Submissions by HadesRising
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
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DARK POEM
Published
12th Aug 2014 6:52am
12th Aug 2014 6:52am
Ghost of the Enemy
File up and stand in line in congregation
On knees begging for divine intervention
From a force born for total domination
Like numb clones freshly born from incubation
Foolish pride made from ignorance
The herding of the sheep
Chained to the iron boot
To beat down defiance
So gather around
With your little one
A wad of money
To secure your place
In heaven
Open wide your hearts
And welcome inside
The ghost of the enemy
Offers he will make
Promise salvation
Under boots of tyranny
...
On knees begging for divine intervention
From a force born for total domination
Like numb clones freshly born from incubation
Foolish pride made from ignorance
The herding of the sheep
Chained to the iron boot
To beat down defiance
So gather around
With your little one
A wad of money
To secure your place
In heaven
Open wide your hearts
And welcome inside
The ghost of the enemy
Offers he will make
Promise salvation
Under boots of tyranny
...
76 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
7th Aug 2014 1:28am
7th Aug 2014 1:28am
Hades Rising
Travel through a starless night
On the eerie waters of the Stix
Charon guides you to the shore
The kingdom of darkness awaiting you
To face eternal judgment and the truth
Insanity at the turn of the screw
Cerebus waits in the shadows
Eager and hungry for his next meal
Great beast of the underworld
Charon’s obol seals the deal
The restless dead are teeming
At the gates, wailing and screaming
Rotting flesh shine with drachmas
The smell of Acheron in the air
Wishing for the Isle of Blessed
In this darkest...
On the eerie waters of the Stix
Charon guides you to the shore
The kingdom of darkness awaiting you
To face eternal judgment and the truth
Insanity at the turn of the screw
Cerebus waits in the shadows
Eager and hungry for his next meal
Great beast of the underworld
Charon’s obol seals the deal
The restless dead are teeming
At the gates, wailing and screaming
Rotting flesh shine with drachmas
The smell of Acheron in the air
Wishing for the Isle of Blessed
In this darkest...
70 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
6th Aug 2014 5:07am
6th Aug 2014 5:07am
The Walker Between the Trees
Cast the runes beneath the moon
Light cast upon the face of doom
I spied her
By the stream wailing and screams
Pierce the hours under the beams
Laced with death
What kind of terrible will
Sustains such a vile creature
Such as I?
Arcades of psychedelic visions
Of kings and queens kneeling to a pawn
Lucid, hallucinate incisions
Leave the bodies rotting on the lawn
Faithless faces of dead races
The incense of nightshade and hemlock
To cover the smell of...
Light cast upon the face of doom
I spied her
By the stream wailing and screams
Pierce the hours under the beams
Laced with death
What kind of terrible will
Sustains such a vile creature
Such as I?
Arcades of psychedelic visions
Of kings and queens kneeling to a pawn
Lucid, hallucinate incisions
Leave the bodies rotting on the lawn
Faithless faces of dead races
The incense of nightshade and hemlock
To cover the smell of...
62 reads
0 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
2nd Aug 2014 6:50am
2nd Aug 2014 6:50am
The Final Configuration
I, archangel of the holy host
Existed only as a ghost
In His eyes, so blind
Unjustified
As I perch above the skies
Unloved, I reach desperately for stars
But found only a set of scars
Poisoned like black thorns
That augmented
My gold halo into horns
The designs across the box
Whisper secrets to me
Reconfigure the locks
Thus is my decree
A dark void in the kingdom of light
Razor wire creep in the night
Like the twisting vines
Desecrated
Spires where angels pine
The designs across the box
Whisper...
Existed only as a ghost
In His eyes, so blind
Unjustified
As I perch above the skies
Unloved, I reach desperately for stars
But found only a set of scars
Poisoned like black thorns
That augmented
My gold halo into horns
The designs across the box
Whisper secrets to me
Reconfigure the locks
Thus is my decree
A dark void in the kingdom of light
Razor wire creep in the night
Like the twisting vines
Desecrated
Spires where angels pine
The designs across the box
Whisper...
68 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
1st Aug 2014 5:48am
1st Aug 2014 5:48am
The Second Configuration
Tears fall like rain every night
Sad little rivers down her face
Too much mascara in attempts
To look beautiful for blind eyes
Futile and down forever
Lacerations on pale flesh
Desperately sending a message
To any who would care to listen
Then came soon was her one wish
Something in the dark, a vestige
Red-rimmed black orbs watching, a vision
In his hand...
... a tiny gold box...
...tiny black box...
“Solve this configuration
For your salvation
You spit your venom...
Sad little rivers down her face
Too much mascara in attempts
To look beautiful for blind eyes
Futile and down forever
Lacerations on pale flesh
Desperately sending a message
To any who would care to listen
Then came soon was her one wish
Something in the dark, a vestige
Red-rimmed black orbs watching, a vision
In his hand...
... a tiny gold box...
...tiny black box...
“Solve this configuration
For your salvation
You spit your venom...
59 reads
0 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
31st Jul 2014 6:01am
31st Jul 2014 6:01am
The First Configuration
Spent my nights looking at the stars
I ponder if any eyes are looking
Back at me from afar?
The absence of God has driven me to this
A fraying line condemned to the abyss
Because of the lack of faith in the bible
I turned, willingly, to the devil
He gave unto me a polished box
Intricate in design
As a gateway to his kingdom
My fate is resigned
Beneath the eye of a never seeing lord
As another piece is struck from the board
The mourning bell is tolling in its sorrow
I may never witness the morrow
God, will you...
I ponder if any eyes are looking
Back at me from afar?
