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A native of Northern California, the poet Michael Eugene Cantrall is a graduate of Stanford University (M.A. & B.A. in philosophy) and Shasta Community College (A.A. in Journalism). Michael pens poems while watching the deer, coyotes, raccoons, squirrels, black bear, and the occasional mountain lion scamper around the Sierra foothills.

  May 2021     20 hours ago

Submitted Poems 27 total

Lines Composed Before a Scrying Mirror

It's trying to communicate tonight
so open the door and turn down the lamp
This pen does beckon magic oxygen
and the gateway awaken'd now vibrates

I sense shadows on my wall in the dark
quiet village that hides the secret things
as another...

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Beauty's relative Truth (version 3)

I did taste the icy sting
of poison’d stares
from somewhere
anotherly ken
when a sensuous dream
tranquilized

There alone was I
entangled by sweet jasmine
and the Lethen’d grin
of the Faerie Queene

And there
schooled to fly
above a...

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The Watchers (version 2)

Possessed is what the Watchers do call it.

Demons that jump from person to person,
touch by touch.

Only one of many ways they travel.
Lo! smitten by the hidden.

And these shadows will chase the light away
from those who step outside...

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Ghost House

Ghost House, my ghost house
The antique relic calls to me

This darkness creeps within
shadows not so far away

The unending echoes of ringing bells
toll the knell for a mortal clock below

I'm hiding from a long and lonely dwell
though I...

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A Crimson Bird

A burst of flame softly consumes within
A diamond star winks when danger is near
A sense of doom in the ear it whispers
A crimson bird is on the wing I...

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Well-executed end rhyme. Well well-defined rhythm and overall, a perfect elegy that should be read aloud to appreciate all the nuances of the word choices and order.

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The theme was provocative.

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