Reunited
...In crescendos and surges of light,
Beneath the somber, crimson sky,
Beyond the shadow's line,
He stretched his wings in haste
He found and swept an angels heart;
They shine and struck embrace
A...
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Categories:
crescendos, bereavement, faith, family, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Demonic Despair
...
The whooshing of threadbare curtains cuts through deadening silence,
while shadows on the wall toy with a hermit's sanity.
The graze of unseen, jagged fingernails scrapes against sweaty flesh...
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Categories:
crescendos, dark, death, deep, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Les Cirque des Morts Collab with B J Fitz
...A cocooned cacophony of crickets serenades overgrown fields,
drowning out the creaking of rusted cars long since abandoned.
Maroon and sable tents blot the dilapidated ground—
bloated a...
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Categories:
crescendos, dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Les Cirque des Morts, Collaboration with Sara Jama
...A cocooned cacophony of crickets serenades overgrown fields,
drowning out the creaking of rusted cars long since abandoned.
Maroon and sable tents blot the dilapidated ground—
bloated and we...
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Categories:
crescendos, analogy, dark, death, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Howling Wilderness
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Gnarled trees yawn under a starless sky
As a swift coldness mixes with the "howling wilderness,”
Crescendos until pure silence strangles the macabre atmosphere.
Preparing for the imminent j...
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Categories:
crescendos, beautiful, deep, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The Paradiddle of Being - Book Two: The Becoming
...VI.
We are all metric modulations
of our former selves—changing time signatures
mid-measure, learning to count
in odd meters when life refuses
to conform to 4/4 expectations
fi...
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Categories:
crescendos, extended metaphor, fate, identity,
Form: Lyric
Castles
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I'm kyanite-kissed venom ~
above castles
of capitalised cryptics ~
choreographing
l i f e
in crescendos
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Categories:
crescendos, dark, deep, emotions, life,
Form: Verse
Cry Ugly
..."Cry Ugly"
My deepest private searing pain manifests as "Cry Ugly.”
Guttural moans race like a runaway train. The wail crescendos and peaks as a Banshee scream.
Tears race down my face… my n...
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Categories:
crescendos, angst, dark, journey, psychological,
Form: Narrative
An Artist's visit
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For Sara Jama's contest "Emotional Shrapnel"
05/10/2025
she appears spontaneously
courtesy asunder
an uninvited visitor
behind her a seeping of rust at the gates
an artist with barren hands...
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Categories:
crescendos, red,
Form: Free verse
Frozen Side of The Sun
...Turning over in a ruffled bed,
stark red numbers sear 4 a.m. into bloodshot corneas.
Nothing but darkness creeps through threadbare curtains, frozen in place.
A desolate silence becomes deafen...
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Categories:
crescendos, dark, gothic, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Star Patterns
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Stars are flashing jewels of light
worn by angels, dripping sparkles
that hover within nights’ indigo skies.
Each stellar star is a heavenly diamond
carefully cut and crafted by the hand o...
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Categories:
crescendos, god, nature, stars,
Form: Free verse
Redemption
...Wandering, searching for the wind
An empty vessel, lost adrift.
Steering toward a forgotten shore,
To a place that deals only in absolutes,
Where no storm shall cloud our path.
When we wake fr...
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Categories:
crescendos, imagery, lost, sun, sunset,
Form: I do not know?
Seven Magical Spells
...I write to you from inside an empty skull
because Wednesday can be hollow and bony
as we all may well know.
I am a man of great hope,
not unlike those earlier alchemists
with their gathered elem...
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Categories:
crescendos, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Winter's Lullaby Lyrics
...Choking noble light held by the hands of Fate
As deceived Persephone enters Hade’s gate
The burning suns falling through the universe. ...
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Categories:
crescendos, dark, death, emotions, grief,
Form: Lyric
Chandeliers In The Sky
...Hear our voice
From the east, west, south, and north
Hear our independence
This July Fourth
Like flowers in bloom
In the night
See the chandeliers
Hang in the sky
With crescendos and
Reds, b...
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Categories:
crescendos, july, summer,
Form: Rhyme
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