Long Nightshade Poems
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Blitzkrieg : a Kookaburra Laughs
“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and...
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Categories:
nightshade, dark, destiny, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Vanilla Killer - trigger warningAnother shift ends. I'm dead on my feet.
Too shagged to even eat.
The word leads (inevitably) to you...
I slipped the timesheets from work today.
Another incident occurred...
Sweetie, please be there, and say you care.
I loved working alongside...
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Categories:
nightshade, child abuse, murder,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Confessions of a Baby SnatcherThis is my last confession; there will be no more.
I am impercipient and slow from last night's sleeping pill,
wincing away from the harshness of day.
Kitchen cold, the room tear-splintered,
sunlight striking a watery rainbow in my...
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Categories:
nightshade, baby, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Bees Under Milk Wood : a Spell
"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting." Robert Frost
"Bees Under Milk Wood : A Spell"
Spider Web glistens wet
in the spoilt lies of...
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Categories:
nightshade, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
Pale Horse and the Yellow SubmarinesThis year's Halloween edition....
"Pale Horse and the Yellow Submarines"
There approaches
One
Light bringer
rides a dead pony
albino
red eyed, no gun
or so
the story goes
pale
as death
hear its
Netherworld neigh
beetles
dig deep
pigeons coo
novocained
ignorant
messages fixed
dull...
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Categories:
nightshade, halloween, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Sagittarian SuretyIt is decidedly so,
That I shall go where you go
And in our journeys
I shall never let my love tire
The stars deem it worthy
Your fire is my truest desire
For this is decidedly so
And nobody will quite...
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Categories:
nightshade, dedication, deep, desire, devotion, i love you,
Form:
Free verse
The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise
"The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise"
They called her
the tree hugger,
her forest was full
of trees that watched
silently, they had
no mouth to speak,
rustling their leaves
like fingers writing
strange stories coded
for decoding a mystery
on...
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Categories:
nightshade, dark, light, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
LilithA dweller in waste places,
a void in foggy darkness,
the unseen shadow that trails us.
A doom that curses benign plants.
A tenacious panting wolf feeding
off the sorrows of the soil.
She's the...
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Categories:
nightshade, anger, angst, evil, imagery, imagination, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Total Eclipse of the Sun August 21, 2017Though the starry eyed corona sporting sun dance
cosmic phenomena (stealthily slated to describe mid expanse
night during broad daylight), this astronomical event common at a glance.
Said Hal lens neigh saying Trojan Horse
...
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Categories:
nightshade, adventure, angst, anxiety, blue, community, cool, innocence,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Daydream DrumbeatI was a bed and mattress tester, a dream job like that of a yellow moon.
I tested the comfort of beds, pillows, etc., for night is ever coming soon.
I studied sleep patterns too, like vivid...
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Categories:
nightshade, beauty, day, dream, fantasy, imagery, music, nature,
Form:
Couplet
The UnderworldThe Underworld
There is a path
that leads to the bridge.
Well, not exactly.
It leads under it.
Why would anyone want to go that way?
You might ask that question.
I might dare to answer,...
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Categories:
nightshade, bird, blessing, encouraging, feelings, forgiveness, freedom, natural
Form:
Free verse
Meetings Part One and TwoMeetings part one....A moon is neither a plant nor a weapon so never sit in a washing basket at ninety eight degrees. And a tick tocking plant is available for hop scotch games. Timed over...
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Categories:
nightshade, april,
Form:
I do not know?
Meetings Part One and TwoMeetings part one....A moon is neither a plant nor a weapon so never sit in a washing basket at ninety eight degrees. And a tick tocking plant is available for hop scotch games. Timed over...
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Categories:
nightshade, animal, anniversary,
Form:
I do not know?
The Nature of Wisdom
Every flower has its own color
With annual observation,
this we springtime discover
Give a womb kernel cede
of acknowledgment
To the spectrum birthright
of each other
We are all one,
tho’ from a different umbilical mother
Notice the bloom of time,
come rain ...
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Categories:
nightshade, metaphor, nature, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
' Monsters, Among Us ... '‘ Monsters, Among Us … ’
Scatter The Creeping Vapor-Stench, Away
Expose The Wake of Eerie, Fog and Shadows
And Nightshade and Fiends, and Vile-Beasts That Bay
Begone, to Taboo, Grounds, Unhallowed …
… for...
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Categories:
nightshade, allegory, faith, history, inspirational, introspection, life, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Malicious EulogyDry rotted benches all splintered and frail.
Transparent spirits fill the isles and the air.
In the old decrepit church they try to stay seated,
while the Malicious Eulogy is hellaciously completed.
...
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Categories:
nightshade, allusion, dark, death, evil, poems, violence, wedding,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Galaxica
Galaxica
Her name is sung
at every Zekarian jaura festival
of the vision-resin harvest
A gathering of the ga-lee seeds of the r-papp leaves
from the desert sandtree
Portends of shifting time winds heralding
the Missuriah manifest appearing
Galaxica
She is the chosen...
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Categories:
nightshade, destiny, gender, science fiction, visionary,
Form:
Epic
Fecund Gamine Enthralls SeamenA cupola shin, prickly dick creed, hoary
testes tossed, master baiting ova all eel trades
crossed the fecund Rubicon and ejaculated
olly olly oxen yawping, in utero seminal raids
with phallic coup d’etat...
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Categories:
nightshade, adventure, age, anxiety, baby, birth, child, humanity,
Form:
I do not know?
Frame Thy Fearful SymmetryFeel the falling nightshade,
The decent of inferno's raid.
Coins in a dead mans eyes,
he needs to be paid...
Let lose the minions of Hel.
Locked in this deep dark well
Valhalla is in rage
Taste this malignant sage
In this twisted...
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Categories:
nightshade, allegory, art, corruption, creation, dark, death, dream,
Form:
Free verse
I Think of You - Ground Zero - 1I Think Of You - Ground Zero (Part 1)
Leaving under a blood moon
in a jet plane rising
los...
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Categories:
nightshade, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Do Not Listen, Part Iii(The final part of my serial "Do Not Listen" poem. I had written this months ago, but hadn't felt confident about posting it--until now and with a few edits.)
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Do Not Glisten, Child! of my early...
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Categories:
nightshade, childhood, dark, happiness, lost, surreal, , western,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Love In Every Fieldthose of us who caught or chased our love in every field
knew her best by memories that we caught.
anvils that we stood upon gave grain to find our shield
leave our stain upon the earth with...
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Categories:
nightshade, devotion, earth, faith, journey, love, miracle, romance,
Form:
Couplet
50 Shades 0f Blood1..A rusty door-nail leaks a drying crust.
2..The taint of copper pennies.
3.Salt licking the scars of the unhealed.
4..A sunset burning dry corn.
5.Eyes bruised by anger.
6.Lips cut by stinging words.
7.Money burning holes in red letter days.
8.A fledglings...
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Categories:
nightshade, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Fermented Pollen
The beer gardens of hatred
...
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Categories:
nightshade, dark, imagery, metaphor, truth,
Form:
Alliteration
Poison In the Passion
Nightshade seduction
arouse androidal desires
to taste the dangerous pleasure pill
that only humans are allowed to feel
Love poisons the non-emotional circuitry;
flip the kill switch ... flood the doppelganger dead wife body
with corrupting, electrical ecstasy
Suicidal sirens are...
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Categories:
nightshade, dark, passion, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Dramatic Verse