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Premium Member Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part One
Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part One)

As the Raven cross into the dark pits
Those in torment went into heaving fits
Its shrieking calls, alarms even...

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Categories: raven, dark, death, evil, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member To a Raven
Fearless Raven, soaring in
the rich, dark chasm—
that world of shadows, echoes,
cliffs and crags chaotic,
the void of subtle stirrings in
a quintessential midnight—
Make some room for me
on...

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© Carol Mays  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: raven, angst, bird, fantasy, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Bloodstone, the Raven and Master Poe, Part One of Three
The Bloodstone, The Raven And Master Poe,
Part One


The ancient stone, here Raven bled
Cursed and flew away alone
To follow the dark and make its night-bed
Unholy accursed...

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Categories: raven, art, dark, evil, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Raven Speak Not To Me, For a Plague Flees Thy Lips
Raven Speak Not To Me, For A Plague Flees Thy Lips

Sadness came, in clumps of ripping hard, smashing waves
as if morbid thoughts could such sorrows...

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Categories: raven, dark, evil, fantasy, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Raven Dreams
I flew alone in the white winter night
Cold winds and ice deep within my weary fright
In the night my mind in the darkest of dark
Death...

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Categories: raven, angel, beautiful, funeral, grave,
Form: Free verse



Golden Raven
I was on a plantain branch
Cra cra… Cra cra.. Craa..
She put her bangles on a rock
Glimpse of gold, shined my eyes
I took it and flew...

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Categories: bird, raven,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Raven
black feathers take wing
to a white moon on the rise ...
there you are again




3/16/2022

(used howmanysyllables.com)...

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Categories: raven, bird, color, dark, lost,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss Collaboration With Kurt Ravidas
Dancing In Horror With Fate In Blackest Abyss
Collaboration with Kurt Ravidas

I walk mountain storm, step out to cut deep its edge
forever tempting that fall from...

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Categories: raven, art, dark, evil, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
The Raving
From 2010. Narrator is Robert Gibbs, snooty White House Press Secretary.

Lay, O Lord, a curse on press men, rude and churlish, sad, obsessed men 
Who...

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Categories: hip hop, parody, raven,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Hunt
Form = Free Range Verse

The Hunt

Mans desire to hunt
Testing skills from the beginning of time
I had outfitted myself the day before
With camouflage, and all the...

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Categories: raven, animal, humorous, imagination, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Forbidden Castle
Crows gather around the mysterious, abandoned castle, 
Its bastions and towers drowning within a mournful silence. 
Ghostly shadows loom within the dungeons and the murder...

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Categories: raven, adventure, conflict, corruption, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holly
As she walked across the sand,
receding waves made graffiti
out of the footsteps of a Valkyrie.
An ocean’s city let go of her hand
as we passed under...

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Categories: raven, first love, lost love,
Form: Narrative
Transition To Death - Part I
Visions of a life unseen,
Moments that vanish before thee,
Life progresses and I'm left behind,
Death a transition of life foreseen.

Today you're here,
Tomorrow never seems to be,
Instances...

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Categories: raven, absence, anger, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Edge of Night
The dark caress of ravens flight
  Graze the tips of distant clouds
 Where moonbeams touch the edge of night
 And mystery slips behind a...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: moon, night, raven,
Form: Rhyme
Raven's Bones
Waterlilies brighten black
ripples, reeds, and rocks below.
An even flow, bane and blight
recedes to bare raven’s bones.

A grave of darkness blanches
In austere light on bloodless
banks, but...

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Categories: beauty, death, nature, raven,
Form: Englyn

Book: Shattered Sighs