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Dark Underbelly

Daystar rises scattering shadows to the four winds, terrifying sinful serpents who slither beneath rock masses for cover. Vapid, vampiric vipers hide themselves in caves in fear of the light, for they know their time has come. Their vitriolic hate speech spews forth like molten lava, lighting up the night with an ominous, ethereal glow.

Categories: underbelly, evil, forgiveness,
Form: Alliteration

The Underbelly Trimeric

On a sunny evening the colors changed;
Tossed a penny in the mall’s wishing well 
sealed with a such a foreboding kiss;
I didn’t know I was close to the underbelly;

Tossed a penny in the mall’s wishing well 
it spun clinking around achingly slow 
‘til it landed in the water oddly straight up;

Sealed with such a foreboding

Categories: underbelly, dark, emotions, feelings,
Form: Other

A Dark Underbelly

Like a pack of howling wolves in need of prey,
A wounded urban psyche strains its gnarled voice,
Motherless, fatherless, ice cold pavement waif,
Wee small hours plight 

The rocks of his facade dispatched in ghost trains
for those ghoulish oil float gutters  to imbibe,
Back street burden stray, schooled in fringe art fables,
Phantom kite chaser

Eerie street lights peer

Categories: underbelly, art, care, character, color,
Form: Sapphic stanza

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

A Dark Underbelly

Shadows fill the alley, where they lie in wait
To buy and sell sundries of a wicked kind
needles injected, gun shots fired, witnessed in
     flashing neon lights

I equate them to sewer rats, crawling 'round
whose sinister stories would make me shudder
counting their number by red cigarette glows
     blurred in

Categories: underbelly, environment, grief,
Form: Sapphic stanza

A Dark Underbelly

a dark underbelly cloud sweeps past the trees
  as they bow down then snap like minds gone crazy
     defenseless on the hills they no longer stand
                     powerless to the storm

Categories: underbelly, rainbow, sky, storm, summer,
Form: Sapphic stanza

A Dark Underbelly

Skyscrapers, sheathed in glass, stretch to the sky:
and a convoluted maze of asphalt
rivers, connect concrete caves, they flow by.
Patches of green appear like mold on cheese
amidst the neon lights, corruption, and sleaze.
All cities have a dark underbelly
that's overcrowded, noisy, and smelly.
At rush hour, the traffic slows to a crawl:
and those begging to fill their belly
don't

Categories: underbelly, 10th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Dizain

The Underbelly

the devil walked in the room
first thoughts are to exit calmly
a round of sounds complete his entrance artfully
chimes, alarms, a decadent trumpet plays the senses curiously
mysterious it would be to refuse a grave impulse as the hand opens simply
the upright begging posture holds methodical to his evil core
releasing a despair so cunning, a predator smiles

Categories: underbelly, conflict, dark, evil, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry

Rainbow's Underbelly

Murky shadows slink around the darkened rainbow
like black eels embracing the dish hi-lighting mankind’s testes.
As today Man’s testicles still hold the world hostage
and reveal the slow moving continuum slithering toward the world’s fate.
 
Flames and chaos surround Man's prayers while searching for God.
Man stares at His face looking to find his own, 
but knowing God

Categories: underbelly, america, integrity, men, political,
Form: Free verse

Underbelly

Unlocking, 
the silver knife.
The poetry matters, 
when it is dark.   

      *

Night, 
has its own secrets, when,
dew spreads out 
the beadings on grass.

       *         

Blackbuck was ready 
to shed the antlers. 
Moon was hornless.

Categories: underbelly, art,
Form: ABC

Underbelly

The hours grows late and so the night bodes ill,
Another man falls, he did drink his fill.
And what fate do the streets take,
When the night cracks with a dawn break?
The rotten and unwanted fate,
Resented and repelled too late.
When the breath of man became disgrace,
Habitual of a hollow, heathen race.
And the cumbersome unrest of drunken sleep,
With

Categories: underbelly, peoplenight, night,
Form: Rhyme

Underbelly Architecture

Concrete plane foresight
Polyrhythmic totem stalk
Waterfalls upward

Categories: underbelly, confusion
Form: Haiku