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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"},{"sf1_id":967247,"sf2_id":"ynZZZJqn","title":"Sonnet 1","author":"TheKidsAreAllScared","summary":"In night, such longing times once warmed with lust\n\nThose hours in which I once would wish you near\n\nThis cold, it does betray my absent trust\n\nfor in your public presence I know fear\n\nYour blade, so cruel, these wounds unseen inside\n\nSo thus it is I...","words":121,"posted_at":"2016-02-20T23:40:00.000Z","tags":["Iambic pentameter","Poetry","Shakespearean","sonnet","writing"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/967247-sonnet-1","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/ynZZZJqn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/85/f3/85f3c49b-fe15-40fd-a227-54c4cad30c49"},{"sf1_id":2064989,"sf2_id":"J1Og9X1j","title":"Blank Verse Essay On The Futility of So-Called \"A.I.\" Art","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"My husband, sometimes, draws erotica,\n\nHe has for years. I'm sure you know the kind,\n\nA tiger man and husky man, perhaps,\n\nOr handsome fox and manly-smug raccoon,\n\nOr fatherly but dangerous wolf, in all\n\nThe situations that might give excuse\n\nFor them...","words":749,"posted_at":"2023-10-27T04:20:00.000Z","tags":["Blank verse essay","Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2064989-blank-verse-essay-on-the-futility-of-so-called-a-i-art","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/J1Og9X1j","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/8e/8b/8e8b1ac0-19e0-4429-81a5-b6aa612ce5ed"},{"sf1_id":1714337,"sf2_id":"dePYlYma","title":"Ragnarok - IV","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"The day was long departed, and the night\n\nWas coming to adulthood. Outside slept\n\nThe night breeze, snoring soft among the grass.\n\nInside, the boxer felt the darkness close\n\nAs if it were a change in temperature\n\nHe had not noticed. \"Hold on,\" he spoke...","words":1186,"posted_at":"2021-05-04T16:26:00.000Z","tags":["Epic","Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1714337-ragnarok-iv","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/dePYlYma","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/6b/06/6b068a7d-4b80-40a6-8cb5-ac708c62fe1b"},{"sf1_id":1751801,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Heraclitan Bird-Songs","author":"Corvid_Conquest","summary":" **Jisei-Sonnet** :\n\n_The Heraclitan Bird Prepares For Death_\n\nDenied by all, the black and cursèd bird\n\nEncased within the pang of pain and grieving,\n\nAnd painted with a crest that sang deceiving,\n\nDefied the world -\u0026nbsp;corrupting all they...","words":238,"posted_at":"2021-08-13T06:47:00.000Z","tags":["Acrostic","Bird","Death","Fire","Iambic","Jisei","Pentameter","Poem","Poetry","Raven","Resurrection","Rhyme","Verse","Volta","corvid","english","literature","lyric","sonnet","suffering"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1751801-heraclitan-bird-songs","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/1751801","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=1751801\u0026ext=.jpg"}]