Tomahawk Man

Edgar Allan Poe – Image From Pinterest

 

(Regarding Edgar Allan Poe)

 

brooding themes settle

in deep raven inkpots

then spill themselves

rashly on Turkish ambitions

macabre in their telling

morality plays

to the unhearing ears

of beloved young

saltwater tombs

with a bellringer’s voice

degraded through time

beneath rising irony

scathed by vile anecdotes

swarming with rumors

of deviancy finding vent

within acid critiques

until conquered by death

when a rescuing worm

slithered up and devoured

the angelus chorus of

bronze tintinnabulum

 

 

From my books Bohemian Scents and Legacies (vol. 1)