|
This writing was accepted for publication in the 108 page perfect-bound ISSN# / ISBN# issue/book “Some Things Are Universal” Down in the Dirt v208 (6/23)  Order the paperback book: 
|
|
| |
Edgar Allan Poe
Susie Gharib
A man who sorrowed over his ordained future,
ill-fated from the moment of birth
to endure losses and the absolute absence of hope.
Delirious with the quest for the ideal,
he resorted to visionary daydreams,
standing on the threshold of the world of spirits.
He weaved stories that still haunt the imagination,
a gothic that ushered a new type of terror,
that of the soul.
The pallor of his sleeping beauties
surpasses that of the most ghastly phase
of an ailing moon,
women whose wills defy confinement,
phoenixes that need not burn their ashes
to be reborn.
His raven Nevermore shall sing a dirge
of the most macabre and melancholic note
for evermore.
