Dark Poetry #5 |
Trail of Twilight |
XGarapanX Senior Member
since 2008-06-19
Posts 1435Antarctica |
I wrote this as a tag poem with the Topic being "Porcupine". I simply had to include the word in any way with a five minute time limit to write out the poem. I don't think I met the time limit. Private drama unfolds lightly in the den behind the oaken trees; Rustling and snarling barely heard above the noise of the twilight hosts. The smell and colors of livid, yet fading green almost puts a taste to the scene written in sounds and in subtle movements whose lulling cast enshrouds the blind third eye in deceptive reverie. A flash of brown and black interrupts the enchantment for a thought, for a revelation of apprehensions hour when trepidation and wonder separate at last; the rustle, the tussle, the benevolent seeming panoply of natures evening scenes, drawn into an alarming focused orb as one great ball of lightning frenzied haste. They run as the wind, joining the sea of trees in her rushing waves their feet fly Mercurial never touching the ground, disturbing no brush and crushing no blade or streaming grass. Falling, now. Falling down the riverbank, breathing in water, air and choking mud as they crash and splash their way to safety's bounds, elusive. Breathing. Gasping. Breathing. Pensively peering behind, skin bristling taut as a porcupine, Waiting for the rending claws to shatter, to spray in crimson death and splatter their precious life upon the brush, loneliness and twilight make for sad story endings. No witnesses to tell except the crickets in the cold trees, and the frogs croaking merrily. Oh silly me. Oh silly us. Why did we venture there irreverently? So carelessly and so naive to bump into a waiting heap of muscles, claws and teeth? It slips through the unlighted shroud of morbid dark, In the shadows where eyes will not look for fear. The shape of terror halts just beyond the cowering fools- Their time has come, their time to be away from life and light. Laughter. © ·´~`·»Garapan«·´~`· 2011 ·´~`·»Garapan«·´~`· "Look! Crumbs on his jacketses... Heeee took it!" |
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LaGraceLa Member
since 2011-01-30
Posts 243Minnesota, USA |
That is amazing. I love how some of the things you wrote were so simple, yet the next line could be so complex. Simply amazing. |
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XGarapanX Senior Member
since 2008-06-19
Posts 1435Antarctica |
Thank you, LaGrace. I'm pleased that you liked it. ·´~`·»Garapan«·´~`· "Look! Crumbs on his jacketses... Heeee took it!" |
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