The Library of Ashes
Here, every poem is a smoldering page — whispered confessions, soft ruins, and sacred rage. Wander newest to oldest.
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Impasta (A Diss in Pasta Form) | Tony Stanza’s Pasta Poetry Diss
Tony Stanza is back with another literary attack—and this time, he’s bringing pasta. Spaghetti, fettuccine, macaroni, ravioli, and angel hair become weapons in a ridiculous diss aimed at a poet whose rhymes are allegedly cheesy, fragile, and completely impasta.
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Lost in the Sauce | A Funny Love Poem About Heartbreak & Confusion
A playful heartbreak poem where sandwiches, ketchup, mustard, rye, lettuce, and sourdough become metaphors for emotional confusion. Beneath the food puns is a speaker trying to understand how everything went from “we’re okay” to suddenly feeling cold.
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Did You Really Think This Was About Trees? | A Playful Love Poem
A playful love poem disguised as a forest of terrible tree puns. Beneath the birch, oak, cedar, palms, lumber, and absurdist wordplay is a poem about devotion, loyalty, laughter, and building a life with someone you love.
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Blended Hardware — A Playful Poem About Friendship, Memory & Language
A playful, absurdist poem where step-ladders, garden hoses, Star Wars, teenage memories, Gothic imagery, and the poet’s own self-interrupting commentary collide. Blended Hardware is a celebration of letting language wander.
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Undead Symphony (Remix) — A Poem About Apathy, Empathy & Emotional Isolation
Undead Symphony (Remix) revisits a 2024 poem about loneliness, emotional numbness, empathy, and the contradiction of feeling deeply while keeping the heart guarded. This 2026 remix gives the original poem room to breathe while preserving its haunting emotional core.
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Fallen Angel’s Reckoning (Remix) — A Poem About Heartbreak, Rebirth & Reclaiming Yourself
Fallen Angel’s Reckoning (Remix) revisits a 2024 poem about heartbreak, broken promises, and falling from an imagined heaven, transforming its original ending into a darker meditation on resilience, self-reclamation, and learning to fly with broken wings.
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Homecoming — A Gothic Romantic Poem About Darkness, Horror & Finding Your Voice
Homecoming is a return to the Gothic aesthetic at the heart of Rowan Evans’s poetry, blending Poe, mythology, horror icons, moonlight, ravens, and darkness into a meditation on artistic identity and finding your way back to the voice that feels like home.
Poetry by Rowan Evans 