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Stygian Poems - Poems about Stygian


Premium Member Clouds Rippling Across a Stygian Sky
mordant clouds swiftly ripple, moving across a stygian sky February 18, 2023 A Ripple To Me 2 Contest Sponsor: JCB Brul 15 syllables checked with howmanysyllables...

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Categories: stygian, storm,
Form: Monoku
Man-Made, Yet a Human Brain Was Cooked Into Stygian-Hued Glass By Spilling Lava In 79ad
A curve of sky in a corner cusps a smooth, thick dusting of carrot-mauve hues tonight. Drapes over heather trees whose arms and hands bend with this drowsy sky as it starts to fall asleep- the cyrean "silk" upon which this cantaloupe tint is traced, daubed, by the brushstrokes of Mother Nature; is ready for the deep onyx doves-with halos- of a cold...

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Categories: stygian, allusion, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Haiku



Stygian Rider
He is coming for me the stygian rider on his hellish steed whose nostrils spit fire he is coming he is coming for me. Entrenched and fortified my heart trembles seems resigned to this reality this inevitability this clash of overlords divided mind and heart contentious and combative. All for sacred sanctity questionable ties their truth their way an epic struggle two worlds colliding battling and warring over their precious notions quintessential hostilities. The earth rumbles mud filled trench thick with despair stench of vomit the rider approaches axe wielded high his...

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Categories: stygian, fear, myth,
Form: Free verse
Stygian Consciousness
The world is a very strange and dark place, But my mind is even darker. Never underestimate the power of a dark mind, This dark world is not all what it's cracked up to be. And I for sure know my mind isn't peaches and cream, I've walked thru the hot fiery pits of Hell. But my own personal hell has...

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Categories: stygian, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stygian Night
At stygian night The subtle and cold breeze blows As a rustle sound 2-1-2016...

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Categories: stygian, night,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Stygian Doubts-The Catacombs of Saint Francis, Lima, Peru
The rottenness of it all is no less foul for having been bleached white. This is the conclusion I come to. I walk with a scarf covering my mouth through the dimly lit catacombs of the faithful. The arched ceiling holds a dangling string of incandescent bulbs which cast a sickly yellow glow on my...

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Categories: stygian, adventure, allusion, faith,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member ''In Hades Flows a Stygian River''
In Hades flows a Stygian river of sorrows—a river of great despair! It's a spiritual death that we all share that napalms our lives and rots our liver. Beware! Its undercurrent of dire doom drowns us with heartless joy—it does not care, and burdens us with more than we can bear. We're like cadavers in a cold, stone tomb from which can...

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Categories: stygian, depression, grief, hope, jesus,
Form: Sonnet

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