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Is it the frame that holds, the muscle tight,
The heart that battles through the endless fight?
The crown of fame, the riches seized,
Or seer-sight burning where all lies are teased?

Is it the voice of gods, the soul in art,
The quiet choice, the courage to start?
The face of dawn, eyes wide with sky,
Or sunborn fire that could make worlds die?

What makes a man? The pact with shade,
The secrets buried, the occult conveyed.
The masks he wears, the games he plays,
Or thorns and roses where his spirit sways?
"What Makes a Man?" delves into the complexities of identity, exploring the forces—both external and internal—that shape a person. With vivid imagery and philosophical questions, the poem reflects on the interplay of hidden truths, outward facades, and the growth forged through both struggle and triumph. It invites the reader to question whether a man's essence lies in his secrets, his actions, or the journey of his spirit.
1d · 240
None Wake
You lose all touch
when limits lift the brush—
both reason and heart
fall still in the hush.

No balance endures
once the self flames to star—
it cleaves unto kin,
the near and the far.

You and I purge
through the void’s pale hiss.
No breath, no urge—
when nothing’s amiss,
none wake from abyss.
“None Wake” is a metaphysical lyric tracing the dissolution of self through the failure of reason, emotion, and identity. It follows a descent from limited perception into egoic imbalance, culminating in a purging silence where even the desire to awaken is extinguished. The poem is rooted in apophatic mysticism, existential austerity, and lyric minimalism
1d · 44
The Ice Below
The river of time flows fast, untold—
Too wild to bend, too narrow to row.
Strange how the past cuts deep in soul,
Yet melts like frost in morning’s glow.

Who sees the shapes beneath the ice?
The lives not lived, the roads not trod?
Are we but echoes, paying the price
For paths we chose—or those we dodged?

Or are we less: just cracks in stone,
A hollow where the dark has grown?
No hell will break—just blood and bone,
Silence, thick as ice below the snow.
This poem is a meditation on memory, regret, and the elusive nature of identity over time. It explores how the past lingers beneath the surface—both haunting and vanishing—like shapes beneath ice. Through stark winter imagery and restrained lyricism, the speaker questions whether we are shaped by the choices we made, the ones we fled, or by something colder and more impersonal: silence, entropy, and time itself.
Pen touches paper’s silent stripes,
Women struck by ******’s vice.
Each etching their nails to scar—
One verse more sharp by far.

We trade their wounds for cadence,
Their silence for a rhyme.
Our ink absolves no bodies,
Just stains the frame in mind.

Is every poet a criminal,
Who can’t resist or cease?
Shall we erase this hunger,
Or name it as disease?
This poem delves into the complex relationship between the artist and their subject, questioning whether the act of transforming any human experience into art, driven by the artist's emotions, risks turning it into a kind of caricature
2d · 110
Royal Etiquette
Eliminate—or else divine:
Lay waste for the royal lion—
A name, a war, the weight of time.

Exhale before the weak can speak.
Let silence gild your bloodless cheek.

Kings and queens do not descend—
They glance.
Then pass.
Peasants.
"Royal Etiquette" is a poetic manual for cruelty in the name of tradition—an unholy scripture that shows how civility, hierarchy, and violence entwine beneath a royal banner.
3d · 95
Unbegun
Two souls collide in the quiet expanse,
Where silence breaks to an ancient dance.
He is logic, cold and withdrawn—
I, the silence just before dawn.

He and I—by fate entwined—
Mining the ether as truths unwind.
Sworn to reveal what the gods withhold,
Etching our life in celestial gold.

Atoms fuse in sacred designs,
Aging starlight in cosmic lines.
With the shock of death, a truth rung:
Not two, not none—nothing ever begun.
Unbegun is a metaphysical lyric tracing the collision of opposites—logic and intuition, self and other—across a cosmic landscape. What begins as a union spirals into revelation, where even existence proves illusory, and truth resides not in what is formed, but in what never was.
3d · 102
Moon writ
Barking beasts fear dusk's descent;
Might holds sway while light is lent.
Silent hunters claim the flame;
Midnight seals the reaper’s name.

Yet dawn disputes the night’s domain—
Too fierce a steed for reason’s rein.
As morning cloaks the crypts in mist,
The moon gleans what men have missed.
In Moon Writ, the shifting power between night and day becomes a stage for primal forces—fear, reason, and revelation. As darkness claims the world, what remains hidden is not lost, but reserved for those who look beyond the veil. This poem explores the lunar inheritance of intuition and forgotten truths, urging us to consider what daylight leaves behind.
Nature roars with a gentler will—
Not like men, who plunder and ****.

