Best Mephistopheles Poems
An English Adaptation of Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea From FaustThere was a king once reigning
Who carried a great, big flea—
And far from him complaining,
The flea filled the king with glee!
For to him that flea was dearer
Than even his only son,
And to make his preference clearer,
Raised it higher than anyone!
In ermine, silk and satin
The flea...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, allegory, humorous, irony, political,
Form:
Light Verse
Heeling Mephistopheles
"Heeling Mephistopheles"
murdering crows
flies in on the bow
of a Stradivarius
strange webs cleared
from the mind of
Machiavellian insolence
insisting life written
by dancing fingers
pressing monochrome
due diligence for justice
wrapped in blankets of
cloudy deliverance
tack a piercing
bittersweet
entendre
all the ebony wiles
imprinting jewels
for stringing...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, muse,
Form:
Free verse
The Nocturnal Delight of Mephistopheles - Part OneOne dark, dreary night while working on a poem of hellish, hideous and
Horrible fright, I became at once quite so fatigued and could barely keep
My eyelids open anymore, and then suddenly darkness came masking my
Psyche in a Most eerie dark night, only...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative
The Nocturnal Delight of Mephistopheles - Part TwoTHE NOCTURNAL DELIGHT OF MEPHISTOPHELES - PART TWO (CONTINUED):
The stage was now set . . . from nowhere, Mephisto handed me a missive in
Medieval Latin to read. He said, “Young poet, the hour is late, and I know
You’re a scholar who can read...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, allegory, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form:
Narrative
A Dream With MephistophelesSomething woke her up, accidental overdose,
broke her state of comatose.
From the nightmares and the dreams
with their laughter and their screams.
Upon the floor there lay
below the grand city on display,
The structure of her dreams
where within nightmares reigned supreme.
What had roused her from this living death?
To witness...
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Categories:
mephistopheles, fantasy, imagination
Form:
Couplet