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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
To Begin and End
If there was anything in this world that I would desperately cling to; it is your life, your love, your smile. How cruel is fate to have brought you into my timid embrace…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
The Good, The Bad, The Undecided
I am torn by the duality of my spirit. Destroyed by indecision, halted in hesitation. Am I cold and heartless? Merciful and compassionate? I spend countless hours exploring…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
Starlet
Isn't she beautiful, with her make-up caked on? Cigarette smoke trailing her exhale. Clothes rumpled and loose like her skin freckled and pale Scarred by deep purple…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #supernatural • 6 years ago
Hearts of Stone
The man jumps from the cathedral roof, arms and legs splayed out beside him as if to catch the wind.Instead he catches the sturdy wing of a two century old gargoyle. Pain ripped…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #short-story • 6 years ago
Scavenger Hunt
An excerpt from Scavenger Hunt : a short story from the End of the World. Chapters One and Two can be found in my e-publication, Devil's Presents Gift Wrapped volume One…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
Hopelessly Devoted
My tongue is tied, my mouth is dry. How could I ever speak these words? My throat is closed, my toes are cold. How could I ever, "Repeat after me" My thoughts are clouded…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
The Lovers Grim
As I sit here staring, madly glaring at the pieces of the past you left behind Tiny, insignificant, trivial things heavy with sentiment and regret I pray the memories won't…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
Belladonna
Admire me for my beauty but dare to consume me and I shall have your soul
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
Devil's Presents Gift Wrapped volume One Tales and Poems by W. Edith Gilead
Hello Literature Lovers, Ever wonder what whispers from the depths of the Mariana's Trench? Are you curious about the sounds of outer space? Then there is a gift, with your name…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
Nothing to See Here
We're all talk, talk, talk but no body listens we speak as if we're free because we refuse to see or cage of gilded bars so pretty when they glisten Cautiously, we…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
All Mother
The tears of the unwanted children down my heart in sorrows Their cries echo endlessly in my bone marrow My soul yearns to love them steal them from the cradle before the…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
Simple
Love me as if tomorrow is The End. As if our Sun will never rise again; and we are left to listen to the Silence. Love me with a love ever expanding going ever deeper into…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #senryu • 6 years ago
Eclipsed
I will steal the warmth and light from your day. Leaving it dreary and gray. A mere shadow of itself, a poor imitation of night.
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
Damned Midas Touch
Everything that touches you is bad So we shall all live in fear From Toxoplasma Gondii in our fluffy, harmless kitties to chem-trails lining the skies We are caught in the…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
Two Ships on the Horizon
Board by rotten board, I fall apart, shattered. Tattered fragments of my weathered sails floating atop the steel waves. All that is left is my shallow breathing. Dying…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
Dead Winter
Every sentence I begin Becomes arrested, frozen In the icy grip of dead Winter It's breath gone, words splintered The entire poem, useless nonsense Boreas bellowed, Calliope…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
In Heat
Midnight heat broiling My mighty metropolis. Obsidian silhouette etched into the glittering skyline. Little beings hustle and bustle through mundane, trivial lives.…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
A Spring in My Step
Cerulean Heaven's high above me. Dewy grass and damp soil beneath my feet. Zephyr's cool, sweet breath against my skin; the lightest touch of fingertips tangled in my hair…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
Asclepius
If we eradicated disease how could we pay Big Pharma to tell Us that we're in perfect health. So long as we swallow their cancers Whilst we die beneath their thumb slowly…
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phantasmagoric (43)in #poetry • 6 years ago
Winter Blues
Every sentence I begin Becomes arrested, frozen In the icy grip of dead Winter It's breath gone, words splintered The entire poem, useless nonsense Boreas bellowed…
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