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~DARK POETRY~





What a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive.......




Grim Reaper
I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the dark planets roll without aim--
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
Without knowledge or luster or name.


~~~NEMESIS~~~

flowers

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
old Time is still a flying:
And this same flower that smiles today,
tomorrow will be dying.


~~~Robert Herrick~~~



moon


I have stood and watched the moon
and seen his eerie glow
He casts his light upon the earth
and everything below
Majestically he rules the night
as he watches from the sky
He shines his beam through forest and stream
and where the tombstones lie
The graveyards have a spooky air
when night-time comes around
The full moon lends it's atmosphere
casting shadows on the ground
A different world the earth becomes
when shrouded in his light
The faults so clearly seen by day
are often out of sight
For a little while he rules the world
and it seems I heard him say
"I'll watch over you and light your path,
then I'll slowly go my way"
I have stood and watched the moon
as he passed on out of sight
And the comforting thought ran through my head,
he'd return again some night.

~~DarkPhantom~~




moon

High in the sky at night
the moon gives off a glowing light
A light that is not so bright
but the right amount of light for the night
The moon is the master of the dark
shining dimly over trees in the park
The moon is a huge reflector
the creatures of the nights protector

~~DarkPhantom~~



~The Empty Room~

There once was laughter within that space
Filled with gladness now there's hardly a trace
Inside those walls was a love so rare
It's all gone now for there's nothing left there
The sound of silence fills that empty case
The happiness gone, pain has taken it's place
An empty chamber with nothing to share
Just a hollow void, lonely and bare
Deserted now, just a forlorn part
And that empty room is my broken heart

~DarkPhantom~


~Hopeful~

I stood in the darkness and I started to cry
The tears fell down and my heart gave a sigh
Lost and lonely with nowhere to hide
From thoughts that linger and heartaches inside
A gloomy portrait in a broken down frame
Wishing things would be different but it still stays the same
Watching and looking for an encouraging sign
Saying prayer after prayer and repeating those lines
Waiting and waiting and hoping to see
That SOMEONE hears my prayer...and answers it for me

~DarkPhantom~


~'Tis that and Nothing More~


I in restful slumber am awakened by the sound of thunder,
Thunder,
Tis that and nothing more

Awake or am I dreaming, as from my window I hear a gasp,
A sickly rasp
Is it someone crying? Or worse is it
- Dying?

I barely hear a tapping a methodical consistent rapping,
Coming from my window sill

My room, so dark so dreary,
Surely I must be dreaming, as no one can be at my window
Leering,
Leering from my window sill

Lightning and thunder loudly clapping
I again waken to hear the rasping,
Faint echo of laughing,
Laughing outside my window still

Frantically glancing, expecting to see demons dancing
Nothing do I see,
As there can be no one, no one in this room
but me!

Dare I venture peeking? Or further seeking?
This phantom, this unholy reeking
That may be outside my windowsill

Reaching out from my bed,
with foreboding dread, from which I draw the curtains.
"What foulness is out there?" I said

There is a presence, of that I am certain

I yank them back full of fear, as I begin to scream
As I realize this is not a dream,
For at my window's base,
is an evil and ghastly face

Neither rasp nor laugh does it make,
Nor movement that I can follow,
Into my eyes it stars, eyes dead and hollow
-A stare, a stare I could not break

Crazed with fear I chose to ask to put to task
Oh foul spirit, what is thy reason being, what are thou seeking,
Why the leering,
Leering from my windowsill!

Its stare never wavering, I still wish to believe I am dreaming,
Just inches from this ghastly face, I curse and beseech him
"Be gone, be gone from my window base!"

Nay, words it does not utter, causing me to constantly shutter,
I wonder, from what bowels, from what evil place,
Could cast forth-such a hideous face.

Suddenly without a warning, a voice of someone ghastly calling,
Calling for me from my living room floor

I hear a mournful creaking, a more evil reeking,
What in my good name is it seeking?
Still walking up my staircase

Alas, it has ceased walking,
Whatever it is seeking
Whatever it is stalking
Has arrived outside my chamber door

Begins a tremendous pounding, resounding ,
through my chamber door,
Covering my ears, wishing not to hear,
this eerie pounding,
My heart responds with fear

A voice begins speaking,
As it is I it is seeking,
Seeking from behind my chamber door

The face upon your window sill,
Why does it stare, remain so still?
"It is the Guider you see, and he has brought
to me!"
His job is done, for; I
have come, he is the seeker, as for I,
I am the Grim Reaper!"

Therefore, rise from thy bed, as thy are truly dead
Never am I solemn, nor do I rejoice, your day has come
as man, you haven't a choice

I begin uncontrollable weeping,
Surely I am sleeping, for this cannot be
Death outside my chamber door

I rose from my bed shaking,
Just what is this thats waiting?
Waiting outside my chamber door?

Slowly, my mind careening,
I open my chamber door,
Now believing, as I am seeing,
Face to face with death, as the Reaper
It's open mouth...Screaming!

My feet froze in the very spot
As the Reapers face begins to rot
Emergence of worms and maggots
fall up me
Tis not a dream, as death has truly come for me

I nauseous and full of anguish, turn in time to see,
The spirit know as the Guider, vanish

Turning towards the door,
The Reaper reaches out for my embrace
Nothing more is said
As there is nothing more

Tis that and nothing more?

