Devilry Poems

Dead Dollies

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He slips the noose around her slender neck
Cloaked and masked with heavy breath
He can't help but be obsessed
All the dolls hangin' around - pretty little lies that make not a sound
The poison ...
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Categories: devilry, dark, evil, grief, horror,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberShip of Dreams

...The ship of dreams
Opulent surroundings
Fancy bed linens
Luxurious dinner plates and tablecloths
Gleaming virginal utensils
Dazzling crystal chandeliers
Polished walnut woodwork
Gold gilded fi...
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Categories: devilry, history,
Form: Free verse


Dead Dollies

...He slips the noose around her slender neck
Cloaked and masked with heavy breath
He can't help but be obsessed
All the dolls hangin' around - pretty little lies that make not a sound
The poison of...
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Categories: devilry, allusion, crazy, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWin the Night

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It was a difficult lesson but alcohol
Was what taught me how to fall
To scratch and claw to a perch so high
It's hard but I sigh I've gotta say goodbye
From here on I will walk this lonely ...
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Categories: devilry, america, anger, how i
Form: Free verse

The Local

...Stupid Penny toys with her button
Biting her bottom lip, Frowning her brow
Misery pulls at her
Loneliness sucks 
Fill voids with Mall time 
Plastic replete.
Feeling so fulsome; flirting with cl...
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Categories: devilry, crazy, deep, evil, girl,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberThis Chalice of Night

...It beckons, this chalice of night,
brooding beneath the limpid film
of gossamer and stolen light.

It preys, this chalice of night,
on satiations longing need
to quaff, to quench, a darkened se...
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Categories: devilry, dark, drug, evil,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberGlowing Gals

...It takes many days walking the path God has given,
limping with arthritic stagger, aching unrelentlessly.

Any matter that this condition came on as I retire,
nearly psychosomatic! I must look ol...
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Categories: devilry, age, christian, courage, pain,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTribute To Youth and the Days Imagination and Boyhood Dreams

...Tribute To Youth And The Days Imagination and Boyhood Dreams,
Poem One- Inspired by my own youth, also by Mark Twain's,
books, "Tom Sawyer" and his, " Adventures of Huckleberry Finn "...

To thee...
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Categories: devilry, appreciation, boy, childhood, growing
Form: Rhyme

Mh370 Epilogue

...Bolehland recorded one of the greatest mystery in modern air travel....
A full passenger jet plane that mysteriously  went missing into thin air...
Despite spending millions in a long and exhaustiv...
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Categories: devilry, anxiety, community, confusion, funeral,
Form: Free verse

Mh370 Epilogue

...Bolehland has the dubious honor of losing a full bodied jet liner...
Undoubtedly touted as one of the greatest mystery in modern air travel....
A full passenger jet plane that went missing into thi...
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Categories: devilry, angst, anxiety, community, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Culloden Revisited

...Heathen warriors dressed in the plaid
Victims of time and an evil brigade
Pursue their beliefs far into the South
Gaelic words from a Jacobite mouth

Like bairns against many a gun
The highland...
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Categories: devilry, fantasy, history,
Form: Rhyme

Filling Feelings

...My eyes see
They hear too;
Words silently shouting
In the eyes of another. 
Cords slowly choking
As a heart wawls in an echo reechoing
They hear
The voice in the noise
The cry in the laughter...
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Categories: devilry, deep, desire, feelings,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberThe Full Moon Makes Faces Tonight

...The Full Moon Makes Faces Tonight 

Gazing out my picture window on this darkest of night,
The full moon shone sky-high with the brightest of light.

I spied its eldritch contours and its dark a...
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Categories: devilry, allegory, beautiful, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Couplet

Exposure

...Exposure

All the pretence of innocence
The rules that one invents
Laws that must be seen to be
Beyond the reach of devilry

Those in power can circumvent
As they like, with full intent
Lega...
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Categories: devilry, freedom, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme

Auf Wiedersehn

...Auf Wiedersehn

   Well here at last it's party time,in shorts and dirndl dress.
   Excitedly we travelled to the fest, a night of pleasure lay ahead.
   We knew from past experience, don't quaff...
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Categories: devilry, friendship, fun, october,
Form: Acrostic

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