{"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":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3828 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hauntedile1-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"579\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hauntedile1-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hauntedile1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hauntedile1-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/hauntedile1.jpg 1085w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/579;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">The Haunted Isle\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By Richard H. Fay<\/p>\n<p>I lie beyond the narrow sandy strand,<br \/>\nA jagged mote upon the horizon,<br \/>\nA rugged speck upon the ocean.<br \/>\nSailors skirt past my flanks in morbid dread.<br \/>\nMy dark hollows house the unshriven dead.<\/p>\n<p>I lie amongst the angry, swelling waves.<br \/>\nChurning foam obscures my treacherous shoals,<br \/>\nDoom for innumerable imperilled souls.<br \/>\nWretched spirits weep on my savage shore,<br \/>\nUnheard above Poseidon&#8217;s constant roar.<\/p>\n<p>I lie shrouded in a bleak, swirling mist,<br \/>\nCloaked in an eternal obscurity,<br \/>\nWracked by a turbulent, restless sea.<br \/>\nHaggard spectres drift amidst my grey stones,<br \/>\nVainly searching for their sun-bleached bones<\/p>\n<p>I lie beyond a mortal&#8217;s tenuous ken,<br \/>\nA dismal harbour for woeful secrets,<br \/>\nA forlorn abode of abject regrets.<br \/>\nRendered barren by the sea&#8217;s bitter breath,<br \/>\nMy rocky bosom knows nothing but death.<\/p>\n<p>(Poem originally published in Illumen Issue 8, Spring 2008.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lie beyond the narrow sandy strand,<br \/>\nA jagged mote upon the horizon,<br \/>\nA rugged speck upon the ocean.<br \/>\nSailors skirt past my flanks in morbid dread.<br \/>\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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}