Best Etic Poems

Through misty darkness, like wanton dreams, 
are voices in the seasons…
Foreboding words of reason's self, 
are heard while I am sleeping 

Forbidden shadows hover 'round,...

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Ev’ry child born soon grows to taste the good and bad of life,

and whether fortune smiles on him or her – ev’ry child soon learns

that...

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Here lies the Count of Monte Cristo
Who got to settle a few scores
With stevedores and commodores
Before stretching out below



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on February 20,...

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Nebulous angels vacant worth
Foresee no fortunes adulate
Dawn's desecrated, faithless birth
Supine mother to stillborn fate

2/21/20

For 'Poe-etic Verse' contest
sponsor: charles messina

Shared 2nd Place...

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Within Hellish Abyss, Sounds Serpent's Hiss

Some tales he admires, considers so great,
in that clear vein, he does not hesitate.
Writing as madman, pen splashing hot ink,
there...

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Oh! That this rose be a symbol of love
perfect it blooms- your beauty it holds
your perfumed scent in the fragrance of
and lo theses thorns pierce...

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The untitled sketch faded in terrible blow
It reminds me of broken promises
One last desperate attempt - in protest against line cuts
before the river burns its...

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On pathways that lead to the dungeons of Hades
Macabre black ravens feast on decaying corpses
Through cracks in the wall see the dancing flames 
Hear blood...

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Once upon a Monday manic morning I awoke in panic,
Panic with foreboding wrapped, into a world of troubles trapped,
I felt distinctly I’d been slapped, and...

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Begone, thou creature hovering o’er my door
Your ebony feathers evoke my anger
My dear Lenore was swept up in your wings
Nevermore to share her love with...

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Lo! Lo! From my very beginning and birth I have been
unlike most-  for I have lingered in thoughts and emotions deep-
And still "now"- ...

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There's a place under the sun-which provide shade for
everyone. Where is this place! not in a place of refuge, but
stored within yourself-providing an overflowing river...

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Funeral bells call with somber tone
Pulling at my broken heart
Angels implore she should never go alone
Precious love and I will never part

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‘neath the fear of man and joy of mate,
bequeath thy death and burrow thy fate-
‘tis a filament of life strung straight,
bestowing a trait... of death...

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