Category: Gothic Poetry

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

Well, I have been busy. My youngest has been helping me plan for my recovery. He has made it seem like I have nothing to worry about.

Due to the anxiety and stress tomorrow I’m not going to be able to get the review. instead I will post some of Serenity’s art. I will also be trying to schedule the week tomorrow…

oh BTW so far the new love poetry volume seems to be faery tale themed. not intentionally and I don’t plan to make it continue. but I found it amusing.

Saturday Thoughts

This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.

well I managed to get through the pad challenge. and as you can see I finished the Love themed volume.

this will be the next volume for love poetry. (some themes I feel like I need to keep a volume for.)

I had hoped Serena would be able to to bbe done with her volume by now but she still has 3 poems left to do. that’s probably going to be done by next week so I am sharing her next volume as well.

I only left kissed by Verse so you could see it was done. I will probably not have it or crypts secrets on here next week.

while I would like to plan on the poll for my nect volume I believe that will be after my surgery.

2026 PAD Challenge Day 16

2026 PAD Challenge Day 16

Serena’s response:

in the twilight 
of the cemetery
bleeding blooms 
give relief to the chaos 
of the grieving souls.

Though the bleeding
is but illusionary,
it adds to the feeling 
of the graveyard at night.

Pad challenge Day 8 Serena

Serena Mossgraves
Serena Mossgraves

The Graveyard

by Serena Mossgraves 

When does the earth 
 in the graveyard 
return to the living? 

When do the souls  
that guard such places 
finally find rest? 

When does the graveyard 
stop being the place for the dead, 
and return to life again?

Pad challenge Day 7 Serena

Serena Mossgraves
Serena Mossgraves

The Grim Reaper’s Dream

by Serena Mossgraves

As though life was unreachable
the reaper dreams of what is
naught for them, someone to lead them
towards a paradise to rest in.

Kindness misbegotten,
the reaper realizes…
Dreams were ne’er meant
to be had.

Pad challenge Day 6 Serena

Serena Mossgraves
Serena Mossgraves

Grief is Alive

by Serena Mossgraves

it slithers through your soul
eating, biting, devouring,
as it goes…

Grief is a creature
buried deep within,
alive and borrowing.

Pad challenge Day 5 Serena

Serena Mossgraves
Serena Mossgraves

Decay

by Serena Mossgraves

the body falls apart
decay setting in
age builds more
pain in decay…

I live in the decaying temple
that I I built in a soul
made of tragedy
and fighting for myself.

Pad challenge Day 4 Serena

Serena Mossgraves
Serena Mossgraves

Midnight Conversations

by Serena Mossgraves

In the wee hours
when life comes forlorn,
speaking with ghosts
of memory seems to be
the one comforting
thing to hold on.

midnight Conversations
with moments of the past,
seem to set to rest
the worries of my life.

Pad challenge Day 3 Serena

Serena Mossgraves
Serena Mossgraves

Little Deaths

by Serena Mossgraves

how many times
can a man die,
each little death
a monument to
the life they have lived.

Nothing so strong as needing
a coffin for burial or cremation…
still each death a moment
that affected how life was
continued from there on.

Pad challenge Day 2 Serena

Serena Mossgraves
Serena Mossgraves

Flowers in the Rain

by Serena Mossgraves

the sadness weeps
from the bouquet
Just set in memory,
being drenched
by the rain.

so often flowers
are given in heartache
and in pain,
but none of them
so sad as those
left beside the grave.