The absence of God has driven me to this
A fraying line condemned to the abyss
Because of the lack of faith in the bible
I turned, willingly, to the devil
He gave unto me a polished box
Intricate in design
As a gateway to his kingdom
My fate is resigned
Beneath the eye of a never seeing lord
As another piece is struck from the board
The mourning bell is tolling in its sorrow
I may never witness the morrow
God, will you...
60 reads
2 Comments
ANGER POEM
Published
30th Jul 2014 5:06am
30th Jul 2014 5:06am
Kill The Saint
There came one who promised all the open skies
With a winning smile, open arms
We welcomed the devil in disguise
Giving a piece of peace in our hearts
He came to us beneath the stars
An open hand in times of need
In our lives, he became a part
But soon all the lies came to light
Upon our land there came a blight
A jagged shard stabs in our faith
Into our souls, he set to rape
Unleash the rage and kill the saint
With blood-soaked rags remove the taint
Liberty for all is what the words had said
But drag them through the...
With a winning smile, open arms
We welcomed the devil in disguise
Giving a piece of peace in our hearts
He came to us beneath the stars
An open hand in times of need
In our lives, he became a part
But soon all the lies came to light
Upon our land there came a blight
A jagged shard stabs in our faith
Into our souls, he set to rape
Unleash the rage and kill the saint
With blood-soaked rags remove the taint
Liberty for all is what the words had said
But drag them through the...
89 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
21st Jul 2014 6:41am
21st Jul 2014 6:41am
Beastly
The cold wind blows against the tower
From the salt of tears shed nightly
Trapped within this nightmare
Of the beast’s devising
The darkness is turning under the stairs
Waiting...
For the return of one so loved
When the bell chimes shrilly
Is it the first or last?
Who dares to walk the pass?
The days and nights blend together
With the air thick with the blood smell
The ravenous feedings
Sick sounds when the bones snap
Lo, but there will be no happy ending
Beastly...
Dearly remains of one so loved
When the bell...
From the salt of tears shed nightly
Trapped within this nightmare
Of the beast’s devising
The darkness is turning under the stairs
Waiting...
For the return of one so loved
When the bell chimes shrilly
Is it the first or last?
Who dares to walk the pass?
The days and nights blend together
With the air thick with the blood smell
The ravenous feedings
Sick sounds when the bones snap
Lo, but there will be no happy ending
Beastly...
Dearly remains of one so loved
When the bell...
63 reads
4 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
21st Jul 2014 6:01am
21st Jul 2014 6:01am
Realms of Elsewhere
Roses grow at her passing as she walks in the shadows
A cool wind blows from the river below
The gentle breeze blowing through raven hair
As the spirits bow at her feet
Worms crawling in the flesh under what they wear
Persephone, Queen of the Underworld
Secretly longing for her husband
Never there in realms of elsewhere
Golden but tarnished, he sits upon his shadow throne
Judgment, his creed in his kingdom of bone
His loneliness untold in the legends
As the spirits bow at his feet
Longs for the touch of beauty unimagined
He is...
A cool wind blows from the river below
The gentle breeze blowing through raven hair
As the spirits bow at her feet
Worms crawling in the flesh under what they wear
Persephone, Queen of the Underworld
Secretly longing for her husband
Never there in realms of elsewhere
Golden but tarnished, he sits upon his shadow throne
Judgment, his creed in his kingdom of bone
His loneliness untold in the legends
As the spirits bow at his feet
Longs for the touch of beauty unimagined
He is...
50 reads
2 Comments
DARK POEM
Published
20th Jul 2014 8:30am
20th Jul 2014 8:30am
Destroyer of the Gods
It came alive under the eyes of gods so dull and blind
A creature from the deepest pits of Tartarus is alive
An evil born of the lords of monsters angry and hell bent
Maliciously demented mind born of their laments
Echidna born
Seed of evil
Tartarus spawned
Typhon, arise
The devil
A hundred serpent heads stare with eyes blazing fire
His song is sung in chords of fear by many frightened choirs
His hands they reach to Olympus, he will smite the gods
To bring the lordly low to earth, expose them as the frauds
Echidna born...
A creature from the deepest pits of Tartarus is alive
An evil born of the lords of monsters angry and hell bent
Maliciously demented mind born of their laments
Echidna born
Seed of evil
Tartarus spawned
Typhon, arise
The devil
A hundred serpent heads stare with eyes blazing fire
His song is sung in chords of fear by many frightened choirs
His hands they reach to Olympus, he will smite the gods
To bring the lordly low to earth, expose them as the frauds
Echidna born...
53 reads
2 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
18th Jul 2014 7:33am
18th Jul 2014 7:33am
The Barbarian and The Serpent's Heart
Riding forth on desert sands with the warm breeze at his back
A thief when need, but a killer at heart with no choice but to attack
They found the heart of the crystal serpent in musty tombs
Shone the path to the crypt bu the waning light of the moon
This barren land holds a curse, terrible sorcery
In the shadows, no on sees
Blood dipped obsidian blades
Woven spells upon the altars will black out the days
For the serpent’s heart
All will come
To claim the prize
Snake-men in druid’s robes enchanting with their...
A thief when need, but a killer at heart with no choice but to attack
They found the heart of the crystal serpent in musty tombs
Shone the path to the crypt bu the waning light of the moon
This barren land holds a curse, terrible sorcery
In the shadows, no on sees
Blood dipped obsidian blades
Woven spells upon the altars will black out the days
For the serpent’s heart
All will come
To claim the prize
Snake-men in druid’s robes enchanting with their...
51 reads
2 Comments
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