Eldritch Hysterical Annihilation Syndrome
...I walk o u t...
I am lost in unapproachable light—a spectral broth
I am tasting the screaming silence—the archetypal observer
dissects my essence-fossil Passion
a seismic rupture betwee...
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Categories:
immolate, halloween, horror, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Level 8
...7/17/23
To all I must send my thanks
Again my very best a waste
Took a right, next left and then straight
After seven takes
Only reached level 8
Nearby a metal gate
I felt the hate
To tel...
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Categories:
immolate, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Pause My Poetry
...You can bleed me blind,
execute my eyes,
victimize my vision,
immolate my imagery,
nullify my name,
suppress me into silence,
slaughter my soul,
execute my ego,
slay my spirit,
veil ...
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Categories:
immolate, angst, poetry, society,
Form: Free verse
Veteran Code
...Veterans helping veterans
That’s how the code goes
For there are certain things
Only a fellow veteran knows.
On the local radio news
The newsreader had said
A man was attacked
And been found d...
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Categories:
immolate, encouraging, mental illness, military,
Form: Rhyme
Today's Report
...the silence of this tasteless Thursday exceeds normal...
if I had the clairvoyance of the optimists I would find pleasure in it,
would feel the peace that hides in the absence of noise,
would p...
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Categories:
immolate, allegory, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Perceived Miracles
...I walk in the door,
my dog is there to greet me
furiously wagging his tail,
whilst sniffing around my shopping bags,
He has that suspicious perplexed
look on his face,
One I’ve seen it man...
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Categories:
immolate, allegory, dog, life,
Form: Free verse
Love Pyres
...
"love pyres"
after the war
romance became
compulsory
not desultory
twin flames
lit each other
up
love pyres
ashes
falling
Psyche rising
immaculate
...
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Categories:
immolate, dark, muse, romance,
Form: Free verse
Killing Idols
...the scapular of your anguish
wounds the insolent chest of your enlightenment with blood
a world in disenchantment cries its drunken hymns
but only jackals lick the nectar of these pains
becaus...
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Categories:
immolate, metaphor, mystery, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Solaris
...we don't know why we wake up this way,
feeling that something is wrong,
feeling late,
as if it had already passed the time
to commit our crimes
and it was too late to go to the balcony
to dry ...
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Categories:
immolate, anxiety, city, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Life Is An Opened Venture
...Living is an opened wound,
paths collide,
beating beings
exterminate themselves
immolate...
Once in a while love...!...
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Categories:
immolate, adventure, allegory, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
Walpurgis
...A Night of Walpurgis
By Sy Roth
The April moon hung in the sky
Full, like nightshade fighting off the darkness
The strident masses hung about the street corners
Chests puffed out readying to r...
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Categories:
immolate, allegory, anger,
Form: Free verse
Black Love
...Black Love
Black Love is a very darkest hue,
owing to
The absence of iniquitous
or
The complete absorption of throbbing
Black Love is the core within oneself,
The marrow of the hearts and...
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Categories:
immolate, 12th grade, black love,
Form: Narrative
Unquotable Quotes: Xliii - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES - XLIII(Continued)
A black-listed writer tops every publisher’s reading list.
Half a loaf is better than no love.
Don’t dig your ears while tying your shoe laces. Just wear ...
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Categories:
immolate, humor, satire, word play,
Form: Epigram
Epitaph
...Please let my essence fumigate
And may my passion fascinate
Under this stone I liberate
Of hopes and dreams to integrate.
My song, my tears, they consecrate
A curse to all that denigrate
My o...
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Categories:
immolate, appreciation, death, farewell, grave,
Form: Couplet
The Odious Oyster
...There are few foods in this world that I hate
But there is one gnarly and nasty invertebrate
Against which I most assiduously discriminate
And I absolutely can not in any way tolerate
If forced...
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Categories:
immolate, food, fun, funny, hate,
Form: Rhyme
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