind, I rested thought
employing it only when needed
shifting to heart, I became self-taught
gentling touch, voice of conscience heeded” ~ Unseeking Seeker<...
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Categories:
caliginous, dance, dream,
Form: Free verse
Macabiloquent Mastery
...As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heav...
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Categories:
caliginous, dark,
Form: Free verse
Death Knelt
...In the cartographies merger with the soul,
where topographies bring thought converge,
a hidden rose blooms,
its petals unfolding,
like a cipher's dark emerge,
thorns burst contradiction ...
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Categories:
caliginous, art, crazy, creation, dark,
Form: Free verse
Sculpted
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Life, are you a blessing or a punishment?
I'm trying to understand how I'm
a slave to the sculpted version of me.
A prisoner without chains,
upon a path forged with my own hands,
feeling li...
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Categories:
caliginous, angst, pain,
Form: Free verse
Yaldabaoth embellished in his shadows
...Caliginous eyes
Fearsome face of sickly white
Lion-headed snake
Embellished in his shadows
With flaming orange beneath...
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Categories:
caliginous, animal, color, evil, horror,
Form: Tanka
SAVE THE MORIBUND LUNGS OF THE EARTH
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Biosphere's tropical respiratory rainforests are on the verge of extinction,
the exclusive reservoir of biodiversity, the Congo Basin is shrinking rapidly.
Deforestation dehydrates the c...
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Categories:
caliginous, earth, environment, pain, planet,
Form: Rhyme
The Great Names
...This, as it is, stripped and reduced - undone by
raging, torrential, opened senses;
To its elemental couplings of unbridled pieces.
Here is life, in towering, brindled expanse, that
swallows ...
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Categories:
caliginous, birth, creation, earth, magic,
Form: Free verse
Eyes Like Yours Set All Apart
...Set smoke, so sweet, so delicate
Something fuliginous, so intricate
Ocher bronze is all that I can see
You're beautiful, a dime to me
Spheres of the purist maple syrup
Sums them up; affectionate...
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Categories:
caliginous, love,
Form: Free verse
The Stars Tonight
...Luminosity of the despondent star in the celestial land above
Had grown to be caliginous in nature
Dwindled its crimson gleam
Dissolved into newfound restlessness,
Parched, dark, waterless sp...
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Categories:
caliginous, 12th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Closer To Fine
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Darkness engulfs my lone soul,
Like a big black gaping hole,
Falling deeper and deeper,
Like an unending creeper
Into the bottomless pit
Of dank depression, I quit,
"I am fine...
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Categories:
caliginous, dark, depression, how i
Form: Rhyme
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