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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Sleepless Nights

[For today's prompt, write a horror poem. Make it scary. Make it cheesy. Make it funny. Whatever you do, link it somehow to horror. Who knows? Maybe someone will write the next great raven poem.]   


Sleepless Nights
Under light of the moon
the crackened earth moves
to modest gasps from below—
Dante’s hell whispering hello
unseen by human eyes
the souls like gas rise
their presence felt about
     by
        haunting
                   chilling
                            shout
that tosses and turns us out
of bed

2 comments:

Ivy said...

Great word 'crackened'!

Michael A. Wells said...

LOL - yeah it was the only thing good to come of this prompt. I didn't like the prompt when I started and didn't like the end result.