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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This Poem Won't Make A Difference
Work for nothing, live for nothing. Swallow the grey, clock out late today. Every day, clock out late every day. Come in early before the birds,
By Silver Daux9 months ago in Poets
The Corruption of Magma
I am ooey gooey in the middle with magmatic thoughts of you. This is no great, grand love but an obsessive hunger for war Because at the core of this dying star about to go supernova
By Silver Daux9 months ago in Poets
The Tax
The dreams of you are slipping away from me. Sand through my fingers. Black sand, like the odd mix of soot and rubble and dreams that fills up that old warehouse where we got married. Where those bounty hunters hit you in the head with a brick enough times for it to loop past cruel overkill twice.
By Silver Daux9 months ago in Fiction
The Linens
I dream of becoming the linen sheets hung in the wind, Basking in the warm sun of a spring that promises summer With words that taste like honey and have no shelf life.
By Silver Daux9 months ago in Poets
The Roommate
I am used to the weight of you on my shoulder, Used to the way the world smells warm around you. I'm trapped inside the wings of a bread aisle,
By Silver Daux9 months ago in Poets
Lemon Juice
Monday morning means I am in a lemon-sucking mood, Twisting the corners of my mouth around bitter words That would sound better in an accent without twang,
By Silver Daux9 months ago in Poets
The Killing Love. Top Story - April 2025.
You must understand that I love you, First and foremost. From the very aching depths of my broken bones To the wounds slashing me open
By Silver Daux9 months ago in Poets
True Leaves. Content Warning.
Back against the wall. . The thoughts that brewed under the clouds, In the fog of a cold but gentle winter of grey, Live now underneath the dappled sunlight.
By Silver Daux9 months ago in Poets
Paths
If this was a different life, I'd be having coffee with cream and sugar In the city with my best friend, laughing Because we missed the train again.
By Silver DauxExclusive • 9 months ago
Dandelion Graves
Hands trembling over the grave, she wept. What did it matter in the end how hard she tried? Wiping the sweat from his brow, the blood from his lips… It was supposed to help him squeeze past death. The rosemary smeared across his throat should have made him invisible but Death came anyway. Death came and yanked Lax away from her.
By Silver Daux9 months ago in Fiction
Ghosts
He lost the pulse of his ghost, there trembling in his hands, Then gone on the soft spine of summer's furious winds. . He could have kept it there, caged between his warm palms,
By Silver Daux9 months ago in Poets
Chives and Nervous Breakdowns. Top Story - April 2025.
"I hate it here, Ro," Dewey said softly, pulling at a loose thread on the grey blanket covering his lap. "The city?" "The country." Silence slipped between them. "The world too, I guess."
By Silver Daux9 months ago in Fiction