A Handful of Words by C.E. Vance (best ereader under 100 .txt) 📕

Beauty disguised in rumpled tatters,
dressed in undoing - not of one's own
Handed to fate - lacking an escape,
sitting by the wayside knowing you're alone

 C.E.Vance

Witnessed in an eye's blink,
moment's retreat into the past.
Forever parted to realm of time,
a stint -  never to be recast.

Shade like night, days succumb,
darkened void consumes the dawn.
Tomorrow comes to certain end,
replaced by time that carries on.

Hours in follow never cede,
new beginnings hold no reign.
Each rise to fall once again,
all before - to trail and wane.

Comes life's passing -  till ending still
to an abyss of pitch the ages flee
Their shadows become ancient dreams-
in an eye's blink -  it's what we see.

 C.E.Vance

Hollow the deep,
a bitter life so spun

Malice for dreams,
in heart of loathly drear

Drawn breath of life,
one's air of putrid stench

All within reach,
victims to direful touch

Conscious set side,
glowers besmirching eyes

Ominous look,
reflections of inner self

Portal to soul,
consumed by plaguing mire

Dark languid pools,
void emission of light

From grimaced smile,
lashes vile scorching tongue

The voice so stings,
spewing forth spittled fire

Thoughtless fool,
shallow ways come with due

Destined to fall,
stumbling across the heaped

Abandoned cries,
known faces turn away

Presence that's shunned,
suffers own loathly drear

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Looming shadows in the amber glow,
candle waning with a haunting light
Mist arises in the corner and bodes,
stealthy watching throughout the night

Rising winds on dread evening howls,
spirits clamoring from pits of hell
Tortured souls denied by grace,
grimaced faces in their 'forever' dwell

Horrid demons gather outside the room,
from foulest lips each blaspheme calls
Ghastly figures out of nightmares seen,
leased from inside scorched prison walls

Among - and leading tethered brood,
reaper in shroud makes way through
Fire singed blade of molten steel,
ashes still clinging from furnace flue

Life's blood to ooze on the ground,,
comes final destine on the prow
Death comes swinging a merciless scythe,
cold eyes leering inside an ebon cowl

Hades' shades of gloomy visions ride,
swoop nether's creatures on bat like wings
Stately gates leading to Heaven close,
a forgotten soul is taken by evil things

Fiery anguish sears with putrid smell,
dripping flesh whipped by burning flames
Horrid screams witnessed by hollow eyes,
beastly man bound by linking chains

Scorching lake dispenses eternal just,
created punishment for sinner's due
Turning lock clicks on the coffin's lid,
without due penance hell awaits for you

C.E.Vance

Today I saw an angel's smile,
long hidden by a murky mist -
clouds before my unseeing eyes

Heaven sent her lacking wings,
no golden halo to grace her head -
trumpets silent at her advents

Softly the voice gentle and sweet,
words spoken so lovingly kind -
caring angel calms my troubled mind

Never a need to stand at heaven's gate,
to gaze upon this angelic face -
sight is viewed through new found eyes

Always her love - given to me,
seems I was blind and didn't see -
mother - how much you truly mean to me

C.E.Vance

In sequined sparkles, the sun caressing her flowing gown
Atop silken tresses, an adornment of a golden crown
Beside lone butterfly - she winks and flashes a lovely smile
Above the flowering petals they both hover for a while

On dainty wings, flying to and fro, she finds heart’s content
Across blossoming meadows she sprinkles ambrosial scent
Quick wave of hand lightly showers the aromatic fluff
Princess of the flowers soon whisks away in a windless puff

On winding journey, her ardent chore performed each year
Waiting flowers gracefully bow as she approaches near
In waning day she snuggles between a soft petals fold
For chilly nights, warm caring heart protects her from the cold

Early rising, she sips from droplets of fresh morning dew
With cool dabbing splash to face - errand day starts anew
Princess of the flowers ascends in the surrounding perfume
Aloft on wings zipping away to where more flowers bloom

Caring and nurturing is the essence of her content
Beautiful princess, a sweet flower’s blossoming scent
Loving heart freely given without an expectant due
Then within the garden my own princess comes into view

Her radiance shimmering - like sequins on a gown
Wave of long silken tresses creates an adorning crown
True princess of the flowers arrives in royal style
Beside me she cuddles and flashes her lovely smile

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Morning arrived, absent of sun -
air deluged by darkened dawn
Folds the day with bleak like night,
cast in black - disquiet to mind

Descends the world - far to shadows,
a place once graced by gathered light
All aglow while yesterday was here,
tomorrow came bringing luster's end

With falter till fall - awash in tears,
every loss shed from anguished eyes
Listen closely, they'll bear love's name,
each carrying another dream away

Held so dear - last imagined hope,
together forever in just a while
Self's final truth resides within,
moments wished belong to past

Free to seek and love again,
shattered hearts - deserving mend
Place your tears inside a smile,
soon to find - a new sun in rise

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Judged by a heart instead of mind,
once a rose - whose beauty failed
I loved you dearly - sweetness adored,
then all withered - turning to thorns

 C.E.Vance

On a journey to Heaven -
visions reflected in your eyes,
passing through mists for mornings,
and rising to the brightest skies

Set adrift in the sunlight -
beyond terrestrial scapes,
embracing all that you are,
in a world - only love shapes

To the edge of infinity -
surrendering to the serene,
arrival on a smitten heart,
from where paradise is seen

Images in this window -
depicting my every thought,
within is held splendor,
the dreams I've always sought

Life roused in your presence -
entranced by beauty of soul,
a sweetness till eternal's last,
an existence that makes me whole

These pleasures for me alone -
like whispers before a kiss,
words to hold me in your arms,
I'll love you forever - just like this