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An English Adaptation of Mephistopheles' Song of the Flea From Faust
There 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
Premium Member The Nocturnal Delight of Mephistopheles - Part One
One 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

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Premium Member The Nocturnal Delight of Mephistopheles - Part Two
THE 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 Mephistopheles
Something 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

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