The Mask of Black Spinel
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Frice the week along with night had fallen to sleepless slumber,
Trapped again 'tween times when thirds are three in number.
I sense a grimace gurgle in these halls of boned wall,
The aching w...
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Categories:
revenants, angst, dream, evil, horror,
Form: Couplet
Sidewalk No8852
...Horror and dreadful cheers,
Forgetting absurdity,
Haunted by untold fears.
Tango with monsters & ghosts,
Guilty Pleasure, thus fits.
Revenants; our revered hosts.
Dreaming on the dark si...
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Categories:
revenants, halloween, night, october,
Form: Free verse
An Amiable Apparition
...In the old city of St. John's,
in the older neighborhoods,
there are haunted houses...
residences with revenants...
apartments with apparitions...
even schools with spectres;
and there is one ...
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Categories:
revenants, mystery,
Form: Free verse
The End of the Flying Dutchman, Part I
...You’ve heard of the Flying Dutchman,
the ghost-ship that travels the seas,
there’s countless legends about it,
a great deal of variety.
Some say it’s just cursed to wander,
a result of some an...
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Categories:
revenants, confusion, history, myth, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Babylon
...To Babylon, we came...
To watch the rise of Tower
The Tower of Cain
A fortress of dark n eternal pain
Stretching to the vaults of heaven
to quite the RAGE of Man
to challenge the reign of d...
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Categories:
revenants, allegory, allusion, analogy, art,
Form: Rhyme
Purgatory
...In a world which I birthed at the back of my brain
it is neither night nor day
beginnings and endings blended
in a perpetual purgatory of purple citrus sky
simultaneously sunrise and twilight
no...
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Categories:
revenants, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Celestial Renaissances
...New stars are born from those that die
as pearly revenants on high
to occupy the vaulted sky
stelliferous to earthly eye.
When Sun shall lose its healing glow
that shines upon our world below
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Categories:
revenants, birth, creation, death, humanity,
Form: Verse
Loos, France, Fall 1915
...Slaughter amongst the slag heaps
Bodies bowed over barb wire
Screeching, screaming
artillery arching above
soon to descend
amputating limbs
shattering skulls
blood and brains
splattering stai...
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Categories:
revenants, death, history, war, world
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
revenants, change, slavery,
Form: Senryu
I Am Accustomed To the Promises of You-
...I come accustomed to the Providence
The perils that be falling me l
I come accustomed to my revenants
the reality of the colored used
I come accustomed to my liberties
Constrained conflicted...
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Categories:
revenants, analogy, appreciation, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Rara Avis
...Like all things related to screwballs
and misfits
I was born looking for a word
inside a clock.
Back then, time ticked loudly,
clocks ran faster than chipmunks.
Young bones were fueled by gr...
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Categories:
revenants, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Zombies of Zander Ranch, Part I
...I.
Sol stared down the empty trail before him,
looking to see what waited in the dim,
the Zander Ranch was the place from the note,
they’d written of evils born beyond hope.
So Sol approached ...
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Categories:
revenants, adventure, conflict, corruption, dark,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Secrets of Revenants and Taurusa School
...Wrapped in the aromatic blossoms
of a modern-farmed orange
orchard, a four-room shack in Visalia,
California rises above the hard
pan and overgrown rose bushes.
The once palatial bell tow...
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Categories:
revenants, adventure, boy, childhood, growing
Form: Free verse
Bullet Holes Through a Four-Four Count
...Slinger
Waiting on the day
for the Swallow to transmute the air
between this ether and yours
patterned after an annual bedsheet
and full of a chest
swelling with blood
and a face
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Categories:
revenants, dark, heart, image, light,
Form: Free verse
Old Houses of Charlottenburg
...betroth yourselves
to old houses of Charlottenburg
let yourselves be mollycoddled
by the petrified rain king
buy yourselves a shiny armour
of a former seraphim
call yourselves bourgeois,
dear...
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Categories:
revenants, dream, imagery, surreal,
Form: Free verse
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