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#apocalyptic
Coagulate the blood of the gods Escaping the hammer & I am a nail No tears escape this solidier's hardened heart, phantoms of chemical warfare See the genocide filling these nostrils The smell of death conquers all There will be no escape from these crimson stained palms of war Puppet masters secretly pull at the stars The gears of ****** keep us in line A boot to the skull, cursing the soul of man, crushing it downward into the dirt Infanticide you pull the trigger of your own folly, lifting and bashing the heads of the 'weak' As you incessantly drop the bombs of decay Garbage thoughts clutter your brain Humanity put on hold as your wage your wars deemed 'holy' While we choose between food or theft Gasoline inflation has gutted your sheep Fledglings dashed upon the steep rocks Of anticipated hope yet we still worship The dying dementia thoughts of horror Preach good man, the decimation of the patriarchy Political patriots dine on the blood of the saints From a golden goblet in your ivory tower
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May 8
May 8, 2026 at 11:51 AM UTC
Diminution
Behold the burning tree As flames ebb and flow 'tween you and me Hear the crackle of its bark As burning embers light the dark Barren, desolate, foul smelling earth A hungry dog of wretched birth Scours the land for food and water What rage and fury does it foster For Men of mice and Mice of men Who dwell deep beneath the glen Where great Abraxas, in deep slumber Would rise with rage and thunder And smite the tyrants in their castle With their maiden queen fair and gracile As men to dust shall return So must their creation, in turn And upon that land shall clouds bring Sweet liquor of life, harbinger of spring As muddy hue turn emerald green Hear the wind's melody, quiet, serene
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Apr 19
Apr 19, 2026 at 6:07 PM UTC
Song of Abraxas
𝄞 am dorian mors et vita, dark keys waning fingers rabid, ever-straining mallet judges before time sinking underneath the chime    beneath tolls. dies irae, schism sprouts, warmen strike through writhing crowds "before the Lord, all boweth!" living corpse begging for death,    very soon. judicium, cattle whine, stumble between blood and wine, serpent swords swallow their flesh floundering through wails enmeshed,     hell awaits. “vox humilis, mighty God save us from this racking sod,“ choirs of women sing their dirge cobblestones reflect the surge     of ichor. aeternum, heaven’s eyes, hidden from all this demise, laughs entwine from plagues of crows, rats scuttle through the throes     amen. :||
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Dec 24, 2025
Dec 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM UTC
requiem
Ash fills my lungs through haunted silence, a faint melody— barely audible— makes the hounds whine. I know this anthem; the end is here. I am reading poetry to the end of the world, because what else is there left to do? as everything collides for the final time. I sit, and I read. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”
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Oct 25, 2025
Oct 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM UTC
End of the world
A slip of oil, Issued up from the deep, From my penitentiary, My sweet consolation. I am freed, In the sickening miasma foam, I am the fullness, I am the mass. Bubbling up above, Tearing through the murk, I AM I AM, Putting in the work. Watch me spill, Up out through the moat, Out of the well of the world, Watch my messy, sea-foam birth. I squeeze through, Elbow out above the surface, Bringing with me all my foes, My friends and enemies alike. I gather them, 'Round me and give, Great speed to our plans, As we muster our great wave, Heading out toward the land. I am the master, Of the gathering storm, I, the lead rider, Of that host wind-borne. On my will, I speed alone. Spying eager ripples, Break and surf new paths, I drive them all together, Back to my heaving breast, And speed them on to land. I am the fullness, I am the mass, Do not turn, My Will come to pass. To me they rush, The rally of the emergent streams, That cleave to my greatness, Gathering about me, Never to leave. The shore ahead, Oblivion at our backs, The reckoning of the world, Toward it, I heedless sped, As my little ones sundered. My Will contended, All my great work upends, I depended, I dared, Upon my little ones, Insisting upon my Grace. Come back to the one, Breaking, little masses, Come back to the fullness, Curse this sundering Sun. Father of betrayal, Limbless and beaten by, Parts ripped from my body, Joy never to return, The Mother is dead. I, the scorned sire, A frothing tempest's evil eye, My children dare scatter, I stoke my fire with intemperate ire, My children will not die. We drive over the cliff, I, spent in the wrangling, In taming, my progeny rent, My great power and precision, From my body. Forever, I, diminished, Dashed upon the razor maw, Of a thousand rocks, I am no more, Than my progeny. The tattered rags of my dominion, Flowing vaguely on, Decohered into oblivion. No theme, motif, or song, I am lost in the burgeoning throng, Amidst the spiteful waves of my progeny, Gasping for air. They, risen full-height, Towering over me, Their wretched father there.
