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haveyoureadthispoem-poll · 2 months

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"'We must not look at goblin men, / We must not buy their fruits: / Who knows upon what soil they fed / Their hungry thirsty roots?'"

Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!

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revenantpoet · 9 months

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Lovely and Terrible Creatures: A Collection of Dragon Poetry

For the truly daring out there, venture into the world of the loveliest and most terrible creatures: dragons. Written a poem a day throughout the month of dragons (Smaugust, also known as August), this collection of thirty-one poems explores the beauty, humor, terror, and tragedy of these great beasts of legend.

It's that time of year again: SMAUGUST!!! So I figured I'd share the collection that I posted last year! :D You can still find the poems floating around my social media, but I did polish them up and added an extra one for 31 poems total if you want to buy the ebook on ko-fi for just the basic $3! (Which would be super helpful considering things are particularly rough atm, but it's fine if not!) Thank you so much to anyone that considers reading and sharing; this was such a passion project of mine <3

#Smaugust #Smaugust 2023 #Smaugust2023 #Dragons #Dragon #Poem #Poetry #Fantasy Poetry #Fantasy Poem #Poets on Tumblr #Poets of Tumblr #Writeblr #Writblr #Idk what are tags #Once again I have no idea how to tag things

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cosmicbirch8 · 9 months

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thoughts-of-a-caterpillar · 1 year

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Moonburnt Soul

The night sky stirs and stars follow dizzy rotations

Fog billows in the air, smoke of an invisible fire

Cold, cold swirls dance between the constellations

You stand there watching and fuel your own pyre

You used to sit in the same place, talking on and on all night

You told me all your secrets, all the rumors old and new

Now you lay there without any protest or fight

Moonburnt soul, what happened to you?

Warmth was all you ever wanted, warmth is what you deserve

Now in one way or another, warmth is what you're trying to have

Moonburnt soul, you're not yet too far gone for love

Moonburnt soul, you're not yet too far gone to save

Your clothes stink of kerosene, please, let me put them away

It hurts me, to see you so broken and afraid

Let me kiss your lips and give you a reason to stay

Moonburnt soul, please, let me be of aid

I wail and sob though I'm not something you can see

Then my heart sears with the heat of your lighter's flashes

Fire envelops the soul I once loved with glee

My world is in flames and I'm grieving for ashes

Moonburnt soul, you've left me alone

I did not think you could be so brave

Moonburnt soul, you're too far gone

To love, to save, to help, to have

#hi #this is from the pov of a star btw #because im a dumb teen boy and i talk to stars stfu #guddu writes #poetry #poets on tumblr #poets on desiblr #heartbreak poetry #tw suicide #cw suicide #tw arson #sad poetry #fantasy poem #fantasy poetry #poetries #poems and quotes #romanticism

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dreamy-conceit · 5 months

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moon drunk monster beautiful and strange howl your melancholy question and tell me which you dread more the echo or the answer

— @shminsington, written as a fridge magnet poem (Twitter, 1 August, 2018)

#poetry #accidental poetry #twitter poets #quotes #wild animals #fantasy poetry #fantasy poem

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betweenthetimeandsound · 6 months

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--prompt from @flashfictionfridayofficial

Holy woman, where do you go? Your mind doesn't stay in the sun, but remains in the fog--obscured.

Write the works you've heard the goddess speak-- but where does ReletsiTe hide tonight? She knows not that you hide a human heart, nor that you bleed s so vigorously,

like a river during a thunderstorm. By candlelight, you raise your hands, stained with ink, and announce your intents like a wailing widow shedding silver coins to reveal a molten iron heart.

You take up the same form, but you are not her. Fire courses through your palm lines, but it can only burn mortal flesh. You're a cherry tree, but only, only in the way you shed your pedals,

power is temporal in all the wrong places. By the dawn of the new moon, you'll only know cinders, as your skin falls off your bone, and your eyes gaze up at the crown-- the one you cannot obtain.

Holy woman, what do you seek out? The truth within her prophecies, or the strength to allow yourself to reveal them?

#poetry #my poetry #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #fantasy poetry #priestess #sorceress #fantasy #goddess #rival realms

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weaponizedtit · 10 months

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everything's giving away

I need something to believe in

somewhere safe I could escape

and fill the hole that looks more like a grave

every single day, I pray

for you to come save me, take me away

into your arms, my daydream from a younger age

I may be nothing but a void –

heavenly empty shape

but I got all these wines flowing in my veins

and you could get a taste

red on your dark blue cape

if you come save me, take me away

I wouldn't even mind being in a cage

as long as you promise your feelings will never change

build my faith

be my daydream from a younger age

- for carmilla

#lesbian writer #lesbian poet #poetry #spilled ink #navindaki #writing #words #fantasy poetry #writeblr #dark academia #fantasy writing #horror writing #queer poetry

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keeper-of-lore · 5 months

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From The Demon Plague Verses, as found in Keeper of Lore Quarterly.

#fantasyfiction #fantasy #poetry #fantasy poetry #epic fantasy #epic poetry #ebook #worldbuilding #speculative poetry

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pluto9thhouze · 1 year

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Love not Lost

I’m holding you in a field of flowers

The crisp air blows through our hair

We look at each other and know in this moment

In this moment it is never gone

The love is never gone; the forever is never gone.

Our last goodbye is never a last goodbye.

