edgar allan poe
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by Edgar Allan Poe First published in The Flag of Our Union Publication date March 1849 Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow:You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision,…
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The ghost of Edgar Allan PoeVisits me in dreams.He does it to inspire me.At least that’s how it seems.I told him he inspired meFrom when I first picked up a pen.He apologized for GoldbugAnd then was gone again. To this day his words do echoIn my fertile ear.“I’m sorry it was racist.”A fault I find…
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First sonnet in quite awhile. It’s one of my better ones I think. I haven’t written sonnets in awhile. I just stepped out to see if I could breathe. I stopped but I ain’t really changed my style. The poetry abides and dwells in me. If you could feel it too, well then you’d get…