Dump all your DARK poems here.

Here's my first one:

Beginnings are Ends

As the worms I am condemned
to eat from the black, rotten fruits
lying dead on the filthy, hungry ground,
beneath the diseased tree of life.

As the yellowed, thirsty fields I'm aware
of the darkenning clouds above the earth;
only I don't crave the water,
but dread its inevitable fall.

I smell the nausiating reek of decay.
I taste the bitter stretch in growing.
I hear the squeels of suffering endeavors.
I feel the gnawing of age on my skin.

I see the dying in living...

I can't be the only one living in the dark?

Behold the reaper
he is me and iam him
iam the creaper
i can kill but cannot swim

Behold my callous
And you shall feel it
behold my malice
and all shall fear it

Iam coming prepare
i have joined him
watching my final despair
death is our final wimb

As penned once by a famous poet. "DEATH, thou too shalt DIE."

what?
are you saying this is off another peom if it is i had no idea

Originally posted by DreamingWarrior
As penned once by a famous poet. "DEATH, thou too shalt DIE."

If you must accuse someone of plagiarism please take care to back yourself up 😬

Originally posted by DreamingWarrior
As penned once by a famous poet. "DEATH, thou too shalt DIE."

"DEATH, thou too shalt DIE." Does not make logical sense: In the event of Death dying, death has still taken place - anything that dies, dies by death, so death can actually not die, as it takes death to die!

✅ *nods sagely* 😕

Kidding 🙄

Originally posted by Philosophicus
"DEATH, thou too shalt DIE." Does not make logical sense: In the event of Death dying, death has still taken place - anything that dies, dies by death, so death can actually not die, as it takes death to die!

Originally posted by Corran
When everything else is dead and there is nothing more to die, would this not mean the death of death also?

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Originally posted by Syren
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no2 You could have inserted the word 'also' into the sentence between the words 'not' and 'mean', or left it where it was. Sounded fine to me honey 😊

Originally posted by Corran
When everything else is dead and there is nothing more to die, would this not mean the death of death also?

NO. After everything else has died, there is no more life, BUT only death - the absence of life! Also, death can only be dead if it has actually died, but death cannot die as I stated before - it amounts to an ontological contradiction.

Actually, it's one of those unanswerable conundrums. What came first.... etc?

Actually, now that I think about it again, death is not some entity out there, but rather a state of being - in other words, a lifeless being which once had life - the absence of life in bio-matter. So I think it's silly to say death can die, because death isn't something, it's an aquired trait. It's also philosophically an uncategorical statement to say: "Death can die" - the same as "Life can live" - it simply doesn't make sense.

It's not a conundrum, but rather simple - death is the absence of life in an entity which once had life - it's a condition.

Originally posted by Philosophicus
NO. After everything else has died, there is no more life, BUT only death - the absence of life! Also, death can only be dead if it has actually died, but death cannot die as I stated before - it amounts to an ontological contradiction.

I don't think that poetry and prose should have too much philosophy applied to it otherwise it would remove the beauty from it and would render a lot of it pointless.

Exactly. If I'm not mistaken, this entire conversation was initiated by the following quote;

Originally posted by brandino
Behold the reaper
he is me and iam him
iam the creaper
i can kill but cannot swim

Behold my callous
And you shall feel it
behold my malice
and all shall fear it

Iam coming prepare
i have joined him
watching my final despair
death is our final wimb

This poem is centred around The Reaper, or Death. An imagined entity. So, Philosophicus, I think you were being a little too literal my friend 😬

Yeah, ok, ok. Poetic license I guess.....anyway, Coran, you did try to argue with me that death can indeed die and I just had to demonstrate that it's a bit contradictive. Atleast we all now know that death can't literaly die! Or, maybe for the poet death can die, but not for the philosopher. 🙂

👆 🙄 Back to the POETRY people 😂

OMFG, I did not mean for that tangent to happen people. sorry in the deepest way. (the quote is from a poem by Shelley, or someone. cant remember. oi!!) I think your poem was groovy Phil, just was really tired and sick of seein brandino everywhere acting like itself. oi. Anyway, yeah great poem. Yet again, sorry for causing the derailment. S@#@ on me....... 🙁