~Mark Reiley~


~In Shadows No One Has Eyes...~


Yes, I am the Night Stalker, the SilentWalker
Yes, I am the Captain of the fog, master of the bog
Yes, it is darkness I seek, light I avoid
Shadows of the night bring me Peace and
Comfort, as details cannot be seen.

A metamorphosis has taken place
As it was in bed I stayed And moon was above
fore I would venture
Or seek the shadows among
The night.

The days I sleep, I force it to be
If I awake, its horror upon me
Anger at the light, the details
the clarity is painful
Brings upon me pain, it is shadows
I seek, in its darkness I confide.

Yes, the children of the night
What beautiful music they make
Nothing to see,
Only the sounds to Feel!
From the howls to the squeals
Tree limbs shake from the animals above
The moist earth moves and squirts from the
Mysteries from below

What was once eerie, now brings peace
What once caused my heart to seize
Now soothes my bed of death

What has brought me to this?
What have I become?
This darkness I seek?
This light that horrifies me?

It is the loss of my all my yet to be?

In the shadows of darkness
I wait and enjoy
much as I once enjoyed the rays
of the sun
my metamorphosis... has begun

Nosferatu? I pray not-
But, the taste for the grapes
To become an Avenger of blood
Is not my search, nor what I seek
But my fear is that is what I will come to be
The nonexistent...a reality.

I hid from light, to avoid the sight
of seeing the eyes, that reminds me,
Remind me of love lost, of heartbreak
Of its ache.
In the light, if I ventured I may see to clearly
Those eyes that had captured me

Those eyes that left me, those eyes
that once belonged to me.
Eyes, that I still long to see

At midnight I walk
At midnight I stalk
At midnight I creep
At midnight I crawl
among the shadows of the night

It is my purpose
My goal you see
To come upon the one
Whose eyes I seek
This one who abandoned me

If a prospect appears before me
I silently step up behind
Placing my hands over her eyes
Closing my fingers slowly
I squeeze the bulbs of sight
As I whisper in her ear.
"Mon cher pouvons te sentent le brise?"
(My dear can you feel the breeze?)

Silently I would stand,
her eyes
Covered with my hands
Anticipating a appropriate response
If none received, I would recede
Back into the shadows, she being
too fearful to scream.

One very stormy night
It did not curtail my stalking
Did not curtail my walking
Off in the distance I did see
The one I searched, the one
Whose love was taken from me

Like a snake, I slithered upon her
My hands over her eyes, I whispered my
Question ...

Much to my delight, the reaction I received
Was the one I expected, the one I accepted
Over her eyes, my hands squeezed tightly
I crying from joy, quietly laughed with glee
As my love shook in front of me


Yes, she would be coming with me

In my subbasement I was found
With my arms around my love
My yet, my all to be
To be here, forever and ever with me

In their lights the badges could see
The rotting corpse I cuddled next to me

My god I hear as they walk into the room
"Her eyes, she has no eyes!

My belly full, I whispered my reply:

This has become the reason, the cause
you see, for me to hide from the sunlight,
to only venture in the night
as in the shadows, no one has eyes...

~Mark Reiley~



~Visitor of the Night ~


I lay in my bed
I feel the breeze
the wind begins to blow
much like a tease
the sounds of the night
I began to hear
the sounds of the night
soon grow near

With a sigh, the wind does pass
with this begins the
whispers from the night,
I gasp; as I again do hear;

"There she goes,
thy beauty, thy love
the one sent to you
from above"

I shan't look, nor bare to see
the beauty of this one sent to me

This is not the first, surely not the last
it has happened again, but will not face
the beauty, the touch of love this
night did make

What for am I chosen?
What did I do to receive this
gift from you?

You give to me, but soon you take
with it, my heart you break
why do you do this?
What can it be?
For you to send, then take my love
away from me?

In through the night, she did appear
my feelings of love, brought me to tears

No words did I say, as she delicately
touched my face.
A whisper so softly, I could just make;
"Mark, it has become your destiny, your fate
you see, to experience the pain and loss of my love
being removed nightly from thee"

"Let us enjoy this night, as you know,
I must depart before light"

"As you have learned, began to see,
I will take your heart and love with me"

Love we made, like a night without end
such passion, such lust and love
We loved, we kissed till both out of breath,
by dawn we were covered in sweat.

As I took a moment, took a breath,
I was about to profess my love for her,
my love till death.

I could feel the marks in my neck,
my heart beating rapidly
due to its lack of blood,
But I did not feel, nor did I see, that
my love, my heart
was no longer in bed with me

No word did she say as she floated away
One thing was certain, as I was filled with regret
with her she took my heart, my all, my yet to be

~Mark Reiley~



~The Haunted Forest~


Those woods were once so haunted
By ghosts and things of fright
It happened each October
On a dark and spooky night
A trail went round and through it
Many things along the path
Skeletons, ghouls and monsters
And creatures of great wrath
There was a celebration
On each and every year
But now the path goes empty
Just a trail of pain and tears
The leaves still fall and flutter
When autumn comes around
But the woods are still and empty
Just deer and squirrel abound
Those woods were once so haunted
But let those sleeping ghosts lie
Those woods they still are haunted
By memories that just won’t die

~DarkPhantom~


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