Nyx Poems

Event Horizon

...You arrived like a rupture in time,
some semantic glitch in the fabric,
sparking where there was nothing…
a rupture before the rapture.

I think—no, I know—
you were watching before I saw you.
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Categories: nyx, adventure, blessing, change, creation,
Form: Free verse

Bus Stop

...“I’m so glad you’re alive”
I told you this, maybe a little too soon
With Nyx painting shadows on our faces
it was a little too dark
But you’re eyes were transfixed completely on mine
And I was c...
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Categories: nyx, depression, destiny, humanity, lost
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberHeaven

...Sky looks, at this eventide, like an ocean of rainbows.
Has the almighty sprinkled his bright-dark contract of his sum aggregation of the entirety of everything and caboodle of his wholeness thickly...
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Categories: nyx, heaven, life, nature,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberShikata ga nai

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When the twinkling trust
of tamarind tides, 
cascades in catastrophes
and turmeric-tinted tulips
become a treason for sun temples ~
I slowly drift like a diluted drop,
ruffled in the cons...
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Categories: nyx, dark, deep, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberJewel Of Jinx - Depression Awareness

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An alchemical raven's gray rhapsody awakens those cynical roses who
Breathe-in the ebony beams of blood-bathed sun, exhaling
Cacophonies that ricochet across these truthful...
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Categories: nyx, anger, betrayal, dark, death,
Form: Abecedarian


I Wait With Bated Breath For C Cure T Clarence

...I wait with bated breath for... C. Cure T. Clarence

The following crafted 
approximately midway 
into the administration 
of forty fifth president,
whose crass, gutsy, lewd,
repulsive yawping...
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Categories: nyx, america, anxiety, appreciation, character,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOn Threshold of Dusk

...dawn pulls down long veil 
nyx dances beneath moonlight ~
crickets shriek with cheer



"Nyx" is the primordial goddess of night in Greek mythology

Date written: 05/03/2023...
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Categories: nyx, imagery, insect, moon, mythology,
Form: Haiku

His Eyes They Saw Raindrops

...Cackle like hens
 might the fox
 find you
he spoke. 
that those who
feedest thee sowest not
but sprinkle grains to fatten
might the fox
spoil the harvest
there labors shall be in vain!


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Categories: nyx, music, myth, relationship,
Form: Ballade

Premium MemberNyx Greek Goddess of the Night

...Nyx, the personification the night was feared and revered
Even Zeus, the god of the gods was terrified of her power.
She brought out the bats, the raccoons and hoot owls
Her worshippers including ...
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Categories: nyx, mythology,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSpring Night

...How finely twilight applies lipstick to the sky! 
His brush touches each fold as the sky does shy.
Eyebrows and eyelashes he so minutely paints,
As though powerful prayers and blessings of the sai...
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Categories: nyx, seasons, spring,
Form: Personification

Premium MemberPhoenix Jones

...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 vi...
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Categories: nyx, hero,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCarolyn

...C aring soul she is, no doubt!
A miable by nature;
R are as precious jewels~ 
O nyx or Diamond, she is made to
L ast forever in our hearts;
Y ou, dear Carolyn shall color~
N orthern lights... s...
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Categories: nyx, poetess, tribute, woman,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberElements

...Am I god's breath

Dawn's first breath caresses dew-wet glade,
yellow catkins quiver in spring's tender breeze,
eastern sunrise fuels passerine serenade.
Sulphur-yellow butterflies, black and go...
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Categories: nyx, meaningful, nature, spring, sunset,
Form: Quintain (English)

Roadkill and the 3 Fates

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"Road Kill and the 3 Fates"



Daughters of Nyx
the sisters 


Stand strong together
when darkness
feigns innocence
next to the forgotten
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Categories: nyx, integrity, mother daughter, sister,
Form: Free verse

One Ring To Rule Them All

...Forged in the pit of despair, the Megacity to dwell.
One Place
to rule them all.
Hell.

Let us come soon to surface in false identity,
Saviours, Creators, with no indemnity.
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Categories: nyx, caregiving, engagement, eve, evil,
Form: Narrative

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