Liminal Shroud - Visions of Collapse

1. Nocturnal Phosphorescence

9m 8s Length

181 Words

131 Unique

19.8 WPM

1143 Chars

54 Lines

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Strewn amongst the stars
Cataclysmic oblivion
Endless planes of existence
Above as below

Concealed by the whim
Of rampant, ceaseless chaos
Black canopy above
Lost travellers below

Infinite creation
Escapes the finite mind
Glimpse eternity
Deny humankind

As insects crawl
Upon the barren earth
So too do I

On all fours scrambling
Through the night as vermin
A stain on sacred ground

To know the unknown - arrogant and ignorant
To gaze on the heavens - blind and stumbling
To conquer the beast - weak and trembling
To search for peace - discontent and seething

Traverse the banks of the spirit realm
Wonder in awe at their grandeur
Enraptured by the strength of totality
The abyss swallows us whole

Unencumbered by the weight
Of banality and guise
Submitting to the primal skies
Casting corporeal mass
Into frothing, endless expanse
Relentlessly carried forth

Eyes open wide
Light streaming past
Streaks of colour and life

Phosphorescence darting
Through this murky night
As streaks of luminescence shine
To behold splendor
And deny the mundane
Released to cold, eternal might

Flashes coalesce
Across my vision
Stars above, light below

Word Counts

the: 15

and: 7

of: 7

to: 7

as: 4

above: 3

below: 3

by: 3

on: 3

deny: 2

endless: 2

light: 2

night: 2

stars: 2

streaks: 2

through: 2

a: 1

abyss: 1

across: 1

all: 1

amongst: 1

arrogant: 1

at: 1

awe: 1

banality: 1

banks: 1

barren: 1

beast: 1

behold: 1

black: 1

blind: 1

canopy: 1

carried: 1

casting: 1

cataclysmic: 1

ceaseless: 1

chaos: 1

coalesce: 1

cold: 1

colour: 1

concealed: 1

conquer: 1

corporeal: 1

crawl: 1

creation: 1

darting: 1

discontent: 1

do: 1

earth: 1

enraptured: 1

escapes: 1

eternal: 1

eternity: 1

existence: 1

expanse: 1

eyes: 1

finite: 1

flashes: 1

for: 1

forth: 1

fours: 1

frothing: 1

gaze: 1

glimpse: 1

grandeur: 1

ground: 1

guise: 1

heavens: 1

humankind: 1

i: 1

ignorant: 1

in: 1

infinite: 1

insects: 1

into: 1

know: 1

life: 1

lost: 1

luminescence: 1

mass: 1

might: 1

mind: 1

mundane: 1

murky: 1

my: 1

oblivion: 1

open: 1

past: 1

peace: 1

phosphorescence: 1

planes: 1

primal: 1

rampant: 1

realm: 1

released: 1

relentlessly: 1

sacred: 1

scrambling: 1

search: 1

seething: 1

shine: 1

skies: 1

so: 1

spirit: 1

splendor: 1

stain: 1

streaming: 1

strength: 1

strewn: 1

stumbling: 1

submitting: 1

swallows: 1

their: 1

this: 1

too: 1

totality: 1

travellers: 1

traverse: 1

trembling: 1

unencumbered: 1

unknown: 1

upon: 1

us: 1

vermin: 1

vision: 1

weak: 1

weight: 1

whim: 1

whole: 1

wide: 1

wonder: 1

2. Nucleonic Blight

10m 50s Length

122 Words

78 Unique

11.3 WPM

710 Chars

29 Lines

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What remains but works
Of earth pushed as pieces
In a gambit unknown

As galaxies gaze down and weep
Torrents of dying nebulae
On the worthlessness of it all
A hail of destruction
At which we stare in awe
Struck in disbelief, paralyzed in ignorance
Cathartic as conflagration descends
To proselytize the ultimate truth

The truth of this earth
The truth of the stars
Of the marrow, the cartilage, the flesh
The iron, the bough, the loam
The husk, the grist, the waste
The microcosm, the outer spheres

The truth of the earth
The truth of the stars

That the blight is written
Into our cells
Mapped to pale tendrils
Embryonic, frail, inchoate
Yet ever-blooming, every-devouring
Ravenous to swallow the last star