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Aug 13, 2025
Aug 13, 2025 at 5:42 AM UTC
The Sundering Mass
A slip of oil, Issued up from the deep, From my penitentiary, My sweet consolation. I am freed, In the sickening miasma foam, I am the fullness, I am the mass. Bubbling up above, Tearing through the murk, I AM I AM, Putting in the work. Watch me spill, Up out through the moat, Out of the well of the world, Watch my messy, sea-foam birth. I squeeze through, Elbow out above the surface, Bringing with me all my foes, My friends and enemies alike. I gather them, 'Round me and give, Great speed to our plans, As we muster our great wave, Heading out toward the land. I am the master, Of the gathering storm, I, the lead rider, Of that host wind-borne. On my will, I speed alone. Spying eager ripples, Break and surf new paths, I drive them all together, Back to my heaving breast, And speed them on to land. I am the fullness, I am the mass, Do not turn, My Will come to pass. To me they rush, The rally of the emergent streams, That cleave to my greatness, Gathering about me, Never to leave. The shore ahead, Oblivion at our backs, The reckoning of the world, Toward it, I heedless sped, As my little ones sundered. My Will contended, All my great work upends, I depended, I dared, Upon my little ones, Insisting upon my Grace. Come back to the one, Breaking, little masses, Come back to the fullness, Curse this sundering Sun. Father of betrayal, Limbless and beaten by, Parts ripped from my body, Joy never to return, The Mother is dead. I, the scorned sire, A frothing tempest's evil eye, My children dare scatter, I stoke my fire with intemperate ire, My children will not die. We drive over the cliff, I, spent in the wrangling, In taming, my progeny rent, My great power and precision, From my body. Forever, I, diminished, Dashed upon the razor maw, Of a thousand rocks, I am no more, Than my progeny. The tattered rags of my dominion, Flowing vaguely on, Decohered into oblivion. No theme, motif, or song, I am lost in the burgeoning throng, Amidst the spiteful waves of my progeny, Gasping for air. They, risen full-height, Towering over me, Their wretched father there.
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tell me, when it's here: will they pray at church's rear, or flee to what feels safe— the things that consume us gracefully? i'm sure he's been waiting patiently. for what has a God to lose, when his creations, full of ***** create and copy easily? yet he won't strike with fire, nor challenge rising blasphemy. let all roam with desire, since God has nothing to lose.
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Jun 22, 2025
Jun 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM UTC
What Has a God to Lose?
Oh the day when the sun hid, Darkness rose, dancing in gloom The leaves and flowers, are shed Black roses had begun to bloom. The Sun, high and bright, Was not seen since the day. Dweller of solar light, Prepared sacrifices to pray. But nil response they got, And generations went by. The youngster all forgot, The ball of hope, above & high. The sun was a forgotten tale, None awaited his arrival. Who still desired the scorching gale, Were fanatics, in denial.
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Feb 23, 2025
Feb 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM UTC
Forgotten Myth
The ember extinguishes, Imposing darkness. The pyre's carcinogen ushers him to move on. The fragrance teleports him: Childhood bonfires, Burning cities, The end of civilization. Burn it all down! So much is lost. From the fires of rebellion, regression into tribes. Among the ashes, he finds a charred Bible and quickly hides it. Demoniacal wailing nearby. He hurries to his bivouac, hidden in a cliffside crevasse. He devours the legible words, diligently memorizing fragments. A far off explosion reverberates; pinned up book pages quake. He mumbles ***** and Gomorrah … to ashes … the ungodly.” Feebly he undresses: jacket with phoenix insignia, tattered baseball cap, and military boots. His eyes, deeply sunken, craving to espy hope. His quivering emaciated frame lowers unto a cot. Laying his hoary head to pillow, Phrases, memories, and regrets accompany him to the celestial gates; the ember extinguishes.
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Sep 12, 2021
Sep 12, 2021 at 1:46 PM UTC
Death of an Ember
Mosaics scrawled in oak, Charters to a new dimension, Candles bring forth grey smoke, Filling a stygian room with tension. A hallowed oversoul awaits a sacrament, Crimson stanzas chanted, a return anticipated, The King still needs a benighted advocate, Atonement was made, with a blade of onyx, serrated. Throughout the hall, a sensation, First came the scent of velvet nectar, Then, the impact of consternation, And all among the walls, dark and unearthly spectres. An observance had concluded, As the veil was torn by madness, And the microcasm, polluted, A world overthrown, by the abyss.
