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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"},{"sf1_id":1722655,"sf2_id":"0mvZ4jmv","title":"Ragnarok - XXVII","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"Somewhere it was autumn. On the shore\n\nWind-kissed and smelling of soft salt there stood\n\nBut three alone. The sighing pines atop\n\nThe dunes were the last trees to wear their leaves.\n\nSomewhere it was evening. Heavy clouds\n\nWere crimson painted...","words":1531,"posted_at":"2021-05-27T18:11:00.000Z","tags":["Epic","Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1722655-ragnarok-xxvii","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/0mvZ4jmv","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/bd/83/bd839fc3-75ab-4245-9a61-6e1cfa2d8634"},{"sf1_id":1718548,"sf2_id":"J1Ogv41j","title":"Ragnarok - XV","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"As haloed patriarchs, hewn from the stone\n\nAtop the arches, mid the cornices\n\nWhere gargoyles grimace at the bitter taste\n\nOf dusty rainwater, watch heretics\n\nSelf-excommunicated all depart,\n\nStoic, still militant, and stony-faced\n\nShed not one tear,...","words":2180,"posted_at":"2021-05-15T17:54:00.000Z","tags":["Epic","Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1718548-ragnarok-xv","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/J1Ogv41j","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/15/44/1544f937-72cf-4464-81a1-90c5bfcdd6b2"},{"sf1_id":1714717,"sf2_id":"q1xYM9e0","title":"Ragnarok - V","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"\"Before the sun had crossed the pinnacle\n\nOf hours upon the sky's superior side\n\nAnd any nightward momentum had gained,\n\nThe hall was emptying. The Old Man's words\n\nReverberated still between hard stone\n\nReproachful more the longer that we stayed.\n\nOur...","words":1766,"posted_at":"2021-05-05T16:36:00.000Z","tags":["Epic","Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1714717-ragnarok-v","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/q1xYM9e0","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/c2/ab/c2abd986-325d-49cd-bbfc-dd2e1e985b4f"}]