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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
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0 posted 2019-10-12 09:31 PM



All Hallows Eve


The dark pressing in on all sides,
Where deathless agony resides.
A shadow steps forth, steeped in need,
To write name in forsaken deed.

The realm of days bitterly passed—
Firmament permanently cast;
I lift up my scarred eyes to share
Wholly unforgotten despair.

Where once I waivered, now I stand;
My Book of the Damned well in hand.
Where once I faltered, now shoot straight
With no life left to contemplate.

Where once I rushed in, take my time.
Impatience after all, a crime;
And gift forth a soul rattling growl—
Lift to the moon a longing howl.

The tethers of preordained fate,
The scars of seeing them too late
But reminders of where I’ve been—
Will never ever stand again!

In blackness now become my bliss,
In soul offered to the abyss—
All my failures of faith and feat.
I ask you now, friend, trick or treat?


Michael Anderson

10/12/2019

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augustsky
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Posts 828
midwest US
1 posted 2019-10-14 03:29 PM


RE:last line, I'll take a little of both.
This was Deliciously Dark Poet Michael

Sky~

A Poem Begins as a
Lump in the Throat,
A Sense of Wrong,
A Home-Sickness,
A Love-Sickness.


~Robert Frost

Sunshine
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since 1999-06-25
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Listening to every heart
2 posted 2019-10-15 06:10 AM


Ah, my poet...you rattle the bones of the past with such feeling. Delicious...
Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
3 posted 2019-10-18 07:59 AM


This was a dark treat! Like dark chocolate, only without the calories! Your ending is perfection. ~L
Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04
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Texas, USA
4 posted 2019-10-18 02:21 PM


I like the dark edge to this one.  I'm glad I wandered back to look at the site after all these years.  I would have missed this otherwise.
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