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Under a Witches SkyAnd lo there he said: "I am darkness rising"
— ‘an apparition bleeding into a dreaming sky
Distilled in the timbre of windswept voices,
black feathers enchant earth in fevered-song
Magick ebbs & shimmers thru earthen veins,
seething like a migration of hungry wolves
Silvery eyes peer, drinking the ether of souls;
watching the spirit world fold into the mists
And where Shadows and Witches conjure,
— myriad talons beshrew Winter’s prayer

For eons I hath wandered in forgotten lore
— a sleep walker thru ash & fire, hunting ..
Beneath Moon solemn and drifting,
I covet thy ghostly figure velvet, undressing
Pools of

The Man and the MoonHer mouth corners hung themselves
and I began to wonder if that was the death of them.
A simple, quiet death;
without broken fingernails lining the walls
with the stripes of a despairing end.
I began to ache with the questioning in my heart
with the echoes reverberating in my capillaries
of her face scorching sunshine in her smile
right before it crumpled
and nothing was left but a frowning moon
set firm in its resignation to an upcoming eclipse.

SpeakeasyI can feel you like a phantom,
sensation without touch,
like breath in winter
or a misty mountain morning
that stays with me
until the stars fall in evening.

Your eyes contain the secrets
your lips would dare to betray,
but your body tells the story
and I am trying
to read between the lines
of your paperback smiles.

A grazing touch, a covert glance,
the memories remain
as skin grows warm and red
beneath lying fingertips
that claim incidental contact
a thousand times a day.

Of course,
it's not the kind of thing we say
when we are speaking
without talking and feeling
without touching
and thinking without knowing...

all of the things

Dandelion QueenI dream of the ocean;
that paper-thin line where
the current swallows the stars
and the water churns violet

(you tell me to be
quiet,

dandelion queen, we've
heard all these words before)

tonight
I will sleep heavy
and wake a few hours before dawn,
only to forget my name

my wave-weathered heart will cry,
I will cry (my biggest fear
is drowning in too many
of my own weighted words

you tell me to be
quiet
so I can hear the world breathe)

I want to go home

Overgrown ColorsRed like blood on a rose.
White like bone and stars.
Black like reclusiveness.
Green like dead air.
Orange like the savage instinct.
Purity like a god's heart.
Red like thawing hatred.
White like a frozen, severe cry.
Black like the night's deprived shadows.
Green like the wind in the grass.
Orange like the light in the shadows.
Purity like the sun rising.
So discharging through the moon in a wheeze is like luminous white, dispersed red.

We Can't Be Together.Every kiss you plant on my lips,
Takes a little bit of my soul away.

You're stealing the passion,
You're invading my heart,
And killing what emotion I've left untouched.
Stop this.
I can't love you.

I've tried to before,
Oh my god,
Have I tried.

Tried to unlock the doors to myself,
Tried to open up,
And let you in.
But as soon as I took one look,
Negativity took it's opportunity,
And struck the hot iron I'd been molding.

Every word you mutter
My knees falter under
You're killing me

You're my kryptonite
I'm your paradise
But in this odd peace that seems to be approaching
I can't find happiness.

We aren't meant to be together
But this

WindowsHere am I, repeated,
and beyond waits everything
but everything is more
than I can bear.

I am not built for altitude
nor looking far afield;
groves and granite-sided mountains
stop my gaze

like rest for every tired wing;
a cover in the coldest time
snugged up beneath my chin.

Windows nothing more,
but safe lies there behind them
as the chambered hours pass;

safe sleeps there behind them
on the soft side of the glass.

Poet as PainterThe world
Your dusty palette,
The pen
Your muddied paintbrush:

Dip into
The impossible
Colour
Of imagination

And stain
The pristine slate
With an
Image distilled.

BoyfriendI thought you were good.

You WERE good.

You played with my hair.

You held me when I cried.

You were a gentleman.

You made me laugh.

You kissed me.

You loved me.

I loved you.

It was then that I learned the truth.

The dirty, rotten, stinking truth.

About you!

You cheated.

You played with her hair.

You kissed her.

You loved her.

You made her laugh.

I saw you – don’t you dare deny it.

I saw you giving her that love.

That same love you gave me.

I break up with you.

You don’t even seem to care.

Did you ever love me at all?

Or was it only ever her?

Much later, you’ll realize what a mistake you made.

I

with thanks to frosttwo roads diverged in a soulless dawn
and you pull over,
idling on the shoulder of route 50.
it's a polaroid morning and
the world is as grainy
and sleep-heavy
as your eyes,
and one million miles
is not far enough.
it plays back, filmstrip,
blurred along the length of
optic nerves,
and here you are:
facing a choice between
on
and
out.
and this?
this loosejointed, hollowbodied
weightless ache--
this is what
gone
feels like.

Dry Spell I am immobilized by time.
by the idea that it is somehow slipping,
fleeting,
evaporating
through the cracks of
my fingers and high

above my head.
I am terrified by the incessant notion
that no combination of thoughts,
words,
silences,
or actions
could possibly satiate it.

