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'THE NIGHT CREW,' MY SERIAL SHINIGAMI POEMS, MAY NOW BE FOUND AT www.shinigamiverse.yolasite.com 
Santiago del Dardano Turann was born in April of 1968 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He grew up in rural Butler county. After a period of wandering he finally settled in San Francisco, California. He does not have a college degree and has worked blue collar and retail jobs his whole adult life. He only began to write poetry in 2006. Since beginning to submit work in 2007, the majority of the poems on this site have been already been published either online or in print journals. All work is to be considered copywritten by the poet. It may be reproduced with attribution to Santiago del Dardano Turann. N.B. The exception are those poems found on the 'SHINIGAMI' thread. Contact: charrea @ yahoo.com ANTI-JIHAD The Beast in the Park The Rope Trick The Metal Cats The People of Grievances Where have all the Fatwas Gone? The Crimson Brick Road The Idols of Babylon The Winged Serpents The Metaphysical Sandstorm ANTI-OLIGARCHY Solutions for Occupy Wall Street Occupy Wall Street; Don't Play their Games! Goldman Sach's Bridge to Wealth Rage Against Wall Street Uncle Ben's Magic Money Machine The Bankers' Bubble Don't Bash the Bankers? On the Super Congress Hunting Ground of the Mega-Forms To Serve the Bankers World for Sale Cut off the Welfare Queens A Banking Lesson from 0.3% Hey Oligarchs, Off-World Yourselves Already! Or, The Uses of Transhumanism The Dark Saints The Electronic Imperial Ottoman Empire The Haunting of Woodrow Wilson Bankers' Springtime The Great Pirate Age The Bankers' BBQ The Post-Industrial Wasteland Goldman Sachs: the Vampire Circus Land of Darkness, Land of Debt The Pension Rag Consuming the Forests of Britain The Prophets of Baal A Letter from Rocroi The October Revolution The Island of the Cyclopses The Festival ANTINOUS Antinous in a Meadow Reflections on a Bust of Antinous A Hymn to Antinous A Lament for Antinous
AMERICAN INDIANS Hungry Cub after his First Battle The Weasel who Befriended the Moon The Old North Trail Ballad of the Thunder Pipe The Ballad of Mouse's Road The Return of the Thunder People White Fur and the Sharp Tooth Clan The North Wind and the South Wind The Cheyenne Arrowmaker The Phantom Tipis
CHRISTMAS POEMS FOR NATALIA The Christmas Cottage The Ballad of Santa's Flight Jack Frost The Snow Faeries A Christmas Wish
CLASSICAL A Hymn to Eros The Floating Island of Æolus Reflections on a Bust of Antinoüs Mercury and Argus The Crazed Centaur A Hymn to Artemis Charrea's Letter to his Brother The Winged Serpents Cleopatra's Spell The Retired Centurion The Abandoned Villa An Ode to Eos The Last Centenarius The Funeral of Patroclus
CLASSICAL LAMENTS The Death of Hylas The Death of Adonis The Death of Antinoüs A Lament for Patroclus The Death of Hepaestion A Lament for Arcadia DREAMS & POETIC VISIONS The Fox Dance The Underground Forest A Dragon Gate An Inner Earth Journey A Midnight Fox Gathering A Crown of Standing-Stones Dance of the Firedrakes The White Harbor of Kami The Hidden Sea of Volcanoes The Fox Trail The Astral Graveyard The Hawk Land The Gate of Secrets The Rose-Stone Temple The Transformed Castle The Coral Garden The Dream Builders The Fox Land The Phoenix Pool The Asura Cliffs The Night Crew The Dream of the Two Eagles Hidden in the Giant's Causeway The Figure by the Stairs The Lords of Akakor The Park Between the Realms Chasing Daydreams The Tower The Dragon Pyramids The Asura Gate Landscape on the Edge of Thought The Cast of Hawks The Red Lighthouse Sky Bridges Summits before the Solar Flares The Dream of the Hummingbird Dream of the Four White Dragons The Dream of Eros Awakening The Dream of the Well The Dream of the Ruined Church The Tree in the Arch The Dream of Regeneration The Funeral Procession Deeper and Higher The Sibyl's Station Dream of the Bone Cavern Homage of the Thunderbird The Thunder Circle Dream The Emergence of Poetry Dream Vision of the Land of Youth The Fenrir Vault ECLOGUES 1) What is Love? 2) Is Woman Good or Bad? 3) On Respect 4) The Torment of Love 5) Is Nature Good or Bad? 6) Which Love is Better: Gay or Straight? 7) What is Happiness? 8) Carmina Pastorum: Daphnis 9) Carmina Agricolarum: Antonio de Jalisco 10) A Lament for Arcadia