Each moment, a leaf lets go;
Luck kneels low to spring's bright glow.
Dormant breeze sweeps through the land,
As buried riches seize the crown.

No stranger I to this raw lore:
From dust I rose—I thirst no more.
At nature’s feast, I stake my reign—
Its quiet gold: my rightful mane.
In The Rightful Mane, the speaker emerges not as a conqueror, but as a creature reborn from the elemental silence of nature. Through vivid imagery and mythic tone, the poem contrasts human violence with nature's quiet sovereignty. What rises from the dust is not just a being, but a birthright—claimed not by force, but by resonance with the earth’s own rhythm. This is a meditation on power earned through harmony, not *******.
3d · 44
Again and again
You gaze—yet truth has slipped the frame,
A tide too vast for thought to claim.
In vaulted halls where echoes fail,
Sound stalks like smoke, too thin to trail.

We dream in frames we cannot fuse,
See fractured signs and call them truths.
The sun must drown for stars to speak,
While cycles turn, and silence reaps.

Eyes half-shut miss the arc of skies,
And worship forms as if they're wise.
But those who cling will hear the chime—
Again and again.
Time breaks its crown, then reigns in rhyme.
This poem explores how truth often escapes us—not because it is hidden, but because we look for it in rigid, familiar forms. Again and Again reflects on the cycles of time, the illusions we cling to, and the subtle beauty that reveals itself only when we let go of certainty. It suggests that wisdom comes not from mastering time or truth, but from recognizing their ever-changing, rhythmic nature.
3d · 56
Mystic Spear
Mathematics weeps on the altar of schemes;
Logic, betrayed, is the servant of dreams.
Ideals lie broken where strategy treads;
Matter and meaning are stitched by the dead.
Out of the void, a spear draws breath—
In it, the riddle of life and death.
Shall gods yet wield what gods did lose?
The weapon born where thought must bruise.
This poem conjures a weapon not of war, but of paradox—a spear born from the rift between logic and dream, order and chaos. Mystic Spear is a mythic riddle, questioning whether fallen gods or flawed mortals can wield ultimate power without having the courage to go beyond thought itself
3d · 60
Man-Craft
To build a man from stone and spark—
Not every hand can leave that mark.
He took his time, a slow-moved flame,
Not born for speed, but carved for fame.

The egg unhatched till stars aligned,
A soul too sharp for humankind.
He walked with weight, not just with pace,
Each step flattened their shallow grace.

No need for words, his silence kills,
A gaze that bends the strongest wills.
You stare too long, the truth runs red—
He lives, while others lie there dead.
This poem is a meditation on the deliberate, almost divine construction of a singular man—one carved not by haste but by vision. Man-Craft explores the forging of identity through patience, silence, and inner force, contrasting the noise of the world with the weight of authentic presence.
3d · 94
Iron Reign
Shadows stir beneath iron skies,
The blood of gods in my veins lies.
With every step, the ground does quake,
And heaven trembles in my wake.

On throne of stone, my will commands,
A king of night with blood-stained hands.
I stand unyielding, cold, and tall,
None may oppose, none shall fall.

Whispers of fate in silence scream,
For in my grasp, the world shall bleed.
With each decree, the earth shall break,
The gods weep for the sins they make.

I reign supreme, the silent call,
None shall wield the axe but I—none at all.
In shadows deep, where light is frail,
I walk as king, the eternal trail.
"Iron Reign" is a dark, mythic monologue spoken by a godlike sovereign whose power shakes the heavens. Blending apocalyptic imagery with regal menace, the poem explores the burden of dominion, divine vengeance, and the chilling solitude of absolute rule.
3d · 61
Path of Wrath
Ash and ember choke the sky,
Universe’s own fury roaring high.
Fortunes crumble, kingdoms fade,
Yet none lament the price they’ve paid.

The blaze runs wide—men starve, men kneel,
But ruin plants what fire will heal.
From blackened soil, fate finds its thread,
Forged anew where hope once bled.

The path is jagged, lit by flame,
A trial etched in war and name.
Those who burn may carve the way—
Through serpent smoke and shadowed sway.
In Path of Wrath, the poet conjures a scorched world where destruction is not merely an end, but a violent rebirth. Fire becomes both judgment and genesis—cleansing the old to forge a new fate from ash. This poem walks the edge between ruin and resolve, echoing themes of apocalyptic reckoning, sacrifice, and the relentless force of transformation through chaos.
I do not flinch—not even breath—
Am I a seer, or bait for death?
My thoughts drift smokeward—dim, askew—
A mind invaded, cleft in two.

