Book of Rhymes

By Mike McCluskey

Abhor me and hold me to no glory,
Plagiaristic dictators forming my story,
Wearing on me and it’s boring,
So I’m warring to even the scoring,
Bearing in the storming,
Baring all when I see you in mourning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796017502

Mike McCluskey

The author of 42 self-published books including: 14 full-length poem books, 16 poetry chapbooks and 12 short story books, Mike McCluskey has been a resident of Holly, Michigan for the past 26 years. Mike began writing as a young child in the 1980s. He had a notebook with various monsters on the cover and he would fill the pages with short stories of horror and monsters. He would then share these stories with family and neighbors. After they were read, Mike would erase all the stories and write the pages once again with new stories. Mike wrote his first poem in 1991 to his mother as a mothers day gift. He ultimately began a lifelong dedication to poetry in 1997, while occasionally writing short stories. After many failed attempts at getting his work published, Mike started self-publishing his own books to share his art and inner turmoil. So DARK MAN INC. began in 2002.

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Rev. date: 03/21/2019

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CONTENTS

OLD

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The Shining Star

Another Blur

Let’s Take It Back

The Curse

Death’s Blast III Where the Dead Men Hang

I’m Just Me

Where I’m From

Clash in the Titan

Blood Red 2

Death V

The Devil’s Land

A Dark Knight Victorious

Winglessly Fly with the Vampire Bat

Dark War

Dark War Part 2

Dark War Part 3

From a Cursed Land

Tread Proud in Blood

Born in the Wrong Time

Still 3

The Heart of a Prince

Reflection

Attack of the Brain-Dead

Dungeon

ENGLISH

THE MOAT

One

The Ultimate Warrior

When I Write

Unnoticed

Chosen to Write

Just Had

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword But …

Death’s Blast IV It’s a Lovely Day

Rhyme Curse

For the Grave I Really Crave

The Dead Still, Still Dead

Kept in His Own Words

Close in Close

Have to Write

Read My Writing

Better Than

The Dead Season 2

Coursed Pantomime Coerced

Keep Ticking

My Call: The Archangel

Still 4

I Am Legend

Reaching the End Again

The Book

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On my mind I rely,

See with my real eyes,

Realize with eye three,

Third eye from which I see.

The Shining Star

Shining star for you to see,

Amongst the galaxy, that black sea,

But to see it you must look,

So different from anything it must look,

Bright and gleaming thing from darkness,

Enlighten any night even the darkest,

Enlighten any knight even the heartless,

Break through to any onyx soul, even the hardest,

O bright light,

Sight of a night’s life,

Owed to a knight’s life,

Plight of a night’s fight,

Ode of a night flight,

You’re a shining star,

No matter who you are,

Shining bright to see,

For those who truly do see,

Shining star for you to see,

Amongst the galaxy, that black sea,

Now let’s take a look at me,

Shining so brightly I’m blinding,

But all they see is the dark,

Never seeing the brightness of a heart,

I spark light lightning like,

Like enlightening light,

Like illuminating life,

Making life something you can like,

Treat me like lightning,

There’s nothing quite like me,

There’s no thing they won’t do in spite of me,

There’s no hiding from