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0 posted 2006-08-02 12:56 PM




Upon the foot I was sitting
Of my welcoming bed
When I heard a faint a-tapping
From above my pondering head.
I turned about and shouted out
For enveloping me was dread.

The tapping tapped ferociously
I urged myself to doubt:
For no- this was no vampire
Nor beast of nature stout-
But quite, instead, a brave hero
Beckoning me to play,
Coaxing me to find the noise
So I could save the day.

At last my fingers grasped the knob
Encompassing the tap
I turned the brass and burst with fear
As light shone through the crack.

There was no gleaming hero
Steaming in the streaming light,
Nor a hungry, feasting evil beast
Tapping to spur on a fight.
But upon my eyes, my trembling eyes-
So surely they did see
A sorely sight, an evil blight
Steaming in that streaming light.

A knobby club, that evil chub
Was holding in his fingered stubs
Gnawed by his grinning yellow teeth-
That gnawed-out club- on me bequeathed.

I cried my poor, sore streaming eyes
And knew so soon that I would die
“But oh, not yet!” howled he and smiled:
“He is to suffer for his debt!”
And all at once came streaming in
My unpaid debt, my gambling bet.

…And, yet, the sun stopped steaming then
As I collapsed and groaned-
For in my heart- I thought it well

Knowing it was as a martyr -


That I’d descend to hell.




Eeek, there's something wrong that I can't figure out.

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1 posted 2006-08-02 12:11 PM


Darn I was hoping he would escape his ultimate fate too   Well done, great story poem.

Waste not a second ~ Carpe' Diem

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