Whodunnits Poems | Examples

In a Dark Room With Edgar Allen Poe

I am in a dark room 
with Edgar Allen Poe,
there is a blank wall
turned into a movie screen,
showing his life story,
a struggle of his life without glory.

Living life as a writer with a lonely pen,
hiking up a strenuous and bumpy trail,
macabre poetry and short stories written,
fell upon few and most with blind eyes, 
as a poet and author he insisted to be read, 
unfortunately providing him meager bread. 

Dark shadows followed him wherever he went,
his essence  of a cloak and dagger existence, 
opening up a genre of mysteries and whodunnits,
known as the first writer of detective stories,
life was unforgiving for this enigma of a man,
he died at the age of forty not being his plan. 



February 4, 2018