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The Town Herald

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Poetry Corner

Hello to everyone once again. I'm proud to give you this Issue's featured writers and poets of the Poetry Corner. I know that the last issue the poetry submissions were a bit slim. Though they are great, as always, and amazingly appreciated, The Town Herald truely goes by that age olde saying "the more the merrier!". We love to see all the great work from you Elftowners we can, and you sure did show us up this Issue! We have some amazing works for our 'Gothic Nightmare' theme with a much fuller turnout. We seemed to have struck the inspiration and the fancy of much more members this Issue, and we couldn't be happier. We know all these wonderful writers should be proud of what they have submitted this issue, and we are more than thrilled that they did! We hope every one of you enjoy these wonderful pieces, and hope that you all join us next Issue in reading, and participating in our next theme for the Poetry Corner! And be sure to keep an eye out for our special Dedications Article in the next up and coming issue where we will present all the Award Holders and recurrent writers of the Poetry Corner.

[Mordigen]

A Raven's Call by [Earoluim]

Do you not wonder about that knocking at your door?
Who could that be, Knowcking on your door?
Wonder not, who's on the other side?

Go and answer the curiosity.

Oh, but wait.
Nevermind that anticdote, becuase surely your intelligence is not that of a cat.

Go ahead, open the door.

Go on now, not so hard to do.
Nothing to be afraid of is there?
Now then, who's there knocking upon your door?

Who is that cloaked figure outside that door?

Why does he look at you from souless sockets of his hollow face?

Swoosh.
Thud.
Topple.

Why doth your broth throw itself across the floor,
are you sick?
Do you need a bath?
Surely not upon your own broth would you bathe thouself.
Why does your head fall away from your body?
Has it such malcontent of it?
What animosity could it possibly have for it?

Look there at the Raven there in your doorway.
(chuckling)
Looks to be that the Reaper thus has paid you a visit.

Gabrielles' Lullaby by [Earoluim]

Off in the distance a baby cries
Mother and father dead at her sides
Overcome by the plague of flies.

She waits and screams of pain and lonliness
Alone, by herslef a soundfull night.

Off in the distance a baby cires
Mother and father dead at her sides
Overcome by the plague of flies.

Thus comes the Angeil to cue the child mourn
Wings pread wide thus gliding ever gently.

She quits the mourn and looks up in scorn as innocence befalls her
Giddy she become as love bestowingly comes.

Off in the distance a baby giggles
Held by the Angeil Sigel.

He strokes her tummy to give her a yummy
Who opens far wide to taste earths hide
as thus forth comes on.

The love disappears
and the eyes fill with tears
as the hide follows away.

Off in the distance a baby cries
Disgust on it's it's face as the Angeil looks at lace.

Quit her thus the Angeil tried
To no prevail she still cried.

One quick motion to make her fall quiet
Her beating, bleeding heart in the hand of the Angeil
Quiet becomes all.

She falls to the ground
With not a sound
And no life but a bound.

Her heart became the course
of an unmost precarry source
for the Angeil.

Off in the distance
There is no persistence
as Gabrielle plays his tune.

Run Oh Run Faster by [Kaeirdwyn]

Run oh run faster
Fly from the gaping maw of death.
Run oh run faster
On your back you feel the hot, sulfurous breath.
Run oh run faster
To escape the clutches of the grave.
Run oh run faster
If you can be brave.

Run oh run faster
As bloody claws rake your back.
Run oh run faster
Quicken your stride , don't slack.
Run oh run faster
from grasping tendrils from the grave
Run oh run faster
Try, try to be brave.

Run oh run faster
Break free from mists of fear
run oh run faster
As you see dying, all those you hold dear.
Run oh run faster
There is no one left to save.
Run oh run faster
Grasp for life, be brave.

Run oh run faster
The dripping fangs get closer to your neck.
Run oh run faster
Near-raging fires making you sweat.
Run oh run faster
As fiery tongues flicker and wave
Run oh run faster
Fear not, be brave.

Run oh run faster
Is the darkness clearing up ahead?
Run oh run faster
Through the miserable night, filled with dread.
Run oh run faster
The morrow brings light, you may yet be saved.
Run oh run faster
Be not mastered by the grave.