FOLKLORE & BALLADS Beware El Coco Ballad of the Rose Ballad of the Willow Garland Robin Goodfellow Jack Frost Jack o' the Green The Maiden on the Moor The Flower Fairy The Mare's Braids The Pilgrim to Walsingham A Return of an Exiled Acadian Ballad of the Fairy Changeling A Ballad: I Told my Sadness Within the Barrow I Heard a Fairy Tune Celtic Tree Lore FRAGMENTS OF THE 1610 DE LARA EXPEDITION TO THE AMAZON IN SEARCH OF THE FAMED EL DORADO Below: The Wren in the Condo Parking Garage  |
Come, Give Us The Mara of Chitwood Hollow The Testimony of Dr. Ahab Cromwell Unexpected Guests A Late Night Picnic The Wolf Belt The Rain Palace of the Snow Queen A Ghost
LOVE Come Walk with Me To Danny in Buena Vista Park Tasting the Moonlight Flowers A Youth on Van Ness To a Sleeping Youth on MUNI Between Us The Day you Left A Passing Greek Youth Visitation Brown Eyes Walking Home Alone At a Restaurant on Post Street Glances The Unattainable Lover The Folds of Sorrow Sonnets: 1, 5, 9, 10, 12, 16, 24, 30, 38, 51, 59, 66, 77, 84
MISC. The Crystal Skull The Phobos Monolith The Day the Statues Sang 10,500 BC The Morning Comes too Soon The Slopes of Mt. Abora The City is Erased The Wind Chimes Broken Light Zecharia Sitchin: 1920 - 2010 The Deva Realm at Market Street 24 Hour Fitness The Hill The Lost Boy The Chicken Tree Scribbled on a Blank Page Nocture #1 The City from a Rooftop at 4:00 AM 2:20 AM The Red Wolf Trust Moving The Lament of Otto III Our Loneliness A Foghorn past Midnight Melancholy Two Ravens in the Park Consolation to the Weightlifter Janos Baranyai Sunday Morning Bells The Temple of Melancholy MUNI Morning The Atlantean Crystal The Sidewalk The Sphinx of Desire Hayfever Shadows Mondays Lines Written in Dejection Twenty-Eight Years on Sleep must be Tended The Unwanted Patron Elian on the Water A Young Couple in the Metreon Starbuck's Intra Melancholicam Dactyl Steps On a Job Transfer In 1974 Lines Written in Illness The Tapestry
NATURE The Dawn Awaits To a Chrysanthemum On Passing a Robin Morning Fog A Sea Gull over San Francisco The Summer Clouds The Wren in the Condo Parking Garage The Stars are Waiting Watching the Rain On a California Beach at Night A Praying Mantis on Van Ness The Fog is Spilled Bush Poppies on MLK Jr. Drive The Wolf Moon A Fairy Fort in Golden Gate Park Orion Rising Ocean Mist A Snowfall in San Francisco Night Winds Gypsy Rain The Laurel Cutting February Winds On Looking for the Moon A Blackbird First Thunder of the Year December Sunsets The Evening Star Sunflowers on Van Ness San Francisco Rain Honeysuckle on 7th Street Footprints on the Beach Summer Heat In Midsummer Woods The Cloud Mountains Moon over the Night Time Pacific The Treasure of Anza Street New Year's Matins Return of the Smooth Owl's Clover A Choir of Nightingales The Robin and the Nightingale The Gulls A Late Afternoon Rainshower The Elements To the Evening Star The Murder of Crows The Full Summer Moon The Rites of Dawn Will you Sing to Me, Dear Rain? Lesson of the Butterfly Three Little Girls The Fog The First Rain of the Season Late California Summer The Passing Birds A Dandelion My Sparrow Once and Furture Greatness The Crescent Moon NEWER POEMS The Young Camellia Tree The Voices of the Trees The Bloodstone Hall Lament for Katherine Anne The Solar Tube The Forest Temple Flight on the Hawk Trail The Fox Dance Stairways of the Sylphs A Trail in Golden Gate Park The Urban Hobgoblins The Underground Forest A Dragon Gate The Youth at the McAllister Bus Stop An Inner Earth Journey A Midnight Fox Gathering Saint Kurzweil's Rapture The Saturn Hexagon On the Dark Side of the Moon The Autumn Creeps
NORTHERN EUROPEAN The Morag The Viking Raid The Tale of Aed the Warrior St. Patrick and the Fenian Warriors Mark of the Mowing-Devils Thomas Tomkins in his Study The Troll Maid Frigga's Spinning The Satanic Sabbath Trek to the Black Sea OLD WEST Ballad of a Miner Forty-Niner Ballad of a Pony Express Messanger A Trapper's Rest Ballad of a Mountain Man's Grave Ballad of Jackson's Tombstone Ballad of the Ghost Buffalo Run
