<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239894745715917529</id><updated>2011-07-30T22:27:55.600-04:00</updated><category term='Entwined'/><category term='Bleeding Heart Poetry'/><category term='water and stone'/><category term='Dark Love Poetry'/><category term='Witch poetry'/><category term='ice and flame'/><category term='Dena L Moore'/><category term='Hades Moon'/><category term='Transformation'/><category term='A Blackened Room'/><category term='Dena&apos;s Poetry'/><category term='Queen of the Underworld'/><category term='Bleeding Heart'/><category term='Love Poetry'/><category term='Twisted Horns'/><category term='Persphone'/><category term='Hades Moon Poetry'/><title type='text'>Hades Moon Poetry</title><subtitle type='html'>Intense, erotic, dark, and emotional poetry from the depths</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6239894745715917529/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Dena L. Moore</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07554448984473658932</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jWAbfY1Rza0/TSoH8ga8YDI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/3l-VDVuMqpc/S220/Dena%2B-%2BSamahain%2B2010.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239894745715917529.post-3611639905599196536</id><published>2011-06-04T09:45:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2011-06-04T09:45:49.385-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Flesh Encases Us</title><summary type='text'>We could’ve talked, but we didn’t. 
Our eyes spoke across centuries,
Deep recognition of…that something, somewhere
Timeless merging, a deep chasm,
And I fall into the mystery,
An urge to know and not know,
Yet…you call in the silence, clear and crisp,
Talons sunk deep into phantom flesh
Pulling, tugging, opening in inspiration where
Lips should touch (but haven’t),
Where minds should dance, </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.denaspoetry.com' title='Our Flesh Encases Us'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/3611639905599196536/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/2011/06/our-flesh-encases-us.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6239894745715917529/posts/default/3611639905599196536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6239894745715917529/posts/default/3611639905599196536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/2011/06/our-flesh-encases-us.html' title='Our Flesh Encases Us'/><author><name>Dena L. Moore</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07554448984473658932</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jWAbfY1Rza0/TSoH8ga8YDI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/3l-VDVuMqpc/S220/Dena%2B-%2BSamahain%2B2010.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239894745715917529.post-892928650719237305</id><published>2010-08-20T20:18:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2010-08-20T20:19:13.308-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dena&apos;s Poetry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dark Love Poetry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dena L Moore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='A Blackened Room'/><title type='text'>A Blackened Room</title><summary type='text'>Lightning strikes an empty sky 
Piercing the darkness of you and I,
The call of the night, the shrouded light
Of an existence laid to rest
Yet rumbling, scratching at the chest.
Thunder born of discontent,
A half-faded farewell never meant -
Glass and wood, mud and mold,
A fresh-dug hole yawning bold,
Illuminated by the sudden flash
Striking open this wound, slice and slash.
This is the mood, a </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.denaspoetry.com' title='A Blackened Room'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/892928650719237305/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/08/blackened-room.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6239894745715917529/posts/default/892928650719237305'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6239894745715917529/posts/default/892928650719237305'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/08/blackened-room.html' title='A Blackened Room'/><author><name>Dena L. Moore</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07554448984473658932</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jWAbfY1Rza0/TSoH8ga8YDI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/3l-VDVuMqpc/S220/Dena%2B-%2BSamahain%2B2010.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239894745715917529.post-9181019328860238649</id><published>2010-07-16T20:45:00.004-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-16T20:48:09.627-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ice and flame'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dena&apos;s Poetry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='water and stone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dark Love Poetry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dena L Moore'/><title type='text'>Water and Stone, Ice and Flame</title><summary type='text'>It’s the clash of water on stone,
The mountain top bald and beckoning,
Waiting for the storm to take shape, to mold
The stark whiteness into dark echoes and ridges.

It’s the hiss of ice on flame,
The crackle and spark rising fiercely, 
Forcing the solid into liquid form, drenching
It’s own source; extinguishing it’s heat.

It’s the essence of you and I,
Water and Stone,
Ice and Flame,
Urging and</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.denaspoetry.com' title='Water and Stone, Ice and Flame'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/9181019328860238649/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/07/water-and-stone-ice-and-flame.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6239894745715917529/posts/default/9181019328860238649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6239894745715917529/posts/default/9181019328860238649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/07/water-and-stone-ice-and-flame.html' title='Water and Stone, Ice and Flame'/><author><name>Dena L. Moore</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07554448984473658932</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jWAbfY1Rza0/TSoH8ga8YDI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/3l-VDVuMqpc/S220/Dena%2B-%2BSamahain%2B2010.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239894745715917529.post-7915465318024171690</id><published>2010-07-06T21:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-06T21:23:21.681-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Witch poetry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Queen of the Underworld'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hades Moon Poetry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hades Moon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dark Love Poetry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Persphone'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Transformation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dena L Moore'/><title type='text'>Hades Moon</title><summary type='text'>I chose the path of The Hades Moon, 
The rite of life and death.
I bit into the pomegranate
And cast my lot.
It was not from hunger 
I tasted the fruit,
But out of obsession,
Out of compulsion for Him
Who rules the dark depths.
Queen of the Underworld I am
And I do not deny the title.
Persephone the witch, the prophetess,
The mystical doomsayer.
Paranoia and revenge are the underpinnings
Of my </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.denaspoetry.com' title='Hades Moon'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/7915465318024171690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/07/hades-moon.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6239894745715917529/posts/default/7915465318024171690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6239894745715917529/posts/default/7915465318024171690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/07/hades-moon.html' title='Hades Moon'/><author><name>Dena L. Moore</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07554448984473658932</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jWAbfY1Rza0/TSoH8ga8YDI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/3l-VDVuMqpc/S220/Dena%2B-%2BSamahain%2B2010.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6239894745715917529.post-1014460923409771581</id><published>2010-07-01T21:00:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2010-07-01T21:04:45.415-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Love Poetry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dena&apos;s Poetry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Twisted Horns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Entwined'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bleeding Heart Poetry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dena L Moore'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bleeding Heart'/><title type='text'>Entwined</title><summary type='text'>Entwined

Tangled and twisted, a coil of shed skin,
Crushed petals caught in the vine
Thinly-veiled - smooth and pulsating -
     Vulnerable.
A pattern revealed in the dusk;
A bleeding heart swollen, exposing the crimson,
Bright on white, oh so bright,
Caught in the dance of drifting petals,
Moonbeam plucked one by one…


Two horns twist in a feral beauty – 
To conquer, to glorify the rush of </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.denaspoetry.com' title='Entwined'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/feeds/1014460923409771581/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/07/entwined.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6239894745715917529/posts/default/1014460923409771581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6239894745715917529/posts/default/1014460923409771581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://hadesmoonpoetry.blogspot.com/2010/07/entwined.html' title='Entwined'/><author><name>Dena L. Moore</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07554448984473658932</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jWAbfY1Rza0/TSoH8ga8YDI/AAAAAAAAAyQ/3l-VDVuMqpc/S220/Dena%2B-%2BSamahain%2B2010.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jWAbfY1Rza0/TC05xw9RkSI/AAAAAAAAAc8/4kG0T__R9eA/s72-c/white-bleeding-heart.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
