calico5588

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calico5588
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Hello. I like writing poems because the easiest way to transfer thought to the world is by means of the word. Though I will admit I don't follow any structure, nor do I try to rhyme. I write what I want because I can.

  March 2023     2 months ago

Submitted Poems 4 total

The Grey Green Sea

Upon a black branch, broken and ashen
Which leaves did not speak for fear of silence
And on this night the dead danced crooked

Not a single shade nor color in this moment
Nor the filth which hollows and thinks unthoughtless
An inducted...

by Austin Gleason

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Gehenna

7,000,000,000 leaves networked the tree
They bore witness to the abomination
Human skin, torn open by terrible instruments of Death
Pray that I never forget the pain

Like black ice ground against salted flesh
I bore witness to the...

by Austin Gleason

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Demiurg und Tageslicht

And it was as if everything that ever was took on the infinite black mist as its mask
For several billion miles: the only light was the blood that I shed
Upon these wastelands I wandered from 0 to eternity
All for the sake of a woman long dead.
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by Austin Gleason

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Nutcracker

Black stars were shot out of the night sky with visceral fury
Though they may never be seen through standard eyes
The world at large serves to aid in their brutalization
Graves of countless futures pollute the hallowed grounds

I live this...

by Austin Gleason

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