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Village In the Valley
Village in the Valley left behind, and then it's a fine find
Mountain in the making...in the dark alleys of my mind

You're a flashlight
In the night
You are a friend 
Till the end
Bite the bullet
You're the village...

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Categories: gruesome, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Old Dark House
The Old Dark House

This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All...

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Categories: gruesome, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member - the Old Dark House -
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...

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Categories: gruesome, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Old Dark House
This tale of “The Old Dark House” is one that’s replete with a
most horrid sense of pure evil and macabre, and is worth being
retold each year during the deep-dark hours of All Hallows’ Eve
before the...

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Categories: gruesome, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member No God of Mine - 2021 Edit
[This poem 'No God Of  Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't  cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]


By...

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Categories: gruesome, evil, horror,
Form: Rhyme



Unleashed
I got up this morning in a good mood 
searching for solitude in the distant skies
And watching the clouds rolling by
I stopped and listened to the sounds around me
While contemplating my sacred destiny
Barking dogs and...

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Categories: gruesome, appreciation, confidence, future, happy, loneliness, love, places,
Form: Narrative
Quest of the Heart: Chapter One
Of Ghosts and Fiends in Twilight


The sun sank low on the darkening horizon
Grey mist hung adrift over the land thickening
A cold, brisk autumn wind held and embraced me 
With my horse’s pace and that of...

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Categories: gruesome, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Raid Versus Woe
Raid versus woe

Black flag(s) show up
on social media platforms
when potential homicidal maniac(s)
communicate(s) intent to strike
with ambush and ready
read - able, eager, and willing
to embark upon murderous rampage.

Prospective killer armed to the teeth
usually a young bucking...

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Categories: gruesome, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form: Rhyme
Quest of the Heart: Chapter One, Cont
Of Ghosts and fiends in Twilight, Cont.


A thought flashed in my mind from the old tales told
The lore of the beast and I had felt his foul breath
I had seconds to act or be devoured...

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Categories: gruesome, adventure, for her, journey, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit forms,
Whilst our unsuspecting mortal Earth...

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Categories: gruesome, dark, evil, fantasy, god, horror, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Unidentified Flying Object Abducted Yours Truly,
Unidentified flying object abducted yours truly,... 

a willing experimental subject 
to escape untenable married life.

Upon falling into a deep slumber, 
the following subconscious 
somnambulant scenario arose 
allowing, enabling, and providing 
temporary alleviation from 
outa harried...

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Categories: gruesome, absence, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, courage, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil

Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit...

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Categories: gruesome, dark, evil, fantasy, god, horror, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit forms, 
Whilst our unsuspecting mortal...

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Categories: gruesome, creation, dark, evil, god, heaven, mother son,
Form: Narrative
Robinson Crusoe
I killed my friend,
I never wanted,
Do not see me cruel,
I did it for love.
We both ran naked
Under this influential shower.
No one uncoupled his lips
Against this faint madness,
We were indebted,
Either had to earn the prize.


It was...

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Categories: gruesome, bereavement, betrayal,
Form: Imagism
Souls On Fire
We have been observing the expanse of the parched land for many years, a land that stood the test of time and captivated by myriad dreams unfolding through the footsteps of the ages thus penetrating...

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Categories: gruesome, adventure, nature, wisdom, work, universe,
Form: Prose
The Murderers Cry
Haven’t you had enough blood from the beginning of time?
Haven’t you taken enough lives before they should have died?
All around I can hear their cry 
They want to escape from the under world
You spill blood...

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Categories: gruesome, betrayal, break up, bullying, conflict, death of
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Troll At Speckle Bridge
There was a time throughout this land 
    when all was well and kind.
Where Wood Sprites, Fairies and Pixie dust 
    were not that hard to find.
But times have...

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Categories: gruesome, adventure, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - the Demons Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror -
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth Tor in the outlying 
region of the “Dark Forbidden Forest”...

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Categories: gruesome, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Demon's Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror

This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth Tor in the outlying 
region of the “Dark Forbidden Forest”...

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Categories: gruesome, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Rough Roads To Roam
The flames of the furnace (well-travelled by wind
slowly glazing the rags of gray women chagrined
at the sight of a hair fleeing tresses now thinned) 
sometimes billow like waves flooding naves through the night,
when the lightning...

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Categories: gruesome, culture, earth, humanity, planet, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Demon's Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror
This tale of “The Demon’s Shrill Cry of Dread and Horror”
lives on in the mountain village of Gpeth Tor in the outlying 
region of the “Dark Forbidden Forest” known for evil, death,
and lost souls. This...

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Categories: gruesome, dark, dream, evil, fantasy, god, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
My Lonesome Shell
I noticed a difference in you that is oh so true
A kind of difference that is brand new, shining anew
You are the beautiful shade of blue
I keep on wishing upon a star to be with...

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Categories: gruesome, betrayal, courage, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Lyric
The Bug's Tale
A bug upon a green leaf sat
Cautiously eyeing up a cat
Who, unaware of the bug's intentions
Continued with its cruel conventions:
Of catching a mouse then setting it free
Then leaping up it once more with glee
Until the...

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Categories: gruesome, humorous,
Form: Epic
Severe Surge Regarding Thou Shalt Not Kill Violations
Severe surge regarding thou shalt not kill violations

Fifth commandment breached regularly
epidemic of gun violence in America
bullets fly, scream and tear into flesh
senseless rampant mass killings
rip across fabric of society
buzzfeeding, jump/kickstarting, 
paradigm of mortality.

Since January first
two...

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Categories: gruesome, 12th grade, 1st grade, age, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No God of Mine
Cement, sand and gravel, blood, body and soul
Eternity bred from hell's darkest hole
Combine gruesome aggregates, hydrate the mix
Mould them and dry them, then stack up the bricks.

Thought in advance and precision laboured
Set automatic, eternity savoured
No...

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Categories: gruesome, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs