Silver Daux

Joined May 2021

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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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Blue Moon. Runner-Up in Under Purple Clouds Challenge.
Every night at midnight, the purple clouds came out to dance with the blushing sky. The girls from the village were always asleep by then, having long since rushed back past the tall trees and whispering brush to return back to their warm kitchens, cool sheets, and closed shutters. Like good daughters, they heeded their mothers and at the first sign of dusk, began back with baskets slung around their elbows full of all sorts of roots and berries.
By Silver Daux3 years ago in Fiction
Humming
Old habits are immortal glimpses Of the changing state of reality. The smoke curling into the low ceilings here Smells the same as it did then
By Silver Daux3 years ago in Poets
Obsidian Water
The blossoms of unopened apple trees float Across the bleak expanse of cold, black sky above Wide lakes of cornfields rippling beneath with the wind.
By Silver Daux3 years ago in Poets
Remains
The stars dipped into the snowy hills, Twinkling and glimmering in a blue world, Gathering in the drifts at the base of old trees
By Silver Daux3 years ago in Poets
The Cold
Sick and tired of being sick and tired. Of tasting the lilac hues preceding death Gently on my tongue, An unbidden friend stopping by to say hello
By Silver Daux3 years ago in Poets
Clock Hands
Winter sleet crackles— Birds hide beneath feathers and Clock hands search for spring. _____________________ Silver Serpent Books
By Silver Daux3 years ago in Poets
Seduction
Like a cigarette soft to the lips, Seductive for how it slips between satin flesh and holds Delicate kisses in red, The nib scratches against parchment.
By Silver Daux3 years ago in Poets
Deceiver
We are at war but not with so petty a weapon As a bullet, a bomb, a bayonet, a battle axe. There are no defenses in this war we fight.
By Silver Daux3 years ago in Poets
Counting Tragedies
It starts with one thousand anxious voices Whispering like far-off rapids Across cooled bed sheets as a good morning. Breath catches, holds, leaves,
By Silver Daux3 years ago in Poets
Asphalt
Hungry, starving, disintegrating stomachs beg For their fill of burning lies and sweet slander. Give it to me, give those ugly words to my mouth.
By Silver Daux3 years ago in Poets
Neon Dreams
World's melting in my hands, Fading into blinding flashes of neon signs And the overwhelming stench of street food, Cigarettes, chemicals, and paid skin.
By Silver Daux3 years ago in Poets
Slick Hands
A mistake. A mistake breathed life into the black creatures Swaying weakly in my thoughts, Drunken men rambling uselessly
By Silver Daux3 years ago in Poets