Aurora in the Ossuary - Broken but bold enough to bounce back
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Written: August 14, 2025, for Contest Sponsored by: Anoucheka Gangabissoon
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I writhed in the womb of a necrotic hush,
a stygian silence where barghests lurk—
My ...
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Categories:
necrotic, analogy, identity,
Form: Free verse
America Lost Its Innocence
... 7/14/2025
Oh, how could this have ever happened here?
A free naton with baseball, movies and beer?
Those days when other nations cry against the USA…….DIE?...
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Categories:
necrotic, america, betrayal, horror,
Form: Rhyme
My Thing Is This
...As hapless vapors of decay, surround us, suffocating the fecund earth. A blanket of suffocating grey, born from the diseased aspirations of humanity. We, the self-appointed masters of a planet in sha...
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Categories:
necrotic, corruption, education, environment, extended
Form: Free verse
Whisperings of a Hostage
...People from all nations running for Their Lives, Pursued by Hamas.
That day 1,200 were slaughtered.
International hostages died! Few live ones do remain.
I do not even know what day thi...
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Categories:
necrotic, abuse, bullying, cry, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Lilith
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And you didn’t make me
I formed myself
From the periodic table
with a little help
You added slurs and
blackened my milk
Turned me into a scapegoat
and my flesh to filth
And you nev...
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Categories:
necrotic, creation, men, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Healing Rays
...grief
within
cultivates
necrotic seeds
beneath harrowing wastelands battling faith
whispering whimsical tunes of mourning
midst healing rays
of natures
shining
hope
soar
above
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Categories:
necrotic, conflict, fate, grief, hope,
Form: Tetractys
We Are I
...We are one. We are the same. We are I.
We move with the same ligaments, the same joints, the same muscle strings.
We ooze of acid. We erode. We exude a putrid odour.
We are a walking culmination o...
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Categories:
necrotic, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Bone Idol
...[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]
Prologue
This, Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And lef...
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Categories:
necrotic, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Apoplectic Begat Comatose
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Eh, Bebe ...
clueless you with the wide eyes open,
which can’t see
So apoplectic of heart,
paralyzed by the cobra sway
of changeling channel charmer words
Gen Z baby gloomer
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Categories:
necrotic, allusion, imagery, perspective, words,
Form: Free verse
Neon Night: Urban Sonnet
...Above, the shrill of neon lights portend
a promise of new love in garish hues,
but for a broken life yet on the mend
the darkness of the scape brings only views
of solitude when memory accrues
a...
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Categories:
necrotic, imagery, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Au Revoir
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Blood
drips
cold
through
breathless
necrotic
lips,
au revoir.
11/09/2017...
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Categories:
necrotic, death,
Form: Free verse
The Brown Recluse
...The Brown Recluse, its pathway goes
Past radiator’s stanchion rows
On to the corner, up the wall
Across the ceiling then to fall
Upon my bed. But no one knows.
This silent killer never slows
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Categories:
necrotic, sick,
Form: Rondeau
Nostalgia
...Nomadic memories
nurtured in mind's eye as
necrotic curtains part.
Naive sanguine beliefs
nourish scrutiny 'til
novelty rendered moot.
Nirvana was falsehood.
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(C) Jo...
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Categories:
necrotic, childhood, happiness, longing, nostalgia,
Form: Verse
Chiclana De La Frontera
...Cool throngs of stars formed one vast arm to sweep
the coal-black clockface of the sky. To watch it
was to reel beneath the slow, imperious creep
of the never-ending circle. One could reach out...
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Categories:
necrotic, nature,
Form: Sonnet
A Prisoner Is Shown the Torture Implements
...The bricks were sweating, nervous. Icy slime
had soaked his coat-sleeve, much to his disgust.
Tall baulks of formless timber seemed to climb
towards the bulbous shadows. Guido, trussed
an...
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Categories:
necrotic, history,
Form: Ottava rima
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