Melody Creek resides in East Tennessee where you can often find her writing poetry, reading thrillers, and making art.
Movie Buff by Ivan Jenson
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The farthest thunder that I heard XXVI by Emily Dickinson
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Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
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ULALUME by Edgar Allan Poe
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The Death of the Old Year by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892)
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The Magi by William Butler Yeats
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Christmas Comes Again by Elizabeth Stoddard
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Christmas Greetings by Lewis Carroll
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Dreamland by Edgar Allan Poe
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from: In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Lord Tennyson
from: In Memoriam A.H.H. by Alfred Lord Tennyson XXVIII The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist. Four voices of four hamlets round, From far and near, on mead and moor, Swell out and […]
The Pick-up Artist by Karol Nielsen
The Pick-up Artist by Karol Nielsen After graduating from the Columbia School of Journalism, I became the managing editor of a Bronx newspaper and my graduate school classmate became a stringer for The New York Times. I wanted to be a stringer, too. I gave him almost everything I had ever published and he recommended […]