By John Metcalfe Savage burns From your tongue of fire. Chest torn, my flesh beneath your nails. This is how I thrive, stripped and bound to a bed of thorns, long hair screwed into a snarl, laughter dripping with my blood. Christ! How I love you! This torture, this rapture, this beautiful pain.   #darkpoetsclub #smallspacedeepimpact #50wordchallenge

By Kathleen Gray broken sleep, jumbled fragments of bad dreams   full moon harassed by ghostly clouds haunts the night   too late for regrets – she creeps back to bed they’ll come for him at six       #darkpoetsclub #smallspacedeepimpact #50wordchallenge

By NK.A.Hwaet Lightning cracks the roof—   Shoves the knife in walls. They bleed fuses. Your face? A fan   snapped shut—I see that fear. Snow and coal charred the sheets.   My scars? Testify. Open: I’ll stuff your throat with black—   forge you lion-strong— then snatch the night right back.     #darkpoetsclub #smallspacedeepimpact #50wordchallenge