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3am

It's 3am the witches hour

Lights r out but within there's power

 

Never ending supplies of light

Emergency stash but not in sight 

Not the artificial blinding type

Natural fueled like a star filled night

Layered pollution thick clouds cover sky

Fooling the fools even covers their eyes

 

So whilst the sleeping are deep in to dreaming

Bewildered the witches from insi...

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3am poetry   witches   October themed   nocturnal

The Witches Glee

 

Light me a candle

For, my soul has gone

The dark came & took it

Upon the breath of a song

 

Twas the whisper of witches

In my fertile ear

Who picked the sweet fruit

Of my low-hanging fear

 

And they grew me a forest

For my charmed mind to dwell

Whilst my body committed

Itself unto Hell

 

And the blood kept on flowing

'Till the day I awoke:

Tr...

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witches

Burghers

next door they're yet holding another barbecue

starry sparks of pig and ox ascend in the dark

hot flesh, burning fuel amid the polite chatter

charred hose and doublet of brave Joan of Arc

 

beefburgers thick sausages dripping grease

immolated rump steak in the teeth of guests

witches and Jews getting lynched for threats

to the state as traitors and subversive pests

 

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burghers   barbecue   burgers   offal   witches   jews   SS Guards   Ku Klux Klan

The Curse.

Grab a pinch  of quantum soup

mix with fresh picked arrowroot,

 

NEUTRON STAR AND NEUTRON STAR.

gasping gluts of interstellar air

with corona of Altair,

NETURON STAR AND NEUTRON STAR.

dying light of Betelgeuse 

cast around him double thrice,

NEUTRON STAR AND NEUTRON STAR.

 

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curse.   death   Space   witches

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