Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Monday, 27 October 2025

FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 153 - All Souls by Edith Wharton


In this show, as a prelude to Hallowe'en, we read a very haunting poem All Souls by Edith Wharton

DIRECT DOWNLOAD - All Souls by Edith Wharton


Find more writing and  podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -



Sunday, 17 August 2025

FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 147 - Dreams of Yith by Duane W. Rimel


A cycle of sonnets detailing weird dreams of a strange alien world of the Cthulhu Mythos,  written by Duane W. Rimel, with guidance from both H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith.

DIRECT DOWNLOAD - Dreams of Yith by Duane W. Rimel


Find more writing and  podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -



Sunday, 20 October 2024

FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 120 - Halloween in a Suburb by HP Lovecraft

Halloween in a Suburb 

by HP Lovecraft


The steeples are white in the wild moonlight,
     And the trees have a silver glare;
Past the chimneys high see the vampires fly,
     And the harpies of upper air,
     That flutter and laugh and stare.

For the village dead to the moon outspread
     Never shone in the sunset’s gleam,
But grew out of the deep that the dead years keep
     Where the rivers of madness stream
     Down the gulfs to a pit of dream.

A chill wind weaves thro’ the rows of sheaves
     In the meadows that shimmer pale,
And comes to twine where the headstones shine
     And the ghouls of the churchyard wail
     For harvests that fly and fail.

Not a breath of the strange grey gods of change
     That tore from the past its own
Can quicken this hour, when a spectral pow’r
     Spreads sleep o’er the cosmic throne
     And looses the vast unknown.

So here again stretch the vale and plain
     That moons long-forgotten saw,
And the dead leap gay in the pallid ray,
     Sprung out of the tomb’s black maw
     To shake all the world with awe.

And all that the morn shall greet forlorn,
     The ugliness and the pest
Of rows where thick rise the stones and brick,
     Shall some day be with the rest,
     And brood with the shades unblest.

Then wild in the dark let the lemurs bark,
     And the leprous spires ascend;
For new and old alike in the fold
     Of horror and death are penn’d,
     For the hounds of Time to rend.





Find more writing and  podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -









Saturday, 7 September 2024

THE TURN OF THE SEASON V



Autumn ushers in
A world of sunset colours,
And the year's evening


Find more writing and  podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -



Friday, 6 September 2024

THE TURN OF THE SEASON IV


Drifting down slowly,
As the summer sails away,
Gold on the waters


Find more writing and  podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -



Thursday, 5 September 2024

THE TURN OF THE SEASON III


Bursting from hedgerows,
Sweet gifts among the thorns from
The ripening year


Find more writing and podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -



Wednesday, 4 September 2024

THE TURN OF THE SEASON II


Sunlight's last dances on
Leaves soon to tumble into
Autumn's bronze and gold

Find more writing and  podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -



Tuesday, 3 September 2024

THE TURN OF THE SEASON I



Mists in the morning,
A slight chill haunting the breeze,
Rumours of autumn


Find more writing and podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -



Sunday, 25 August 2024

SILENT AND STILL WATCHERS V



Watching the sun set,
Blazing scarlet memories 
Of the demon's home



Find more writing and  podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -



Friday, 23 August 2024

SILENT AND STILL WATCHERS IV



Faces crowned in stone,
Forgotten kings in cobwebs
Ruling from a wall


Find more writing and podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -







Thursday, 22 August 2024

SILENT AND STILL WATCHERS III


Still watching over, 
The old wild green gods linger 
In secret gardens


Find more writing and  podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -



Wednesday, 21 August 2024

SILENT AND STILL WATCHERS II


Forever watching,
Learning the lessons of life,  
Wisdom in the wood


Find more writing and  podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -



Tuesday, 20 August 2024

SILENT AND STILL WATCHERS I



Forever standing
Between the heavens and earth,
A lonely vigil


Find more writing and  podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -



Saturday, 17 August 2024

FLORAL ELEMENTS V



Past soft sunset pinks, 
And far beyond dawn sky blues,
Violet flowers

Find more writing and  podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -



Friday, 16 August 2024

FLORAL ELEMENTS IV



Soft blues recalling
Waves and rippled waters, rise
In a sea of green


Find more writing and  podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -



Thursday, 15 August 2024

FLORAL ELEMENTS III



The lush leaves of earth,
The great green foundation from which
other colours come



Find more writing and  podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -



Wednesday, 14 August 2024

FLORAL ELEMENTS II



Floating on the air,
A drawing in petals of
The gold of the sun



Find more writing and  podcasts on the weird and wonderful here -