Gatermen haunt terror swamp
Hoping to devour women or men,
Lurking silently in murky reeds
Then lurching forward once again.
With bodies like scaly humans
But elongated reptilian faces,
Gatermen live to kill and feast
Upon mankind or other... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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Evil secrets of the night
Phantoms floating up ahigh,
Susurrations fill the air
As whispery shadows sigh.
Empty promises floating by
As darkling shades do fall,
When from the silent town
Chittering voices ever call.
Nightlings hunt the... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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Darkling creatures hiding
Just beyond your sight,
Glance ever so slowly to see
Them, in the corner of your eye.
Loathsome spirit entities
Hide in shadows all their own,
Dwelling nearby yet unseen
Within your suburban home.
Obscure,... – by Phil Roberts | 1 View added 1 year ago
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The Conductor leads an orchestra
As they play another song of death,
A song to freeze you to the marrow
A song to steal your final breath.
They play a mournful symphony
They play the Death March song,
They play it piano: very gently
They... – by Phil Roberts | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Beyond the black horizon
Darkling creatures reside,
Hoping for innocents to come
But safely indoors they hide.
Kerbside beings are hunting
Searching for human or beast,
Hoping soon to run them down
Then to gorge on a bloody feast.
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The Time Master is slinking
Through the corridors of time,
Deciding whose life continues
And whose life shall decline.
Putting sand into an hourglass
While another's sand he removes,
One shall gain a good forty years
Another person will... – by Phil Roberts | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Made of ancient yellowing leather
The Leatherman haunts the forest,
Hunting for some human prey
Ever moving, almost never at rest.
Overlapping flaps of tanned cowhide,
Make up the body of the Leatherman,
Nothing decent resides within him
As... – by Phil Roberts | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Flapping fills the darkness
Mere metres overhead,
The wily soon are running
The guileless soon are dead.
Avians swooping down
As innocents are strolling by,
Unaware that death is near
Sailing through the evil sky.
Feathered fiends... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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Death lurks by the roadside
As guileless travellers pass,
Unaware that this may
Very well be their last.
Noxious weeds grow high
Hiding evil lurking there,
Dark clouds hide the horrors
Floating through the air.
Roadside diners beckoning
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Blood runs through the streets
After predators are done,
Survivors hiding underground
Or desperately on the run.
Predators sleep away the day
And haunt the streets by night,
Darkling shadows creeping
The blameless are asleep inside.
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Farewell to all my yesterdays
Hello to a new day dawning,
Goodbye to long-gone happiness
Hello to misery and mourning.
Life can never be as you hope
Say hello to all your tomorrows,
Now yesterday is dead and gone
So welcome approaching... – by Phil Roberts | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Human prey is hunted
Within the loathsome night,
Carnivores are prowling
Innocents are about to die.
Scaly horrors are slithering
Across the sunburnt sand,
Seeking out human victims
Within this death-curse land.
After Darkfall descends
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The lonely people starve
They're living without hope,
They're struggling to survive
And most just barely cope.
According to the Lib-Nats
"They're bludgers anyway,
So who cares if they suffer
If they fail to live another day?"
The lonely... – by Phil Roberts | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Forget yesterdays
Live entirely for today,
Plan for... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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Terror stalks the deadly streets
As Darkfall so slowly descends,
Men and women and children
Race inside before daylight ends.
Creepers sneak around the dark
In this loathsome hunted town,
Manticore winging just overhead
While burrowers... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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The burrowers beneath
Are following underground,
Able to track human prey
Entirely by their sound:
The sound of human speech
The sound of humans walking,
Lovecraftian abominations
Silently they're stalking:
Stalking after human prey
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Through the awful sky
The Manticore is soaring,
Seeking human prey below
Its manlike head is roaring.
Through the evil darkness
The sphinx-like terror roams,
Waiting for the gullibly to leave
The safety of their homes.
A lion-like beast... – by Phil Roberts | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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There's an island in the Pacific
From which no one ever returns,
Evil tom-toms pound out death
And goodness is forever spurned.
Voodoo, witchcraft, evil magic
Rule the terrified population,
Hiding, shivering inside at night
As phantoms... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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On a nightmare world
Dreadful secrets unfold,
Ghastly creatures bellow
Making your blood run cold.
Winged monstrosity soaring
Millimetres above the trees,
Unseen by sleeping people
Terror sails on the breeze.
Batlike monsters flying
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Unfolding around your mind
The dark secrets of the night,
Send you running for cover
To await the broad daylight.
Dark secrets are threatening
To drive you into madness,
Taking away your final hope
Creating suicidal sadness.
Dark... – by Phil Roberts | 5 Views added 1 year ago
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A dark secret of the night
Abominations roam the street,
Hunting for the unwary
Hoping very soon to feast.
