Childhood Gothic Poems

Immortal lines of loss, immortal lines of tears,
I've lived in solitude these long dark, dreary years;
in childhood and in youth, I've been baptized by hell;
and...

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The melodic tinkle of the music box moved her.
She arose with her pretty tresses and floor length silk
toward the shadows that possess treasures of death.
Like...

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Me: "Bing, the intended rhyme scheme for the poem below is ABABAB; and I made additional changes in line 9 of the poem in order...

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I warned you about Mother telling her stories.
I warned you,
but you wouldn’t listen.

I warned you about the magic
of golem and djinn,
about lilac walks 
and mysterious...

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Long days gone hazy
Maybe due to my crazy
I see deep into my mind
Where nobody else will find
A place of memories gone so wild
Some are of...

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a deep chill delving
straight to bone
 
fragmented shadows become
full figures -
long and lithe,
strange and bulbous,
ever-morphing
and haunting the night
 
flick a light to be rid of...

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Big secrets, in rose tinted glass,
the grandeur of life just a mirrow view apart.
A sweet fragrance of falsehood guards the heart,
Beauty is at the price...

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Act Eight, Chapter One. Part Three
                Part of a grander...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Stressless and cheerful is the childhood ,
We had nothing to do but only to play  ,
Screams and laughs tastes of livelihood ,
For like glistening...

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This is a simple ode,
To a soap opera from some time ago.
It was called Dark Shadows.
And it’s still one of my favorite shows.

It aired from...

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I ask, at what cost?

Coiled beneath the leaves, nothing is seen of his reprieve.
The viper’s warning is curtailed.

Silently masked among the decay, a wooden shelter...

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My doll was gone
So pretty 
So pink
I cried
My doll was always with me by my side
The night was safe
With Dolly
 Beside

One day
I cried
No more doll
Bleeding...

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When I was a kid
I liked to skate fast
Not on frozen ice
But on roller skates
Down a great big hill

We were a group
Of skating kids
I...

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Tic Toc 
Tell tale signs
Dead angels counting time
The ballerina dancing inside
Her snow flake orb of light
Childhood dreams
Dancing in circles while screaming
Shatter me
Fragile notes upon the...

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