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Laughter For Now and the Hereafter

Wearing nothing but rags
We laugh and sail on the seas of the netherworld
Without flags

With iron nails
The lamb laughed on the cross's world 
Without wails

With gaffe
Against seas whirled
Laugh

Some souls laughed at their rags
Laughed when they entered heaven's world
Laugh


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Categories: netherworld, dark, endurance, heaven, hope,
Form: Rhyme

An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a Misanthrope

An image of the netherworld envisioned by a misanthrope

Mein kampf fraught re: 
emotionally/psychologically challenged 
impossible mission to cope
compared to classmates, I felt like a dope
and entertained escapist fantasies,
whereby Miss Rainbow 
(sixth grade student teacher),
though robbing the cat's cradle, 
she would abscond with me, 
a shy skinny little boy 
and we would elope
to a make believe

Categories: netherworld, 6th grade, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse

An Image of the Netherworld Envisioned By a Misanthrope

Deep within the bowels of the Earth
(dark visceral centre)
immensely distant from the sheltering sky
amidst a thick fog enveloped landscape
with here and there a projected
craggy, derelict chasm
precipitously crooked 
rocky claws pointing toward

an infinitely wide yawning abyss
dwelt kindred spirits 
comprising a soul asylum
where grateful dead (albeit marked
via weathered tombstones)
hermetically sealed
once vibrant corporeal mortals
betook their eternal slumber.

One among

Categories: netherworld, allegory, crush, death, earth,
Form: Free verse

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Shadows of Madness

I take the pill and deep I go,
Where deep wishes and passions flow
Unbidden by the morals of the common world,
Inside my mind, in the netherworld,

I bear witness to tremors of ecstasy,
To love, power and impunity,
Where rape and slaying is normality,
Desire, passion is totality.

Scary emotions overcome me
My own history of reality is insanity
The end of the

Categories: netherworld, addiction, confusion, crazy, drug,
Form: Rhyme

Avernus Underconsciousness

The cypress trees at water’s edge hedge an entrance.
We circle senseless, aimless, wheezing from the stench. 
We are unprepared for this netherworld mischance,
this lifeless pool without birds where we entrench.

Drawn into the grotto leading to the abode of the dead,
we are alarmed to find the design is quite familiar.
Our handwriting and signatures cannot be misread.
All

Categories: netherworld, allegory, allusion, angst, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Netherworld Unearthed Within This Mind

Psyche soaking wet with devout atheism,
this lifetime skeptic now tenuously
linkedin with Unitarianism
attests, said upbringing proffered,
mine credo, gestalt,

leitmotif, sans abstractionism
eludes elucidation, delineation, clarification...
some readers might
dismiss as absurdism
defying established dogma fixed absolutism

millenniums, would be hashtagged heretical,
and such cavalier blithe
apostasy, declared alarmism,
now - twenty first century
extant accursed as alcoholism

within various non
Western statecraft enclaves,
barely tolerating agnosticism
no fool to ejaculate
proclamations

Categories: netherworld, america, appreciation, environment, fate,
Form: Political Verse

The Mind's Cornfield

The Mind’s Cornfield

Dreaming deeply on this dark, dank, frigid-cold night,
My spirit-body walks freely in this place of solitude—
The Mind’s Cornfield, where fantasy and reality are one.

In this place, free from mortal constraints and strife,
One can see and speak to spirits of those now dead,
And to those whose souls wander around aimlessly.

These spirits know of my

Categories: netherworld, allegory, death, emotions, faith,
Form: Terza Rima

An Image of Netherworld Envisioned By Mister Misanthrope

Deep within Earthen bowels
immensely distant from sheltering sky
amidst a thick fog enveloped landscape
with here and there a projected
craggy, derelict chasm

precipitously crooked 
rocky claws pointing toward
an infinitely wide yawning abyss
dwelt kindred spirits 

comprising soul asylum
where grateful dead (albeit marked,
via weathered tomb stones) 
hermetically sealed
once vibrant corporeal mortals
betook their eternal slumber.

One among their number
included a misanthrope
who sported

Categories: netherworld, 11th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse

Skip To the Netherworld

We will skip off to the Netherworld,
When our time comes,
We will go hand in hand,
As we skip.

We will die together,
As one will fight,
This life is war,
And though we are losing,
We will still skip to the Netherworld.

I will stand by you,
My love everlasting,
Death cannot keep us apart,
We will fight until we fall,
Until death shows us mercy,
But

Categories: netherworld, death, family, girlfriend-boyfriend, happiness,
Form: Free verse