Innocents hiding inside
As dreadful truths abound,
Monstrous creatures stalking
Around this loathsome town.
Piscine terrors swim... – by Phil Roberts | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Giant winged saurians
Told of in ancient lore,
Spied by terrified folk
As fiery dragons soar.
Exhaling fire and smoke
They fly through the sky,
To terrorise small villages
Within the countryside.
Serpentine horrors swoop
Down on... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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Mobsters making money from
Factories selling off death,
Killing off all the innocents
Until nothing worthwhile is left.
Racketeers are profiting
From bringing death and pain,
Till the good are dead or dying
Or else have all gone insane.
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Profiteers making profits from
Fields of death and of misery,
Watching good men kill and die
Counting dark largess with glee.
Death Bringers are rejoicing
To them "Might means right",
And killing innocents means zero
And in mayhem they all... – by Phil Roberts | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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The time-traveller journeys
Back and forth in time,
To the best and worst years
In such faraway climes.
Travelling throughout history
He changes whatever he will,
Bringing the dead back to life
Then just as easily he kills.
He changes... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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High in the crystal manor
Within the land of death,
Residents of all persuasions
Breathe their final breath.
Vast reptilian creatures
Lumber around great rooms,
Loathsome veil-like beings
Are lurking in the gloom.
Concealed as dust... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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High in the crystal manor
Evil residents reside,
Along with all that's evil
The good stay safe outside.
Lurid grey-white phantoms
Too horrid to ever tell,
Slink around the corridors
Creatures from Dante's Hell.
Indescribably loathsome
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Malevolent beings are hunting
On the fringes of an awful town,
Carnivores of every shape and size
Hoping to run their quarry down.
Malignant creatures are stalking
Prowling slowly through the streets,
Hoping to overpower and kill
Any living... – by Phil Roberts | 1 View added 1 year ago
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The prophets of death
Are making profits from war,
These monsters, evil smiling
As the death count soars.
Making weapons for profit
Profiteering from misery,
Loading up on dark largess
Rejoicing in human grief.
Vultures are flying high
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Racketeers growing fat
Profiteers growing old,
While soldiers fight and die
Their corpses growing cold.
Tasteless highwaymen
With a heart of solid lead,
Making profits by the tonne
While making good men dead.
Profiteers worship money
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Death merchants spreading grief
Make money from parents's sorrow,
Sending children to live in Hell
Rejoicing in their fear and horror.
The prophets of death celebrate
As good men and women die,
Their dark largess is all they need
As mothers... – by Phil Roberts | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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The dark largess of death
From minds so calculating,
Ignoring human suffering
The evil they're contemplating.
Foulness, murder, and death
All make their blood lust rise,
Along with all their profits as
Good men and women die.
They're in... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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In a cold and lonely house
In a cold and lonely street,
A tired old man stagnates
His future is cold and bleak.
A frigid Melbourne day
Sums up this poor man's life,
He's lived without children
Without a loving wife.
He's lived without... – by Phil Roberts | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Human vultures live off carcases
Of those they helped to kill,
Profiteering mass murderers
Loving money and sick thrills.
The unholy dollar is their mistress
The only thing they truly desire,
They stand and watch and laugh
As their myriad... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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Prophets of death rampaging
Across a blood-stained land,
Spreading death and mayhem
Across forests and desert sands.
No-one is immune to the evil
That these vipers gladly spread,
Nothing pleases them more
Than fields filled with the dead.
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Jackals are profiteering
Selling off human lives,
Anything to make a dollar
Selling guns, grenades, knives.
Pariahs run an industry
Which profits when the good die,
Gladly selling killing machines
To anyone willing to buy.
"Morals are... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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Racketeers play games of death
That keeps the human race at war,
Happily watching millions dying
Just to see that their profits soar.
While profiteers start a new Hell
To send the young all off to die,
The UN idly twiddles its thumbs
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They say that war is Hell
And no-one good survives,
Who can exist a day in Hell?
Where nothing decent thrives.
Good men go to fight and die
But bad men start the wars,
Evil profit mongers cash in
While the decent die in scores.
Sadistic... – by Phil Roberts | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Terror zooming downwards
Beneath the blood moon's rays,
Like horrid swarming death
Coming at the end of days.
Whooshing through the skies
In a village known as Fear,
Apian horrors are looming
And death is coming near.
Loathsome feathered... – by Phil Roberts | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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A wall of sound approaching
From some distant place,
Evil non-human creatures?
Or members of the human race?
Ululation through the night
Like the awful buzz of death,
Making listeners stand and stare
Afraid to release a single breath.
