The Nightmare and the Chaos Raven Sent Into Poe's Poetic World
The Nightmare And The Chaos Raven Sent Into Poe's Poetic World
Waking into delusions of long dead rainbows and slow dying clouds
hard fallen mountains, enchanted winds and long black veiled shrouds
echoes of vanity, time that spawned whimpers of daring deceits
ice castles in deserts of despair, stone sandals on thorny bled feet.
Wherein lies fantasy, audacity of damnation and epic defeat
spilled blood and prophecy by ghosts of favors that lie to cheat
weeping dawns, roosters whispering beyond midnight cuts and cries
O' graveyard shadow, why beg to dance below saddened moonlit skies?
Days gasping into rivers of destruction and great clawed beasts
sunsets eating into valleys hiding banquets of fresh blood feasts
Alas! Shall ever those accursed verses of Poe this lost soul feel
or horror from agonizing loss as Love from heart burns to steal?
Pregnant pause, shrieks of arrogance and golden follies of mankind
circles of smoke and eternity within galaxies of devilish minds
ancient such wanderings into forbidden realms and Raven's abode
seas of lonely and the travesties of stories never to be told!
Waking into delusions of dead rainbows and slow dying clouds
Wherein lies fantasy, audacity of damnation and epic defeat
Days gasping into rivers of destruction and great clawed beasts
Pregnant pause, shrieks of arrogance and golden follies of mankind!
R.J. Lindley,
Dark Rhyme, Nov-3rd 1974
(Tribute To Poe And His Many Magnificent Dark Poems )
Beyond the curve of Time, Space and Lost Horizon
Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2020
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