Evermore and Other Poems

By Paris Michael

This book is a collection of vivid and imaginative multigenre poems, spanning from modern-day to Victorian eras.

Writing styles in this book include haikus, acrostics, traditional rhymes, and free verse.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9781984554420

Paris Michael

Paris Michael is a writer, information technologist and artist. Her writings have been featured by the Society of Classical Poets, The Maryland National Center for Early Academic Excellence, And received Editor’s Choice Award on Poetry.com. Her works are highly inspired by American Writer, Edgar Allan Poe, With unique but traditional rhyming schemes and vivid imagery. Paris currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Rev. date: 09/19/2018

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Table of Contents

A

A Cage For the Beast

A Dozen Roses

A Free Man Said

A Higher Self

A Love That Conquers All

A Miracle

A Parting Gift

A Poor Man’s Pores

A Promise Kept

A Silent Poet

A Spirit in Pain

A Tale of Two Lovers

A Tale That Flows

A Tormented Man (Poe)

A Wife in Glasgow

Adriana

All Alone

All that I Need

All Things Grow

An Apology

An Eloise

Anatomy of The Poet

And in the End

Andromeda’s Smile

Angels In the Attic

Anna Wore Red

Another Broken Bottle

As Land and Sea

B

Barbie

Be All

Be Heaven

Beauties and Beasts

Beautiful Somethings

Beauty in The Evening

Beauty Is Futile

Beauty’s Beast

Bella, Beauté Dame

Biting Bullets

Black Blood

Bless The Birds

Blessings Fall

Blithe

Body of Water

Brilliance

Burial of the East

Burnt Blood on a Penny

But Darling, It Will Be Alright

C

Call Her Ms. Disney

Call Me Poetry

Call Me Rain

Can I kiss You in a Quiet Place

Catching Skies

Changing Angel

Child of the Moon

Children of the Night

Chocolate Rich

Christmas For Sinners

City Rain

Click. If You Dare

Color Us One

Come Along, Love

Come Sip with Me

Control

Could Have Been Us

Cupid’s Victim

D

Dark and Lovely

Darling, Be My Valentine

Dead Men Have No End

Dead Men Tell No Tales

Deep Blue Sea

Demons Inside

Dirty Girl

Divinity

Dolly

Dream with In a Dream

Drowning

E

Eastern Delight

Elliptic Revisions

Epiphany

Evermore (The Raven Tribute)

Every Dread Upon Your Head

Every Star Fell From the Sky

Evil Speaks

F

Fade to Dust

Fall For Me

Fall in Love with Tomorrow

Fallen Star

Father Time

Festival of The East

Finley

For You

Forgotten

G

Garden of Eve

Gentry By The Lake

Girl Of the Stars

Graceless

Grymm Borne

H

Hands

Haunted Heart

Have You Seen Me?

Heart Held (Haiku)

Help Me

Hidden You

His Gift

His Lament

Holly’s Hair Was Orange

Homeless

I

I am Blue

I am Here

I Am a Not Slave

I am Rain

I am Thankful for The Rain

I Am.

I Can

I Do Not Have a Heart

I feel Sparks

I have Never Seen the Sun

I Have Seen Love

I Have

I Will Be Adonis

I Would Write for You a Love Song

In the Rain

Indigo Dress

Invisible

Island of the Sun

J

Johnny Loved a Slave

K

Kill Hope

Kiss

Kissing Angels (LGBTQ)

L

Lady In Waiting (Haiku)

Land of The Rising Sun

Laughter Resides

Left Me Here Alone

Let End Be End

Let There Be Love

Light Eater

Lonely, Not Alone

Love & Heaven

Love Had Led Us

Love Is Love

Love Letter To the Moon

Love Me This Summer

Love Without Cure

Lovers of Sydney

Love’s Desserts

Loves Me, Loves Me Not

M

Made of Ice

Magic of The Mind

Make Believe

Make Love To October

Make Love, Not War

Manor Souls

Mastermind

Maybe, We’re Broken

Medachae Found a Muse

Medusa Has a Heart

Mental

Mergence

Midnight Brings The Rain

Mind Over Matter

Misplaced

Miss Brandywine

Mister Travels Time

Monkey See

Mother’s Boy

Ms. Evil

My Dreams Are Scented

My Story

My Sweetheart

N

Name Your Price

Neverland Again

Neverland’s Prayer

Night Fall

Nights

No Lie

Northern Lights

Not Enough

Now

O

On Eagle’s Wings

Once Upon a Past Life

Once Upon a…

One Night Stand

One Regret

Oriental

Overpowered

P

Pack Your Books Away

Pagan Woods

Paper Thin

Poetry.

