Hi, my name is Eddie Morales (a.k.a. edmpoet) and this is my personal
website.  This site is for lovers of rhyming poetry, but I welcome all
poets.  I attend poetry conventions, festivals, recitals, and readings
every year and I always hear the public ask for rhyming poetry. I
listened, and created this site. You may not agree with many of the
things I may say here, but you may still find it useful. Enjoy.
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ORDER FROM ANY BOOKSTORE
or www.amazon.com but
CreateSpace is Preferred
THE LINKS HIGHLIGHTED
UNDERNEATH EACH BOOK WILL
TAKE YOU TO THE CREATESPACE
WEBSITE WHERE YOU CAN
PURCHASE THE BOOK
SO FAR
A REASON FOR RHYME
(WITH NEW BOOK COVER)
AND THE HALLOWEEN BOOK
ARE READY AND
THE SUICIDE SONNETS
WILL BE READY SOON
Counter
P      O      E      T      I      C      O      N
The Murder of Ravens
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WELCOME ALL POETS TO:
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Edgar Allan Poe
1809 - 1849
My favorite poet and author of
The Raven
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My sequel to
Edgar Allan Poe's
The Raven
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MY RANDOM
THOUGHTS
RHYME IS ALIVE!
Shakespeare's Sonnets In Plain English
SONNETS
1 - 25
SONNETS
26 - 50
SONNETS
51 75
SONNETS
76 - 100
SONNETS
101 - 126
SONNETS
127 - 154
TO ANSWER YOUR
QUESTIONS
International Society of
Poets out of business
NO TALENT FOR RHYME
Note about the
poetry lessons:
All Nine Chapters
Are Complete
THE RHYMING
M
ASTERS OF THE
E
ARLY 21st CENTURY
TAKING THE
NURSERY OUT OF
RHYME
WHAT MAKES
A POET A POET?
RHYME COMES
A
ROUND FULL
C
IRCLE
RHYME STILL ON
T
HE RISE
THE 10 MAJOR FORMS OF POETRY
ForeWord Clarion Review
POETRY
Count Edweird Lefang’s Rhymin’ Halloween
Eddie Morales
Four out of five stars

      The old saw about not judging a book by its cover comes to mind when a reader picks
up poet Eddie Morales’ spooky Count Edweird Lefang’s Rhymin’ Halloween and sees a
cartoonish vampire more reminiscent of Count Dracula than Twilight’s handsome Edward
Cullen, with the pointy incisors and blood-red eyes.  Inside, the poems are printed in a
Gothic font, which may inspire the reader to recite the poems aloud, as poems are meant to
be read, and either shout them in menacing glee, if told from the point of view of a vampire
or banshee, or whisper them in mournful tones, if a ghost or Frankenstein’s monster
happen to be the narrators.

      Once the reader starts to recite the poems, the power of the words takes over and the
silly cover is forgotten. Count Lefang, who laments his vampire existence and his lost
humanity, even as blood thirst drives him to kill, narrates the first few poems.
Subsequent poems are written in the voices of other archetypal creatures of darkness,
including witches, ghouls, gremlins, skeletons, werewolves, and mummies. Morales dares
to stray into rousing lyrical territory both in form and subject. Sonnet, sestina, rondeau
redoublé, limerick, roundel, haiku, Pantoum, Terza Rima, and ballad are fair game, and
they get coupled with the characters of horror films. And the poems’ titles are just as fun as
the verses themselves, such as “A Triolet to a Vampire’s Immortality,” “A Douzet from the
Werewolf,” and “Ode to My Ghoulfriend.”

      Stretching the boundaries of what counts as Halloween poetry, Morales ventures into
ancient Greek myths of creatures like Medusa and historic Egyptian figures like Imhotep.
The poet clearly enjoys experimenting with a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s
“The Raven,” titled a “Murder of Ravens,” in which things don’t go much better for the tragic
narrator. Some poems are funny, some are creepy, and some are sad, but all of them
share an intensity and earnestness that demonstrate Morales’s respect for the poem as a
form of art used to convey story, emotions, and ideas.

      The author of two previous books of poetry, A Reason for Rhyme and The Suicide
Sonnets, Morales is passionate about the rhyming form. In his introduction to Count
Edweird Lefang’s Rhymin’ Halloween, he laments the dearth of rhyming verse in modern
poetry, fearing it is becoming a lost art. If the poems in his new collection compel readers to
seek out works by Poe or Mary Shelley or Bram Stoker, then mission accomplished.
                                                                                                                      Olivia Boler
MY FIRST BOOK REVIEW OF THE SUICIDE SONNETS
THANKS FOR THE VISIT
NON-RHYMING VERSUS RHYMING POETRY
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ISBN 978-0615565163 FOR SOFTCOVER
COUNT EDWEIRD LEFANG'S RHYMIN' HALLOWEEN
BEST FOR ME IF ORDERED FROM HERE
THIS IS MY
NEW BOOK
OF POETRY
AND IT'S NOT
JUST FOR
HALLOWEEN
AND IT IS
AVAILABLE
NOW.
I HOPE YOU
HAVE AS
MUCH FUN
READING IT
AS I DID
WRITING IT.