Tuesday 31 October 2017

GHOULAH


The moon a waxing gibbous she,
illuminates this hallowed ground   neath
silhouettes’ of swaying trees,
and in this graveyard here stand I
and drool as little kids pass by
and know this night I will not gorge upon the dead,
but indecent feasts of kids instead.

Anna :o]

Björn at dVerse hosts Poetics tonight and of course we are to write of monsters!  The twist is that we should give voice to said monsters, and above is my offering.  Cheers for the inspiration Björn!

(Also shared with the good folk at Real Toads – cheers Magaly.)

Oh dear, I seem to have a bone stuck between my teeth…kids! :o]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Image:  Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Source:   Le Père Peinard, in Le Péril anarchiste

22 comments:

Glenn Buttkus said...

Macabre, with tongue in cheek, with severed hands in mouth, with fear for an appetizer and danger as a companion.

Frank Hubeny said...

Dark and spooky for Halloween.

brudberg said...

Terrifying... and a treat for you... trick is on those kids.

They have not knocked on my door yet :-)

Vivian Zems said...

Children are definitely tastier-especially their legs😱😱

tonispencer said...

This is funny.
Loves them liddle kiddies,
they's my favorite meats.
tiny little noses,
crunchy liddle feets.

Dr. Vandana Sharma said...

spine chilling, kids better stay at home!!!

sarah said...

Trick or treat!!!

Jane Dougherty said...

I can see children probably make a pleasant change :)

Sanaa Rizvi said...

This is wonderfully spooky!!

Kim M. Russell said...

I love the gibbous waxing moon but the child-eater is so nasty!

Nosaint said...

Eeek! I like the Goreyesque gleefully macabre tone.

Magaly Guerrero said...

I'm laughing so hard at Jane's comment, that I can hardly type. Mostly, because I was thinking along the same lines, and I always believe that I will be the sickest of them all.

Freaking creepy.

Frank J. Tassone said...

a fitting tribute to that overlooked undead!

Thotpurge said...

Yikes!!! Child eating monsters!! Happy Halloween!

Colleen Looseleaf said...

Love it! A classic.

Sumana Roy said...

It has the knowledge of these feasts as indecent, though :) Oh so cleverly put.

Marian said...

Yikes! Glad I'm reading this in the morning. I *love* that first line and the placement of "she" :)

Jazzbumpa said...

Gives kids meal a whole new meaning

namaste
JzB

Martin said...

Eerie!

Gillena Cox said...

oh my my my this is just gruesome!!!

much love...

Jenny Woolf said...

Bet that was the creepiest of all the Halloween poems! :) Very good!

Pat R said...

Ah, fresh meat :) I like the take in the graveyard. Very Halloweeny:)