I Do Not Fear A Season Without Hope

I do not fear a season without hope: Catastrophe upon catastrophe, When love is every day a little bit Made more a crime. When cruelty becomes The only virtue men know how to praise. When all but easy speeches are forbid To comfort cruel men. I...

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Ragnarok - I

Somewhere it was autumn, and the trees Hung undecided, torn between the fear Of concrete skies and black obsidian nights And clung to fading leaves, yet still they felt A dark desire to let the summer drop, To scatter to the wind their...

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Ragnarok - VII

"I died not," Varr breathed shallowly, "I woke Midmorning, by a gentle brook. How far I'd skirmished from satanic swamplands I Had no surmise. Three days I nursed my wounds, And then I took the mission meant for Luke, To warn the Old Man. As I...

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Maybe All Confessional Essays Should Be Written In Blank Verse

This started as a question, in my head. Why can I not write love a happy end? Why, when I try, must I write mourning, loss, Bereavement and the need for elegy? I write unto my husband, whom I love, And it becomes a prayer for his soul. I write...

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If you Want Something Done Right

Chuck laughed slightly when he found that as his own penis slid into the blank he started to see one forming where his hands teased the creature, though as he watched the maleness form from over the blank's shoulder his eyebrows rose slightly when he saw a

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Eight Minutes and Forty Six Seconds on June Twelfth, Two Thousand Twenty

The rain continues. No thunder dares ring. No winds howl. All is silence, save the sound Of distant trucks down on the interstate. I tell myself, pretend it is the sea That all this rain, perhaps, will wash into. And I remain in silence. What must...

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Afterschool Sorcery

blank verse 9 lines we would congregate at the back of the school building when all our classes where finished and the adults weren't watching and then we would design a pentagram on the floor as a precaution and proceed to conjure

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Blank Verse Experiments #1

#1 of blank verse experiments here is the first of what i intend to be a series of experiments in blank verse. this one is done in iambic decameter, which i had previously said incorrectly was pentameter.

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Ragnarok - VI

"In coolness of that evening we stood guard Atop the knoll our mastery had turned To barrow. As the hidden sun went down We watched the pit as does a mongoose, for The snout of the great serpent to appear. While there we watched we argued: How to...

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THE BLANK NOTEPAGE

It's called,the blank notepage."henry finished. "the blank notepage?"melissa said strange. "yes,it's where you're certain part of your mind is showing you.'your inner self wards,thing's that your mind says that will not show you but haunt you."

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Portrait of a Lonely Wolf

For every day, somebody else has left. For every day, another empty house. For every day is closer to the day When he will be the only one still here. The only one to never find a way To any other place. His road goes but In circles. And he...

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Blank Pages

#1 of blank pages **chapter 1** eridan's legs dangled from the roof of the local smithy as he enjoyed the piece of bread he had procured.

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