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Spectral figures are dancing
Beneath the blood moon's light,
Cavorting just after Darkfall
Throughout the loathsome night,
Spectral fiends are scheming
Plotting evil against mankind,
Planning to unleash terrors to
Drive humanity out of its... – by Phil Roberts | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Malevolent fiends are sleeping
Hiding safely underground,
Cowering from the burning rays
Waiting until the sun goes down.
Malignant creatures rampaging
Through the streets at twilight,
Pillaging, plundering, murdering
Throughout the... – by Phil Roberts | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Terror stalks the dark streets
Shambling down unlit alleyways,
Lurching after unwary souls
Beneath the blood moon's rays.
Evil rules a lonely town by night
Foul beings hunt the thoroughfares,
Burrowers scurry underground
Pterosaurs gliding... – by Phil Roberts | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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Winged spectres soaring
Through the twilight sky,
Searching for movement below
Innocents are surely soon to die.
Monsters from an evil time
Wreaking havoc in the night,
Zooming around the houses
Like some ancient blight.
Zooming around a... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 2 years ago
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The Scarlet Avenger
Hunts those evading justice;
Who need to die.
Those not fit to live
Are the Avenger's chosen,
Chosen just to die.
Seeing a drunked
Beating up two women,
He draws his scarlet blade.
Impaling the drunked
The... – by Phil Roberts | 1 View added 2 years ago
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Within a loathsome forest
Where nothing good survives,
Horrid buzzing resounds
From a dozen monstrous hives.
Colossal bees emerging from
The hives to swarm at prey,
Stinging, stabbing, killing
Everything that's in their way.
Black and... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 2 years ago
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In a repulsive corner of the land
The Reaper sows a loathsome harvest,
Scything everything he encounters
Until all goodness is laid to rest.
A harvest of fear is performed
By this malignant reprobate,
Killing all that's good and decent
In... – by Phil Roberts | 1 View added 2 years ago
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Chittering fiends approaching
Within the pitch-black night,
Winging over the rooftops
In their monstrous flight.
Wingbeats filling the airways
As feathered horrors do fly,
Avian abominations which
Blank out the night-time sky.
Chattering... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 2 years ago
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Night spectres creeping
Through the town by night,
Following lone travellers
Wafting upwards like a kite.
Fear and trembling spreading
Through this wretched land,
Phantom beings fluttering
Above the sea-drenched sand.
Night apparitions... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 2 years ago
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There's a house upon a hilltop
Where abhorrent shadows play,
Where nothing decent is found
And nothing living would ever stay.
A house that has known better days
And much better nights as well,
Where angels surely fear to tread
And only... – by Phil Roberts | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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A dark and fearsome place
Where only terror thrives,
Stinging, biting, snapping things
Swarm from monstrous hives.
A town named desolation where
Only loathsome things reside,
Creatures straight out of Hell
Creeping, crawling horrors hide.
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Cavorting beings haunt the night
Round an evil blood-stained altar,
Swirling dervish like creatures
Do an evil dance, without falter.
In the descending twilight time
As the witching hour approaches,
The innocents sleep safe inside
Unaware... – by Phil Roberts | 1 View added 2 years ago
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Blood rites are performed
In a dire forest after twilight,
Loathsome rituals condoned
By foul servants of the night.
Virgins taken from their beds
Whisked off into the awful night,
Sacrificed to abhorrent "Gods"
Beneath the blood moon's... – by Phil Roberts | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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Æons of darkness keep on
Drowning your naked mind,
Drenching you in sorrows
As your sanity does unwind.
Æons of calamities are still
Tormenting your very soul,
Echoing throughout your life
Your dreams are put on hold,
Æons of horror is... – by Phil Roberts | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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Out of the pitch-black heavens
A great bi-pedal dragon flies,
Swooping down on man or beast
From out of the midnight skies.
Not breathing fire like dragons
From out or arcane lore,
Soaring down to snatch up
Its next morsel with a roar.
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Shadow figures are creeping
All around in Shadow Land,
A land of sunburnt deserts
And of burnished red sand.
Behemoths are lurching
Through the streets and byways,
Wreaking mayhem through the night
But retreating by break of day.
Shadowy... – by Phil Roberts | 0 Views added 2 years ago
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Feral terrors hunt the streets
After twilight time descends,
Hoping soon to make a kill
Feasting before night-time ends.
Roaming through darkened streets
Cavorting down pitch-black alleyways,
Long-forgotten evil rules the night
Stalking... – by Phil Roberts | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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Outside in this loathsome night
Be afraid of all that comes your way,
Abominations human and non-human,
Intending you to be their prey.
Unwary of your possible fate
All kinds of predators stalking you,
Shades, and shapes, and dark images
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