The Midnight Hour
She is coming for me...68 total reviews
Comment from Tomes Johnston
This is yet another fantastic poem that the author has created with this piece of work. I thought I caught hints of Edgar Allan Poe long before I heard mention of Lenore or the great poet's name. Well done yet again.
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This is yet another fantastic poem that the author has created with this piece of work. I thought I caught hints of Edgar Allan Poe long before I heard mention of Lenore or the great poet's name. Well done yet again.
Comment Written 23-Sep-2014
Comment from Pearl Edwards
Dean you do these so well and this is certainly no exception. I'm up early with my cup of tea because night woes were keeping me awake and this one has bought a smile to my face. Great read, great entertainment, and interesting author notes.
valda
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Dean you do these so well and this is certainly no exception. I'm up early with my cup of tea because night woes were keeping me awake and this one has bought a smile to my face. Great read, great entertainment, and interesting author notes.
valda
Comment Written 23-Sep-2014
Comment from Muffins
Thanks for the extra credit information about Poe. I read theories about how he died( voter resignation), but not so much about him having mental illness.
The pace, the groove, the rhymes are the boiling ingredients which give this poem a haunting texture. The illustrations, the expression on Poe's face makes one wonder if this was a mad genius with the ability to pour out his sickness on paper. Great poem
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Thanks for the extra credit information about Poe. I read theories about how he died( voter resignation), but not so much about him having mental illness.
The pace, the groove, the rhymes are the boiling ingredients which give this poem a haunting texture. The illustrations, the expression on Poe's face makes one wonder if this was a mad genius with the ability to pour out his sickness on paper. Great poem
Comment Written 23-Sep-2014
Comment from amahra
Thank you for your author notes and for the Poe history lesson. The poem was awesome to say the least. But than all of your poems and writings are awesome. Your rhyming is amazing and your rhythm was 'spot on'. Loved the art work of Poe. There are many people who are fascinated by the darkness of worlds. I don't think they're all insane.
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Thank you for your author notes and for the Poe history lesson. The poem was awesome to say the least. But than all of your poems and writings are awesome. Your rhyming is amazing and your rhythm was 'spot on'. Loved the art work of Poe. There are many people who are fascinated by the darkness of worlds. I don't think they're all insane.
Comment Written 23-Sep-2014
Comment from Robin Gilmor
A wonderful writing Dean. Clear, rhythmic and concise of Poe and his writings.
When I studied Poe at Johns Hopkins, cooping was strongly emphasized along with his drinking and declining health do to the drinking. Drinking from grief added reason to his alcoholism. A true pleasure to read and enjoy.
Smiles, Robin :)
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A wonderful writing Dean. Clear, rhythmic and concise of Poe and his writings.
When I studied Poe at Johns Hopkins, cooping was strongly emphasized along with his drinking and declining health do to the drinking. Drinking from grief added reason to his alcoholism. A true pleasure to read and enjoy.
Smiles, Robin :)
Comment Written 23-Sep-2014
Comment from Acquired Taste
Insane? I think not - if you used the same criteria to condemn Poe, you could add eight or ten Congressional members to the list.
Great poem Dean, and the phrase: She entered in, a vaporous spin upon the wooden floor - is so visual introducing Lenore and is but one phrase among many that make this an inspired read.
Edgar now touches and encourages those that showcase his too often overlooked talent. just my thoughts...Jean
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Insane? I think not - if you used the same criteria to condemn Poe, you could add eight or ten Congressional members to the list.
Great poem Dean, and the phrase: She entered in, a vaporous spin upon the wooden floor - is so visual introducing Lenore and is but one phrase among many that make this an inspired read.
Edgar now touches and encourages those that showcase his too often overlooked talent. just my thoughts...Jean
Comment Written 23-Sep-2014
Comment from faragon
Great poem! I always love it when you write about my favorite author of all time - Poe! You do him great justice with your words. It is almost as if you have channeled his spirit!
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Great poem! I always love it when you write about my favorite author of all time - Poe! You do him great justice with your words. It is almost as if you have channeled his spirit!
Comment Written 23-Sep-2014
Comment from ravenblack
excellent take on Poe' s muse being a grotesque premonition of his wife Viginia' s death in the guise of Lenore. Excellent rhythm and rhyme that really sets the mood. Lenore or the premonition of death a chilly breeze that becomes a wraith, his muse torment that kept him writing. You had me deep in your clutches until the seventh stanza. The introduction of Christ's blood into a poem depicting Poe in the act of creation feels more like an authorial intrusion than Poe' s actual character.
reply by the author on 23-Sep-2014
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excellent take on Poe' s muse being a grotesque premonition of his wife Viginia' s death in the guise of Lenore. Excellent rhythm and rhyme that really sets the mood. Lenore or the premonition of death a chilly breeze that becomes a wraith, his muse torment that kept him writing. You had me deep in your clutches until the seventh stanza. The introduction of Christ's blood into a poem depicting Poe in the act of creation feels more like an authorial intrusion than Poe' s actual character.
