poetry – Page 35 – Tale Told

Nameless

He wanders now without a face, without a mind that we can trace, across beduned and desert plains where never falls lifegiving rains. And even Death's forgotten him, has lost…

The Fool’s Circle

If there is nothing inherently wrong, only abused, then everything inherently has an ordinate use, a place it belongs. So, this necromancy, be it evil, is evil only in its…

Asking Why

22 Nov 202222 Nov 2022

They live below the earth, and we have dug too deep. Our greed has given birth: they've woken from their sleep. And now our nights we rue and fear their…

Cold Feet

What twisted, darkened gleams are dancing in your eye; how aweful it all seems above a wicked smile. And haunting all my dreams, I find I know not why my…

Darkness There Forevermore

I saw the sun set upon the city and knew it would never rise again. There would be nothing but darkness, darkness there forevermore. And the people of that city…

Blinded

I wash my face in tears and stare into the sun, a coward full of fears, forever on the run. I lift my eyes to God, but cannot raise my…

2022: Happy Halloween

31 Oct 202225 Aug 2022

Where dragons lurk and banshees scream,where knights aren't always what they seem,where ghosts and ghouls all run around,where zombies rise out of the ground,where things that slither, slither on,where things…

‘Twas There

You know the truth of what was said, that I, alive, was once found dead, breathless and cold within my bed. 'Twas there I learned of things ahead. I fear…

Sonnet: Murder

Please Read: Murder What fateful circuits ring above us now who with our hempen collars wait to fall— but not to meet the earth—for by this bough upheld, our necks…

Second Chance

You want to run away and hide, conceal yourself by some disguise, before they find out you have lied, before they open up their eyes. I think perhaps you'd be…