Deadly Nightshade Poems - Poems about Deadly Nightshade

Along With The Thunder

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Weightlessness
My soul floats "along with the thunder,"
Saturated with impending rain,
Scattered back throughout the earth,
Lost among ancient ruins and countless seas.

I awaken, feeling...

A Soliloquy of Unrequited Love

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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...

The Great Witches Bake Off

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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...

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'...

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...

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...

The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise

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"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 
...

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...

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...

Blitzkrieg : a Kookaburra Laughs

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“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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