Ancient Tree, Treasure And Mystery Even Poe Could Not Solve
PART ONE -("The Darkness Poe Discovered")
The old tree was tall, dark and gnarly too
Massive limbs reaching up to strike the sky
Once seen, it would hold you like super glue
Only with life cursed, could you find out why.
There it hid, back in ancient forest deep,
Lording over seven massive black stones
With it's mystery treasures it would keep,
Under rock and dirt, rotting bags of bones.
Some few dared look at it under moonlight
For tales told of horrific bloody scenes
Some went crazy while others lost their sight
As it showed what real horror truly means!
Some claimed master Poe once visited and cried
Only man to see its darkest depths before he died
Fodder for dark tales written until his grave
Its treasures kept, words were all it ever gave.
Yet Master Poe left his O' so clever clues
Pages stained with his own blood and cursed words
Even he had paid dearly, its deadly dues
Followed by its ever guarding Raven bird!
Later one man studied well, this haunting tale
One of Poe's own dark, cursed bloodline he be
Brave and Pure he had seen the Gates Of Hell
Living to return to see its ancient cursed tree.
There was method to his madness and brave plan
Yet others would quake if they had only known
He a great author, poet and even braver man
Wanted that buried treasure to be all his own!
For twenty years he had researched and learned
Seeing the tree by moonlight was insanely wrong
With the deep fear, others had foolishly spurned
He often visited with bright sun tagging along.
R.J. Lindley,
Nov. 17th, 1974
(NEXT- PART TWO OF THREE- THE FIRST VISIT)
Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2018
Part Two, (The First Dream)
now presented here as it is being edited/rewritten....
What of this dark world and its Raven(-ous) curses
Macabre, horror and Poe-driven black hearses.
Nights Poe's mad-driven, lost soul dares to visit
Fear arrives and your tortured mind cries,"what is it"?
Can one foresee the message that is being sent
Or power of the darkness, even a mere hint?
Nay! Such nightmares, life holds no reality true,
While Raven, its dark shadows eat away at you!
Yet one brave soul, dared to this dark reality fight
Remain sane, look further in dawn's welcoming light.
Could he survive, Poe's riddles, its darkness unwrap,
Not go insane midnight walls sounding tap, tap, tap.
Solve the deep mystery and its treasures thus keep
If not, then consequences would be sad and steep.
Last edited by Tyr-Ziu Saxnot; 02-16-2018 at 09:51 AM.
18 U.S. Code § 2381-Treason Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
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