Author's Note: This is a cento, made up of lines from other poems. List at the bottom. I imagine this was brought on by all the Alice Cooper albums I've been listening to this week. Paranormal and Brutal Planet are pretty sweet.
A ghostly cathedral overgrown with grass,
Where an eidolon named Night,
With Hecate's band, thrice blasted, thrice infected,
Dwells in the noise and smoky breath.
The nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep.
And mourners to and fro.
Haunting the marches, marauding the heath,
Narcophagi that on them fed.
The vale funeral, the sad cypress gloom.
Author's Note: The list.
1 - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Simon Armitage.
2 - Dream-Land by Edgar Allan Poe
3 - Hamlet by William Shakespeare
4 - Glasgow by Alexander Smith
5 - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
6 - Paradise Lost by John Milton
7 - I felt a Funeral, in my Brain by Emily Dickinson
8 - Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
9 - The Nightmare Lake by H.P. Lovecraft
10 - Night-Thoughts by Edward Young
