In The Dark Poems - Poems about In The Dark

My worst nightmare sat down beside me With the most angelic face And whispered things too hard to swallow His smile sweetening the taste “All that’s wicked has the upper hand “All that’s pure has gone...Read the rest...

“cat o' 9 tales” Like a cat has 9 lives every witch in every Lilith lives to write another day woe bedtide the poor oaf who gets in Her way like Heathcliffe he’ll be tortured from here to...Read the rest...

It’s said the apple’s history goes back to our earliest ancestry when, in a garden, a couple ate one and got us all in trouble. Now, had the apple been arsenic its effect would have been just as tragic, and who...Read the rest...

In the timeless tumult of time’s tempestuous tide, I find myself adrift, with neither rudder, nor guide. Each crest and trough, a murmured decree of fate, In this ceaseless sea, I strive to navigate. Amidst the ragged rocks and...Read the rest...

(Kafkaesque) All ill manner of men dances at the bottom of my flowing skirt, A circus of vultures aiming high, playing solitude in the dirt, Trumpeting flames reading Classics, wasted carcasses of men. Eyes inward turn and...Read the rest...

There is a crow that always follows me: A master of shadow— His dark black wings full of mystery and evil; His cunning dots for eyes. Always watching; always waiting… And even when I fall asleep, he waits For me there;...Read the rest...

Stair carefully dear into the unknown abyssal void. Pier was once past and now rotted and rictus, petrified. Hue manatee threaded ten den and garnet. Ruby teardrops and crimson Damascus drips droplets, like a leak key faucet in the...Read the rest...

"canon service" “We follow the rules here”, he said incorruptibly like he was untainted as holy water from the incorruptible font, he had an upward inflection in his voice at the end of every punctuated point, delivered like a...Read the rest...

My eyes stare straight, fixated on something in the distance, humming a song that would send chills, if you ever got the chance to listen. A padded cell and a straitjacket, the doctor giving one of his ‘visits,’ his moans...Read the rest...

Get in your room now,” as daddy fashioned a gun. Mom grabbed me and her facial expression was undone, something must be wrong, I ask she looked at me and welts started to run, down we hunkered under the...Read the rest...

Smoldering In The Dark My muse set fire to my soul With her Irish blood and scorpion sting The darkness had no chance. Skeletons huddled in the closet Bones rattled as it burned to the ground Ashes to ashes, dust to...Read the rest...

Another sunny day - Birds sing outside my door. I can't hear them. It seems I've spilled milk on the floor, And mother loudly screams. Another sunny day - We learn the Golden Rule, And go...Read the rest...

My doctor is a man of charm and wit. Smiling, he told me I was dying and just to prove he wasn’t lying cancelled my next day’s visit....Read the rest...

White dress stained with blood From he who shot your gun. Tried to keep you locked, Before his life begun. Spellbinding stare from Eyes of a millionaire. As smoke fills up rooms, We sink into despair. Thrown off into...Read the rest...

So you find your light down there in the dark, down there the light burns for you so bright. You feel the warmth of the cold street light where rain finds the tears you cry. Sharp edged...Read the rest...