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No thunder dares ring.\n\nNo winds howl. All is silence, save the sound\n\nOf distant trucks down on the interstate.\n\nI tell myself, pretend it is the sea\n\nThat all this rain, perhaps, will wash into.\n\nAnd I remain in silence. What must...","words":353,"posted_at":"2021-04-03T05:25:00.000Z","tags":["Autobiographical","Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1702496-eight-minutes-and-forty-six-seconds-on-june-twelfth-two-thousand-twenty","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/rn6zGRnv","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/2f/95/2f956bbe-112b-4489-85aa-03e10a511523"},{"sf1_id":1715138,"sf2_id":"yndQZP1a","title":"Ragnarok - VI","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"\"In coolness of that evening we stood guard\n\nAtop the knoll our mastery had turned\n\nTo barrow. As the hidden sun went down\n\nWe watched the pit as does a mongoose, for\n\nThe snout of the great serpent to appear.\n\nWhile there we watched we argued: How to...","words":1592,"posted_at":"2021-05-06T16:41:00.000Z","tags":["Epic","Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1715138-ragnarok-vi","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/yndQZP1a","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/a3/44/a34488b5-181c-47ee-acdc-f94c8d0e3dfb"},{"sf1_id":1743272,"sf2_id":"ynZPNMeY","title":"Portrait of a Lonely Wolf","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"For every day, somebody else has left.\n\nFor every day, another empty house.  \nFor every day is closer to the day  \nWhen he will be the only one still here.  \nThe only one to never find a way  \nTo any other place. His road goes but  \nIn circles. And he...","words":461,"posted_at":"2021-07-22T01:09:00.000Z","tags":["Fanfiction","Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse","echo","leo","sonnet"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1743272-portrait-of-a-lonely-wolf","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/ynZPNMeY","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/e2/79/e279b0cc-f3a2-4d00-ab6c-181b948d0a45"},{"sf1_id":1702500,"sf2_id":"P1EvjoeY","title":"Obituary Instructions","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"Do not call me an angel, when I'm gone.\n\nMourn me, revere me--or not, as you choose--  \nBut as the human person that I was.\n\n  \n\nAn angel is a pure celestial thing\n\nToo absolute and too ethereal\n\nFor earthly things like woe or weariness,\n\nFor home and...","words":546,"posted_at":"2021-04-03T05:37:00.000Z","tags":["Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1702500-obituary-instructions","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/P1EvjoeY","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/6c/3a/6c3ada3e-75b3-4eee-bee5-12119747213e"},{"sf1_id":2130059,"sf2_id":"Welb95nx","title":"The Heart Lies Only Once","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"I trust no more a promise made of words.  \nNot for the many vows long-proven false,  \nNot for the monkey's paw, its fingers crossed,  \nNot for the apathies of old lang syne.  \nThere's not a one of us has had no need  \nOf some dishonesties, just to...","words":159,"posted_at":"2024-04-27T20:54:34.000Z","tags":["Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2130059-the-heart-lies-only-once","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Welb95nx","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/20/7a/207ae99e-9e5c-4742-af1d-c164419af277"},{"sf1_id":1722725,"sf2_id":"rm8dAym0","title":"A Far Green Country","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"How often have I dreamed of such a place?\n\nHow often have I seen those emerald fields,\n\nAnd in that dream, forgotten that I dreamed,\n\nThat I would wake, had woken, and my life\n\nDissolved into a peaceful deja vu\n\nThat cannot be remembered? I can...","words":857,"posted_at":"2021-05-28T00:26:00.000Z","tags":["Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1722725-a-far-green-country","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/rm8dAym0","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/db/08/db08c750-5927-46a6-a491-b996f0403466"},{"sf1_id":1719955,"sf2_id":"RnoaqYeX","title":"Ghost of the Western Cretaceous Sea","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"You look around you and you see the peaks.\n\nYou see the pine heights and the softer trees\n\nThat flower on the lower, lesser steeps.\n\n  \n\nYou see the little rivers, shire-wise,\n\nThat gently carve the foothills. And the sweep\n\nAt last of desert floor....","words":364,"posted_at":"2021-05-20T00:47:00.000Z","tags":["Iambic pentameter","Poetry","Terza Rime"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1719955-ghost-of-the-western-cretaceous-sea","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/RnoaqYeX","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/e2/9c/e29ce574-ac8f-490b-9aa8-6aae2b79e187"},{"sf1_id":1713909,"sf2_id":"YnLNz3eL","title":"Ragnarok - III","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"\"These ruins have been empty for too long.\n\nThey ring no more with scarlet laughing flags.\n\nThey echo not the peal of sparring arms,\n\nNor cries of joyful brotherhood of war.\n\nThey were not always silent. Once they shone\n\nUndusty, undecrepit,...","words":1876,"posted_at":"2021-05-03T16:43:00.000Z","tags":["Epic","Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1713909-ragnarok-iii","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/YnLNz3eL","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/a9/7b/a97b1e70-7b5c-41b5-bc40-ce8b092dd160"},{"sf1_id":1713731,"sf2_id":"AnK8xV1E","title":"Ragnarok - II","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"The sun was gone. The only light that shone  \nWas a reflection off the fading sky,  \nYet faded not the gold out of the roof,  \nFor, at the touch of darkness, fireflies,  \nLit crisp like Christmas candles,  \nAppeared and turned the leaves to paper...","words":1486,"posted_at":"2021-05-03T05:45:00.000Z","tags":["Epic","Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1713731-ragnarok-ii","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/AnK8xV1E","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/4f/c6/4fc64513-09a6-4b35-8ee9-fba4ae92a7cd"},{"sf1_id":1883321,"sf2_id":"dmB6ZRm6","title":"Introduction to The Lone and Level Sands Stretch Far Away","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"We met two travelers to an antique land.\n\nAcross the haunted stars they came in search--\n\nWhile newly mated, newly hand in hand--\n\nOf shattered remnant visage in the dirt.\n\nThe one has eyes on knowledge and renown\n\nAnd seeks the truth whatever it may...","words":109,"posted_at":"2022-08-05T15:22:00.000Z","tags":["Iambic pentameter","Poetry","Voice of dog","sonnet"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1883321-introduction-to-the-lone-and-level-sands-stretch-far-away","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/dmB6ZRm6","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/03/d5/03d55d83-870b-45ee-9c70-92fdeac45286"},{"sf1_id":1702504,"sf2_id":"ZmM4LWep","title":"I Switch Off All The Lights","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"I switch off all the lights. Those that I love\n\nAre all abed, both in the other room\n\nAnd all across the city that I love.\n\nI see my way across the meagre room\n\nAnd to the too-tall curtains by the light\n\nOf thrift-store stained-glass lamp, by oven...","words":304,"posted_at":"2021-04-03T06:18:00.000Z","tags":["Autobiographical","Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1702504-i-switch-off-all-the-lights","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/ZmM4LWep","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/cd/b1/cdb12f75-75d9-43f7-a22b-77158edf181b"}]