Broken memories. Twisted dreams.

Shattered hopes. Tortured screams.

These elements have given birth to a new society of dark poetry…

KINTSUGI POETS SOCIETY

Turning dark cracks & broken fragments into golden seams of poetry

So come join us…

In the darkness…

If you dare.

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Today is the last day of the Kintsugi Poets Society Grand Launch Bloghop of Dark Poetry – 21^st July to 28^th July, where we, Kintsugi members, have posted dark poetry on our blogs and the Kintsugi Poets site. 

There'll be more dark poetry to come from the Kintsugi Poets of course, but I'll leave you today with a poem that hasn't really made it into my forthcoming musical story/album The Calling (which forms the back-story to my supernatural horror/thriller novel The Dark Horde). You see there's already been three versions of the album produced over the years, with different tracks and musical composers, and some tracks have seen six or more versions... But the final (i.e. released) version won't include the following words, once again those of Henry Wilcox as he records his final words and tells of what is to come... 

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TESTIMONY

To know the future

Is to know the horror to come

To know what stalks us

Calling from the darkness inside

How do I explain

The forces that words can’t describe?

Who can believe me

And stop them before it’s too late?

These words I speak, these things I feel

I want you to understand, and see it is real

My will grows weary, strained is my breath

All that’s left now is to wait for…

Broken memories. Twisted dreams.

Shattered hopes. Tortured screams.

These elements have given birth to a new society of dark poetry…

KINTSUGI POETS SOCIETY

Turning dark cracks & broken fragments into golden seams of poetry

So come join us…

In the darkness…

If you dare.

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Once again we are here in darkness, as the Kintsugi Poets Society continues this Grand Launch Bloghop of Dark Poetry – 21^st July to 28^th July, where we, Kintsugi members, will be posting dark poetry on our blogs and the Kintsugi Poets site. 

And once more, I reveal some of the darkness that is to come in the form of the musical story/album The Calling, the back-story to my supernatural horror/thriller novel The Dark Horde. In The Calling, Henry Wilcox records his final words that not only tell of his past but of the things to come... The return of unstoppable things of ancient evil that are beyond our comprehension. Things he calls "The Dark Horde".

What follows are their words: 

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PUPPET

Your puppet strings I pull like reins

I suck the life that flows through your veins

I poison your mind with confusion and hate

Ever-present, I alone control your fate

Open your eyes and see that I am master

Running from me will only bring you faster

With lies, I drug you, deceive you and taunt you

You’ll not find truth for only I know what is true

You think you know me, when you don't even know yourself

You try to hide from me behind your science, religion and wealth

Yet these are my weapons, and mine alone to deploy

Using hate of race, hate of place, hate of face, I only destroy

For at the end of it all, at a time you will not see

 There will be nothing left, only death, only me!

Broken memories. Twisted dreams.

Shattered hopes. Tortured screams.

These elements have given birth to a new society of dark poetry…

KINTSUGI POETS SOCIETY

Turning dark cracks & broken fragments into golden seams of poetry

So come join us…

In the darkness…

If you dare.

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So join me in darkness once more, as the Kintsugi Poets Society continues this Grand Launch Bloghop of Dark Poetry – 21^st July to 28^th July, where we, Kintsugi members, will be posting dark poetry on our blogs and the Kintsugi Poets site. 

Today, continuing the Bloghop's theme of darkness, I reveal some more "poetry" from the forthcoming musical story/album The Calling, which tells the back-story to my horror/thriller novel The Dark Horde via the final words of one of the central characters, Henry Wilcox.

Henry is haunted by inner demons... literally.

More to come soon! Enjoy!

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VICTIM

It isn’t me nor what I planned

I’m victim to a force that takes command

They rule my thoughts and force my hand

Why does no one understand?

Save me I pray, from this fate

I did not want and did not create

My prayers go unanswered, what can I do?

They will destroy me and destroy you

Nobody sees, nobody knows

Where anger feeds and malice grows

Hate in my heart, fire in my brain

What is fantasy and what is sane?

They will destroy me and destroy you

How can I live, when this is true?

All hope is lost, I want to die

To end it all, but fear to try

Helpless, abandoned, victim am I

Night has fallen, dark is the sky

Darkness through which I cannot see

Darkness corrupts inside of me

Malignant, eternal, a hidden blight

Casting life into deepest night

Black in mind, black in heart

Slowly tearing our souls apart

There’s no escape that I can see

The Dark Horde are, will always be

They come for me, they come for you

 The Dark Horde are, their time is due

Broken memories. Twisted dreams.

Shattered hopes. Tortured screams.

These elements have given birth to a new society of dark poetry…

KINTSUGI POETS SOCIETY

Turning dark cracks & broken fragments into golden seams of poetry

So come join us…

In the darkness…

If you dare.

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To celebrate the launch of this Society we’re having a Grand Launch Bloghop of Dark Poetry – 21^st July to 28^th July, where we, Kintsugi members, will be posting dark poetry on our blogs and the Kintsugi Poets site. The theme for the Bloghop is Darkness, so be sure to check the main site and our linked blogs over this week to read lots of mesmerising poetical darkness J

This Bloghop launch of Kintsugi Poets is the perfect time I think, for me to show you some of the poetry I’ve written around the theme of the Dark Horde: from the already-published book of the same name and from the forthcoming musical story/album The Calling.

The Calling tells of the story leading up to the events in the novel The Dark Horde:  a recording of Henry Wilcox’s final words where he reveals all. It’s not going to be out for a while yet, but if you basically imagine something like Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds musical, but instead a supernatural horror story and set to a “dark and epic heavy metal” soundtrack, with a narrator, guest characters and sung sections, then you’ll have the idea of what’s to come J

So here’s a taste of the madness to follow, with more to come over this week ….

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MASK

Take my hand, render me blind

Hide from me the fear that grips my mind

I want to live, I want to be

No longer want to know nor want to see

For now my world's a dark void where no hope exists

And despite my efforts, only the dark persists

The Dark Horde will soon be victorious, that I clearly see

And then these words shall be all, all that's left of me

I wish to erase from my mind all I now know

Delude myself and forever dwell in truth's shadow

But I know it's useless, for our souls they've already won

So let these words be a warning of what's to come…