Dark Before
..."But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:...
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Categories:
contest dark, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Ballad
The Evil of the Dark Dimension
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"Dormammu is the Cosmic Conqueror, the Destroyer of Worlds.
A being of infinite power and endless hunger, on a quest to invade
every universe and bring all worlds into his Dark Dim...
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Categories:
contest dark, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
We Are the Dead
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We are the dead that visit you at night,
Can you not feel our sadness and our yearning;
This deathly realm is a dark endless void,
We feel your pain and your deep sorrow ...
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Categories:
contest dark, dark, death, dream, grief,
Form: Verse
Darkness Engulfs
...Darkness engulfs
Loneliness stings
black of darkness engulfs
Mood swings
pain of parting bluffs,
Desires denied
as all the plans trash,
My heart He spies
my subtle emotions crash...
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Categories:
contest dark, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Funeral Cortege Sans Protocol-Contest
...Funeral Cortege Sans Protocol
The autumnal equinox period
Spells time for worship, pilgrimages
Rituals and a pandemonium
Of festivities and gay hyperactivities
The elephant godhead idol
Ov...
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Categories:
contest dark, allusion, death, funeral, goodbye,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Blushes of Dusk
...Blushes of Dusk
It's been twilight of dusk
as humanity cries,
Bloodshed of wars
cruelty and famines,
Emotions all bled
kindness scraped,
Love exhaled
and logic slaughtered,
Strippe...
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Categories:
contest dark, hope,
Form: Free verse
Battle Fields
...Screams from a thousand men
upon bloodied fields,
the blood dripping
from the hedges
and over-reaching briars.
Look to that blood...
smear its life-gone sap
into your soul
and start to coun...
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Categories:
contest dark, dark, imagery,
Form: Verse
Dark and Twisted, Another Bloody Body Awaits
...Dark And Twisted, Another Bloody Body Awaits
There she lies, bloody dead at foot of my bed
How the hell had our love morphed into this
Throat slashed, body decaying without a head
Smell of ro...
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Categories:
contest dark, betrayal, dark, death, evil,
Form: Rhyme
The Funeral - Dark Poetry
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Many weeping people have come to my funeral with flowers,
Oh the red roses are so beautiful and the lilies divine;
My dress is of the softest rosy pink and it is all chiffon and wispy,
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Categories:
contest dark, dark, funeral, poetry,
Form: Verse
Mid-Nightmares
...MID-NIGHTMARES
It haunts the wicked parts of sleep,
where even dream's darkest corners will not tread.
Drowning shadows in the stinging tears we weep,
immobilizing dream and dreamer, frozen to ...
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Categories:
contest dark, angst, confusion, dream, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Life In the Dark
...Life in the dark
Sorrow and melancholy,
The reflections of our dark inside,
Are just like an opaque window,
That never permeated any light,
Sometimes sad state of ignorance,
Urges us to thr...
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Categories:
contest dark, absence, dark, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Dark and Mystical
...The Big Ben bangs!
Reminding me its twelfth midnight
Packing my things
Preparing to go home
Car keys on hand
Off to go, outside..
I looked up to search the smile of moon
Seeking winking stars even ...
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Categories:
contest dark, dark, imagery, mystery, night,
Form: Imagism
Dark and Mystical
...The sun-deserted earth, darkness night bears
A small way in the trees, easy to walk in there
Where there's a cemetery not so old in years
Where spiders crawl and serpents slither
The sand...
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Categories:
contest dark, dark, mystery,
Form: Quintain (English)
Behind Closed Doors
...Rafters shake in irritation, as if to say what their excuse?
It could be him, it could be her, but there's no love when there's abuse
A temper flames, then brings a tear. It sears self-wor...
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Categories:
contest dark, abuse,
Form: Free verse
'resonance of Rain'
...resonance of rain
an azure sky now darkened…
unseen tears roll down
Contest: Dark Rain (haiku)
4th place...
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Categories:
contest dark, life, sadrain, rain,
Form: Haiku
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