American Gothic Poem by Ahmad Shiddiqi

American Gothic

Rating: 3.8


(dedicated to Kim Schilling, a poet friend)

wild
tense
exotic
anguish

castle
almost ruin
ghosts
mysterious

secrets
gruesome
characters
specific setting

a girl
clever
escape
faith's power

soul
fear
deepest
unconscious

first
American
professional
author

four
horror
novels
in two years

Ormond
Wieland
Arthur Mervyn
Edgar Huntley

a pioneer to
Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne

(inspired by Charles Brockden Brown's novels)

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Melisa Chabot 30 August 2008

This is a good one, i like your choice of words. Keep on writing!

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Stacey Watts 30 August 2008

very good writing. I like this poem alot.

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Demon lover 30 August 2008

very well done.keep it up.

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Sarwar Chowdhury 30 August 2008

...a different style of expression....I enjoyed it......10

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Vampire Heart 30 August 2008

Nice poem, I like the dark, melancholic synomyms used in this poem to describe the gothic subculture. Lovely.

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~ Jon London ~ 10 February 2009

Your styling is great, its different and thats why i like it, you're a poet my friend. Keep creating that voice Best wishes Jon

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Demon lover 03 November 2008

I like it alot. its very unique

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Fred Babbin 10 September 2008

Again, your style is unusual, and takes getting used to.

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Ben Gieske 01 September 2008

I am not familiar with all of these people and so cannot appreciate every thing that is said and I haven’t yet caught on to all the meanings intended: ex., a girl clever escape faith's power I will have to do more reading I see.

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Juan Carlos Abeti 30 August 2008

Hey, this it is a good one, i like the way how you wrote it and the use of those few words, you did a lot with them....great.....

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Ahmad Shiddiqi

Ahmad Shiddiqi

Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia
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