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Deadly Nightshade Poems - Poems about Deadly Nightshade

A Soliloquy of Unrequited Love
... Written on April 13th 2025 for Sara Jama's Prompt The Cold Embrace of Death Reverberated within the empty chambers of my soul, As I soak my skin in a clawfoot tub, drowning in my......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, angst, anxiety, dark, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Great Witches Bake Off
... The Great Witches Bake Off is here again Bakes so weird some have no name. So fierce it was to be the winner, The prize is fame, on Lucifer's underworld twitter. Laughing and cackling but alert......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, food, magic,
Form: Rhyme



Lilith
...A dweller in waste places, a void in foggy darkness, the unseen shadow that trails us. A doom that curses benign plants. A tenacious panting wolf feeding off the sorrows of the soil. She'......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, anger, angst, evil, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Song of The Atropa 'belladonna' No 14: ABBA
...As strangleweeds ghost life manifestly, caused by an Atropa belladonna exposé mind-bending, marijuana bears parallel outcomes, yet, it's deathly, Greek myth Atropos cuts the thread of life bella......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, allusion, analogy, death, fate,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Belladonna
...Oh, belladonna, deadly bloom, Potent in your smile, Bold, the dew-drops in your eyes, Bewitching in their guile Blazing with a brazen nerve, Your irises aspire To burn the embers of your fir......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, beauty, betrayal, desire, fire,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise
... "The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise" They called her the tree hugger, her forest was full of trees that watched silently, they had no mouth to speak, rustling the......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, dark, light, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Fireflies and Stuff
...glow bugs in eerie summer marshes add twilight sparkle to ink blot welkin, fireflies red heart flash deadly nightshade clicks scare bats Posted and created : 11th March 2022 Contest Name......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, art, color, dark, deep,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Vegicide
...Suggesting a new plant based diet She’d leave me if I didn’t try it In that quarrel she was the winner So that evening I cooked the dinner The table was laid and the soup that I’d made Was H......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, food, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member If I Were
...[written for ‘If I Were’ contest, but not entered because, well, I just couldn’t help myself] If I were a seagull, I’d sit in a tree I’d poop on the flower that sits beneath me (A pretty good......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, flower, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pale Horse and the Yellow Submarines
...This year's Halloween edition.... "Pale Horse and the Yellow Submarines" There approaches One Light bringer rides a dead pony a......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, halloween, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Bete Noir
...I knew she was poison, but as a young man with jug ears and pimples I gladly held out my glass for more deadly nightshade. She said she liked poetry but it was obvious ......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Intoxicating Poison
...Beauty bows and surrenders at her bare feet, The gold glitters jealous of her glowing skin, Her bright eyes light embers of passion within, Men yield to her will! W......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, addiction, analogy, death, love,
Form: Sapphic stanza
The Purple Belladonna
...A demure damsel, her prussian blue eyes. I astray all blurred, in subtle catalyze. High cheek bones, beneath her caramel hair. My purple veins pulse, in red wanton flare. The pretty Belladonn......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, beautiful, betrayal, black love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blitzkrieg : a Kookaburra Laughs
... “Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff a......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, dark, destiny, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bees Under Milk Wood : a Spell
... "Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting." Robert Frost "Bees Under Milk Wood : A Spell" Spider Web glis......

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Categories: deadly nightshade, romance,
Form: Romanticism

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