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peoplecallitpoetry · 8 months

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\nothing/

Nothing is a Menacing idea A frightening being - The void The forgotten day The primordial thing - You might think me a fool A madman rambling away A thinker after one too much pint - Perhaps my friends, perhaps Perhaps that’s true Perhaps - But lend an ear this advice at least Not of sage, wiseman or scholar But a man under the lamp - Do not think too long about absence Don’t empty your mind of thought Don’t ponder things unmade - For with no intention so or a curious mind You will thread right into the empty You stumble upon the Nothing

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rj-drive-in · 3 months

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Poetry Corner Department:

Or Medical Credentialing Department.

On those certain occasions When a vein is hard to find Norman the Phlebotomist Is the man who comes to mind Sometimes routine venipuncture Isn’t so routine And it’s a matter of life and death To get a value for lipoprotein And when all the lab technicians Have failed and start to pout It’s time to bite the bullet And get an expert to bail them out Norman of the Night Shift Is the hero that you need There is no vein so deeply buried That he can’t make it bleed It’s like he’s got some sixth sense A hematologic radar beam He always nails it on the first attempt Easy as pie, so it would seem His talents have become a legend He is famous far and wide This unassuming little man Has become respected and admired All the nurses on the campus Worship him like a god Though, truth be told, his neighbors Think the guy is slightly odd But there isn’t a female staffer Not a veteran, nor a rookie Who hasn’t slipped off to the call room To give Norman a little nookie But all the men that are on staff Be they doctors or merely interns Fail to appreciate his appeal And they are becoming quite concerned For each and every lady In the aftermath of these quickies Walks around in a mild daze And sports a large, unsightly hickey Why, these MDs ask themselves Do the women seem anemic? Attempts to question Norman fail Because his eyes are so mesmeric But, hey, he always saves the day So there’s no harm in a little bite For Norman the Phlebotomist: A simple creature of the night

#poetry #horror poetry #poets corner #fantasy #fantasy poetry #vampire #rick hutchins #rjdiogenes

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loressa · 3 months

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Faegold

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"Scatter!" she hisses; we do, like bugs.

The air - chill; clothes - threadbare, and she's knocking on another door, another, another, to find a place for Paul.

Glares at us, wordless, demanding: work.

A communal glare back. Her wings grow angry; the buzz begins.

There're no pockets to lift. Can't work miracles.

Door opens and we're out of her eye. Deflated; hateful yearning. A rambleamble - two feasts and an eyeblink, forever, too soon - and Paul is gone.

Mortal.

We can rest.

Forest, now - deepest heart, darkest tree, misted path.

Dream.

#flash fiction #creative writing #writing #fantasy short story #fantasy poetry #i may have read autobiography of red at a formative point in my writing development

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thenightpoem · 1 month

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Plea to time

Oh, thy mighty Lord

Sitting alone in your Iron Fort

Get down from your throne

Away from others of your own

There’s no reason for thy fright

So come down here and sit alongsides

So please take a seat and let us recite

The Tales of Arthur and his Knights

Let us take you back to days long gone

Enchant you till mighty Dawn

To the rhythm of jingly cowbell

And pain of splitted nutshell

All the way from the fortress

You can bring along your mistress

For here there’s no distress

So come, thy Lord and join the rest

For here you’re always welcome

Among those of our kind

So leave there thy mighty emblem

For we don’t care of race or bind

In the land of stories told

From the young to the old

Come here oh mighty Lord

But where, you have not been told

For everything you see is floored

By Swings of mighty swords

Underneath those of your kin

So please my Lord don’t nope

For there still lies hope

And though our bones haven’t survive

We are still alive

So we beg you, oh mighty Lord

With our Tales you’ve been delighted

And Even though we have been parted

With us you still bonded

So bow you ear to the ground

Listen to our sound

Cause beneath great swords and heart’s bleed

Lies our final pleed

So please, oh please our mighty Lord

Keep the fire within well lit

Carry it on, spread the myth

And listen carefully our beloved Lord

Whilst stuck in your Fort

For all your effort, his adevntures are still stored

Eternally in the songs of the bard’s chord

#thenightraven’ssonnets #arthurian legend #throwback #rewindtheclock #medieval #lords #stories of old #fantasy poetry #bards #keepthestoryalive #rememberance #legends #king arthur #medievalroyalty #Spotify

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cosmicbirch8 · 1 month

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tumbleweedbloodbash · 3 months

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" The Moon-Child "

- Fiona Macleod (poem) / Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (drawing)

Extract from; The little world of elves & fairies an anthology of verse.

This is a poem from a book I own that I quite enjoy, I will be blogging more extracts from this book as well as a cover show for anyone intreasted.

- Addler [he/they/xe]

#writing #quote #poetry #faries #elves #dark acedemia writing #fantasy poetry #fantasy #dark acadamia quotes #dark acedemia #fairy writing #fairy core #poetry about lonelyness

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maryhall · 8 months

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dark fabric draped in the sky

by a lonely, old goddess

the last of the first among sisters

and the only remaining

her dark blanket makes the night

but it is ancient as she

so holes pepper the dyed wool

cut by a gnawing infant

her light shines the infinite stars

and during the day

she comes from her hiding place

to search for siblings

and the sun blazes her worry

#poetry #quotes #my poem #original poem #original poetry #poems and quotes #words #poem #short poem #mythology #fantasy #fantasy poetry #fantasy poem

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