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seadog93 Inner circle 3200 Posts |
Howdy all,
I'm looking for a poem to read during a seance. Hopefully somewhat hypnotic and atmospheric, but not scary. Somewhat on the longer side is good to. I'm searching around, but thought some of you might have some good resources. Thanks Courtney
"Love is the magician who pulls man out of his own hat" - Ben Hecht
"Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing'. Between the two, my life flows." -Nisargadatta Maharaj Seadog=C-Dawg=C.ou.rtn.ey Kol.b |
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Ms. Merizing Loyal user Edwin Carl Erwin is digging postholes for 232 Posts |
Consider this classic spell from Macbeth, Act IV Scene I:
1 WITCH. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d. 2 WITCH. Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin’d. 3 WITCH. Harpier cries:—’tis time! ’tis time! 1 WITCH. Round about the cauldron go; In the poison’d entrails throw.— Toad, that under cold stone, Days and nights has thirty-one; Swelter’d venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot! ALL. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 2 WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,— For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. ALL. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 3 WITCH. Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf; Witches’ mummy; maw and gulf Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark; Root of hemlock digg’d I the dark; Liver of blaspheming Jew; Gall of goat, and slips of yew Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse; Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips; Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver’d by a drab,— Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron, For the ingredients of our cauldron. ALL. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 2 WITCH. Cool it with a baboon’s blood, Then the charm is firm and good.
Pleased to continue finding that all the world's a stage.
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seadog93 Inner circle 3200 Posts |
Thanks, but it's not quite the atmosphere I'm going for. I think I'll be using Poe's "a dream within a dream" (that's what Richard Webster used to use in his seances) as well as a short poetic invocation from "Seance" magazine that I don't think has a name.
"Love is the magician who pulls man out of his own hat" - Ben Hecht
"Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing'. Between the two, my life flows." -Nisargadatta Maharaj Seadog=C-Dawg=C.ou.rtn.ey Kol.b |
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Avrakdavra Loyal user The Pine Tree State, USA 224 Posts |
I recommend:
Poems Bewitched and Haunted, selected and edited by John Hollander. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. ISBN:978-1-4000-4388-0 |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Burn victims are red,
Suffocators are blue, Ghosts are transparent and they are coming for you! |
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Moderncelt Veteran user Twin Cities MN 343 Posts |
We ask, yet nothing seems to know;
we cry in vain- There is no master of the show, Who will explain, Or from the future tear the mask And yet we dream and yet we ask Is there beyond the silent night An endless day, Is death a door that leads to light? We cannot say. The tongueless secret locked in fate We do not know, we hope and wait. Robert Green Ingersoll (thanks to Bob Cassidy) |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Please don't think that I'm depraved'
but I just stepped on some guys grave now I have guts on both my feet there isn't much blood but lots of meat I guess I could lay down and feed the crows they'll pick out the flesh from between my toes To be honest with you it felt kinda good we who dance on graves are so misunderstood A Poem by The Ghost of Leonard Kobal-Poet and spook |
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tabman Inner circle USA 5946 Posts |
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