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Sulfurous Poems - Poems about Sulfurous

Heavy

...My terror grows with each passing night,
As slow, steady darkness steals away sight.
Footsteps and whispers add to my fright —
Is there an end to such desperate plight?
How long, too long, till d...
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Categories: sulfurous, dark, fear, horror, night,
Form: Lyric

Excavation

...I press my hands into the ruins of you,
fingertips cut in the quiet rot of ancient wounds
that have never quite been touched.
Beneath splintered ribs, 
your earth is sulfurous in suffering—
your...
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Categories: sulfurous, blessing, devotion, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberPurgatory

...When will my judgment come? He asked
of him, who stood, face shadow-masked
in moonlit dark, beside his right.
Don't let it be this mournful night.
Perhaps so, or not; has, or ne'er,
they rasped,...
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Categories: sulfurous, dark, death, dream, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

That Dark Ink

...That dark ink with which you were written
burning so coarsely to leave you with
a calloused and thoughtless destiny
comes now to pickpocket all your smiles
all your loves
and loves there were to...
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Categories: sulfurous, childhood, daughter, growing up,
Form: Free verse

Hell Is A Place

...A crimson sky, where embers dance and swirl,
A landscape cracked, a world of endless fire,
Where sulfurous fumes choke, and shadows hurl,
And screams of agony forever conspire.

The air is thick...
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Categories: sulfurous, christian, dark, evil, fire,
Form: Sonnet



Macabiloquent Mastery

...As I ascend the podium, a predator of piquant pontifications, my eyes ravage the assemblage of adversaries, their countenances a canvas of consternation and morbid fascination. The atmosphere is heav...
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Categories: sulfurous, dark,
Form: Free verse

Premium Membergeorgia

...It’s summer in Georgia, yeah, it’s warm.

In high school, they said Shakespeare
once called Georgia, "sulfurous and hot."
He wasn’t wrong.

The careless sky is letting in all of the heat.
We s...
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Categories: sulfurous, fun, humor, summer, sun,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStop, Stop The Division

...Army versus Navy
Navy versus Army
Army versus Army
Navy versus Navy
Stop, stop the division
Stop the separation
Stop the genocide
The bombs, the pesticide
And the bullets are killing
Women, ...
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Categories: sulfurous, betrayal, conflict, cry, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCosmic Wings

...Susurrus songs of delightful dragonflies with flash dances
through flowering fields with passionate prances
Glowing with sanguine opulence, we glimpse gallant glances
We capture them in conversati...
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Categories: sulfurous, adventure, creation, earth, flower,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberTranquility

..."It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness". By Thomas Jefferson

A place where the zeal of my heart dw...
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Categories: sulfurous, analogy, appreciation, character, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Cadence of Nature

...“Nature, a rhythm in cyclical rotation, like the workings of a clock”
									~the poet


The Cadence Of Nature


Natures vow of renewal as the morning sun rises in swaths of golden light, ar...
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Categories: sulfurous, earth, nature, seasons, time,
Form: Free verse

What Happens To Most Demons, Part I

...The first sensation that he felt
was a wall of real, searing pain,
that lasted an eternity,
until it was etched in his brain.

All around him was blue fire,
raining blades and forests of whips,...
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Categories: sulfurous, change, confusion, earth, evil,
Form: Narrative

Basest Traitorous Titan

...I fought one piggish Titan and I won
As if that devious Leech existed not; 
Sealing the very firy nose of his gun
With ball-like rags to sap every shot.

A long-lionized mogul of giant name
Sle...
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Categories: sulfurous, allegory, angel, anger, anti
Form: Ballad

Spontaneous Stigmata Surfacing

...Spontaneous sulfurous stigmata sinisterly surfacing
Membranous molecules meticulously masterfully marshaling
Tangible tempestuous tears tangling thoughts
Radical revel...
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Categories: sulfurous, conflict, psychological, self,
Form: Alliteration

Commander of the Weird

...As Commander of the weird
Member of the phurst church of phun
An ordained member I am father and I am mother
Of the rubber chicken

Juggled between one George Bush and the other
Between camps, ...
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Categories: sulfurous, memory, truth,
Form: Narrative

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