Nevermore is loosely based upon “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe and has previously been published in All of Me Vol. IV, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing.

Listen to Nevermore by Richard Charles Stevens (Ghost Suite)

Listen to Ghost Song by Max Ablitzer

Nevermore
Lamenting thoughts be dressed
Life means something more when there is nowt left to contest
In the eye of tempest
With my hopes washed up ashore
Remembered there is no last breath worth dying for

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Nevermore
Will stream of lamp-light o’er me throw shadow to the floor
Will I be turned down napping by a rapping at my chamber door
‘Tis volume of forgotten lore
‘Tis only this and nothing more

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Nevermore
To implore misspoken writ of omened flaws
Surcease of sorrow—Eagerly awaited morrow’s spore
The flowers in my bones denote the bloom of lost Lenore
Underneath the beaded gaze of heeded bird of yore

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Nameless not forevermore
The Raven shall be lifted every listless burden bore
Unmerciful disaster
Nowise stocked and stored hereafter
As it perches on the only keepsake rafter
Not a feather fluttered
Not a spent endeavour uttered
For the dying embers flourish in its wake
To hear discourse so plainly
No remorse for stillness broken
Are the words aptly unspoken
Doubtless evermore embrace

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Nevermore
Will fiery eyes burn into bosom’s core
Seraphim fields
Claim the richest of yields
For this prophet still life no venture implores
Thrills me and fills me with spill my veins sought
For I bleed to concede no divorce

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Nevermore
Grim, ungainly, ghastly, and gaunt
Nevermore flitting, still is sitting, upon the bust of Pallas; bidding just above my private chamber door
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Is now lifted of a midnight dreary—weak and weary…

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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