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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bloodstone Press" data-source="post: 3009568" data-attributes="member: 12468">Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Why?  The whole first half of the Rhyme of the Anciant Mariner, including some of my favorite verses:"And I had done an hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe: For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow. 'Ah wretch!' said they, 'the bird to slay, That made the breeze to blow!' and The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. And some in dreams assured were Of the spirit that plagued us so; Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung." and "With throats unslacked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call: Gramercy! they for joy did grin, And all at once their breath drew in, As they were drinking all. " and"For the sky and sea, the sea and the skylay like a load on my weary eyeand the dead were at my feet"  JRR tolkien. Why? Most of the content of the Lays of Beleriand. No, I won't be retyping any of it here. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> William BlakeWhy? Blake was just way cool. i used to have a book of his poems, but it is lost now. The Poison Tree is the only poem I can recall right now, but there are many others I liked as well. William ShakespeareWhy? I liked a lot of his sonnets, actually. Edgar Allen PoeWhy? The Raven "Thrilled me--filled me with fantastic terrors, never felt before." The Conqurer Worm "And the angels sob at vermin fangs, in human gore imbued." And many others.OvidWhy?The Metamorphoses: "Then came the age of iron, and from it poured the very blood of evil... and War, inspired by the curses of iron and gold, lifted blood-clotted hands and marched the earth." Of course I could also mention Jim Morrison, Dave Gilmore and Roger Waters (Hear the lark and hearken to the barkin' of the dog fox... gone to ground)</blockquote>

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