Word Counts

the: 22

of: 9

truth: 5

in: 4

as: 3

earth: 3

to: 3

a: 2

stars: 2

all: 1

and: 1

at: 1

awe: 1

blight: 1

bough: 1

but: 1

cartilage: 1

cathartic: 1

cells: 1

conflagration: 1

descends: 1

destruction: 1

disbelief: 1

down: 1

dying: 1

embryonic: 1

ever-blooming: 1

every-devouring: 1

flesh: 1

frail: 1

galaxies: 1

gambit: 1

gaze: 1

grist: 1

hail: 1

husk: 1

ignorance: 1

inchoate: 1

into: 1

iron: 1

is: 1

it: 1

last: 1

loam: 1

mapped: 1

marrow: 1

microcosm: 1

nebulae: 1

on: 1

our: 1

outer: 1

pale: 1

paralyzed: 1

pieces: 1

proselytize: 1

pushed: 1

ravenous: 1

remains: 1

spheres: 1

star: 1

stare: 1

struck: 1

swallow: 1

tendrils: 1

that: 1

this: 1

torrents: 1

ultimate: 1

unknown: 1

waste: 1

we: 1

weep: 1

what: 1

which: 1

works: 1

worthlessness: 1

written: 1

yet: 1

3. Resolve

10m 55s Length

200 Words

133 Unique

18.3 WPM

1191 Chars

57 Lines

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Tear this broken, wretched form
From the nether of compulsion
See the husk you left, abandoned
When the ether was long spent 
None of nature's grace remains
Collapsing into the earth
No warmth in this cold embrace
Chills the bone and shattered spirit

Take my breath, take my soul
Inhale pain, doubt, and longing

Lungs caving in, gasping desperately
Feel the rush of the wind
From across the churning sea
Rip through this frail, spent body

Consternation
Desperation
Futility
Depravity

The moment where I fade away
Into a nihilistic haze
Wretched hands, not my own
Grasping a broken fucking chalice

Insatiation
Degradation
Impulsivity
Animosity

Alone, adrift in timeless wanderings
Carried through the stream
Ceaseless chaos permeates my mind
A mind that's not my own
Against the current of a calling voice
A voice that's not my own

Standing by while on the shores of time
Forever wondering 
What life could be if not for this dream
A frail, yearning call

A frozen, aching heart
Weak and trembling flesh
Lofty vain ambition
Steals our will and vision

Our will and vision

A hardened, steel mind
Strong and proven flesh
Action and resolve
Prove our will and vision

Our will and vision

Word Counts

the: 12

and: 9

a: 8

my: 6

of: 5

not: 4

our: 4

this: 4

vision: 4

will: 4

in: 3

mind: 3

own: 3

broken: 2

flesh: 2

frail: 2

from: 2

into: 2

spent: 2

take: 2

that's: 2

through: 2

voice: 2

wretched: 2

abandoned: 1

aching: 1

across: 1

action: 1

adrift: 1

against: 1

alone: 1

ambition: 1

animosity: 1

away: 1

be: 1

body: 1

bone: 1

breath: 1

by: 1

call: 1

calling: 1

carried: 1

caving: 1

ceaseless: 1

chalice: 1

chaos: 1

chills: 1

churning: 1

cold: 1

collapsing: 1

compulsion: 1

consternation: 1

could: 1

current: 1

degradation: 1

depravity: 1

desperately: 1

desperation: 1

doubt: 1

dream: 1

earth: 1

embrace: 1

ether: 1

fade: 1

feel: 1

for: 1

forever: 1

form: 1

frozen: 1

fucking: 1

futility: 1

gasping: 1

grace: 1

grasping: 1

hands: 1

hardened: 1

haze: 1

heart: 1

husk: 1

i: 1

if: 1

impulsivity: 1

inhale: 1

insatiation: 1

left: 1

life: 1

lofty: 1

long: 1

longing: 1

lungs: 1

moment: 1

nature's: 1

nether: 1

nihilistic: 1

no: 1

none: 1

on: 1

pain: 1

permeates: 1

prove: 1

proven: 1

remains: 1

resolve: 1

rip: 1

rush: 1

sea: 1

see: 1

shattered: 1

shores: 1

soul: 1

spirit: 1

standing: 1

steals: 1

steel: 1

stream: 1

strong: 1

tear: 1

time: 1

timeless: 1

trembling: 1

vain: 1

wanderings: 1

warmth: 1

was: 1

weak: 1

what: 1

when: 1

where: 1

while: 1

wind: 1

wondering: 1

yearning: 1

you: 1

4. Malaspina

4m 7s Length

82 Words

67 Unique

19.9 WPM

496 Chars

22 Lines

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Dark, despondent waters
Sculpt and erode ancient stone
Waves of rock emerge in their stead

As is the grim certainty
Of aching, grinding misery
On this husk of ashen skin and weathered bones

Disintegrating, darkened eyes
Witness as the body dies
Reduced and crumbling shards in the tide

Torn from the foundation
Raw impermanence exposed 
Shattered and broken 
No trace of what once was real

