Dark Poems Anthology #1

MORTAL MAN

Light and Dark combine to make the starry heaven above,

Yet mortal man fears the Darkness which embraces true pleasure seekers

Does the Sun not reflect off of the mysterious Moon?

Wolves howl to it's master, their voices travelling cosmic distances
to reach their pale mistress

Answered back only by the Darkness of night, still so loyal to ravaging predators

Who feed on the flesh of freshly stalked prey

Indeed, their murderous ways sustaining the timber woods of a never ending
destiny to carnivorous intent, their fangs red with blood dripping

With the life force of Gaia's energetic entropy that demands sacrifice

Like an altar to pagan Aztec gods, giving her focus to the killers

Who dwell in the twilight of many mortals, but by tooth and claw

Frae a Jack Lyndon fantasy, nonetheless savage yet beautiful 

Without a second guess that poisons the inspiration which lights up
the Canine mind

So malevolent yet so generous to the trees that grow

What did sin ever avail to the wild beast?

Except to give an excuse to truly savage hunters

Stalking by daylight like coward chimps

Who are cursed by the dusky veil of natural protection 

Mastered only by Lycanthropy in the master's reign,

Learned only by a Dark Poet's midnight pen

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LAUGHING HRAFN 

Haunted by the cawing Raven
Illusions of the old gods craven
Odin's eye, I too much know
The Hanged God of merry woe

All the sagas thus have spoken
Of when the turning wheel is broken
That propels the burning sun
Stopping the Earth from being spun

The time of war is at our hands
Gotterdammerung of the Highlands
Calling forth to Ragnarok
Blue skies then toxic clouds will block

Giants of fire, Niflheim
Unraveling the black cube in time
Freezing Rime in Muspelheim 
The English pound allowing crime

Uprooting trees of life for sap
The black blood of Earth we quickly tap
Tyr's left hand in Fenrir's jaws
Bitten off to fetter the claws

These end times are surely coming
The Bard's prophetic lute is strumming 
Tavern tales of warring kings
Exotic treasures that war brings

Loki the king of mistletoe 
From his lashing tongue the world's lies flow
Crushing logic from your head
Striking beautiful Bragi dead

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THE POETIC DARKNESS

Because the Dark Poet is lonely, 
his heart cannot be broken

Because the Dark Poet is vague,
his words come through clear to those with ears to hear

Because the Dark Poet is ugly,
he avoids all harassment and remains in peace

Because the Dark Poet is lazy,
he has more energy than the yoked Ox

Because the Dark Poet is foolish,
all of life's solutions come tumbling towards him

Because the Dark Poet is anonymous,
all forms are his to take command of

Because the Dark Poet is drunken,
the troubles of life are non-existent

Because the Dark Poet is tragic,
the Divine Comedy is made clear to him

Because the Dark Poet is pitied,
people bring out their best around him

Because the Dark Poet is Dark,
Light is allowed to be created in the universe

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A CAP

A hat by any other name is just as Dark 
Watching clouds drift over the day-lit Moon
Is more amusing than any television
Conjured by Dark marketing sorcerers

One thousand self divisions created by man
To separate from his natural state 
Compares to a drop of rain water collected
Which refuses to quench the beastly thirst

So he runs around like a March Hare with no time
A golden stopwatch which does no justice
In helping him attend the cosmic tea party 
Hosted by the mind and body alike

Laziness, selfishness, melancholy and lust
A simple list of life's greatest pleasures
Portrayed by Light priests as being complicated
This is why Light is the source of deceit