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  May 2023     1 month ago

Submitted Poems 14 total

The Vigil

No wind stirred the skeletal branches that night, or the ground fog that lay in the hollow,
And wither the leprous full moon spilled her light, did a murder of shadows there follow,
Stumps of old marble and granite forgotten,
Broken, and layered...

by MJM Wagner

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The Land of Mist

I once forsook the sun and moon, and sought the land of mist,
Enchanted twice by Hermes’ boon, and by the naiads kissed.
Across the opalescent sea, and o’re those mountains high,
Where dreamers dare not wander free, and Elohim won’t fly,
I found...

by MJM Wagner

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Serenity

Fern and moss and lichens green,
Gilded in a sun bright beam,
Fairy gold and emeralds gleam,
Along the wooded way.

Twilight under brilliant blue,
Mortal cares in here are few,
Only one, I would that you,
Were with me here this day.

Out...

by MJM Wagner

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The Well of Night, Part 2

A vivid vision came of elder days,
When next I fast and deeply dreaming lay,
A city built by men, and looming o’er,
A pillared temple on a lofty tor,
And there within that thing I did behold,
That door to death and endless darkness cold,

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by MJM Wagner

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The Well of Night, Part4

In space and time, by cryptic forces bound,
As often lost or hid but always found,
By many names announced in many lands,
The Stone of Erech, Hell’s Gate, Loki’s Hand,
The Eye of Dread Anubis, Merlin’s Door,
The Bridge of Fear, it was in arcane...

by MJM Wagner

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I am sorry to say there is a typo in this version: "Of silver lanterns" in the first stanza should be "Or silver lanterns".

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I love this one.

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