Long Erebus Poems

As I watch her from across the open squares way ~

Beneath this black and white zebrad umbrellas, curtain and stage....

Navigating, throughout the hurried animated crowds

While holding fast to the facades below their colourful awnings

Trying to...

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As I watch her from across the open squares way ~

Beneath this black and white zebrad umbrellas, curtain and stage....

Navigating, throughout the hurried animated crowds

While holding fast to the facades below their colourful awnings

Trying to...

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There was a man who survived through 
everything against his will while he was alive.

One day this man’s ghost arose, walked out of his grave and followed his footmarks on a rugged trail, hard and...

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It was a special day in Olympus, 
City of the gods, the lands of the chosen,
The clouds trembled as the mountain shook,
Darkness for a moment, even Zeus couldn't strike his bolts,
And behold light from nowhere.
@Jockwriter

For...

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(Piece is intended to be the most complex vocabulary gothic ever)

Grandiloquence,
mellifluous pulchritudinous,
gaiety of quintessential moistening serendipity,
bile deluge if you show the sanguinary breath,
crimson waterfall sizzling on lava rock hellscape.

Yclept necrophelia maestra,
macabre tableau,
dips douse abyssal incarnate,
now...

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There come those nights—you know the sort:
The ones where the moon is a tear-stained cheek, pressed to heaven’s passenger seat window,
Toying with the tides to the rhythm of some melancholy song that only she knows.
She’s...

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When drifting water of the river Hebrus murmurs 
a heartrending cry surges from the bottom of the river, 
and when this cry reaches the midsummer night’s sky
the stars echo and a lyre in the constellation...

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carried by the wind, where have you been the lonely soul 
who returned to the riverside; and now, why are you asking 
the way to Erebus to the swaying reeds over and over again
with the...

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Written: February 14, 2025 for Brian Strand Contest

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In twilight,  specks become stars,...

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He helped himself up to the wind's foremost blow
On a hillock where the moon searched his impecunious pockets,
Waking a flood in his eyes like swelled teats.
He opened wide to receive the Lady, this Endymion cheats,
No...

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O kabab merchant, thy skewer!
Fresh fish on the line!
And, moreover, in a blur -
Life, be unrefined!

Tangled are the strands of Fate?
Causality, roam!
Make a meal of small, ye great?
Lie down in the loam?

Well, we hope not,...

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Before the Light of the Sun and the stars began to shine,
Dwelled the Winged Chaos, in pitch as darkened as red wine,
His companions were Nyx the Night, Erebus the Darkness,
And Tartarus the Abyss, the dungeon...

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The Erebus Experiment
                  The Lewis effect......
            ...

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In our world plenty of light has got brutally put out
 
In our faces a lot of orange leaves no more sprout
 
In your sorrow just  hollow floral bunch I hand out
 
The dark shadow of Erebus becoming...

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Earthen songs! from handsome angel throngs, opsoletus
Intervals and spells of the scope of temporal rondure,
A surging of the populus in singulari confluentia 
So the book does diagram guthan, guð, and god,
Khute gaia, of poured earth,...

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Sometimes
the burden of liberty
weighs heavier
than the burden of peonage

What if the debt has been settled
in the tumult of the past?
Will the peace of the now
lay still and remember?

Why, pray tell in this so-called freedom
did I...

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Am I god's breath

Dawn's first breath caresses dew-wet glade,
yellow catkins quiver in spring's tender breeze,
eastern sunrise fuels passerine serenade.
Sulphur-yellow butterflies, black and golden bees
time for birth, new life, our earthly sphere decrees

of Erebus and Nyx

Impish...

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The Spews of Erebus
Our desire unites us
that our greed and ambitions
might be heard as prays
to a concerning and considerate God
Might the Spoils of discovery
find sceince as profitible
as it is interesting

they cheered and toasted him
not knowing...

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Held fast!

Ruthlessly trapped in a white sepulchred vice
that slowly, inexorably, crushes all hope.
Starving we wait, with lips black and caked,
all frozen in a wasteland of ice and snow;
revealing desolation and utter despair that 
relentlessly flows,...

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Who'd  dare the exacerbation of the cloud
and cut the fire for the grave;
tell  the Epaulette he's a bum;
break the choking silence
and burst the truth for the street?

Night, night oh barbaric night
pregnant with cordite...

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I hope to live a little longer.
A little longer, and a bit stronger.

Is my soul getting weak? I ask. 
But to whom? I tremble.
Souls I know, hide behind a mask - 
Dreaded, I fall and...

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Oh mighty night,* 

You, daughter of Chaos and Darkness,

Mother of Sleep, of Dream and of Death, 

Whenever you embrace me

The enchanting lullaby of Sleep I hear that

Throws me into ecstasy 

Thus 

In the magic land...

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He meandered  the alleyways of being
uncertain of the origins of his conceptions,
unclear about the emergence of his thought.
 
Along the way, he happened on  Erebus,
deepening shadows of skepticism,
darkening the lines of  incredulity.

He...

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