Maladies of Magnitude
A (too) quiet, quaint little village...84 total reviews
Comment from misscookie
Once again you captured my attention from the first line to the last
You had me on the end of my chair.
I'm glad To have read this during the day for I wouldn't be able to sleep.
Cookie
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Once again you captured my attention from the first line to the last
You had me on the end of my chair.
I'm glad To have read this during the day for I wouldn't be able to sleep.
Cookie
Comment Written 10-Oct-2016
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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My dear misscookie,
You're far too kind, my friend, but I'm very grateful to you for your kindness.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read and review this.
Your kind comments and most generous six star rating are sincerely appreciated.
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You're very welcome.
Have a blessed day.
Cookie
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I will, and you do the same also.
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Peace.
Cookie
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It was my pleasure and you earned it.
Cookie
Comment from tfawcus
Dammit, this is good, sir! Wonderful echo of Edgar Allan Poe. Inspired internal rhyming of 'insane jester / die and rest here'. Also loved the staccato dramatic:
"what I'd find there, so unseeming; unprepared was I, instead.
Townsfolk stood--eyes white, as dead."
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Dammit, this is good, sir! Wonderful echo of Edgar Allan Poe. Inspired internal rhyming of 'insane jester / die and rest here'. Also loved the staccato dramatic:
"what I'd find there, so unseeming; unprepared was I, instead.
Townsfolk stood--eyes white, as dead."
Comment Written 10-Oct-2016
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Tony, you're far too kind, my friend, but I'm very grateful to you for your kindness.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read and review this.
Your kind comments and most generous six star rating are sincerely appreciated.
Comment from heyjude
Dean, you are indeed the master of these creepy kinds of poems.
I read your notes. How sad that the man could have been helped
but feared the leper too much. At first it sounds like such a wonderful
place to visit with the smell of jasmine and clover. Excellent rhyme.
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Dean, you are indeed the master of these creepy kinds of poems.
I read your notes. How sad that the man could have been helped
but feared the leper too much. At first it sounds like such a wonderful
place to visit with the smell of jasmine and clover. Excellent rhyme.
Comment Written 10-Oct-2016
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Jude, you're far too kind, my friend, but I'm very grateful to you for your kindness.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read and review this.
Your kind comments and most generous six star rating are sincerely appreciated.
Comment from kiwisteveh
Well, welcome to FanStory, Mt Poe. Hope you've stopped that disturbing habit of marrying your young teen cousins!
As I read your scary poem, thoughts came to me - how well I know 'em;
If I could I'd gladly throw 'em back to him who wrote the words.
For we have a kind of journal, with a rhyme scheme that's internal,
And a setting half infernal just like Hitchcock's film "The Birds."
Quoth the raven, "Where's my curds?"
Then the stranger to that valley got a spot upon his belly,
When he stood and shilly-shallied when he should have run away.
What we need's a maiden foxy, who could cure him while he's poxy,
Or he could have used a proxy - yep, that's all I have to say!
'Cept you've got moxie...
Steve
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Well, welcome to FanStory, Mt Poe. Hope you've stopped that disturbing habit of marrying your young teen cousins!
As I read your scary poem, thoughts came to me - how well I know 'em;
If I could I'd gladly throw 'em back to him who wrote the words.
For we have a kind of journal, with a rhyme scheme that's internal,
And a setting half infernal just like Hitchcock's film "The Birds."
Quoth the raven, "Where's my curds?"
Then the stranger to that valley got a spot upon his belly,
When he stood and shilly-shallied when he should have run away.
What we need's a maiden foxy, who could cure him while he's poxy,
Or he could have used a proxy - yep, that's all I have to say!
'Cept you've got moxie...
Steve
Comment Written 10-Oct-2016
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Hahaha, thanks, Steve.
I really appreciate you taking the time to read this as well as your light-hearted review.
Much obliged.
~Dean
Comment from Heather Knight
I'm happy. I was worried I hadn't understood the poem but I have just read the notes and I had.
Very well written, great vocabulary, nicely created atmosphere and tremendously creepy.
Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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I'm happy. I was worried I hadn't understood the poem but I have just read the notes and I had.
Very well written, great vocabulary, nicely created atmosphere and tremendously creepy.
Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 10-Oct-2016
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Maria, you're far too kind, my friend, but I'm very grateful to you for your kindness.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read and review this.