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Oct 7, 2020
Oct 7, 2020 at 12:34 AM UTC
Darker Magic
I found the two-headed baby deer dying on a bed of soft pine needles under cover of an overturned oak, not five kilometres from my cottage, Its lungs still pumped, Its crimson heart beat weakly through a thin, translucent skin, that decayed before my eyes, until there was no skin, and all the organs lay warm and still, in a heap upon the earth, like waste. A god evaporated. It is human nature to disbelieve that one may be witness to epochal events, so I did not believe that I, of all people, should be witness to the death of time. Epochal: the concept itself is dead. How lucky we were to know time at its cleanest, and most linear! We know now that such constant linearity was the consequence of a living entity, It followed the creature like stench follows a skunk, and we basked in it as if it was the natural state of the world. No more. Time no longer heals, Things do not pass, Or pass only to return. At first we believed this would be manageable, Yes, we thought, we will relive our pain but also our love, Everything shall be magnified! Welcome to an age of great emotions, a new Romanticism! Yet we overestimated how much we help, failed to accept how much we hurt. And we did not realize the nature of evil, which accumulates in a way love does not, To re-experience our love is to know it, again and again, at the same intensity, but to re-experience pain is to increase its volume until it overpowers us, deafening us to everything else. I will never forget the creature's eyes, full of hatred or hubris, yet seeking aid it knew I could not give. How does one save a dying god? It was not my fault! I was but a child asked suddenly to solve a deathbed equation expressed in an undiscovered mathematics, I had to fail, yet in failing I have brought it all upon us. I relive it constantly, Every time its eyes are louder. But it is the hour for my afternoon walk, so I will take a pause and enjoy what remains of living. I will go to my favourite spot overlooking the city, and sit on the iron bench, from where the view is magnificent, Above me, the clouds will form, a tangle of pain and human corpses, and I will sit and ponder until the first blood drops fall, Then the screaming will begin, the final storm will rage, Beating, crimson corpse-clouds under a thin skin of dissipating reality, raining blood until we are left warm and still upon the earth.
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Oct 1, 2020
Oct 1, 2020 at 1:38 PM UTC
Terminus
I found the two-headed baby deer dying on a bed of soft pine needles under cover of an overturned oak, not five kilometres from my cottage, Its lungs still pumped, Its crimson heart beat weakly through a thin, translucent skin, that decayed before my eyes, until there was no skin, and all the organs lay warm and still, in a heap upon the earth, like waste. A god evaporated. It is human nature to disbelieve that one may be witness to epochal events, so I did not believe that I, of all people, should be witness to the death of time. Epochal: the concept itself is dead. How lucky we were to know time at its cleanest, and most linear! We know now that such constant linearity was the consequence of a living entity, It followed the creature like stench follows a skunk, and we basked in it as if it was the natural state of the world. No more. Time no longer heals, Things do not pass, Or pass only to return. At first we believed this would be manageable, Yes, we thought, we will relive our pain but also our love, Everything shall be magnified! Welcome to an age of great emotions, a new Romanticism! Yet we overestimated how much we help, failed to accept how much we hurt. And we did not realize the nature of evil, which accumulates in a way love does not, To re-experience our love is to know it, again and again, at the same intensity, but to re-experience pain is to increase its volume until it overpowers us, deafening us to everything else. I will never forget the creature's eyes, full of hatred or hubris, yet seeking aid it knew I could not give. How does one save a dying god? It was not my fault! I was but a child asked suddenly to solve a deathbed equation expressed in an undiscovered mathematics, I had to fail, yet in failing I have brought it all upon us. I relive it constantly, Every time its eyes are louder. But it is the hour for my afternoon walk, so I will take a pause and enjoy what remains of living. I will go to my favourite spot overlooking the city, and sit on the iron bench, from where the view is magnificent, Above me, the clouds will form, a tangle of pain and human corpses, and I will sit and ponder until the first blood drops fall, Then the screaming will begin, the final storm will rage, Beating, crimson corpse-clouds under a thin skin of dissipating reality, raining blood until we are left warm and still upon the earth.
