{"id":3826,"date":"2020-10-26T00:33:48","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T00:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2020-10-26T00:33:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T00:33:48","slug":"the-haunted-isle-by-richard-h-fay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/the-haunted-isle-by-richard-h-fay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Haunted Isle\u00a0By Richard H. Fay"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Haunted Isle\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By Richard H. Fay<\/p>\n

I lie beyond the narrow sandy strand,
\nA jagged mote upon the horizon,
\nA rugged speck upon the ocean.
\nSailors skirt past my flanks in morbid dread.
\nMy dark hollows house the unshriven dead.<\/p>\n

I lie amongst the angry, swelling waves.
\nChurning foam obscures my treacherous shoals,
\nDoom for innumerable imperilled souls.
\nWretched spirits weep on my savage shore,
\nUnheard above Poseidon’s constant roar.<\/p>\n

I lie shrouded in a bleak, swirling mist,
\nCloaked in an eternal obscurity,
\nWracked by a turbulent, restless sea.
\nHaggard spectres drift amidst my grey stones,
\nVainly searching for their sun-bleached bones<\/p>\n

I lie beyond a mortal’s tenuous ken,
\nA dismal harbour for woeful secrets,
\nA forlorn abode of abject regrets.
\nRendered barren by the sea’s bitter breath,
\nMy rocky bosom knows nothing but death.<\/p>\n

(Poem originally published in Illumen Issue 8, Spring 2008.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I lie beyond the narrow sandy strand,
\nA jagged mote upon the horizon,
\nA rugged speck upon the ocean.
\nSailors skirt past my flanks in morbid dread.
\nMy dark hollows house the unshriven dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-halloween-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t