# In Misty Pools Way Down Below

Author: Matt Foxwolf
Tags: Dark, Poem, wierd

#2 of Po-eems

This poem I had sent to several competitions and such, and in all instances had been rejected due to its bleakness. Whatever, man. Pink slips make good kindling.

In Misty Pools Way Down Below

Rose-fingered dawn falls on earthly shadows  
Darkness slinks away to its lightless home  
Where liquid things spit and twist  
Where fungal minds cast fungal glow  
In misty pools way down below

Lights unseen prowl and lurk in ancient corners  
The planet turns and turns on the turntable needle  
Though time passes, not so in seething underground  
Sounds, unheard, not unlike the crow  
In misty pools way down below

Formless gods and shapeless servitors  
Do writhe in expectant paranoia  
Shifting the earth, the cathedral of nightmares  
Inhuman mind, incorporeal, slow  
In misty pools way down below

Where wingless shapes whirl and fly  
In a poison atmosphere that serves as sky  
Where only darkness comes to birth and die  
Where the tides of life and death do ebb and flow  
In misty pools way down below

Reflected moons reflecting eyes  
Mirror worlds tumbling through mirror planes  
God and Goddess, existence and nothingness  
All is one here in the undertow  
In misty pools way down below

Fungal claws grasp and grate, pulsate, shake  
Stretching relentlessly to the diamonds of Nharoketh  
Spiritual shapes, potentiality into manifestation  
Hideous schemes and thoughts do themselves grow  
In misty pools way down below

Astral energy flows within, shimmering power  
Spirits caught, energy devoured  
Gods like vultures descend from cadaverous islands  
Into the water that is not water, with poison breath blow  
In misty pools way down below

Reptile and mammal, mineral and vegetable  
Unknown identity, genderless, meaningless  
They stew with non-terrestrial flesh that is not flesh  
To these forbidden, hidden worlds do we soon all go  
In misty pools way down below

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