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In the moonlight, shadows dancing (in response to Hootessa's challenge) |
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LngJhnAg Member Elite
since 1999-07-23
Posts 3508Boot+Kitty=Poetry in motion 
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In the moonlight, shadows dancing, As they creep across my wall. The trees outside my window, glancing, Reaching for me as the wind calls. In the moonlight, shadows dancing, Reflecting the hunger from ‘neathe my bed. Reaching, grasping, the necromantic Fortelling of the unclean dead. In the moonlight, shadows dancing, The wind increases its mournful cry. My beating heart now enhancing, The evil wishes that I die. In the moonlight, shadows dancing Around my bed as fear seethes o'er. Reaching, feasting, oh, romancing, Tearing at Hell's inner doors. In the moonlight, shadows dancing, Ripping my heart from my chest. No longer are the demons fasting, As they devour whatever's left. In the moonlight, shadows dancing, Now I'm gone, I've lost my fight. You will be next, Hell's ever panting For souls to take in the dark night. In the moonlight, shadows dancing, Do you hear the creaking floor?.... |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Your's is certainly different! LOL But seriously, it's also very well written and spooky! Good job!  |
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Marilyn Member Elite
since 1999-09-26
Posts 2621Ontario, Canada |
Great piece Sailor. Well written and very dark. I enjoy reading the more serious side of you from time to time.  |
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LngJhnAg Member Elite
since 1999-07-23
Posts 3508Boot+Kitty=Poetry in motion |
Hugs to you, oh deVine one. Thanks for that comment. I usually don't write dark stuff because it scares me later at night when the floor creaks. I blame it all on my brother, who convinced me at an early age that something really WAS hiding under my bed, ready to grab an untended arm or leg and pull me to my doom. Even now, I still wonder.. what was that noise? It didn't sound like any other noise I've heard. There it goes again, only its closer and more desperate..... |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
LOL at LJA! First, great stuff! Second, I did the same to my little brother...and he hasn't let me forget it these many years past, either! Sunshine Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
What a strange lad you are, Mikey boy! Whew! A little radioactive waste drip into your sandwich at lunch?? This is gruesome. I like it!!!  |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Whew! Scarey stuff here, Mike! Sure makes me glad I don't have to sleep alone at night! You've got a very active imagination! Well done! Denise |
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Lorelei54 Member
since 1999-07-27
Posts 458 |
Couldn't let the chance pass by To tell you about this silly ole' guy... The second his weary head hits the pillow His eyes are shut, and he'd never see anything billow. As for monsters coming from under our bed Impossible! it's all closed in as tight as lead. But he does have a passion for sheets tucked in tight So somehwere, somehow, he must have been given a terrible fright. |
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LngJhnAg Member Elite
since 1999-07-23
Posts 3508Boot+Kitty=Poetry in motion |
Yep - lil Lorelei has told on me - I keep tjhose covers tight and I don't let any part of me dangle over the side of the bed Just shut up, Toe! Don't say ONE thing! lol |
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Corinne Member Ascendant
since 1999-10-28
Posts 5167state of confusion |
Dear Mike, I used to have this fear too, monsters under my bed, so I grabbed my daddy's tools sawed off the legs instead! Now no bogey man can fit, even though I'm a grown up now, 'cause I discovered the Futon it folds up, let me show you how! Had that squeaky floor board fixed by Randy the Handyman, got a lock for the closet door, plus all Randy's attention span! Yes, Randy likes that futon, he's afraid of the dark as well! He's scared that my Victorian walls might be the gateway to Hell! So I sent Randy packin' got me a nightlight instead, no longer afraid,just decided I'd rather have a king sized bed! Corinne [This message has been edited by Corinne (edited 01-24-2000).] |
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WhtDove Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-22
Posts 9245Illinois |
LJA this was one to make the heart tremble! Very good! Hey, I was told them things would grab a limb or two if they were left hanging out. So I just beat them all up and well they ain't been back. LOL @ Corinne! Good one! |
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Echo Rhayne Senior Member
since 1999-09-17
Posts 1495Canyon Country, CA |
Ahhhhhhhh *biting nails and looking for a place to hide* Just be glad I'm not your child! *evil grin* |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Ahhh, sailor... I really failed you when I didn't meet you in New Orleans for a tour of the cemeteries, didn't I? *EG* That could have fueled an already over-active imagination! LOL. Well done! But dangling over the edge of the bed??? Hmmmmmm... *EG* |
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hoot_owl_rn Member Patricius
since 1999-07-05
Posts 10750Glen Hope, PA USA |
Hey, this is some scary stuff here LJA. I'm so surprised, when I issued the challange, I thought I'd get a ton of sappy love poems....but very few are at all. Interesting mix I've gotten and I loved them all. Well written....challange well met At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~Plato |
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LngJhnAg Member Elite
since 1999-07-23
Posts 3508Boot+Kitty=Poetry in motion |
Corinne - lol@futon - what a terrific response. Did you really get rid of Randy? Yanno, you shoulda kept him around so that the next time the claws reached up from beneathe your bed, you could have fed Randy to the evil thing that lurks there. You didn't know it was there? oops... never mind, don't give it a second thought. *eg* Little White Dove - I know for a fact that you never tremble over the thing beneathe your bed (because you say your prayers every night, and, therefore, no evil will ever come for you that you cannot overcome). hugs Now now, Echo - no need to worry. Them ol' demons hate sweets ('cause there aren't any dentists where they come from), and you are sweetness through and through. So you just rest easy (stay away from Toe, though). Belle - I really wish we had gotten together in Nawlins - we could have had so much fun together. Hootessa - your challenge has certainly received a lot of answers. This is the most successful challenge I've ever seen in here. Great job. |
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