Your kind comments and most generous six star rating are sincerely appreciated.
Comment from Giddy Nielsen-Sweep
Oh, it's hopeless, Dean, I can never resist your morbid musings! I only get to pop in on the front page occasionally, and I'm so lucky to catch this one. Fantastic poem. I loved your ingenuity in capturing the rhymes and your faultless meter. That poor Polish man has a horror name as well, LOL. All the best, Giddy :):)
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Oh, it's hopeless, Dean, I can never resist your morbid musings! I only get to pop in on the front page occasionally, and I'm so lucky to catch this one. Fantastic poem. I loved your ingenuity in capturing the rhymes and your faultless meter. That poor Polish man has a horror name as well, LOL. All the best, Giddy :):)
Comment Written 10-Oct-2016
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Giddy, you're far too kind, my friend, but I'm very grateful to you for your kindness.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read and review this.
Your kind comments and most generous six star rating are sincerely appreciated.
Comment from ciliverde
Just fabulous, Dean! I love the way you wrote this, with words repeating or almost repeating, so the lines seem to fold into themselves as you read through the poem. It's horrifying and yet a moral tale - a gruesome twist on the old fairytale where someone suffers for refusing to give food to a beggar. I wonder if the townspeople there did the same as him? And he now to join their ranks.
I don't know if this is a poetic form, or something you invented - but I like it a lot! You're amazing :))
Carol
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Just fabulous, Dean! I love the way you wrote this, with words repeating or almost repeating, so the lines seem to fold into themselves as you read through the poem. It's horrifying and yet a moral tale - a gruesome twist on the old fairytale where someone suffers for refusing to give food to a beggar. I wonder if the townspeople there did the same as him? And he now to join their ranks.
I don't know if this is a poetic form, or something you invented - but I like it a lot! You're amazing :))
Carol
Comment Written 09-Oct-2016
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Dearest Carol,
You're far too kind, my friend, but I'm very grateful to you for your kindness.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read and review this.
Your kind comments and most generous six star rating are sincerely appreciated.
Comment from Saikripa
It's great reading this horror poetry as it beautifully weaves in a story complimented with pictures giving it a visual effect. The end gives a profound lesson that one falls victim to the very thing that one fears.
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It's great reading this horror poetry as it beautifully weaves in a story complimented with pictures giving it a visual effect. The end gives a profound lesson that one falls victim to the very thing that one fears.
Comment Written 09-Oct-2016
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Saikripa, you're far too kind, my friend, but I'm very grateful to you for your kindness.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read and review this.
Your kind comments and most generous six star rating are sincerely appreciated.
Comment from DonandVicki
Another work of art Dean, as I was reading this poem for the second time I picked up a cadence or rhythm that made me think of Edgar A. Poe. The artwork and animation really fit well. I would feel like a miser if I gave you less than a six.
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Another work of art Dean, as I was reading this poem for the second time I picked up a cadence or rhythm that made me think of Edgar A. Poe. The artwork and animation really fit well. I would feel like a miser if I gave you less than a six.
Comment Written 09-Oct-2016
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Hello, Don.
Thank so much for taking the time to read and review this.
Your kind comments and generous six stars are most sincerely appreciated.
I never take those for granted.
Comment from Lu Saluna
Another wonderfully written poem that tells a delightfully creepy story. I did catch on that the man had cut off his nose to spite his face and thereby caught a disease he was trying desperately to avoid but I thought it was the plague but leprosy makes perfect sense for the time as well.
The presentation is perfect, the colour selection works beautifully with the art which can invoke fear in even the most stoic and heartiest of souls and heaven help those who are the least bit nervous about this sort of thing, it is likely to cause them nightmares for a week. Again, well done!
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Another wonderfully written poem that tells a delightfully creepy story. I did catch on that the man had cut off his nose to spite his face and thereby caught a disease he was trying desperately to avoid but I thought it was the plague but leprosy makes perfect sense for the time as well.
The presentation is perfect, the colour selection works beautifully with the art which can invoke fear in even the most stoic and heartiest of souls and heaven help those who are the least bit nervous about this sort of thing, it is likely to cause them nightmares for a week. Again, well done!
Comment Written 09-Oct-2016
reply by the author on 13-Oct-2016
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Hello, lufoster.
Thank so much for taking the time to read and review this piece.
Your kind comments and most generous six stars are sincerely appreciated.