Dark Edge of Poetry

Dark Edge of Poetry

Nicholas Beeden

When the Void between the possibilities of Life, Death, and Undeath call, dare you listen?

Poetry

Lines drawn in ink and shadow. The newest verses, still wet on the page.

  • The Quietest Power

    She remembers the villa, Those days in Manila, Where her mother brooded at night. Wide awake in her bed, Sensing unknown dread, A whisper of something not right.

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  • Fleeting Thoughts Flee

    With nothing in mind, Behind shuttered blinds, Inspiration can’t visit today,

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Short & Barbed

Limericks

Five little lines with a wicked grin. The latest small cruelties in rhyme.

  • Bad Judgement

    She caused him wounds like no other, From which he did not recover,

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  • Stardate 23.679

    Jim Kirk is a bit of a lad, That’s based on the young girls he’d has,

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  • Surprise

    When chatting up chicks who look slick, He’s a charmer, so he took his pick,

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Tales From The Dark

Stories

Longer descents into shadow. Recent stories to read behind a locked door.

  • Story preview blocker

    A placeholder story went to work in an old beat up car.

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  • To Weevil and Back Again

    Weevil looked up from the document as he sensed music; an unearthly music like nothing he had heard before. The music swelled to a crescendo, ancient and dark; youthful and bright. He began to perceive things with a strange double vision, overlapping images confused his sight for a moment

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  • Parental Dilemma

    For sale as I need the Money, The cuttest Baby shoes for my small son, Alas for him they were too small for his feet This poverty goes on and on,

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