Time etches away
At the core of our souls
No respite, no resolution
Only fragments drifting 
Aimlessly

Word Counts

of: 5

the: 5

and: 4

no: 3

as: 2

in: 2

aching: 1

aimlessly: 1

ancient: 1

ashen: 1

at: 1

away: 1

body: 1

bones: 1

broken: 1

certainty: 1

core: 1

crumbling: 1

dark: 1

darkened: 1

despondent: 1

dies: 1

disintegrating: 1

drifting: 1

emerge: 1

erode: 1

etches: 1

exposed: 1

eyes: 1

foundation: 1

fragments: 1

from: 1

grim: 1

grinding: 1

husk: 1

impermanence: 1

is: 1

misery: 1

on: 1

once: 1

only: 1

our: 1

raw: 1

real: 1

reduced: 1

resolution: 1

respite: 1

rock: 1

sculpt: 1

shards: 1

shattered: 1

skin: 1

souls: 1

stead: 1

stone: 1

their: 1

this: 1

tide: 1

time: 1

torn: 1

trace: 1

was: 1

waters: 1

waves: 1

weathered: 1

what: 1

witness: 1

5. The Carving Scythe

9m 25s Length

188 Words

139 Unique

20.0 WPM

1219 Chars

44 Lines

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Where waves scale scarped pillars
Fortifications forged
In tempest and night's high chorus
Of howling winter wolves
Withstanding until standing no longer
Hewn into nothingness
Called into the abyss
The carving scythe - eternal as the tide

How rains pierce and scar the skin
As frail as parchment scraps
Thrown to shearing winds
To be woven into nests
That yet are scattered among the litter
Of lives shed as autumn leaves
The carving scythe - stormswept branches in the nether

The river swells with blood and ash
Flotsam of centuries intermixed
With rotted organs, forgotten strife,
Ephemeral words
Forging ever-onward, all-consuming
Gathered legends and weathered vessels
The carving scythe - black waters cascade
Listing into lightless chasms

Stalking, reaping
The sickle soars in steel skies
Flanked by carrion feeders
Cawing for the remnants
Morsels left in the wake
Of merciless death and decay
Language lost; spirit discarded
Just waiting to be carrion ourselves

The flood will come in the end
Undulating waves, submerging the sun
Consciousness claimed
By umbral veil
By rapids flowing ever-outward
Bereft, exiled, no future, no past
Cast into suffering's eclipse
To bliss, non-existence
To drift for eternity

Word Counts

the: 15

and: 5

in: 5

into: 5

to: 5

as: 4

of: 4

by: 3

carving: 3

no: 3

scythe: 3

be: 2

carrion: 2

for: 2

waves: 2

with: 2

abyss: 1

all-consuming: 1

among: 1

are: 1

ash: 1

autumn: 1

bereft: 1

black: 1

bliss: 1

blood: 1

branches: 1

called: 1

cascade: 1

cast: 1

cawing: 1

centuries: 1

chasms: 1

chorus: 1

claimed: 1

come: 1

consciousness: 1

death: 1

decay: 1

discarded: 1

drift: 1

eclipse: 1

end: 1

ephemeral: 1

eternal: 1

eternity: 1

ever-onward: 1

ever-outward: 1

exiled: 1

feeders: 1

flanked: 1

flood: 1

flotsam: 1

flowing: 1

forged: 1

forging: 1

forgotten: 1

fortifications: 1

frail: 1

future: 1

gathered: 1

hewn: 1

high: 1

how: 1

howling: 1

intermixed: 1

just: 1

language: 1

leaves: 1

left: 1

legends: 1

lightless: 1

listing: 1

litter: 1

lives: 1

longer: 1

lost: 1

merciless: 1

morsels: 1

nests: 1

nether: 1

night's: 1

non-existence: 1

nothingness: 1

organs: 1

ourselves: 1

parchment: 1

past: 1

pierce: 1

pillars: 1

rains: 1

rapids: 1

reaping: 1

remnants: 1

river: 1

rotted: 1

scale: 1

scar: 1

scarped: 1

scattered: 1

scraps: 1

shearing: 1

shed: 1

sickle: 1

skies: 1

skin: 1

soars: 1

spirit: 1

stalking: 1

standing: 1

steel: 1

stormswept: 1

strife: 1

submerging: 1

suffering's: 1

sun: 1

swells: 1

tempest: 1

that: 1

thrown: 1

tide: 1

umbral: 1

undulating: 1

until: 1

veil: 1

vessels: 1

waiting: 1

wake: 1

waters: 1

weathered: 1

where: 1

will: 1

winds: 1

winter: 1

withstanding: 1

wolves: 1

words: 1

woven: 1

yet: 1