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Dark Poetry
I thought I would start a thread about dark poetry. Ligotti has written some of my favorite prose poems: I Have a Special Plan for this World and the Notebook of the Night section in Noctuary. He has also been influenced by the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, and Joseph Payne Brennan, to name a few. Share whatever you like: an individual poem, an excerpt from a longer work, a recommendation for a book of poetry, etc. I will start with one we all know, The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Poe. This has been my favorite poem since I first read it in the fifth grade.
The Conqueror Worm Lo! 'tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble low, And hither and thither fly- Mere puppets they, who come and go At bidding of vast formless things That shift the scenery to and fro, Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Woe! That motley drama- oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased for evermore, By a crowd that seize it not, Through a circle that ever returneth in To the self-same spot, And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. But see, amid the mimic rout A crawling shape intrude! A blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude! It writhes!- it writhes!- with mortal pangs The mimes become its food, And seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued. Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm. | |||||||||||
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