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Pen a piece of micropoetry about some literary masterpiece, be it a novel, play, poem, etc. Please tag me!
Ended September 17, 2016 • 26 Entries • Created by nfaulk6
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Through the Eyes of Edgar

Beautiful Annabel Lee

How enticing you must have been

To inspire such words of adoration and love

And provoke the angels to sin.

Corseted 

by fate

and circumstance

misunderstanding

may further muddle

one's prospects.

In the end

Love

makes equal

fools of us all.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

You saw your picture

And

like a mirror

It changed that which

You

held most dear

Still you sinned as

You

felt you must

Until your beauty...

...Turned to dust

Hamlet.

Shakespeare stars a melancholy Danish prince, as his specimen of existential angst. 

Wordslinger
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Bastion of fears

If you love

bureaucracy

and

writer’s block

fear,

self-loathing

and frustrating

hassle,

skip the Trial

and

all that cock

and

storm

instead

K’s

labyrinthine

Castle.

Call Me Ishmael

Moby's a dick,

the captain is sick,

and the first mate has his own coffee conglomerate.

This All Happened More or Less

All that has been,

All that will be,

The slaughterhouse,

The mundane marriage,

The zoo enclosure,

The ally bombs,

The deaths theirs, yours,

In no particular order,

So it goes

Godot, In Situ

This poem is about to become poignant.

Any moment now, something great will happen.

I'll wait for one stanza and then finish.

Hm.   Nothing happened.   Well, I'll just wait then.

Of Pride and Prejudice

Elizabeth held mighty and high

Till Pemberley came to sight,

Perhaps Mr. Darcy would have stayed a bachelor

If he had not met his match traveler.

1984

In a world of fear, there was love.