I dance on wires through fractured air,
Where silence shatters, wisdom dares.
Through fractured mirrors I am hurled—
Each step reveals a spiral world.
I follow cries the ravens rend—
Crowned by madness, I ascend.
“Crowned by Madness” explores the perilous threshold between vision and delusion. The speaker—part seer, part sacrifice—navigates a fractured psychic landscape where revelation comes at the cost of sanity. This poem is a descent into the spiral of insight, where each step shatters the known world.
Cosmic fingers sketch the void—
A dance of stars: serene, destroyed.
Beast and man in fleeting union,
Flesh and thought in strange communion.

Birds cry out with cryptic voices,
Hearts pulled toward endless choices.
What was truth now slips its tether,
Lost in tides that bind no weather.

Nations build with fear’s direction,
Walls of pride, not true protection.
Martyrs rise in flawed succession,
Stone to dust in slow regression.

Yet when the dreamers pierce the haze,
And light ignites the fractured maze—
As planes give way to boundless vast,
Your breath becomes the world at last.
When Dreamers Dare is a philosophical and visionary poem that explores the tension between chaos and creation, illusion and awakening. Set against a cosmic and societal backdrop, it traces humanity’s struggles—internal, political, and existential—while ultimately celebrating the transformative power of dreamers who transcend limits to illuminate new realities
3d · 85
Maker of Destiny
The king owns nothing—yet all men kneel.
No crown adorns him; all thrones yield.
He walks where death and gods repent,
Each step a quake the Fates ne’er dreamt.

He loosed the nectar stars once brewed,
And forged new laws in iron mood.
Destiny crowned him, marked his soul—
The will that forges his own scroll.
“Maker of Destiny” is a mythic meditation on power beyond crowns or thrones. It imagines a figure who walks past gods and death itself—not to inherit fate, but to forge it. In a world ruled by prophecy and divine law, this being becomes the author of his own scroll.
4d · 164
I am Death
In stillness deep, where shadows bend,
I watch, unseen, the long world end.
One pale hand stirs the winds to sigh—
The breath is lost; the soul slips by.

The earth still shivers at my touch,
Yet none take heed, nor feel too much.
Faint whispers drift through moonlit air,
While ether shrugs, too still to care.

Most strive to unlearn my name,
Denying me through wealth and fame.
I am the law, life’s final thread—
The end will come, and all things wed.
In this poem, Death is not a shadowy figure lurking in the dark, but a calm, inevitable force—a quiet presence that watches over the cycle of life. Through stillness and restraint, the speaker embodies Death, offering a meditation on its impartiality and its role in the greater order of things. Here, Death is not feared or mourned, but acknowledged as a natural law, ever-present yet unseen.
4d · 69
Archer's Resolve
I string my bow ’neath star-flayed skies,
Where silence coils and mercy dies.
No tremor stirs my frozen breath—
I draw a line ’tween life and death.

The twang is wrath, the arc—a prayer,
Each arrow steeped in midnight air.
No shield withstands my patient aim;
I **** not for glory, but to end the game.

Cloaked in stillness, I haunt the rift,
A ghost whose gift is a final shift.
I do not miss. I do not flee.
The king won’t fall—he’ll cease to be.
“Archer’s Resolve” presents a cold, precise assassin whose every movement is honed to perfection. Set against a cosmic and shadowed backdrop, the poem explores duty without emotion, and death as an act of balance rather than vengeance. Each line draws tension like a bowstring—tight, measured, and lethal.
4d · 59
Flame walkers
Those who see embers walk in flame,
 Bearing a power none dare name.
Through ashen woods and iron frost,
 They brand the path with fire lost.

Scorned by the wind, they rise from ash—
 Kings, fiends, and heirs of ruin’s clash.
The seer’s wrath, long sealed in stone,
 Now rends the dark to claim its throne.

They wheel like death in phoenix flight,
 Their wings blot out the vault of night.
With every cry, the stars unspool—
 Their gaze burns past both god and rule.
A mythic, apocalyptic poem that explores the journey of prophetic figures who wield elemental power and defy cosmic order. Blending imagery of fire, ruin, and rebirth, the poem evokes a sense of ancient wrath and transcendence, as those who “see embers” rise to reclaim a forgotten dominion beyond gods and kings.

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