Inkwell of the Afterlife: A Dark Poetry Collection is due for Release on Amazon on September 19th.

From the shadowed corridors of memory to the echoing halls of the beyond, Inkwell of the Afterlife is a haunting collection of poetry that lingers between the veil of the living and the dead. Inspired by the gothic brilliance of Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe, Penny Royal weaves a world where whispers of sorrow and reveries of the unknown entwine in lyrical verse.

With a rhythmic cadence that pulses like a heartbeat in the dark, these poems delve into love and loss, the ghosts of regret, and the eerie beauty of what waits on the other side. Each line is inked in longing, wrapped in mystery, and laced with the bittersweet chill of eternity.

For those who find solace in the shadows and poetry in the night, Inkwell of the Afterlife is an invitation to wander the twilight between worlds—where the soul lingers, and the words never die.

There is a dark place that I know

A place where I would never go

It haunts me like my own shadow

And steals my breath away

It keeps me locked inside my head

With things that live beneath my bed

And in the closet, something said

Please come inside and play

At night I hear the scratching walls

And laughter trailing by footfalls

As in my ear the darkness calls

You damn well better pray

And if I make it through the night

I’d be a sheet of ghostly white

And never slip into the dark

Or there, I’d have to stay

I Dreamed A Dream With Close-ed Eye

And Dark Dispelled The Void

A Universe So Deep Inside

Where Light Can’t Be Employed

I Stood Upon The Brink Of Time

A Fragile Humanoid

As Gears Sung In Their Pantomime

The Rise Of The Android

Two souls with no two feet to mate

In separate lives do loom

Sealed by the eternal fate

Of tragic lover’s doom

And love that is but only lost

Hangs upon the moon

It waits for time that never comes

In desolate cocoon

And if it were to breathe

It would be dead by now

But love lurks underneath

Because it dreams somehow