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It seems I must live on.  \nHow long until I can no...","words":226,"posted_at":"2026-01-11T04:46:43.000Z","tags":["PetDeath","ballade","epitaph","lyric","memorial","poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/nrXAyrre-memorial-ballade-for-west","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/nrXAyrre","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=\u0026ext=.jpg"},{"sf1_id":null,"sf2_id":"k1V9BAWn","title":"To the Last Memory of John and Syd","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"Dearly beloved, we gather here,\n\nWhere gatherings are forbid,\n\nThough never a grave will either have,\n\nNor coffin, nay, nor lid,\n\nTo drink, at least, the last memory\n\nTo John, and his Dear Friend Syd.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nJohn was a terror and reprobate\n\nWho blew...","words":2654,"posted_at":"2025-04-19T19:21:54.000Z","tags":["M/M","Poem","ballad","crimes","gay","lyric"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/k1V9BAWn-to-the-last-memory-of-john-and-syd","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/k1V9BAWn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/2a/a3/2aa31c4f-c38a-494b-a128-775c7517b892"},{"sf1_id":1695983,"sf2_id":"rnapVZmb","title":"This Poem Is Haunted","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"This is the house that he built out of breath.  \nThat was his living. This is his death.  \nThese are his clothes, though he needs them no more.  \nThose were his shoes, left outside the door.  \nThese are peeled grapes, but pretend they're his...","words":130,"posted_at":"2021-03-15T21:47:00.000Z","tags":["Couplets","Horror","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1695983-this-poem-is-haunted","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/rnapVZmb","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/1f/09/1f090f8c-b5c0-402f-a83a-456fde4c0cb6"},{"sf1_id":2062141,"sf2_id":"3eg9PwnY","title":"A Lesson in Hauntings","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"\"So I s'pose I can take it fer granted that y'all're interested in ghosts?\" Eli faced away from the group. The flashlight in his paw illuminated nothing but the dust of what had once been the town of Bitter Sands.  \n\"Who else,\" Ben said, \"signs up for...","words":4611,"posted_at":"2023-10-19T14:55:00.000Z","tags":["Bobcat","Ghost","Ghost Town","Ghost of dog","Halloween","Horror","Skink","Voice of dog","jackrabbit","roadrunner"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2062141-a-lesson-in-hauntings","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/3eg9PwnY","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/e6/41/e6418433-f817-40cc-a9f4-bdb8b4417b75"},{"sf1_id":null,"sf2_id":"14D483Q1","title":"Redacted Ballade","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"Once there was a pharaoh heir  \nIn Egypt-land, as preachers sing,  \nWho thought it really wasn’t fair  \nTo praise his aunt for anything.  \nThough swift and sharp may chisels ring,  \nHatshepsut’s name continueth  \nStill heard. She still remains a king. ...","words":170,"posted_at":"2026-01-29T05:47:53.000Z","tags":["ballade","lyric","poetry","puzzle","redaction"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/14D483Q1-redacted-ballade","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/14D483Q1","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=\u0026ext=.jpg"},{"sf1_id":2060467,"sf2_id":"zeRO6Jm7","title":"Solar Eclipse, Saturday October Tenth","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"The light has turned the color of the shadows on his jawline,\n\nThe color of the scent of fur and stubble on his jawline.\n\nAnd I? I can do nothing. This is happening regardless\n\nOf anything my will could try to do but won't attempt to.\n\nHis shadow fills...","words":216,"posted_at":"2023-10-14T16:45:00.000Z","tags":["Gay","M/M","Oral","Paeonic Tetrameter","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2060467-solar-eclipse-saturday-october-tenth","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/zeRO6Jm7","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/09/8b/098b0ce4-3e85-4c91-93fb-b993ee7585c1"},{"sf1_id":1779591,"sf2_id":"qmyK5a1B","title":"And the Chunnering Wyrm Doth Chide","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"Well, it's a complicated story.\n\nThis was a few years back, by now. I was trying to get up toward St. Arringer's, I'd had a message from a cousin there was work to be had. So I was catching long distance busses when I could afford em and hitchhiking...","words":2561,"posted_at":"2021-10-29T19:15:00.000Z","tags":["Bison","Bobcat","Crow","Ghost","Horror","Skunk","Wolf"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1779591-and-the-chunnering-wyrm-doth-chide","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/qmyK5a1B","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/4a/fc/4afccfc1-c3ea-48ad-bb2c-f341737e17ef"},{"sf1_id":null,"sf2_id":"q1xJj09m","title":"\"I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger,\" Mistolinic Text","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"I am a poor wayfaring stranger\n\nTraveling through this world of woe.\n\nBut there's no sickness, toil, or danger\u0026nbsp;\n\nIn that far land to which I go.\n\nI'm going there to see my father.\n\nSaid he would meet me when I come.\n\nI'm only going into the...","words":379,"posted_at":"2024-10-25T06:03:53.000Z","tags":[],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/q1xJj09m-i-am-a-poor-wayfaring-stranger-mistolinic-text","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/q1xJj09m","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/be/44/be44c609-2bc0-4de3-9ec7-846ca4578eb1"},{"sf1_id":1757684,"sf2_id":"dePYNkma","title":"Blank Verse Essay On the Treachery of Hope","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"You must learn how to live and not to hope\n\nFor hope will be a luxury ere long.\n\nFor hope can be both manacle and chain.\n\nFor hope can keep you too spellbound to run\n\nUntil the waters rise too high, and boil.\n\nYou would not be the first. In ages...","words":671,"posted_at":"2021-08-29T07:54:00.000Z","tags":["Iambic pentameter","LGBTQ","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1757684-blank-verse-essay-on-the-treachery-of-hope","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/dePYNkma","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/d8/c7/d8c7ce52-f25d-416e-b142-caece29ddad4"},{"sf1_id":1695980,"sf2_id":"beblLWnA","title":"I Ask Myself How Is It I Have Come","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"I ask myself, how is it I have come,\n\nStill so far from the sunset of my days,\n\n(I pray tis not yet sunset on my days)\u0026nbsp;\n\nUnto some chamber in the maze of life\n\nWhere it is possible to hear you say\n\n'I miss you' and 'I feel your absence in\n\nThe...","words":762,"posted_at":"2021-03-15T21:37:00.000Z","tags":["Autobiographical","Gay","Poetry","Romance","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1695980-i-ask-myself-how-is-it-i-have-come","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/beblLWnA","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/d0/ff/d0ff013a-071c-4114-b04d-327ff99449b1"},{"sf1_id":1739353,"sf2_id":"YnLNMReL","title":"Either Your God Hates Me Or Your Religion Doesn't Work","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"If you are queer, and still hold to some faith\n\nOf whatsoever christian sect, then I\n\nHave no desire to undermine with doubt\n\nWhat must remain a precious source of strength,\n\nAnd must have been most difficult to keep.\n\nSo please do not regard what I...","words":763,"posted_at":"2021-07-11T20:30:00.000Z","tags":["Gay","Iambic pentameter","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1739353-either-your-god-hates-me-or-your-religion-doesn-t-work","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/YnLNMReL","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/d8/75/d8759be8-2658-4988-9ded-bee2f0178b83"}]