The Gothic Dream by [Grandamelf]

Quivering in the darkness of the night,
Smothered in silence,
Choked by fear,
I lay in my bedchambers,
Frozen with fright!
Could it be, the Goths come near?

Reputation precedes this bloodthirsty crew.
It can not be denied, the stories are true!
They pillage, they plunder,
This murderous horde.
They ravage the innocent child,
Dear Lord!

In the great hall, the minstrels told,
Of knights in armor on galloping steeds,
But what knight rides long, on a horse that bleeds,
Dashed to the ground by a deadly sword!
They have fallen,
God help us My Lord!

The guards on the ramparts, their vigils keep,
Watching and waiting, they dare not sleep!
While in the Cathedral,
The priests give a blessing for soldiers,
The Wives and the children pray!
Oh Lord save Constantinople today!

'untitled' by [AWTA]

I was walking down the path of enlightenment, when along came a dark menace. The spirit had dark malevolent horns and the blackest eyes i had ever seen. As i stared him down, i realized he had me in his grip. Just when i tried to get out, i realized he'd stolen my soul. He let me go, and told me i had to live a life of sorrow. I sit here and cry finally coming to the realization, no matter what i do to change it... He was right

The Demons Game by [Captain Roadie Of Jingles]

Run through hell and swim through shit,
Try to escape the deepest pit,
Cut yourself but do not die,
Let the blood flow cure every lie,
Swim through shit and run through hell,
This bullshit you cannot sell,
Forget the demons,forget the fire,
Forget your fantasies and your darkest Disire,
Count your scars and try not to cry,
Locked inside wishing you could fly,
To some distant place not in this time,
To anywhere that is ok and fine,
Everything is gone,even your mind,
You play with the demons just to see what you find,
Add more scars to the ones already there,
This time count the things that are not fair,
You cut too deep and let the blood seep,
The demons come and you let them play,
As you fall to the ground dazed and away,
You see the blood run,the demons are done,
They smile and wave as they disapear,
your disire and fantasies have now become nothing but fear,
The demons come back but not to play,
No blood left there here to stay,
Not in your head not in your soul,
There game you ask,is the life they stole.

Devoured by [Kaeirdwyn]
Light giving life to the shadow's movements;
showing shiny, pointed, black talons
dripping with hot, steaming blood,
licked slowly with a long-snaked tongue.
Black stained teeth Intent on devouring all of my insides;
my body, my blood, my dreams, my soul.

Nightmare of dark beauty, ignoring my denials,
satiating your demonic hunger to feed
on the pulsing river flowing, bubbling out
of my ripped and desecrated body. limbs tattered,
I'm pinned here, unable to run, or even crawl.

The upturned, reddened lips smirk knowingly.
Pathetic and choking on the blood in my lungs,
I deny the abrupt end of me, as you play in my flesh
with your claws of polished obsidian; laughing,
Reminding me, taunting me; revelling in my death.

Clenched in pain, white-hot agony ripping through
my broken body; blood, entrails and dreams strewn
carelessly upon the ground. My mantra of unbelief,
"This can't be happening," whispered repeatedly with my dying breath,
I turn my head to look in horror at the growing pools of blood.
My blood, my dreams, my soul, my body.

Glassy-eyed and trying, in the end, to gather my incoherent thoughts,
And remember a time without your hideous presence close to me,
while unconcerned, you're lapping at the bloodpool, intent on fulfillment.
"I was never yours...", I whisper slowly, a wet mewling sound, as my failing
body is racked with spasms, numbness begins, the pain spiralling within me.

Hard to breathe now, gasping, as terror fills me anew.
Ravaged by your lust for rending flesh, desolation
fills me, knowing my dreams will die with me, unrealized.
My soul stained, and forever haunted by your visage. Teary-eyed,
I turn my head and stare at the sky, seeking solace in the bright stars.

As I start to drift off, eternal sleep claiming me at last,
your wicked smile denies my claim of innocence and
your raspy voice whispers back, in my ear so I can hear,
"You have always been mine." You stand, tail unfurling,
and walk away, stride lengthening, purposefully.

New prey scented, the old prey misused and forgotten.
Now beyond the pain, beyond my old existence,
my dreams halted with waves of crimson on a sultry night.
Shadows drift and part, slowly pooling around the body.
The stench of death is pungent and metallic on the breeze.
My dreams, my soul, my body, My blood.

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