Pricey

Prodigal Children (Haiku)

Promise Eliza

Promise To Stay

Q

Queen

R

Rains of Spring

Real Men Never Cry

Reality Hurts

Remember Me (Maya Angelou Tribute)

Rest in Peace

Roses are Dead

S

Sapphire Eyes

Sea Bed

Senna’s Sonnet

Seven Devils

Seven Years

Shadow Affairs

Shadow Child

Shadow Dance

Shadow Hill

She Grew Tired

She Is Not Broken

She Is Sweet

She Spells Trouble

She was Sunday

She Was Tide

Should Be

Silent Apologies (Haiku)

Siren’s Victim

Snowflakes Fall

Some Days

Some Nights He Sings

Some Things

Son of a Gun

Songs of Sorrow

Sorry for Wednesday

Sorry To Forever

Squeeze Me in a Jar

Stars Light Up the Graves

Stiltskin Has a Song

Supposedly Short and Sweet

Surrendered Serendipity

Sweet Art

Sweetly, For Me

Sword Art Online

T

Teach Us How To Love

Tempest

Ten Bodies

Ten Tones

The Artist and The Muse

The Asylum

The Beast of Hallows

The Beasts at Night

The Breathers

The Cure

The Darkness Inside

The Edge of Forgiveness

The End of Boy

The End of Judas

The Forbidden Love

The Fragile Heart

The Friend

The Girl Next Door

The Grass Is Green

The Great Pretend

The Halstead House

The Heart of the Matter

The Hero

The Immortal Count of Saint Germain

The Jazz Man

The Legend of Icarus

The Liar and The Lamb

The Love Games

The Man

The Midnight Hour

The Mountain is Bleeding

The Mysticals in Critical

The Name (Acrostic)

The Okiya

The Parallel

The Piano Man

The Poet’s Curse

The Red Sea

The Relic

The Riddler

The River’s Bank

The Road Less Traveled

The Second Chance

The Seeker

The Slave Master’s Son

The Songwriter

The Statue

The Storyteller

The Titans

The Towne of Hallows Eve

The Train Man

The Trespasser

The Undine

The Weeping Gardens

The Witch (Haiku)

There is No Wrong in Poetry

They Have Forgotten

They Say the Mountain Cries

They Think with Their Hearts

This Is Youth

Time or Place

Titanic

To Dies’ a Dream (Peter Pan)

To The Cheating Man

To the Violinist

To The Wise Ones

Today The King Shall Bow

Trap

Troye

U

Underdogs

V

Vinegar

Violet Cried

W

We Are the Wild

We Sin

We’re Broken

What Poets Do

When Angels Lose Their Wings

When in Rome

Where I Reside

Where Is Alice?

Widow’s Walk

Will Rhyme for Food

Without You

Work of Art

Y

Yellow was The Meadow

You Are My Favorite Color

You Are Writer

You Remind Me

Your Corduroy Vest

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all of the readers who encouraged me to publish a collection of my written works, as well as the companies that featured and shared my works.

And to Edgar Allan Poe, a special thank you, for inspiring many of my writings. A truly gifted being.

Thank You to my sister, Arielle Tara, and my mother Donna for their support.

Endless love to Luca Nogi, my dog and his sister Mikan for being unconditional sweethearts, through many late nights working on this project. And to my late grandmother for her strength and inspiration.

And lastly, thank you, to every reader who may come across this book. I hope that you may find in it a work that resonates with your soul.

-Paris Michael

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A Cage For the Beast

Some spirit swept, undying,

Over mountains of the East,

Twas a blessed midnight mourning,

When the ghoul began to feast,

Sweetest virgins fell, beguiling,

Cursed the gods and damned the priests,

All who died, they did so smiling,

Over mountains of the East.

Could no spartan step to save them,

Could no prince their cries beseech,

On deaf ears their pleadings echoed,

Not one man could cage the beast.

Hence the wind upon the shutters,

Such the dust upon the doors,

And the children’s toys still laying,

Over rotting, wooden floors,

Ore the village is the hallow,

Left behind from where it tread,

Lives the silence at their doorsteps,

For now, every soul is dead.

And never was the knighthood,

Sent to set the lend a hand at least,

For no mortal man could ever,

Save the land nor cage the beast.

End

A Dozen Roses

I will save a dozen roses,

For the love I do not have,

For some years I’ll hold a kerchief,

For the tears when I am sad.

And I’ll save a precious letter,

For the one that’s yet to come,

But they’ll never see me coming,

Man is blind when they are young.

So, I’ll walk along this shoreline,

As the village trails the hearse,

And I’ll save a dozen roses,

To present them to you first.

End

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A Free Man Said

One day a free man looked at me,

And I looked back at he,

I held four bushels in my hand,

Of flax and cotton tree.

He had a skin, much like my own,

A dark much like my eyes,

He bowed a moment, tipped his hat,

And spoke a sad man’s lie.

He told me