Author: tylerstroz
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The Storm After Midnight
Atop the hill on the darkened doorstep, The walls shutter as the thunder rolls. A sorrow less storm crept, Two past Midnight’s tolls. And through the glass, the insomnious flashes, Congregate within the valley. Grumbling with vicious thrashes, As the dreams turn the page to an eventual finale. Photo by Ben Owen on Unsplash
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On a Field of Oak
Along the bridged bay, In a stadium past its prime, As a departing team closes its play. A field of oak and grime, Bears witness to its final sport Before its swan song, Along the cliffs of its seaside fort. Where history is measured so very long, A pitcher climbs the clay mound, And plays…
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The Long Walk to Theater Eight
On a bustling Friday afternoon, Along the mall, across the lobby. At the onset of a sweltering June. Partaking in a favorite hobby. Collecting our tickets and turning the corner, A place so beloved and familiar, suddenly becoming empty and eerie. As if entering the parlor for a funeral mourner. The walls are sparse, and…
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The Galleries
The White Page and its twin, The White Canvas and its counterpart, The slab of stone, or clay, or lumber. The empty orchestra—with flutes, cellos, and a violin, The sciences, across the Earth and the Stars, impart, While the chalkboard runs long with math and its matching number. An art gallery, and its many forums…
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The Imagination at Night
On dawn’s dreary rise, Do the dreams find an end. Lost amid the warring wrack, dreams disguise. You exchange one trouble for another, and they portend: If they are windows into incongruent realities, Then elsewhere, I live a dreadful existence. And if they are mirages of the twisted mind, I am the master of abnormalities.…
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What is Success
What is success, and its appropriate measure? What is won through the work of ages? A trophy or pride, an achievement or treasure? What is lost to life through scorched, forgotten pages? Standing by the grove of a hazy gray And lost among my twisted badlands, Watching the leaves blow by like it was yesterday.…
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A Man of Letters
The candles steep toward their inevitable demise, Under the glowing moon on this crooked, hallowed night. The Study sits dust riddled with a desk covered in papered lies. Blotted by the blood of pens in the shrinking light. In this chair of ivory and gold, By the warm, burning hearth, Surrounded by portraits of vanity…
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The Four Seas
Through the wicked fogbanks of blooded waters, Through the dread, ships wracked and shredded sails. They lurch forward into the abyss—these mongering marauders. Into a land fraught with dire warnings and haunting wails. Shining with the promise of riches beyond their beliefs, With monsters lurking around the depths, ghoulish warriors, and unearthed bones. This savaged…
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A Carnival Sideshow
A carnival sideshow, In a dreary backlot, dirty and dim, An eerie aura escapes the sullied tent, a mesmerizing glow. Artifacts and ornaments adorn the rafters, hanging threadbare from the brim, An alter accosted by dreary dreams and fantasies tonight, Cards of black magic and a crystal ball beckon you into inquisition. The infernal device…
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The Ghost on the Pier
In the Port of Schiper, Across the bay of blue, Where the bell-tower strikes like a melodious piper, Amid the dense fog and the rain dew. Over by the abandoned wharf, Along the crooked, decrepit pier, Lies a myth that time helped morph. A manifest lost to the turbulent sea, where danger falls near, And…
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