Silver Daux

Joined May 2021

401 stories

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Shadowed souls, cursed magic, poetry that tangles itself in your soul and yanks out the ugly darkness from within. Maybe there's something broken in me, but it's in you too.

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Curious
The shadows are hungry. They want to taste the neglect of fallen petals, Drink the juice of rotting stems. Their hollow eyes leak moonlight.
By Silver Daux2 years ago in Poets
The Wound
What are you doing, letting the clock slide like this? Seven minutes past the hour to a man who values punctuality Over food, over water, over broken bones and the flu.
By Silver Daux2 years ago in Poets
Sticky Glass
The world was stuck in the aesthetic of a poorly photographed 90's laundromat, green, grey, and grainy with a too-high ISO.
By Silver Daux2 years ago in Fiction
Bleed, Bleeding, Bled
We played hide-and-seek as animals, Ducking between trees with feral growls And crawling across the sharp forest floor Until our splintered palms bled.
By Silver Daux2 years ago in Poets
Fireflies at Sunset. Top Story - June 2024.
"Do you think the fireflies will keep glowing?" "That's a stupid question," Finley said but there was no punch to his words. Instead, they were sad and rough around the edges.
By Silver Daux2 years ago in Fiction
Grey Pieces, Grey Dreams
It's a warning sign, the grey flashing inside of me like a tsunami. The ocean draws back every year, exposing the sea floor of a broken soul
By Silver Daux2 years ago in Poets
Yearning
Warm skies and poison air filter through lips Opened in awe, screaming, silently, for immortality. The shadow looms, touching the tips of slender,
By Silver Daux2 years ago in Poets
Dew Drops
It was the feathers falling that made him sick to his stomach. He could handle the blood splattered on the sidewalk. The bird carried away in the owl's claws. But he couldn't handle the feathers slowly tumbling through the yellow sodium light pouring out of the street lamps.
By Silver Daux2 years ago in Fiction
Bleeding Petals
Ten thousand petals. Red, red, red like the blood dripping Down his hand into grass gone black under the hour. Midnight.
By Silver Daux2 years ago in Poets
Sublime. Content Warning.
Thumping, Thumping, Thumping in his veins The beat of death and the failing rhythm of life. Reaching, grabbing, missing with his hands.
By Silver Daux2 years ago in Poets
Bright Midnight
The world was black. Empty. A swath of mingling darks catching the shadow of a castle Made of stone and rotten days of mirth
By Silver Daux2 years ago in Poets
Indomitable
It's a fight against the pulse of the planet, Against teeth that sink through muscle And scratch their initials into bone.
By Silver Daux2 years ago in Poets