Dreaming I am Edgar Allen Poe, Again, Poetry by Mark Govier

Genre: Biography, Funny, Rhyme

Dreaming I am Edgar Allen Poe, Again….
by Mark Govier

Did you know/ could you know/ whoever you are…
through the mists and the cataracts/ the delusions of grandeur/
through the hours spent/ before an infinity of mirrors/
each mirror saying dead, dead, dead…
did you wonder/ was there anyone there/ to wonder…

In boundless solitude something is
sitting, sitting, sitting…
before the steady flame of an ancient lamp,
sitting sitting sitting…
before the steady lamp of an ancient flame,
sitting sitting sitting…
it has no core, it could never have a core,
it is that which it writes, the pen made flesh no less…
and that which it writes? Torture, endless torture…

In the backrooms of the imagination,
a living corpse croaks out a lump of noise…

I am dreaming, I am Edgar Allen Poe, again…

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