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PHILOSOPHICAL & RELIGIOUS Saint Kurzweil's Rapture The Kami by the Road The Confession of Prof. Mathias Laerston Dr. Persinger's Brain-Spirit Side Show Faith of the Materialists Does Consciousness Create? The Wheel of Fortune A Cup of Chrysanthemum Tea The Game of Deconstruction The Mountains of Marin The Echoed Forest Thoughts with Earl Grey A Rainbow in the Sunset District Religious Questions at Twilight The Doorways of the Mind The Engineer's Words The Sphinx Meditation: Religious Questions 2 Religious Questions 3 Yes, I have the Fairy Faith An Argument with Klaatu The Storm Discourse of Palden Dorje The Logos is the Sun of Truth An Argument Concerning my Leofmon All Saint's Day The Diversity of Flowers Savage's Rosh HaShannah Sermon Time The Shrunken Heads The Still OI KYPIOI XPONOU The Hidden Shine Perhaps The Pigeon's Tale The Dispute of God and Man The Amoral Void Mediatio Pulchritudinis Tertullian's Plea The Unmoved Mover Variations on Psalm 1 Without and Within De Mysteriis Mundi Struggling with Forgiveness The Dispute of Heydy and Kalon Sonnets: 7, 18, 21, 48, 78, 94
POETIC JAPANESE TALES The Willow Wife Raitaro: the Thunder Child Tears of Prince Shotoku The Adventuers of Takuya A Letter from a Hermit The Death of Taira no Atsumori The Nekomata's Advice Funakosi and the Tengu An Interview with a Kappa The Lost Yokai A Samuari's Tale The Ghost Samurai
POLITICAL & SOCIAL Obama to the Debt Collectors: 'Yes, you can!' Free to Speak Censorship in the Palm of my Hand My Cesium Stew Observations on a Few Dollars No Play in the Yellow Rain 1989 No More Digital Smiles Song of a TSA Agent Big Sis Says TSA Welcome Song My Father's Wage Yes, the World in Overpopulated Offended 'Hope' in the Garage How to Succeed as a Fraud "Now you don't have to be different." Illegal Boyhood Sometimes I Miss the Soviets The Zombie Herd The Flower of Corruption The Broken Wings The Great Drain of California The Swine Flu Hoax The Gulf Coast Oil Spill: the cost of half-a-million dollars On Getting the Gringo No Terrorist for Oil FriendlyFire Nostalgia for a Failed Apocalypse The 12 Labors of Obama The Wilted Flower Child The Magic Brush Progressive Pharisees A New Toy for the Left Those Evil Racists The Brats The Palestinian Dance of a 1000 Veils The Rhinestone Tears A Polemic against Ernesto 'Che' Guevera de la Serna The Funky Dandelions The Tide of Apathy The Tyranny-go-Round The Censors Covered Windows The Anti-War Protest
REFLECTIVE Afternoon Adagio Looking for Dragons The Hesperian Shore Standing in a Doorway On a Visit to the King Tut Exhibition Orchids in the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers The Abandoned Fire Boys at the King Tut Exhibit Sunday on Fell Street at 6:00AM March 1, 2009 A Cafe on Taraval The Norway Spiral Ladders Invisible Dawn Sealed Moments Lesson of the Bumblebee The Buried Mirror Passing Curiosities The Flame Scattered Words Lost in Maps Centering the Universe in a Park On Books The Yearning Rays of Light Observations on 7th Street The Cycle of Desire The Chain of Memory Sonnets: 3, 36, 42, 58, 61, 67, 74, 79, 93, 97
The Saturn Hexagon On the Dark Side of the Moon The Phobos Monolith Nibiru: Planet X Martian Horizon The Black Hole Adrift in Space Godzilla SHINIGAMI The Night Crew The Mara of Chitwood Hollow The Park Between the Realms The Matobo Hills Portal
SPAIN & SPANISH AMERICA Ghost of a Mayan Holy Lord upon the Ruins Santiago y cierra, Espana Reflections of the Sarcophagus Lid of Pacal The Nymph of the Miño River The Idittu A Letter from Rocroi The Vision of Lady Xoc The Rider from Vera Smoking Frog's Coup The Vision of Col. Percy Fawcett Unexpected Guests Remembrances of a Spanish Soldier The Water Lily Pond The Retired Centurion The Abandoned Villa Etzlicoyotl: Aztec Reflections Big Corn in his Milpa The Cantabrian Unicorn The Death of Fafila THE TREE POEMS A Cherry Tree on Van Ness Ave. A Tibouchina in a Courtyard The Old Tulip Tree The Laurel Cherry Blossoms in Golden Gate Park The Abandoned Elm The Maples The Pope in the Hazel Grove The Hawthorn The Silver Linden THE LITTLE BOOK OF SONNETS Sonnets 1 – 100  |
