Start with first verse
Then it was the black
Raven of Death
Come to steal poor Poe away
Downwards spiraling
In a jumble of life events
Towards a bleak fate
Bouncing off hells’s door
Ascending upwards
His pen dropped from his hand
Descending listless
Back down to Earth.
Suddenly the bright
Expanse of heaven overwhelmed the humble poet
Breathtaking endliness
Engulfed and challenged his
Most creative work
For he had spent his life trying to promote this place and the pathway leading here.
Peace overwhelmed him for the first time ever he could remember
For life had been a dark struggle for Poe.
His assignment was to return and mentor poets famous or not and with his pen, move theirs
That they might touch others to follow as he.
Tom Tenbrunsel
Carl Sandburg Poet 2023
Author’s Note: Poe and others are amongst us. Poems and poets are forever. Poetic history awaits in the the ether. Surrounded and supported by poet giants and influenced by the spirit writer, we must write. Write! Write everyday! Write right?
*I changed the title 10/25/24 from THE RETURN OF POE
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