Graveyard
...Graveyard
I arose, my eyes open, though it was not what I chose
Eyelids rotten, which did not close
Forced to behold, a fate unforetold,
merely whispered by the foolish and the bold.
An unh...
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Categories:
unhallowed, angst, confusion, environment, eulogy,
Form: Narrative
The Morgue Necropolis
...Laid naked and bare,
Dilapidated beyond repair,
Deeper within the dark bowels of ruined Ultair,
Whose ruler is a Litch,
A city rises from a darken phosphorous pitch
of shadows and mists of unhal...
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Categories:
unhallowed, adventure, angst, city, death,
Form: Narrative
The Cardinal and the Rose
...No deity on heaven and earth gave repose,
When each rose petal fell heavy like monsoon rain,
The day he abandoned his sweet fragrant Rose
Buried on unhallowed ground, on wanton...
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Categories:
unhallowed, conflict, love, lust, rose,
Form: Villanelle
Demons Roam Free
...Descending on this night, a foul
darkness falls like the Reaper's cowl.
And shadows conceal the undead,
instilling the living with dread.
On Halloween, demons roam free,
while ghosts g...
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Categories:
unhallowed, anxiety, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Free Diving
...In superhuman ability or the golden ring sought
filling the lungs to capacity into the waves besot
Faster and deeper into the depths sleek as if born to this world
Seeing what few will ever as...
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Categories:
unhallowed, adventure, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Pizza Delivery
...I’m going to each of my suitemates' rooms. One at a time, methodically. I pause, for dramatic purpose, until I have their full attention. Once I have it, I rushingly, excitedly, breathlessly say, “I’...
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Categories:
unhallowed, friendship, humor, school, teen,
Form: Free verse
fallen down -
...* This is a rather intricate form I created called a “Torridelle” - I hope you enjoy it! *
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my Angel, fallen ...
gossamer linen, violet lace
win...
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Categories:
unhallowed, analogy, body, love, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
The Final Act
...Is consciousness different than having a soul,
reflection unhallowed—eternity trolled
Does the magic within us begin and then end,
finite conscription—one lifetime to spend
And if unrelated, ...
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Categories:
unhallowed, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween Poems
...It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
be...
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Categories:
unhallowed, children, grave, halloween, horror,
Form: Rhyme
It's Halloween
...It's Halloween!
Michael R. Burch
If evening falls
on graveyard walls
far softer than a sigh;
if shadows fly
moon-sickled skies,
while children toss their heads
uneasy in their beds,
be...
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Categories:
unhallowed, cat, children, evil, grave,
Form: Verse
Skeleton
...Thin Kin
by Michael R. Burch
Skeleton!
Tell us what you lack...
the ability to love,
your flesh so slack?
Will we frighten you,
grown as pale & unsound...
when we also haunt
the unhallow...
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Categories:
unhallowed, autumn, body, corruption, dark,
Form: Verse
Maiden of the Moon
...*****Anyone who knows my poetry knows how I often use Greek mythology in my works. This poem revolves around the idea of the moon longing to become 'into being' so as to be with Venus, whom is repres...
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Categories:
unhallowed, moon, mythology, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Thin Kin
...Skeleton!
Tell us what you lack ...
the ability to love,
your flesh so slack?
Will we frighten you,
grown as pale & unsound ...
when we also haunt
the unhallowed ground?...
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Categories:
unhallowed, halloween,
Form: Verse
Lay Down Your Demons
...I plea with my woes to leave my head alone,
alas they leave my croaking soul slain.
At night I sleep with my tears along the ill-faded pillow,
as I try to fight the battle that I ...
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Categories:
unhallowed, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
fallen down -
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my angel, fallen ...
gossamer linen, violet lace
window-dressing body, pressing
goddess of unblemished grace
beckoning - ...
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Categories:
unhallowed, imagery, metaphor, muse, passion,
Form: Rhyme
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