Best Splendidly Poems
Midnight Raven: a Splendidly Overdone PoemThe midnight raven does not chatter.
He screeches and waits
upon the gallows for a hanged man’s eye
-a tasty morsel for a daemon.
For a raven is a fine gentleman
who feasts only on the foulest carrion.
This feathered fiend who lurks
pays no heed to the Holy.
He would sit upon...
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Categories:
splendidly, dark, death, fear, horror,
Form:
Blank verse
Thine Eldest Graduating Sharply Splendidly SupremelyInto Young Womanhood
this glorious role, sans
helping beget and nurture thine first born
three day shy of Christmas 1996,
fills thy being
with joie de vivre and doth add dorn
more resplendent than any horn
of...
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Categories:
splendidly, 12th grade, absence, daughter,
Form:
Elegy