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Land of The Merry Magic Marionettes
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Land of the Merry Magic Marionettes
by Samuel Ludke
Step behind the velvet curtain and into a world where strings shimmer with sorcery and puppets whisper secrets older than time.
In Land of the Merry Magic Marionettes, poet Samuel Ludke conjures a surreal, spellbinding landscape where wood remembers, laughter echoes through cobbled twilight streets, and marionettes dance not by command, but by the music of their own mysterious will. Each poem is a thread-delicate, deliberate-pulling readers deeper into a carnival of the uncanny, where joy wears a painted mask and magic hides in plain sight.
Through lyrical flourishes and dreamlike storytelling, Ludke blurs the line between puppet and puppeteer, performance and reality, myth and memory. This is not merely a poetry collection-it is a stage, and every stanza a spotlight.
Perfect for lovers of the whimsical, the eerie, and the enchantingly strange, Land of the Merry Magic Marionettes invites you to lose yourself in a place where wonder waltzes with the weird, and every string tells a story.
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