Alone
From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring.
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Transformation
Vampire’s penetrating crimson eyes, Look into your soul; see through your lies, Young boy gets bitten, then withers, then dies, Family grieving, their banshee-like cries.
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The Other Side of a Mirror
By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge I sat before my glass one day, And conjured up a vision bare, Unlike the aspects glad and gay, That erst were found reflected there - The vision of a woman, wild With...
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A Starless Night
Mist hung around the treetops, like a blanket in the night, Silent souls crept around the forest, listening out of sight, Empty eyes looked up from the river, and stared into the moon, And what once...
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The Listeners-Poem
This was my inspiration for the series I wrote :) THE LISTENERS By Walter de la Mare "Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed...
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The Raven
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one...
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A Vampire
It was beauty It was all of Nature's glory in one form But then, suddenly, I realized that it was all wrong This was darkness, not light And this form murdered innocents This thing melded with...
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Realms Of Pain
Slither, shiver, shedding snakes Manipulate the shadowy walls Where silhouetted angels fall Candlelit faces, haunting graces Heartbeats tempo - quiet and still Paralysed in echoed rooms...
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The Cats
Babels of blocks to the high heavens tow’ring, Flames of futility swirling below; Poisonous fungi in brick and stone flow’ring, Lanterns that shudder and death-lights that glow.
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