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I love Samuel Taylor Coleridge he’s a poet I turn too!

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I particularly like his "Rime" and he was an astute literary critic as well. Too bad about the man from Porlock!

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This is a fabulous post, Mike, that totally captures the spirit of Halloween. I will restack the poem 'Vampires' from it because I like it so much. But, before I do so, I have one question for you: In what way is 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' a Halloween poem?

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I'm glad you like my poem "Vampires" and I think fans of Halloween will like it too. I have included "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" because it features a ship of the dead/undead. Ditto for "The Highwayman" with its ghostly protagonists.

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Ah, now I get it! Thanks for telling me that. It's a crucial detail I often overlook when I am reading it.

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Coleridge's ship of the dead/undead may have been the inspiration for the popular Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

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I like those movies. Well, the first two. Then they got a bit repetitive.

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Yes, sequels seldom live up to the originals. The first Friday the 13th movie was actually pretty good, in a gory way. After that, disaster after disaster.

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Poets I am meeting for the first time, thank you so much, I took all afternoon to read VAMPIRE POETRY

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I'm glad you found my Vampire Poetry page interesting enough to read so thoroughly. Some pretty good pictures too, I think.

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Lovely pictures

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Some of my favorites, glad you liked them.

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The Giaour

George Gordon, Lord Byron

I love him too, how could I not.

He’s over there hanging out

with all the rest

they like it here in the living room.

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I have long suspected that Byron inspired the creature in Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein," due to his troubled relationship with his Creator and his club foot.

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I didn’t know that.

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It's a unique theory of mine. I haven't heard it anywhere else. I may write an article on the subject.

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Yes, write an article, it hasn’t been written before, so write it, bring it alive, it lives, giggle giggle.

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I think I shall!

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Wow

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Some interesting history, I think.

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Yeah man. Anne Rice

knew how to get rich

off the hierarchical history

of their bloodlust.

Ah, for a mansion in New Orleans.

Chistopher too could interest once,

I vaguely recall a Louisiana flood.

Stan probably never earned a dime,

but yet (I think) got honorably mentioned

every time.. Poetry in Chcago--

ah, what a conquest!

All just in jest.

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Anne Rice certainly delved that mine for all it was worth.

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