you can hear it
in the stone lion's roar
see the horizon torn
by the eagles of war
slashed veins bleed ink
every word stained red
as bruised psyches
translate the languages of pain
into alliterate code



by Cindy Grundsten

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The Long December
Voices diminished
Last embers
Extinguished

Animals gather
No more guns
Freed from Ashur
And his sons

Verdant hills
Evergreen
Concrete Jungle
In ruin

City of bones
Exposed
Nature's headstones
Arose

Here lies Us
Monsters of madness
No more

10 51

If you search & find me missing
Lost at sea, I'm already gone
The tempest boils my faith is listing
Cresting fears I know it won’t be long

Far adrift in my emotions
Rising up I sink in ebbing tides
The waves of stormy oceans
Crash & break apart my mind

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Bring your trends
Bring your dirt
Bring your baggage
.
You never had a friend like me
.
I promise
.
Lie in the bed that you made
I will inherit your shortcomings
.
Pain is as natural as the rain
.
I'll be there to weather it with you🌦
.
Don't fear to be alone
.

0 3

I can savour
your
on my lips
taste your urge
mingling raindrops
hot over trails
of your fingers
on my skin
mouth tracing
echoes of your smile
breath deeper
till you fill me
& we’re still
just kissing
in the rain

13 40

The underworld is where I keep an eye
.
Little birdies communicate so well, I will never be caught off guard
.
Open skies capture my third eye
.
No weapon shall prosper after my demise
.
There is no telltale signs
.
Your sacrifice is not knowing
.
I sacrifice none

0 2

Stillborn letters
stumble along
an unfair path
Crystallizing darkness
permitting it to breathe
in the raven twists
of dusk
The eye of shadow
Distinct
with its baleful glare
Affixed
upon my soul.





11 48

Alice alway planned
To try to return
To that timeless place
Where passions burned.

But where to travel
There were so many trails
Some through
Some over dales

Mere
And she'd have been banned
But true love's dream
Was key to Wonderland.

11 43

Nature
the of creation
vibrant life flowing
and creating new
but slow inevitable crumble of age
cells by error and time
finally death but with new birth
Nature

5 31

She stood alone on the precipice, ignoring the necromancer. Her lover left her to die of a broken heart, now they wanted to know why she taken her life. She wanted peace. Her foot left the ledge as she whispered, "All is forgiven."



5 19

The suffusion of his evil spread thru her. A refulgence, it split the dark of night. Her head took on a volution of its own and she held no pity for the church’s folly. One by one the frocked fools' souls were devoured.





🎞️The Exorcist

4 10

A moment…
life placed on pause
a fleeting memory of love
reminiscent feeling of what was
f
a
d
e
s
in an instant…





🖼️Pinterest

2 7

desire died
now there is only thirst
my lonely grave awaits
with immortality cursed
I taste the dead with each bite
yet savor the sanity death brings
I’ll

d
i
s
m
a
n
t
l
e
the madness first light



10 29

With grim delight
Distorted darkness obscures the deadly shadows of the night
The cold breathes through me
Scratching for my soul

1 1

There will be Viking clouds and the searing blue of zaffre stars as Odin’s rides through. A damned melody of horses hooves and canine howls. They said to keep to your homes as twilight came for is at hand.


🎨Peter Nicolai Arbo

3 5

I don't blame you
for having a
Sweet tooth

Taking a bite out of a bad apple

Leaving you with a sour face

Roses grow in silence
But
make noise when they are going in the garbage

Planting hope
A sure Sign for brighter days
Harvesting a better tomorrow

0 1

death is not serene
…for the living
we may blind ourselves
to the grief
choose to sway our thoughts
away from memories
…until
in time
smooth as whispered angel wings
we hear a voice affirm
their amaranthine love





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