Marie - Beautiful Tragedies

Beautiful Tragedies A Dark Poetry Anthology Compiled & Edited by Xtina Marie A HellBound Books Publishing LLC Book Houston TX A HellBound Books LLC Publication Copyright 2017 by HellBound Books Publishing LLC All Rights Reserved Cover and art design by HellBound Books Publishing LLC No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without written permission from the author This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are entirely fictitious or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is purely coincidental. www.hellboundbookspublishing.com Printed in the United States of America

Beautiful Tragedies P oetry means the world to me. It is through poetry that I express my deepest feelings. It is through poetry that I was first published. I had the best time compiling and editing this anthology.

Beautiful Tragedies is a collection of the most disturbing, haunting, tragic and beautiful poetry Ive ever encountered. Love isnt always rainbows and unicorns. Its gut wrenching, its consuming. Its beautifully tragic. I am so very grateful to James Longmore of HellBound Books for allowing me complete editorial freedom to create this book of poetry collected from some incredibly talented writers. I know I speak for all the participating poets in the book when I say: Bless you for being a publisher with a soul.

To all the poets who contributed to this collection: Thank you so much, and I felt your pain, your horror, your sorrow, your longing. Thank you, Debra B and Denise J. for helping me to spot imperfections when I thought my eyes were bleeding. X

F oreword Alistair Cross Words Footsteps Spark Duana Monroe Dark Dalliance Ruswa Fatehpuri The Madness of St George Inversely Square The Chemist Addresses His Patient Life Partner Jason Morton Afraid Michael Picco Charnel Love (To: E.A.P.) Shelby R. Thomas Unrequited Nick Manzolillo The Scab that Oozes Rebecca Kolodziej Delirium Quinn Hernandez Domestic Dispute Wish Backwash B. Bennett Monster The River Glass A.

Gonzales Howling Winds Kimmy Alan Queen Necrophilia Hells Cannibals Muroidea Paranoia Dusty Davis My Last Good-Bye The Conclusion The Days Have Passed No More Tears to Cry Georgia Williams Him Pain Sadie Whitecoat Emptie Like a Raisin in the Sun Morbid Streya Colchester Free Hopeful Deductions The Possessed L.M. Sabourin One Night at Broadway Video Serena Daniels Tethered Drown James Michael Shoberg Restless legs Masquerade Attention, Please Benjamin Blake An American Tragedy Chloroform Errant Heart Pamela Morris Con Fuoco Fierce Warrior of the Left-Hand Path Brandon Ryals The Kiss Loves Damnation Sorrows Kiss Heartache My Depression David Whippman Hard History Lesson Hollywood Divorce Frank Coffman Residual Murder Phil Wolters Ruminations of Death while Stopped at a Traffic Light in Calgary Charles Gramlich One Recipe for Disaster Stained Crown of Flies Denise Jury Scarred Heart Haiku 1 Haiku 2 Haiku 3 Haiku 4 Ryan Woods Bleed, Bitch, Bleed Humble Pie Slipknots and Razorblades The Start of the End is only Half the Story Loves Last Breath Richard Alan Long A Martyr for the Brokenhearted Ive Got My Summer Right Now The Woman at the Window James H. Longmore No One Dies Instantly Brandy Delight The Final Filter Wedding Vows Ancient Friend Forrest J Hiler Six Pull the Trigger Twisted Mentality Hades Rising Underneath the Mourning Star Crimson Lips of Death Splinter in the Heart Rana Kelly Boy Carrion Wolves Jason Prenatt King of Worms In Utero Cover Art Venus in Furs Paul Bridgeman When I See You Again Burn! Melysza Jackson I Stand Alone Broken 19 and Foolish Razors Edge R A Bane Opium Dreams Farewell Elaine Bezuidenhout Blood Red Rose Eleventh Hour The Soul That Could Not Find Love James D. Merwin The Ferryman's Journey I Wonder When Will It Paul B. Morris Hey, Maggie The Grey Man Lemmy Rushmore Vestiges This Hell That Im In Remnants Becky Narron Without You Linz Bassett Shattered Trust New Beginnings I Am Empty Let the Past Go The Dark Side of Love Gerri R. M. M.

Herres Silent Screams Gocni Schindler Bi-Polar Super Bitch Leah Negron Inner Demons Too Tight Deaths Poet Craig Detheridge Chocolate Box Love The Old Fallow Field - A Rhyming Horror Story Shanta Nicole Be Still, My Love Xtina Marie He Doesn't Know Love Isnt Enough (A Microshort) Love Kills A Most Horrible Pain Her Love Has No End

W ords In the history of language How was it decided Which words to string together And in whom they'd be confided? How did we decide Which words to leave unspoken? And when did we decide To describe our hearts as broken? Who said when all was said? Who said when all was done? And to whom can we give thanks For the pleasure of the pun? Synonyms and homonyms Who dreamed up these things? Who gave so much substance To such nonsensical utterings? Who turned these words to stanza Dispersing rhapsody and verse? What brought on vulgarity And who was the first to curse? I ask these questions frequently But I know the answer to just one And I'm sure that you'll agree with me If you've ever had this done If you've ever said, "I love you," And only silence greets your plea Then you know, my friend, that silence Was the first obscenity Footsteps I know you heard me on the stairs I know you heard me call I know you heard me say goodnight But you never looked up, at all And I know you heard the closing door And my footsteps down the hall But you didnt say a word to me And that somehow said it all Spark So now you see the spark I harbored in the darkness And you can tell the world Im hell-bound and Im heartless Did you think that Id be nothing But hurt, hollow and haunted When you turned us into all the things You knew I never wanted When you began to play These complicated games These tangled up entanglements That stain loves sacred name Youre determined to be angry For one reason or another Youre happy when you hate me So rage on, my wayward lover I can offer you no freedom I cant save you from yourself For your mind is your own prison And your heart is your own hell But what would I have given For one last time-lapsed touch Anything, my darling... I wanted you that muchNext page