iron filings and decay
in my mouth
if there were a way
to revert this curse
just one cherry
would soothe my senses
and calm my soul
with its ambrosia
farewell to hope
and all things mortal
breakneck plunge into
the eye of the storm
Author notes
Alan Cahoon
A contest entry
- Publish your Poetry by LadyLeviathan.
700 points, ended August 15, 2007, 34 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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very dark and very good, please put your name or anonymous in the authors notes! thank you for your entry!
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Cool!
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Nice take on the mythology. It's always fun to figure out a new direction for vampire poetry, which usually tends to depends on cliche and trite image.
The sigle cherry at the center of the poem captures both the positive (life, taste, voluptuousness) and the negative (blood, loss, distance from life) that lie at the heart of the mythos.
Nicely done.
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