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In Fury I Reign
Amidst the strife Amongst the pain In fury deep I ever reign I’ve been called worthy And sometimes not Lightning crackles Like a shot I stand here tall On mountaintop Push ever on I’ll never stop If you are down Awash in pain Rise to your feet Begin your reign
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Fading Light
I can see it I can feel it Doors closing Walls crumbling Everything Collapsing All around me Silence Desolation Darkness Light fading No hope No cry for help Not even A whisper No one cares Anyhow Not even Me ©2025, The Beginning At Last
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Give Peace A Glance
The time for peace has come and gone The time for war has set upon “Peace be with you”, so they say It’s just another game we play Platitudes and fake hellos You know we’d rather come to blows You hide your demons deep inside Another smiling suicide A hypocrite in prophet’s clothes Your true…
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Hearts of Ice
An extra special thank you to the lovely Miss Laura Bennett for putting this together for me. Always appreciated. 💓
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Brimstone Fire
Am I slayer of your demons? Or the slayer of your dreams? In the realms of brimstone fire Nothing ever as it seems Am I servant to a devil? Am I something more divine? Am I something in the middle? Do I tread a fragile line? As I move amongst the fire As I tread…
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Here and Then
Through the eons The celestial byways Of space Of time Of reality Immeasurable threads So intertwined Yesterday Tomorrow Today All different Yet still All the same Paths cross Courses reverse Fast forward You can’t fathom You think you know Your ignorance Astounding Your arrogance Appalling You are barely an atom A splinter So minute So…
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The Final Bow
The final bow The curtain call I look around I guess that’s all No encores had No cheering crowd The silence here Is far too loud One spotlight shines So mockingly I stand alone It’s only me Head hung low I leave the stage The time has come To turn this page Ladies and gentlemen…
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Symphony of Rage
I bend your bars Destroy your cage Within my chest A burning rage Years of hatred I’ve curated Running wild Unabated This blood I wear Is not my own With every swipe My rage has grown A feeding frenzy A hunger fast I breathe the air So free at last Free from shackles Of restraint…
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Your Venom
Your venom is a sweet wine Intoxicating Mesmerizing And yet The last sip so bitter Crippling Fatal This liquid divine Drips from shiny fangs Love Blood Lust Demise Melded Mixed A cocktail so effervescent But so vile You are the beginning You are the end The silken promise you provide Is but a ruse To…
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Whiskey Truths
A couple pills A whiskey shot Sometimes that’s all I’ve really got To get me through Another day The only torch To light the way I wake again A pounding head Within my heart Impending dread Can’t stand the thought Of losing you Can’t live without My whiskey truth While I do enjoy a bit…
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Mistress of the Moonlight
Mistress of the Moon Come bathe me in your light My soul is aching, bleeding I need your touch Tonight I hear your laughter Softly I hear it in the air But when I turn to find you I can’t see you Anywhere I pray each night for healing I pray each night For you…
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Inner Mounting Flames
I am the collateral damage Just a stone within your road The punchline to your joke Another beast to bear the load Ignorant and blissful Or so you’d have us think At the Well of Fools you’re kneeling As you take another drink Clearer than a crystal And sharper than a knife You think we…
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Broken Roads
We have not posted any photo poems for awhile, so it seemed like the time to put another out there. This three-part piece is penned by the lovely and talented Laura Bennett, and once again, I am extremely grateful for the fantastic words she wrote to accompany my pictures. We hope you enjoy it, and…
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I Call It Fate
As I look back Upon my life It cuts me deep Just like a knife Decisions Like incisions The blood I gave The blood I’ve lost And never was it Worth the cost A drink in hand Taste of lament I wonder where My spirit went It seems I lost it Long ago It never…
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Retreating To: A Review by Adam Fenner
Alternate image for ‘Retreating To’ Good day, all. I am very honored to share that Adam Fenner has posted a review of my poem Retreating To on his blog. To those who do not know Adam, he is a self-described “former adventurer turned full-time Dad moonlighting as an author.” He regularly reviews writings from across…
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Retreating To
Cold, uncaring I’ve become I used to once But now I’m numb My heart is blacker Than the night I used to think I’d found the light Now I see That’s not the case I don’t belong I’m out of place A stranger here Without a friend The time it ticks To toll the end…
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Spreadsheet Blues
All your spreadsheets Charts and graphs You piss me off You make me laugh You are so clueless Such a fool A big diploma Got spreadsheet blues The above poem was written in exactly 59 seconds (which is about 58 more than they really deserve) and is dedicated to all the folks with big, fancy…
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No Theme Thursday: 1/30/25
Featured image by Laura @ Black Moon Lilith Good day and welcome to this week’s edition of NTT! Coming off our one year anniversary extravaganza, it’s time to settle into a slightly new groove. Biweekly with a few less pics and we’ll see how it goes. As things always change and evolve, if this formula…
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This Path
I am not here to serve you I am not here to save you I am not here to free you Nor am I to enslave you Remember what they gave you Remember, they betrayed you I am not here to teach you I care not if I reach you I care not to enrich…
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Serenity
I hope everyone enjoys this poem. It was a distinct pleasure to put words to Laura’s beautiful photograph. I hope I did this fine image justice. As many of you likely saw from Laura’s recent post, she has been a bit under the weather as of late, in addition to a hectic work schedule. She…
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NTT Showcase: 1.9.25 Edition (Updated: 1.17)
Got my Negan going on, I guess… Good day and welcome to this week’s edition of Showcase! Sorry for the late post. Was off for a couple days and needed to get some stuff done! My deepest thanks to everyone for your submissions, as always! An excellent week yet again! If I missed any posts…
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Ode To Our Lands
01/16/25: This was one of the first times I actually wrote a post for my own NTT challenge, and it is one I have always been quite proud of. To mark one year of NTT, I am reposting it again today. Again this week, I am going to take a shot at an image for…
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No Theme Thursday: 01.09.25
Featured image by Laura @ Black Moon Lilith Welcome to this week’s edition of NTT! Thank you to everyone for all your excellent submissions last week. Fantastic work by all! Please have your entries up by 01/14/25 so that I can round up and post them. Thanks! Here’s this week’s selections. Hope you like ’em!
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NTT Showcase: 01.02.25 Edition
Hey folks. Welcome! It’s been a very wild week since returning to work from holiday. Currently, I feel like I am neither here nor there as far as, well…everything. 😄 Trying to shake it off and get back to whatever passes for normal, but in the meantime, I’ll be tumbling down the stairs sideways! Thank…
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Review: Ink Stained Love
Yes, gorillas can read. I will preface this by stating that I have never written a review for anything before, so this is completely new territory for me. The following are just a few thoughts I wished to share. Ink Stained Love is the first published book by our very own Ernest Federspiel, AKA: E-Dawg,…
The Beginning At Last 