I realize only now that it can never be filled:
all which is tossed into it is swallowed in haste
or stretched
so far
that it dissolves into non-being.
I find that I am caught within its furrows
much like the words it devo

untitledGold abundant at your feet,
Heart ripe and pumping on your sleeve,
And eternal admiration;
To say happiness has evaded you
Would be asylum-esque lunacy
For you have nothing to lose,
Fate is on your side,
The odds are in your favor infinitely
Do not waste the gift you’ve received

You Don't Know ItYou don't know it, but you kept me sane
I nearly went over the edge
With a knife in one hand and a gun in the other
But you grabbed me
Pulled me back on my own two feet
Emptied my hands
And when you realized that I couldn't stand on my own
You hugged me
Like a mother would do for her child
Like a friend would do for, dare I say, another friend

You don't know it, but when you saved me
I felt free
I felt wanted
I felt needed
I felt, dare I say, loved

You don't know it, but when you showed me kindness
I fell in love
In love with your kindness
That same sweet kindness you saved me with
It felt like I found a new home
One that I could be, dare

Pull Her Hair/Stare At The StarsThe ghosts have crashed their ship
on the other side of town,
you can see it from the second floor
all the way over here.
You can see the white clouds
rising from the wreck
and a nova of heat, a big bright
nova of warmth pulling the moths and wolves
out from the woods (with their noses up and searching).
You can smell the yearning like bees
leaving the hive, like the grizzly brown bears
on the jagged white mountains (concrete and imposing).
They call it fear,
but I see these ghosts
scrambling up into the sky
and I like to think it's
something different entirely.

clicheTo those who hold bird bones
on the edge of their limbs,
there are dissipated lungs
filled with skies
longing for pillars of fire
rather than bottled souls
kept in the brink of captivity
too big for sparrows.

To those with the cancer
of building and rebuilding
their minute sentences
into salt-shaken metaphors,
sometimes a whisper
trying to be a rhapsody
will never be the same as
a declaration,
an aubade on it's own.

To those who empty
their ash trays
like cremated dust onto
salivating pores and
two cents of syllables weeping
by your windowsill,
there's sand in your mouth.
sand so red that oxygen
will mistake it for blood
so your words wi

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My LegacyThis is a legacy.
My legacy of darkness.
I've hid in the shadows.
Hated by the world,
loved by a few.
Trapped in the background.
Afraid to be seen.
Heart broken by the light.
Torn to bits
by those who said they cared.
This is my legacy
My legacy of loneliness.
Trapped in the shadows.
Ignored by all.
Nobody cared.
So I gave up on them.
They begged for my help,
and I walked away.
Left them for dead.
They called me a monster,
a thief, and a murderer.
My heart ripped
and torn to pieces
by their barbed words.
I turned around
and told them
to fuck off.
And that was
the end and beginning
of act one.
I'd hate to see
what act two will bring

Anthem of My Dying DayAlone I have sat.
Consumed by my darkness.
Singing of a death
that has long since passed.
Wondering where it all went wrong.
Why I could only find sadness.
Today I realized the truth.
And I can't believe
that I didn't see this before.
I was listening to the lies of the devil.
Believing what he said.
Thought it to be true.
That I was worthless.
That I didn't deserve forgiveness.
That I didn't belong up there.
That He didn't want me.
They say that
it's the darkest before the dawn.
But when all you know is darkness,
it's hard to see the light.
But now I see.
I see where this path
has taken me,
and where it will take me,
i

Coming Down, UnafraidI've made my mistakes.
I've stood at the edge.
I've wrestled my demons.
I've watched my world collapse.
I've stared at my darkness.

You've forgiven my wrongs.
You've pulled me away from the abyss.
You've brought the angels.
You've rebuilt my life.
You've burned away the darkness,
with your light.

And now I'm coming down from the ledge.
And for the first time
I'm truly happy.
This is how life should be.
I'm coming down from this ledge,
I'm coming down, unafraid.

My Last ConfessionI can't be saved.
I'm lost in the darkness.
Trapped in the lies
The walls of sin
lock me in.
It's better that you don't forgive me.
There is no way out for me.
The monster hunts me
And the devil wants my soul.
I'm damned
and there is nothing,
nothing at all you can do
that could possibly save me.
It's better for you to let me go.
All I can ask
is that you scatter my ashes
when I'm dead.

Ante Bellum, Memento MoriI live this life as a battle.
A raging war within
A battle between
the monster and the hero.
The blood of a demon
and the wings of an angel
wage war.
Darkness and light
struggling with each other.
This conflict within
is killing me slowly.
Breaking my armor,
leaving me defenseless.
There is no hope for me.
I can't be saved.
So abandon me to my fate.
Don't let my hell
drag you down.
Don't let me
be a burden.

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Welcome to Your Nightmare

by *shadowmacer66, Dec 9, 2012, 2:11:25 PM
Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Free Verse

Welcome to your nightmare.
This is the price of evil.
The sins that you've commited
and the darkness in your soul
have brought you here.
God ain't on your side anymore.
Your relationship with him was severed
when you rejected his commandments.
Nothing will stop the madness.
Your crimes haunt you.
But the trigger won't save you.
So now they ink numbers in your soul.
Just a puppet in the devil's show.
Just a slave in the hellfire.
This is the place where
Right is wrong
And wrong is right.
Pain needs no reason here.
This is your fate.
Such a tragic
turn of events.
No way out.
This is where you belong.
I'm your fucking nightmare.

Welcome to Your Nightmareby *shadowmacer66

Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Free Verse

©2012-2013 *shadowmacer66

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~MeghanxMassacre Dec 9, 2012 Student General Artist

I love this, sounds exactly how I would write it! Such dark, morbid feelings. Great work!

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*shadowmacer66 Dec 9, 2012

Thank you.

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~shalorah Dec 9, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

Sounds a lot like Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold... 0.0 was this intentional?

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*shadowmacer66 Dec 9, 2012

It was based off it, so yes it was intentional.

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~shalorah Dec 9, 2012 Student Traditional Artist

Ah cool

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