| 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 |
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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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| Shakespeare's Sonnets In Plain English |
| Note about the poetry lessons: All Nine Chapters Are Complete |
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
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
| THANKS FOR THE VISIT |
| NON-RHYMING VERSUS RHYMING POETRY --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| TO ORDER GO TO THE SUICIDE SONNETS |
| TO ORDER GO TO A REASON FOR RHYME BEST FOR ME IF ORDERED FROM HERE |
| 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. |
