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Gelid Poems - Poems about Gelid

Premium MemberUnder The Tree Where The Bodies Hang

...Under the tree where the bodies hang
swaying, dancing in the gelid breeze
neath their rotting toes, the children sang;
slow circling a boy; they taunt and tease.

"It's your father and your ...
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Categories: gelid, horror,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFrozen 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: gelid, dark, gothic, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberPainted Doll

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Earthquakes of bedlam quell
As tectonic plates of emotional instability cease shifting.  
The tears of a discarded clown, suspended in animation—  
Numbness overtakes.  

Masks slip, shatt...
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Categories: gelid, dark, deep, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHeavy is The -

...Hopelessness encloses, engulfing me,  
As another dismal night drifts in—  
Where the only light is the afterglow of the midnight sun.  
I stand upon crackling ice, breathing in fractals of gelid ...
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Categories: gelid, dark, gothic, horror, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVines Of Winter

...Crystallized dew drops scatter across vines in winter,
while I can feel the harsh grip of the season reaching for my throat,
slithering ever closer, bitter air sweeping across crackling skin.
Lone...
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Categories: gelid, dark, gothic, imagery, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Memberbleak winter

...Yay! Some cold at last, and even a dusting of snow.
We moved back into the dorm—braving knife-like breezes—yesterday.
It was bracing and heroic - do I want it to warm up?
That’s a hard no.

let’...
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Categories: gelid, beauty, humor, school, student,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGarnets

...Gems of sunset adorn
Gelid skies of Janus;
Garlands of blood-beads cast
Glints on glacial landscape,
Giving brief warm relief...
Glimmering sparks to thaw
Grief's glassy ice-shards....
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Categories: gelid, january, sunset,
Form: Pleiades

Children of the Forgotten Town

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In the gelid that transpires
Of the wreckages of the bombed town
Two children, brother and sister,
With no house and family
Step into the stones of collapsed houses
Playing no more and smiling...
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Categories: gelid, childhood, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberThe Mask of Black Spinel

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Frice the week along with night had fallen to sleepless slumber,
Trapped again 'tween times when thirds are three in number.

I sense a grimace gurgle in these halls of boned wall,
The aching w...
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Categories: gelid, angst, dream, evil, horror,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberAnywhere But Here

...Somber slate clouds blanket the longing skies,
whilst wisps of snow paint the frozen ground below.
Ombre leaves barrenly speckle slumbering trees,
glistening sheets of ice coat their fading existe...
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Categories: gelid, angst, emotions, gothic, night,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStreets of Solitude

...As threads of pale winter moonlight shine upon rippling puddles,
broken reflections stare back,
setting the scene
in lonesome streets of solitude.
A bitter, harsh wind blows in from the raging ri...
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Categories: gelid, city, dark, deep, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStutters And Chatters Reverse

...Such a harsh gelid sprechgesang
filled with such soprano snowflakes
bitter whistling but so very beautiful
melodies change with the temperature 
emotions fall and form a blizzard 
the wind’s ech...
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Categories: gelid, emotions, feelings, winter,
Form: Other

Premium MemberThe Bomb I

...Perplexity of man has given birth
to all the suns that fill the universe.
A world at war shall advocate its worth
as Armageddon’s architects converse.
Their brilliancy sets forth upon a path
to ...
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Categories: gelid, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Premium MemberThe Return

...A tenebrous void occupies my soul
like a queasy, dark, wintry cloud
hanging low and heavy with sleet and frost.
No gelid wind blows it away
and I despair.  I cannot forget the dead.

An empty, ...
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Categories: gelid, death, destiny, how i
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLife’s Beginnings

...Centuries of creations,
a bravura of celestial fireworks,
masterstrokes exploited,
tides of events vying between 
gelid cold or searing hot.
Mountains grew, valleys sunk
oceans divided and stor...
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Categories: gelid, creation,
Form: Free verse

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