Poem: The Raven
In Elseworld a scholar pored
Over tomes of ancient lore;
Seeking wisdom in their store,
Seeking ways to call and beck,
To call and beck a friend.
Gone without a trace or spoor,
Flew the friend to alien shore.
Called by some portent of yore,
Called to take that lonely trek,
A lonely trek he’d wend.
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Untouched bowls of gut and gore,
Like a tidy field of war,
Stood forgotten on the floor;
Stood in wait for hungry peck,
A hungry peck to rend.
“What cruel fate so sudden tore,
You away, my Nevermore?”
Scholar cried, her soul a-sore.
The scholar cried, and bent her neck.
Her feathered neck she’d bend.
(Written and posted ten years ago for the UK #NationalPoetryDay )
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@MicroSFF spoor is English?
@MicroSFF they just nicked that one from Dutch
@smol_entity Common proto-Germanic I suspect - Swedish has "spår", pronounced the same with the same meaning.