Long Thanatos Poems

No Halloween Candy

I can't get no Halloween candy.
I can't get no Halloween candy.
But I try, and I try, and I try, and I try.
I can't get no.  I can't get no.

Well I'm walking door...

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DISCLAIMER : THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF THE MASSACRE 
IN ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE IN FRANCE WHICH TOOK PLACE
ON JUNE 1OTH  1944
TO MY READERS , " SOME LINES IN THIS POEM ARE GRAPHIC , AND
SOME MAY FIND...

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Celluloid produces, like robots, many superheroes,
Who, like rat-snakes, in real life, is cowardice zeroes; 
A Tamil-hero, for instance, catches flying bullets,
Re-sends them and massacres many villains, like pullets...!

There's heaven-hell difference betwixt real life and reel,
Though...

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The Private caressed his balls out of action during the short ceasefire

the Army had scanned him for testosterone because they needed a killer

He bit into a Milky Way as he cradled his crotch to get...

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The endgame 

And the cemetery was
nowhere to be found
yet was so present
in the shallow depth
the graveyard of the mind

No tombstone unturned
fragmented torn and twisted 
sorrow flowing down 
encrypted alleyways 
and Thanatos’ call 

Searching to imprint
coffin’s...

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Thanatos comes, Thanatos goes
Leaving me
But taking my love
Taking my freedom
Taking my identity
Leaving me riches beyond the imagination of Hades
But reaped me of all that I hold dear
Leaving me to grope for a hand that doesn’t...

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Blasphemy

Blatantly ephemeral or plain outright naughty and lustful
Praying for beauty in the eye of beholding passionate Gods
Angles and half dome shaped wishes curve balls and all
~ Those who write by the sword are judged by...

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Dreams once hidden, now appeared,
dreams of an abandoned city,
distortions that mangled me
are my insolvable presentiments,
perhaps, they are just greetings
from hyenas in the night.

Oh, why I get them unbidden? 

It's streets glided into each other
like lifeless...

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For this contest I’m asked to abide by the rules

and thus I sit and pen my thoughts obediently

but cannot check the renegade’s sweet rebellion


Limit cussing and cursing:
	
        ...

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Death seems near,
But I don't fear.
Who cares about dying ,
When you are beside ,where am lying.
You have held my hands tight,
Who cares about health ,am alright.
Things that I am gonna miss,
Is all these takecare kiss.
Behind...

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Light-blind, we stumble onto stage,
Our role is drafted by the unknown gods;
We search for meaning on the scripted page,
Our life’s beginning from director’s nods.
Our end may come before we come of age;
We long to leave...

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Ferry me across the river Styx
Into the realm of the dead
Charon won’t you take my danake?
Ferry me across the river Styx
Were the Judges await
To seal my faith

In Tartarus I do belong
For all I did was...

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Death is at your doorway, the reaper nears, cloaked in darkness,

His essence veiled. He knows your time is close at hand.

How now shall you meet Azrael? He is transported across the mortimer,

The sea of the...

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I was a starving minion, 
questing after the deep highs 
of luscious laughter 
that slip off slumber's linen wings,
pleasantly removed 
from the pain of wanting
what can not be owned

and so I begged asylum of Nyx
and...

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Love is...

a hot lead brick in my babbling brain
a brainless storm in my gloomy gut
a greedy clump of lava in my headless heart
a haggard heart chained to a torrid tornado
a terribly unfulfilled desire
a demonic itch...

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I'm not abnormal
just different kind of normal

through my chambers
tantalized horse is storming 
(storms make trees take deeper roots)

Dolly's vinyl began skipping
so my God put his paper hat on

that God of mine wears a paper hat
and...

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Place your hand on this desperation
And save this dying soul
Don't take me into the wilderness: Don't let me survive
Crucify me, but don't call me Jesus
I am the soul that has refused to die
Thanatos, my body,...

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Written By: Ryland Joshua Matthews
Date: Thursday, September 9th, 2010



My heart keeps beating

While my body dies, my heart keeps beating
As the world sighs, this heart keeps repeating

A strangled cry, a desolate embrace
Of a flower strewn grave....

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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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Morpheus was tired of daydreaming
Fantasy had worn him weary and mute

Thanatos called for prolonged epitaph 
A prologue to silent slumber in reprieve

Flirtatious dread bore heavily upon
Threadbare dents in Freud’s couch

No master in his own house...

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if i could be 
i'd be the protege to Aphrodite, the arrow 
in Cupid's bow, the war for Ares and the
underworld for Hades or just Persephone

i'd be the sky where Zeus played, the rage 
inside...

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Yes mother, I'm aware.
"Three headed dog's ahead,
Beware!"

Yes mother, I'll be back in summer
(Unfortunately),
Never want Gaea to freeze because of me.

I- maybe I wanted this, mother,
Goddess of vegetation, remember?
I- maybe I knew about the "food rule"
Or...

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As hades watching hoping she would dive in.
But a gentle soul waiting at the gate of hell, waiting for the command from Olympus.
Death softly passes 
     Death roam her round about...

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Who says that I should read Dante
To summon up visions of Hell?
The charnel houses of the Holocaust
Are but distant memories of a race
Pinning their memories on a distant Star!

I need not go to an abattoir
To...

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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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