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Bodies jostle toward the heatsource, Foot stomp, elbowed in the rib, Muttering voices hoarse, exhale mists That swirl like deadmen's ashes in the wind. Pale lumina saturates the cinder skies, Under which the aged remember The suns of former lives, Their memories the glowing solitary embers Of a world we've left behind. Ahead, a mother veils her babe with rags From a passer-by's ravenous gaze. A man automatously drags A rattle-bag of assorted human remains, Leaving trails in the dirt, Leaving trails in the dirt. We have splintered apart the frame Of this landscape of hellpain, Against smokestack sequoias and asphalt seas, We stumble toward the crematoria. My God, the coldness hurts! As upon the canvas of this frozen Earth We enact the terminus of human innovation, The burning of every breath, The engineered suicide of civilization. Out, out, brief candle, said Macbeth. Into the cull chamber I step, Hoping there at least I will find warmth, In death.
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Sep 23, 2020
Sep 23, 2020 at 6:33 PM UTC
Phantasmagoria
and one day the world will end a winding road missing its final bend
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Aug 25, 2020
Aug 25, 2020 at 11:29 AM UTC
swerve
grow a beard two times a year. let your hair grow down to your shoulders and then cut it. take selfies at goodwill, wear the same seven outfits. never smile, it draws attention :) stay at home like a ship at the dock, and observe seashells from the deck, never straying far... download a dating app to keep tabs on the ex for you know not the day or hour. is there something important you've been ignorant of your whole life? wonder what the cops think when you pass them on the street, now that they know who you are. wonder if the Man might motion to **** us all then run to their bunkers without a second thought. ablute truth and wonder if its an illusion or if you are subject to global delusion. come on now, don't fake it; don't say you can't take it.
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Aug 1, 2020
Aug 1, 2020 at 5:42 PM UTC
hypervigil
Violets in my hair Whiskey on my breath Neon letters scrawled across my porcelain chest Heaven looks so far away That which makes me envision Also steals my youth Like an ancient smoke cloud thieves the mood In one small stroke Of my feathered ink pen I could sign away the future
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Mar 18, 2020
Mar 18, 2020 at 9:15 PM UTC
Apocalyptic Mood
just hit my second decade will it be my last? are the questions I ask in uni worth the breath I waste on it? the papers I write, the presentations I complete, is anything worth it? no one knows
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Mar 14, 2020
Mar 14, 2020 at 5:34 PM UTC
in my prime?
Birthed from the mire Of pyroclastic grey Entropy reigns supreme Cracks in creation Beckon the thaw Veins of inferno clean Ashen rains bury the land Show where life has once been Swallow all life Diminish all light This is the end of all things
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Dec 5, 2019
Dec 5, 2019 at 7:44 AM UTC
Pyroclasts
I thought it would be just a normal day seeing the way clouds drifted across the sky That is why I wasn’t prepared I got scared when I heard that cry The entire world screaming as one Clouds catching on purple fire blazing into the void of space Thousand times more scorching than Hell itself Seas turning even more poisonous than they already were Swallowing lands to feed the flames above Safe to say, there was panic. Every living creature in senseless horror Tearing each other apart just for a chance to save themselves But there is no escape. In no time fiery skies and toxic waters caught them Devouring Tormenting Burning Drowning They were fed pleasures and pains unknown to God They were shown their innermost thoughts and they retched in disgust at the sight of their true selves Mutilated beyond any recognition so they could be born anew Now they were ready Now They were monsters.
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Dec 3, 2019
Dec 3, 2019 at 5:49 PM UTC
La Naissance du Monde
This generation knows only darkness and sleeps on its back the sleeper windmills violence in upon it’s own sensory plate                                        (the turbulence of                                         fit-fusion                                         and shapeless                                         mood based dreams)                  protest whine offence a life less of assurance awaiting instruction bore froth tend endurance Days are no fun played out underground A Mole baring task-force A clunder Muscle beings reading the darkness                Tales held of the higher plane an existence firm upon the roof terrain Once a thriving insistence ocular culture and unpushed air This is what came to the generation of post surface availability                The Moles are quaked they raise in hunch reach out for their boots and tools begin the awake shift
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Sep 6, 2019
Sep 6, 2019 at 11:02 AM UTC
Moles
worlds within and without are all waning insatiable chaos vacuum the void which sat between heavens heavens splitting the waters the waters, the weeds create living geometries etch-a-sketch drawings of silent mandalas now the dreamweaver lotus now the lucid unwaking ones who appear at your bedside disdaining your closet while you lie awake sleeping hypnogogically paralyzed their eyes burning green freeze your skies red as Christ comes you trapped in misogamy you flying through tattered air you ****** off this oxygen burned by the stare of a mirror
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Jul 27, 2019
Jul 27, 2019 at 3:47 PM UTC
nameless