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Fear and Longing in Darkness
Night comes
again.
I welcome and fear it
for its embrace
protects me not
from unknown specters
and she will
leave me barren
at sunrise
again.
Night, day;
irrelevant.
Terror slinks in gloom
but agony bites blindly,
my heart
seized by dark claws
till I plead for night’s
sweet release.
Yeah but
with a flick of my finger
billions of subatomic particles
will rush to banish the dark
maybe it is the night
who should fear me.
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Written for imaginary garden with real toads Twitter Me a Gothic Poem, imagined By Magaly Guerrero. We were challenged to write a poem with three stanzas, each stanza not to exceed 140 characters (a basic tweet, if you will). The first two stanzas, or “tweets” would be in the voice of one of the thirteen selected gothic writers, as if they’re having a twitter conversation. The third stanza was to be my reply or commentary to thr first two. The catch is that the whole thing is supposed to read as one piece.
I chose Edgar Allen Poe (1st stanza) because his work influences me quite a bit, and I chose Sylvia Plath (2nd stanza) because I identify with how she described her lifelong battle with depression.
I gotta say, this was one heck of a prompt! It was more challenging than I anticipated, but I greatly enjoyed this one. Real Toads is quietly becoming the front page of my window to the internet. Thanks for all the wonderful prompts, and keep em coming!
Hephaestus’ Waste & Cosmic Rubble 
This is my favorite Kendrick Lamar song and the words, your words, exquisite, Barry.
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Thanks trE. This is my 2nd favorite K-Dot song. My favorite is “How Much a Dollar Cost”.
Later I found out that HMADC was Barack Obama’s favorite song of 2015/16, so I’m in good company!
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Haha! You are. 😊
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I chose Poe and Plath, too.
I found this SO hard.
I LOVE this:
“Terror slinks in gloom
but agony bites blindly”
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Thank you. It was challenging to me too, but still fun.
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I think you echoed their voices very well, and I love your breezy dismissal of both. It works beautifully as a whole.
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very cool ~
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Thank you.
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This is a feast of tones, and I love it. I am partial to Poe and Plath, so you’ve given me a treat. And your final stanza–the reality and fierceness of it–is pure delight!
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Thank you. It was challenging but fun to write.
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Wooo hoooo Plath going strong alright! This is incredibly penned 😀
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Thank you. 🙂
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Rocked the prompt…I’m not that familiar with Edgar but you nailed Sylvia’s voice and your own voice closed the deal.
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