Since people are on a poetry kick..

[Lord Khyron]

This is one of my poems, soon to be published once again. It's written in the style of a very famous poet who wrote like this. Props to anyone who figures it out.<p> <blockquote><p>The Face of Madness <p>[TAB][TAB][TAB]<br>The madness came<br>And the madness went,<br>As I sat there, alone and cold.<br>The terror was there, minus my sanity.<p>For as long as I can remember,<br>I was a successful author.<br>Driven to write powerful words,<br>Most of which were unknown to myself,<p>Words often did flow unceasingly,<br>In retrospect I should have seen,<br>The madness within my soul,<br>Also the amnesia, memories I could not recall. <p>His appearance I remember vividly.<br>Dark, overcast and misty the night was.<br>The very same night I retired as a writer.<br>Amidst realization of what I would write.<p>Moving from place to place,<br>Scared from home to home,<br>For my works were loved and hated.<br>Yet they haunted me, as did this wraith.<p>I ran miles upon miles, just to escape him.<br>Chased by a phantasm so haunting,<br>Shrouded in rags and unending darkness.<br>His presence, the very presence, made me tremble.<p>Far and wide, away from him I would flee,<br>Yet never could I escape my tormentor<br>Eerily he knew every move I made.<br>Waiting, always waiting he was for me.<p>Eventually my funds ran low and my choices were few.<br>Family I had none, where they had gone, I didn’t really care.<br>All I had left was the resolve to confront him<br>To find a cessation to my dilemma, ease for my soul.<p>Upon the roof I stood, perched on the edge of the bricks.<br>My back was turned to the distance.<br>Face filled with resolve and determination,<br>Yet the terror was too overwhelming and powerful.<p>Finally before me he stood, cloaked and mocking.<br>My insides were frozen with cold, my heart threatened to stop.<br>The hood drew back, the ghastly image revealed.<br>The tormentor revealed, my madness returned hundred fold.<p>Visions, hundreds of visions flashed in my mind.<br>Memories I had forgotten, people, places and pets.<br>Such a evil and heartless man I had become.<br>My work priority, my family second to me.<p>My children were gone, my wife long driven away.<br>They had been ignored, as I wrote my horrifying works.<br>I cared not what I wrote, or how many cried in anguish.<br>Horror and brutality, paranormal and evil, my only loves.<p>The pain in my heart grew too much to bear, the tears began to fall.<br>Backwards I stepped in horror, Struck with what I had become.<br>Down I fell, soon to smack into the stone so cold.<br>The phantasm was me! I had been running from myself.<p>[TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB]By: Lord Khyron<p></blockquote> <br><p>[size=small][Edit by Lord Khyron on [TIME]1115177372[/TIME]][/size]

[Starlight]

~0 <p>Wow. I'm... speechless. <p>I'm thinking your poem is similiar in style to Edgar Allen Poe?<p>Excellent work, LK. I'm impressed.

[Lord Khyron]

And the winner goes to Dreamer!<p>I find writing to mimic his style with free verse is better than rhyming.<p>This style of poetry is somewhat fun.

[Starlight]

ha ha ha. Funny. %) Still doing the "let's call Starlight Dreamer joke."<p>I LOVE Edgar Allen Poe, from his short stories to his poetry. Your work is definitely like "The Raven."

[LegoMuskCat]

WTF?? o_o<p>Er...did I miss something...?<p>If not, then SOMEONE needs to tell me what the kitchen is going on... >_<

[Starlight]

Whoa there. Don't get your panties all tied up in a knot! Chill.<p>Somebody, I think Ein? called me Dreamer by mistake. Now, the guys are doing it as a joke. %) <p>Harmless silliness. T'is all.<p><p>[size=small][Edit by Starlight on [TIME]1115246696[/TIME]][/size]

[Gipper]

You mean neither of you are Anna? Holy cow, the doc was right when he said those meds would screw up my vision!

[Starlight]

I'm Anna, but right now I'm a kitty that bites. Raaawr! <p>Dreamer is Kara. I think. <p>[size=small][Edit by Starlight on [TIME]1115246792[/TIME]][/size]

[Saria]

Er, you're not making any sense... isn't this a poetry topic?

[Ein Tyrion]

Yes twas me.....Sorry....<p>Very nice poem khyron<p>I gave up on trying to get mine published when my english teacher ripped it up and threw it away (because it didnt go with her veiws on the subject...)

[LegoMuskCat]

<blockquote><i>Originally posted by Starlight</i><p>Whoa there. Don't get your panties all tied up in a knot! Chill.<p>Somebody, I think Ein? called me Dreamer by mistake. Now, the guys are doing it as a joke. %) <p>Harmless silliness. T'is all.<br></blockquote><br>O_o<p>Excuse, me...I'm a little stressed, that's all...but I can assure you; my panties are NOT in a knot. <p>Yeah, I saw it now...twas Ein... Guys can be silly, I guess...<p>It may be harmless fun, but I don't like it... :p

[Starlight]

<blockquote>Er, you're not making any sense... isn't this a poetry topic?</blockquote> <p>Newbies. They are so cute.<p>You'll find soon enough that everyone tends to go "off topic"... and often. <p> <blockquote>Excuse, me...I'm a little stressed, that's all...but I can assure you; my panties are NOT in a knot</blockquote> <p>Erm... there are bigger things to get stressed about, TRUST ME.<p>[size=small][Edit by Starlight on [TIME]1115247306[/TIME]][/size]

[Ein Tyrion]

<blockquote><i>Originally posted by Starlight</i><p> <p>Newbies. They are so cute.<p>You'll find soon enough that everyone tends to go "off topic"... and often. <p> <p>Erm... there are bigger things to get stressed about, TRUST ME.<p>[size=small][Edit by Starlight on [TIME]1115247306[/TIME]][/size]<br></blockquote><p>Yes i go off topic like a train on a lemon...<p>And as for more important things to get stressed out about....like monster gerbils living at the core of earth<br><p>[size=small][Edit by Ein Tyrion on [TIME]1115248046[/TIME]][/size]

[LegoMuskCat]

<blockquote><i>Originally posted by Starlight</i><p>Erm... there are bigger things to get stressed about, TRUST ME.<p>[size=small][Edit by Starlight on [TIME]1115247306[/TIME]][/size]<br></blockquote><br>Hey, I never said that I was stressed about this...THIS is nothing. Something that I like to call IRL stress... %)

[Ein Tyrion]

Total request live stress?