Tag: horror
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Going out for messages after the world ends
Anthrax-tinged winds winnowing through nuke-bared trees Cold as the windowless, hissing like geese the burning steels Kissing her feet while the burning steals The world around us, even the ground dust Is dangerous, another mushrooming nighttime sunrise Demise of some great nation Violet light like an auric field around the stricken power station I can…
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Worse Horrors
Sights I’ve seen make heroes incontinent When jungleshift occurs, will you still be so confident? When the very trees you marked with X’s are gone, sent By vengeful nature to weave and lead your missteps Will you call yourself the apex when you see the henges Raised up here, where ditches to stygian ends blend…
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CryptCrept
Dealing heavy damage around the docklands, ichor-tinged drizzle rivers running Blood running down my hands Now I am kin to Nosferatu My only light is the ignis fatuus Tallowing my charnel tomb A vampire with all the time, and a hunger needing ever more A sourceless gnawing, a longing for human sauce.
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Starspawn
Sick from but not of drinking Sick from and of thinking I’m sinking pints in a dockside bar Fog-shrouded far harbour Between loud sips of lager tales regales us Of his sea-borne, sea born Father The man I am named after He points up to a beam in the rafters Hangs a portrait of a…
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Someone there/Summoned there
Demons with contorted forms Souls black as aces George Formby faces Lips like week-dead worms Cometh the storms. Lightning rips Light night eclipse Every fern drips Every firm hip Up and about Beware the loon Howling the moon No one hears you shout.