Comment Written 22-Sep-2014
reply by the author on 23-Sep-2014
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Thanks for your review, Ed. I have made some edits, my "plan 2" if you will, as I inserted two other lines I had readied if anyone commented or objected about the use of God, or Christ's blood, in the poem.
I had my doubts about those two lines myself, obviously. That's why I had plan two ready to go.
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I don't object at all other than it just does not sound natural in conjunction with Poe. Heading back to read it now.
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Much better particularly now as it reinforces his writing feeding off of him.
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I suppose I should have stuck with plan "B" then. :}
Comment from Father Flaps
Wow! This is some poem, Dean. And so much information in your author notes as well. I imagine Poe is one of your favourite authors. Well done!
Terrific presentation, as usual. The imagery will give me nightmares. I have had bad dreams... falling into them... and I've had to force myself awake. They leave my heart pumping and body sweating. As your Poe does here, I have done the very same thing. I've called upon Jesus to free me just before I wake up,
""Lenore, my dear, please go from here, although I loved you once,
take all the dead back to their bed, leave me, you abhorrence!
In God's name I thus proclaim, I be forever freed from you.
Back to your graves, you wretched knaves. I care not what you do.""
Your tale is well-written. I don't see many improvements that can be made.
"Each word was laced by one embraced by forces none could see."... (To avoid using "by" twice, I suggest
Each word was laced by one embraced with forces none could see.)
"Hell's minions can't express opinions, their will has been removed." ...(I like the pairing of "minions/opinions", but I suggest,
Hell's minions can't express opinions when will is removed.)
"hellspawn followed -- he hard swallowed -- as soon came many more." ...(I suggest, to avoid forced rhyme,
hellspawn followed -- hard he swallowed -- as soon came many more.)
Nicely penned!
your fan,
Kimbob
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Wow! This is some poem, Dean. And so much information in your author notes as well. I imagine Poe is one of your favourite authors. Well done!
Terrific presentation, as usual. The imagery will give me nightmares. I have had bad dreams... falling into them... and I've had to force myself awake. They leave my heart pumping and body sweating. As your Poe does here, I have done the very same thing. I've called upon Jesus to free me just before I wake up,
""Lenore, my dear, please go from here, although I loved you once,
take all the dead back to their bed, leave me, you abhorrence!
In God's name I thus proclaim, I be forever freed from you.
Back to your graves, you wretched knaves. I care not what you do.""
Your tale is well-written. I don't see many improvements that can be made.
"Each word was laced by one embraced by forces none could see."... (To avoid using "by" twice, I suggest
Each word was laced by one embraced with forces none could see.)
"Hell's minions can't express opinions, their will has been removed." ...(I like the pairing of "minions/opinions", but I suggest,
Hell's minions can't express opinions when will is removed.)
"hellspawn followed -- he hard swallowed -- as soon came many more." ...(I suggest, to avoid forced rhyme,
hellspawn followed -- hard he swallowed -- as soon came many more.)
Nicely penned!
your fan,
Kimbob
Comment Written 22-Sep-2014
Comment from Caressa_08
Definitely a virtual six for this masterpiece about Edgar Allen Poe...And how in his real life, there seem to be so many hauntings & his own demons that he had to contend with & that of an ailing wife, & then for her to die of TB...It brings back memories, as my grandfather passed when I was about 4....He had tuberculosis & was confined to a special home for those afflicted & did die from this lung disease....Quite the caricatures of Poe holding a feather quill pen & at the end, holding a candle.
Caressa
reply by the author on 22-Sep-2014
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Definitely a virtual six for this masterpiece about Edgar Allen Poe...And how in his real life, there seem to be so many hauntings & his own demons that he had to contend with & that of an ailing wife, & then for her to die of TB...It brings back memories, as my grandfather passed when I was about 4....He had tuberculosis & was confined to a special home for those afflicted & did die from this lung disease....Quite the caricatures of Poe holding a feather quill pen & at the end, holding a candle.
Caressa
Comment Written 22-Sep-2014
reply by the author on 22-Sep-2014
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Thanks so much for your kind comments, Caressa. I really appreciate you sharing your story and thoughts with me about it.
Much appreciated. :}