“upon a midnight dreary” by Richard Lynn Livesay

Poe, I know the rain and pain, the terror of your soul

The shadow of the Raven upon the wounded foal

No Mother or Father to comfort, took its toll

Toll, toll, toll, the black bells roll into the night

Haunted by ill angels, fostered and disowned

You fought against the status quo with fright

 Fright turned into a court-martial at West Point

Married your first cousin, only thirteen years old

Made ass’t editor of a magazine, a fair anoint

Anoint the poet just in time, Virginia, his wife dies

He hit the bottle and one night was found delirious

At forty he died, his demons, darkly echo his cries

Cries of a madman genius, his legacy left to see

His Black Cat crawled into the wall and hearts beat

And Annabel Lee still remains in the kingdom by the sea

His genius is revealed in his metaphysical prose;

Quotes by Poe from his last writing..".EUREKA"

“a thing cannot act where it is not;

 darkness cannot proceed from light

On a majestic highway of the consistent

A perfect consistency(works of God)

Can be nothing but an absolute truth”

Poe’s last writings before his death were thoughts about the Universe;

“This impossible concept is a representative

 but of the thought of a thought”

“Finest quality of thought is its

Self-cognizance…of the imagination”

"The mind cannot choose between impossibilities of conception

As one impossibility cannot be greater than the other;

The concept of the Universe being limitless or limited"

His esoteric mind saw the Chaos theory, the butterfly effect

He saw the key to gravity and of the world of forces

His assertions were like Einstein; comparable to connect

Let us leave this enduring artist in his “Dream within a Dream”:

“Take this kiss upon the brow, you now,

          Thus much let me avow-

          You are not wrong, who deem

          That my days have been a dream;”