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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":1766517,"sf2_id":"q1xYQ2e0","title":"Rust River Valley Rail Crossing Three, Pop. 527","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"From the valley they say you are going\n\nI can see why you would. And I know\n\nAs the slow grinding years\n\nGrind the hills into tears\n\nEach year grinds a little more slow.\n\n  \n\nFrom this valley they say you are going.\n\nFrom this hopeless collection of...","words":234,"posted_at":"2021-09-23T18:39:00.000Z","tags":["Folk Song","Poetry","lyric"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1766517-rust-river-valley-rail-crossing-three-pop-527","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/q1xYQ2e0","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/e2/fd/e2fd9b5b-204d-4ee7-a586-3a165c48fe20"},{"sf1_id":1705582,"sf2_id":"pnGaZMey","title":"Autumn Interrupts","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"It's easy to forget what autumn means  \nIn tired lands of sun-stuffed tedium;  \nAssassin breeze the blackfly never weans,  \nThe forecast is extremely medium.  \nIt's easy to forget those ragged skies  \nCrushed, throttled, splintered by the frigid light ...","words":276,"posted_at":"2021-04-11T17:22:00.000Z","tags":["Horror","Limerick","Poetry","sonnet"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1705582-autumn-interrupts","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/pnGaZMey","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/6c/e1/6ce1c7d0-6be8-4f2a-9f54-978c47236339"},{"sf1_id":1696908,"sf2_id":"J1Ogak1j","title":"And I Shall Rest","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"Sun going down. And I am far from home.  \nSun going down. And I'm out there alone.  \nOn the roads, I'm one more weary soul  \nSearching for some place where I'll be whole.\n\nWith my loaded backbone bending  \nAnd the pain jolts up my arm.  \nI will reach...","words":245,"posted_at":"2021-03-18T20:51:00.000Z","tags":["Hymn","Poetry","lyric"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1696908-and-i-shall-rest","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/J1Ogak1j","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/4b/eb/4beb4b61-8f60-4837-b818-dcc7bceb6c83"},{"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":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":1705589,"sf2_id":"V1YGdvmD","title":"Ballade of Three Birds","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"The morning miles of liquid cold that hang between the spheres  \nWill bear you up forever, but will not veil your eyes.  \nThe clear wind and the clouded and the misted wind that mirrors  \nWill show you every corner of the old hills that they clean. ...","words":308,"posted_at":"2021-04-11T17:28:00.000Z","tags":["Ballade","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1705589-ballade-of-three-birds","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/V1YGdvmD","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/0f/7a/0f7a0756-54a8-4bef-9a69-cc1fae20fc2e"},{"sf1_id":1695969,"sf2_id":"qmyKxK1B","title":"Maybe All Confessional Essays Should Be Written In Blank Verse","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"This started as a question, in my head.\n\nWhy can I not write love a happy end?\n\nWhy, when I try, must I write mourning, loss,\n\nBereavement and the need for elegy?\n\nI write unto my husband, whom I love,\n\nAnd it becomes a prayer for his soul.\n\nI write...","words":585,"posted_at":"2021-03-15T21:19:00.000Z","tags":["Autobiographical","Gay","Poetry","blank verse"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1695969-maybe-all-confessional-essays-should-be-written-in-blank-verse","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/qmyKxK1B","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/bc/a2/bca27291-c022-47a8-b65d-e1fb0450ab6e"},{"sf1_id":1919152,"sf2_id":"znJrJQnk","title":"Haiku on the Collapse","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"Fiddling while Rome burns,  \nIf a fiddle's all you have,  \nIs hardly a sin.\n\n  \n  \n\n","words":14,"posted_at":"2022-11-11T22:03:00.000Z","tags":["Poetry","haiku"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1919152-haiku-on-the-collapse","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/znJrJQnk","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/ca/7e/ca7e3761-7354-446f-bda3-1779898fc76c"},{"sf1_id":1701085,"sf2_id":"B1QKBzmj","title":"(Scene, An Room Within ye Strongehold of the Pyrate Lord O’Donnel.)","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"(Enter James McCloud, and Wolf O'Donnell. They bring with them Richard and Robin, bound and gagged.)  \nWolf: I had hoped to escape affairs of state!\n\n  \n\nJames: For you and I to scape them, so must they\n\nAt least a little while. This dismal cell\n\nMust...","words":685,"posted_at":"2021-03-30T17:23:00.000Z","tags":["Gay","Iambic pentameter","M/M","Poetry","Robin Hood","Shakespeare","Starfox","blank verse","play"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1701085-scene-an-room-within-ye-strongehold-of-the-pyrate-lord-o-donnel","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/B1QKBzmj","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/57/69/57699f89-a0ca-426e-aa3b-2899f578b177"},{"sf1_id":1702497,"sf2_id":"0mvZp0mv","title":"Maybe Stop Telling This Man What He Wants","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"\"Man wants but little here below\n\nNor wants that little long.\"\n\nHow often hath that platitude\n\nBeen strangled into song?\n\nBy men who do not want, but have\n\nTheir little and their more.\n\nIn rhymes perforce, in meter bad,\n\nThey serve it to the poor.\n\n ...","words":151,"posted_at":"2021-04-03T05:34:00.000Z","tags":["Poetry","Quatrains","lyric"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1702497-maybe-stop-telling-this-man-what-he-wants","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/0mvZp0mv","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/68/24/6824cf2f-e5b3-46de-99f7-694ce762f70f"},{"sf1_id":2011678,"sf2_id":"Welbobnx","title":"Afterword by Ted V.","author":"Rob MacWolf","summary":"Some say it was all folklore, of the sort civilizations\n\nWill sprout like fungus from the leaking seams as they grow senile.\n\nThat those who live like wolves among the ruins may find comfort\n\nIn tales that make the wolves out in the wastelands to seem...","words":229,"posted_at":"2023-06-27T17:30:00.000Z","tags":["Afterword","Paeonic Tetrameter","Poetry","Werewolf"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/2011678-afterword-by-ted-v","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/Welbobnx","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/76/f7/76f7365c-9a38-427c-a2cc-5fb344ff84ca"}]