Category: Poetry
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Pick It Up
As you walk right out the door Please pick my heart up off the floor Toss it in the corner, please Right next to all the broken dreams The dreams we had, the dreams that died It can sit next to the tears we cried The tears like not so gentle rain A few of…
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Father’s Day ’24
Amidst the pain, amidst the strife When the world has cut me like a knife Amidst the doubts, amidst the fear I am ever grateful you are here We almost lost you long ago The tears I cried you’ll never know So many nights of restless sleep So many nights I’d lay and weep So…
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Another Day
Another day down in the trenchAmidst the dirt, amidst the stenchAnother day of cursed warSleeping on an earthen floorO’er the top we go againA war that no one’s bound to winNo man’s land, no land for meWe fight for all that’s good and freeThe sound of mines, the wretched gasIt billows on down through the…
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Wolf By The River
You’re dressed up like a sheep But I can see the wolf within The tenderness displayed A veneer atop the sin You came to me a friend But you leave me as a foe You’re a river running deep Blackened water, evil flow Once I fell into this river And I very nearly drowned You…
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The Eternal War
The battlefield within my mind Where claret flows, a bitter wine I’ve fought it seems a thousand years A futile war amidst the tears I’ve known the rage and known the pain I’ve suffered ‘neath your tainted reign Through Hell and back and there again I fight the war one cannot win A fool’s crusade,…
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Sorceress Of The Night
Sorceress of the Night, you transfix me with your gaze Sorceress of the Night, how you set my heart ablaze You bewitch and you beguile, in a daze and feeling blind In the dark you’re all I think of, you confuse my mortal mind I see you in my nightmares and I see you in…
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The Wait For Freedom
You think this cage can hold me? Do you think these shackles bind? Do you think I cannot see it? Do you really think I’m blind? Your lips speak self-assurance I can see within your eyes I can see the fear you carry Filled with fear that I will rise That I will rise up…
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Drifter In Black
AKA: Ode to the Spaghetti Western As the church bells toll twelve Hush falls over the street The crowd gathers around In the hot summer heat How the hell it began No one really quite knows There’s a wind from the east As the tumbleweeds blow The drifter in black Six-gun slung at his side…
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Upon Mountain High
A darkened night on mountain high A raven’s view of Hell I’ve seen this view a thousand times Indeed I know it well I watch the battles far below They seem to never change Crusades are launched in name of love Sometimes in name of rage Some battles I have taken up Sometimes I’ve walked…
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Creator’s Lament
Another thought has come and passed Another bourbon in the glass An empty page stares at my face Mocking with it’s endless space A purest magic at the start Who knew my muse would soon depart? The gaslights flicker in the street My hidden muse I ache to meet She’s a fickle one, I’ve learned…
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Highway Parchment Blues
I’ve been on this road forever For damnation and a day It’s a road that’s too familiar And it only leads one way At a rest stop met a devil In his eyes a wicked gleam He was selling me a promise Everything of which I dreamed No downpayment he required Said we’d settle up…
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A Chance Meeting
Good day to all! I hope this post finds everyone well. I wanted to take a moment to share the above post with you all. It is a collaborative effort between myself and Laura from Black Moon Lilith. It is a fantasy tale/poem, and sort of a prologue to what may become a short story.…
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The Final Song
You’ve eluded me for far too long Every night, your haunting song Your taunting laugh within my ears Always try to stoke my fears You took away all that I had Tried your best to drive me mad A coward true, you always run You hide until the setting sun With evening comes your misery…
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The Final NTT Entries Post!
Well… For now. 😉 It seems strange for me to be typing this, but here’s the last round of entries for No Theme Thursday before it goes on hiatus. It will be a brief one, but all the same, it feels weird, I must admit. Before we get to the main event here, I want…
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TAKE THE HILL!
Amidst the flames, amidst the pain Amidst the brutal bleeding reign You must push on, you can’t relent You fight until your will is spent And when it’s spent, you push some more Until you’re at the Devil’s door With smashing power, iron will You chase that Devil to the hill You plant your flag,…
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Energy Ascendant
Headed toward destruction Just past the speed of light A star gone supernova This will be my final flight Said goodbye to family Said goodbye to friends I went to sleep contented Content to meet my end The life I lived was good Well, maybe not so much A relic from another age So distant,…
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Cast Aside
Stepped upon and cast aside No one even tries to hide Absolute and sheer disdain Serve no use, I’m just a pain All the years I gave my best Tossed aside just like the rest A young man’s world it has become God bless the bottle, keeps me numb They tell me that my time…
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The Dream Had Died
When I awoke today I cried I realized that the dream had died I burned it down without regret It’s something I wish to forget Another foolish Neverland Ruined by a fate’s cruel hand Life in the clouds does not exist And if it did it’s one I missed If I had it all to…
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NTT Posts: 05.23.24 Edition
Hello all, and welcome to this week’s collection of NTT posts. Lots of fantastic material here. It’s a never-ending well for which I am very grateful. thank you all for your continued support. It is because of you that this thrives every single week. Without further ado, here are this week’s entries, and as always,…
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Excursions In The Late Night Wood (A Return)
Though she has traveled here before She finds she must return once more Drawn to this place, cannot explain She can feel a hunger, feel the pain Is it man, or is it beast? It does not matter in the least This calling never seems to cease Every night, the calls increase Even sleeping in…
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It Can’t Be Done (No Escape)
They said it was impossible That it never could be done No one could ever leave here The odds were slightly less than none But every night we dug and drilled Music muffled what we did And when the guards walked by at night Behind dummy walls we hid The vent they left unguarded Was…
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Of Silence
Look up high, the day is done We say goodbye to setting sun A calming hush felt all around Among the trees there’s not a sound The world at rest, the world at peace For but a moment, sweet release Cherish silence where you can For soon, another day at hand Embrace this moment, drink…
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Lunar Spectral Musing
Lunar spectral deity A spirit ever roaming free You magnetize, you hypnotize No one escapes your watchful eyes You wax and wane, your secrets hide But to their core, some know inside Your riddles are a compass To the knowing, you’re a guide You show us what you want to Keeping sacred what you must…
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The Sisters Morgan
Mary Jane and Sister Sarah rode right into town They’re looking for the Dirty Dogg who cut their Daddy down They followed him to Amarillo, riding day and night He’s headed for the border and they’re itching for a fight The Galley Boys got in the way, they’re six feet under now Nothing’s gonna stop…
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Taste of Freedom
As the day is softly fading As it yields to coming night The spirit deep within me Longs to take a fancy flight Freedom from the shackles From the shackles of the grind Into a world expanding Expanding with my mind For here I’m superhuman And my limits know no bounds Here no one can…
The Beginning At Last 