Water Gothic Poems

“Upon Waking”


Slumber has its upsides 
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard, 
cacophonous 
pecking at each other 
and at the ground…

Elsewhere, 

like dull background...

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As I watch the rain coming down in measured bursts onto the dark waters of the vast bayou.
My mind notes the watery circles and bubbles...

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the oppression


The town's sewer pipe ends in the middle of a fjord 
a gray mass slowly dispersing forever into blue 
water like a sin forgiven...

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stark rocky cliffs
foreboding and somber 
light drifts in hollow windows
thunder drowning the screams 
as the rain beats a steady absent rhythm 
black cats run n...

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I tried, oh I tried,
But the wound was way too deep.

Water wont douse the fire,
When it's a flame that we seek.

I dug up your ashes,...

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Shadrach Stone had lived a rather feared life.
Now, it’s back for him like a butcher’s knife.
A man he’d choked in tears leaving his wife,
In many...

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I lay in my bed.
Thoughts come in waves.
When will it end?
The Dragon slain.

No amount of time.
No person, no thing.
Can change the fate,
That the needle brings.

Sights...

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Down in hell, that stronghold of sin.
strange things stir, but let me begin.
I'll get to the point. Some details I'll skimp.
I tell the tale of...

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...She looked at him with a sneer and a snarl,
Then looked off to the priest with venom eyes,
Only to look back and rage at Marton,
“You...

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Is that you there 
I recognize that stair
Those eyes of a faraway dream
Fancy seeing you here, on this twilight day 
While walking along this 
Sterile...

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As sex and scars, mascara covers
The blood n liquor mingles on the bar
Draining to the vast caverns of my horrors 
While dark dreams coalesce in...

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What is born in the thermals of a barren land
A spiral of destruction sublime

(I feel its power seeping into the ground)

Across the seas, it comes...

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these lonely somber nights
sigh a breath in the chaos
bring in their final loss
of perfectly sewn delights.

the raptured light forms it's glow
in astray with the stinging...

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A silent figure stands on the edge of a cliff,
the wind is sharp, winter is in its heart.

Its thoughts are lost 
in the sterile Point...

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Thunder echo's
Softly in the distance.
Hot is the twilight
Sheet lighting flickering in the velvet sky; high.
Strobe all in the sharp silhouette.
Black shapes...
Thunderheads; masses as the cloud...

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