Amontillado

Crow!! I think you were truly inspired in this write! Such a natural flow of verses that tell the nuances of Poes characters. Love this one!!

Thanks DPW.  I'm glad it flows.  It might not be Amontillado but maybe Almaden.  

"Yes for the love of God!"  
Oh Crow, in love with Poe and this. This is my favorite thing you do, the hints and meaning are subtle, you don't have to know the story to appreciate it. But I'm glad i did. Makes me hungry for Halloween, always like to pick up Edgar round then. What a facinating and disturbed, brilliant man, just like i like em!  

"In pace requiescat."  
Kudos my lovely, brilliant Crowfly.

💙Jennifer
(ooh n the pic, bit of perfection.)

I'm glad it's possible to understand this without having read the story.  I wasn't sure.  Thanks Jennifer.  

(......And all for the lure, and love of fine wine....alas poor Fortunato!! )

My Friend, I believe that Poe would have been proud, knowing he helped to inspire your piece!

I especially enjoyed the irony incorporated in the final stanza...perhaps a bit of a double twist here, on the part of both Montressor, and Fortunato!

O, and your pic....a creepy compliment to your poem--adding just the right amount of "shivers" to this scribe !!

Thanks Enchantress!  I just hope Poe wouldn't be appalled.  And thanks for getting the last stanza.  I appreciate the careful read and the kind comment.

To write in the shadow of Poe is very brazen, Sir Crow. . .something you've been able to capture makes you worthy of Poe's sentiments (if he were alive today). . .And that's a compliment. . .xoxo, Devlin;)

You're right.  Poe is a tough (or even impossible) act to follow and has been ever since his demise.  No harm in trying though, unless I get walled up for my efforts.  Thanks Devlin!

Not just anyone could pull a poem like this off, however...as a Poe fan, you did fucking fabulous here. Poe, himself would say so if he were alive to read this..I found this to be eerie and brilliant. <3

Thank you Lady!  I'm so glad you're pleased, not disappointed, being a Poe fan.  If you're happy I'm happy!

being claustrophobic this ink made me wince though it is a great tribute Poe..

with a very powerful ending..

"Fortunato cries out "For the love of God!"
But his words lack true conviction
Montressor believes his logic to be flawed
In fact little more than fiction."

he believes his faith to be fiction very ironic leaves a sting at the end feeling for Fortunato..

masterful ink with love Crim

Thank you Crim!  I'm not fond of being confined to small spaces myself.  I'm more nervous with heights.  Poe's "The Lighthouse" had its moments...

that's a fine vintage that'll put out your lights for good. sparkling...

I usually just go with a couple of shots of vodka, being a proud philistine.  Thanks John!

This and "The Telltale Heart" are two of my favorites from my early teenage Poe phase. Because they freaked me out the most. I enjoy this poetic revisit to the catacombs of Poe's mind. The mortar was fresh, why didn't he just put his back into it :) A fine sequel "Escape with the cask of Amontillado."

"The Fall of the House of Usher" was my personal favorite.  Perfect suspense, and an atmosphere of mounting dread and horror.  But it's hard to beat the climax of "Heart" with the madman ripping up the floorboards and imploring the police to silence that pounding heart.  Thanks Gahdess!

"Amontillado" does put the mort in mortar ba dump bump tsssssss!

Thanks for such a sweet compliment Taryn!  Poe's worth the effort.  "The Raven" is a good place to start for his poems.  I'd stay away from "The Bells" ("how they tinkle tinkle tinkle in the icy air of night!").  "The Tell Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado" and "Fall of the House of Usher" might be his best stories.   In a way it's an advantage not to have studied the poets favored in classes.  This way you're more likely to come up with truly original work and not just emulate the classics.  You've done beautifully.

Great job on this hauntingly sorrowful tale, I enjoyed the picture created in my minds eye.

Nice one, Crowfly.:) Enjoyed the read. I wish I could write like that. (sigh)

This was Fabulous Crowfly and the last stanza was the icing on the cake..made me read it all over again..truly enjoyed!!

"The flavor of an angel's tears 
Dropped in this, the richest wine "

Ah, that's quite the secret ingredient,  isn't it?  This piece is rich in dark, metaphorical possibilities... As was Poe's original, but you did very well by it.  The ending, with Montressor holding judgement over him, is absolutely priceless,  *shivers.

Michael

Immurement to gain revenge still gives chills, my devout Poe addiction aside. lol. *gasp gulps & grin.
Most stellar ode with witty apropos ending.  'Clever Crow', says dark.. evermore...;)

"The flavor of an angel's tears    
Dropped in this, the richest wine"
~*this smoothly continuing to my second fave of pen crave...
here...
"But this nectar bringing little peace
Behind fresh bricks and mortar"
*~the transition 'tween the end of one stanza to the beginning of next stanza this way.. I believe you have
nailed [or bricked] it w/EAP finesse!  both meter and rhyme.. sublime as well..

I am sweetly in awe m'dears.. the end is prime example of your fine writing skill. You pen life & personality
to all characters you've taken on. *powers much. ;)
lovely nite to you,
~d

Ooh goodness lol,
how amazing! I love
E.A. Poe with all my
existing fibers,

To share.. in another
era, I breathed of him

;)

Good job my crowfly bravado!

-Howlings

That's a mysterious share, Howlings!  I'd like to know more.  Would this have been an earlier life?  Anything's possible....  Thanks for the kind comment, quoth the Crow!