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Open Poetry #18

Nightmare Sonnet

Professor Gloom
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of Depression

0 posted 2002-02-09 08:38 AM

Rest within the land of dreaming nightmare,
Drift away to that dark being nowhere
A private existence that you can’t share,
Just closing your eyes and then you are there

An empty cave where he lays his head
The cold rocky floor is his feather bed,
Never listens because nothing is said
A mighty stone holds him as sleeping dead.

An single torment that is his to keep,
That reaches to touch during times of sleep,
Gone soundlessly and falls without a weep,
In darkness of spirit slowly will seep.

The morning returns as the day arrives,
T’is always a surprise that he survives.

Gloom

Poet deVine

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Hurricane Alley

1 posted 2002-02-09 08:41 AM

Excellently dark! I could hear it in my head being recited by Anthony Hopkins.

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

2 posted 2002-02-09 08:47 AM

Thank you, Poet deVine,
Is that whose voice that is?
I usually hear Vincent Price.
Glad my humble words pleased you.

Gloom

Poet deVine

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Hurricane Alley

3 posted 2002-02-09 08:49 AM

Actually my first thought was Vincent Price but I was sure you are too young to remember him!

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