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THE LISTENERS
By Walter De La Mare
(1873 - 1936)

"Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret
Above the Traveller's head:
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
"Is there anybody there?" he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair
That goes down to the empty hall
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller's call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness
Their stillness answering his cry
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf
'Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:-
"Tell them I came, and no one answered
That I kept my word," he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup
And the sound of iron on stone
And how the silence surged softly backward
When the plunging hoofs were gone.

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a horror poem about zombies.
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October Contest 2021:

Today is the last day to get your entries in for our October contest.  We will be announcing our winners in next week's Chatter.

POET OF THE YEAR CONTEST:

Our poet of the year contest will be open for submissions, tonight at Midnight MDT and will run for the next THREE (3) WEEKS.  This contest is a bit different so please read the rules carefully.  This year we have opened up the Poet of the Year contest to ALL PUBBERS!!

POEM A WEEK CHALLENGE:

The purpose of this challenge is to simply encourage writing, taking the time, at least once a week, to get a poem from your brain on to paper.  If you would like to participate, the "how to" is below.

2021 Poem-a-Week Participants

A Paintbucket of Words by nubivagant_words

Genteel Reveries of an Outrié Poetess by MystresMyna

Petals of a Rose by Alkymarz

A New Leaf by most_bay

Five Drops of Ink by je2suisChris

Woven Threads by enchanting_figments

My One Last Gasp by BillTemple1957

Even As We Speak by MichaelTyger

Love Wings by PriscillaYiadom4

Please stop by and check out their books, show them some Poets Pub love!

IF I MISSED ANYONE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND I WILL ADD YOUR NAME TO THE LIST!

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Poem-a-Week Prompt
Week Forty-Four Prompt
Write a horror poem about vampires.
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Busted Gulch Vol. 15 Update:

Bret had a crazy nightmare about ex-girlfriends....

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Random Poetry Prompt
Write a horror poem about a werewolf.
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SIBILLA'S DIRGE
By Thomas Lovell Beddoes
(1803 - 1849)

We do lie beneath the grass
In the moonlight, in the shade
Of the yew-tree. They that pass
Hear us not. We are afraid
They would envy our delight
In our graves by glow-worm night.
Come follow us, and smile as we;
We sail to the rock in the ancient waves
Where the snow falls by thousands into the sea
And the drown'd and the shipwreck'd have happy graves.

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SPELLBOUND
By Emily Bronte
(1818 - 1848)

The night is darkening round me
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.

The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And the storm is fast descending
And yet I cannot go.

Clouds beyond clouds above me
Wastes beyond wastes below;
But nothing drear can move me;
I will not, cannot go.

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HER STRONG ENCHANTMENTS FAILING
By Alfred Edward Housman
(1859 - 1936)

Her strong enchantments failing
Her towers of fear in wreck
Her limbecks dried of poisons
And the knife at her neck

The Queen of air and darkness
Begins to shrill and cry
"O young man, O my slayer
To-morrow you shall die."

O Queen of air and darkness
I think 'tis truth you say
And I shall die tomorrow;
But you will die to-day.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! TO ONE AND ALL!!

I hope everyone has a FANTASTIC week!!
Remember to... keep those pens and keyboards flying!!

Cheers from you Mystres of Chatter
MystresMyna