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Scarlet Roses

Sanity rests on crimson nights  
where ignorance is found

Scarlet rose petals melt lost innocence
and cries bleed from torn souls

The moon accompanies solitude

and harvests the fear within

Alive among the dead
where death is 

                         

                          existance  

 

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Author notes

It's been a long time since I wrote anything dark

I wanted to write something dark, but nothing that really makes you cringe

I was really going for a girl that was raped "Scarlet rose pedals melt lost innocence and cries bleed from torn souls" and fears nights alone, dwelling on her nightmare that she had lived, where she feels dead among everything else that is dead; and the things that are alive are fake. She knows this because she has lived the harsh reality and knows for sure that it's real "Sanity rests on crimson nights; where ignorance is found"
Note: "rests" as in asleep - sanity sleeps on crimson nights where her ignorance was once found.



Picture credit: "Slow Death For Scarlet", artist unknown.

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  • Immortal Obscurity Greeters member
    December 4, 2008

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    I like how you've used the picture as your prompt; I always make sure to put up artwork in case someone needs a muse

    I agree with Bill; succinct and suitably-dark, as he said, and reading your ANs kicked it up a notch. Well done, and thanks for entering


    • Catie Sheeran
      December 4, 2008
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      Thank you you had a great prompt to work off of. and thanx for running the contest

  • Bad Bill
    November 27, 2008

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    Well-worded, succinct...and suitably dark. A perfect interpretation of the picture.

    Good luck,
    Bill


  • penman gold member
    November 19, 2008
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    Wonderful

    What a well created write for the picture. Best of luck in the contest.


  • just mercedes gold member
    November 18, 2008

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    dark and abstract, as enigmatic as the picture.


  • lunarlunacy
    November 17, 2008
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    ooooooh


  • kiwigirljacks gold member
    November 16, 2008

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    Sometimes we seem to be just existing... dark and wonderfully done!

  • Utopian Evolution
    November 13, 2008

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    A poem that perfectly depicts the picture above, from my eyes. There is a greater story between the lines, and I for one won't truly indulge, in writing, the story that runs through my head.

    I did read this over and over again capturing the essence of wonder and the tad bit of its gothic nature ... the poem and the picture does do its origin justice.

    All in all darling poetess, wonderful job.

    G.


  • Cup-a-Joe
    November 12, 2008
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    This is my kind of dark. I'm no fan of blood flowing poems, but you did good!
    Joe


  • SuicidalLover
    November 11, 2008

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    If anything I believe this is called abstract. It's nice because the reader is allowed to indulge himself in other theory's. Nice job on this! I wish you luck!
    ~Kystal Angel

  • mimiagatha
    November 11, 2008
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    dark, yet colorful in its uninhibited innuendos, very nice write

  • Bob Fox
    November 11, 2008

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    My

    Poet I am not sure how to read into this other then a silent death of a true but lonely beauty. I probably am wrong though.

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