I sing a song to the silent ones
that will not say their name,
Who hide and slither as woebegones,
the mute, the bent, the lame,
The ghoulish horde of just-out-of-sight,
the fly-by-nights, the shades,
The wights that wither in full daylight
and haunt life’s Everglades.
I keep as secret these silent wraiths
that flit from rock to tree,
In fear of curses and “by-my-faiths”
that would be spent on me;
For these are goblins that haunt my eyes,
in cloaks of shadow clad,
To solid townspeople they’d be lies…
they’d say that I was mad!
Author notes
Options 2 and 6
In a list
A contest entry
- Fear - Options Contest!! by BeautifullyBroken42.
300 points, ended April 4, 2008, 14 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Get Gold This Time For Your Rhyme by piccola.
400 points, ended April 22, 2008, 14 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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I love this although I have no idea what it is about. The rhyme and flow are really good in my opinion and your vocabulary is to be commended. Thank you for entering.
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Thank you.
Sometimes a poem isn't precisely "about" anything, but just tries to capture a mood. In this one, there is something dark and a little sinister lurking in the mind of (possibly) a child, or someone who has not grown up, and it is something no one else can see...
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Hi, a great poem deserving of gold, all the best in the contest, Di
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Thanks Di. We'll see how it goes.
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Wonderful poem. Thank you for putting the options in your notes as some haven't. Anyways it rhymed great! I loved reading it!! thanks for entering!
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Thanks.
I thought I had better do that, because I had picked two of them in combination.
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I loved the way you bring us all back to our childhood, and the monsters that we faced.
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I'm glad you liked it.
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Compelling
Aaaah the pen that writes the voice of Mairi B. Great write as allways and just as compelling to read.
Bazza
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I love this poem, the imagery, the emotion and the meter (I am a great meter-fan, you know ?
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you are certainly clairvoyant, and your observations have nothing "mad" about them at all ... very little children who are still connected to the divine, do see fairies and all sorts of entities, and animals do as well ... I often watch my dogs barking against what seems invisible spirits attached to some people we meet in the forest ... I can already tell from a certain distance if it's going to happen ... (just sensing the energy of the person) ...
since most "normal" people prefer not to have access to those intuitive qualities within them, listening to the mind rather than to their guts, and just believing what they see and hear with their physical senses, someone who uses his/her subtle senses will pass easily as "luney" ...
no worries, once the "solid townspeople" melt, they'll understand ...
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Perhaps this is why we become poets. The line between poetry and prophecy, between the poet and the seer, is a very thin one. It is a matter of reminding those who cannot see beyond the mundane that things may be more than the sum of their parts.
Or it might simply be fun.
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That is FANTASTIC
It is all in the mind
WONDERFUL
Have as many bunnies as a Bun-O-Vac3000 can extract in half an hour's work in a carrot patch!
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But IS it all in the mind, eh?
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how can you tell?
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That's a secret.
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