Got to go to sleep. But today I'll post a strange poem first.
My entire family collaborated on this one, by each supplying a phrase and challenging me to incorporate these three phrases in a poem.
"There's no lines" ... Courtesy hubby Anto the sadist! This line gave me an idea for a poem, but then...
"Big Red box" - Luke the 6 year old!
"I won the silver key" - Josh the 5 year old sudden winner at Subway! So that's how this poem got written.
There's No Lines...
I took a house upon the hills
There besides the dark green woods
Ran a silvery rail line track
And a burbling silvery brook
I walked upon the lonely heath
And the shady sylvan woods
I sipped from yonder silken stream
Oh! What a blessed interlude
One morn I woke up, 'twas a fateful day
Evil hung upon the moor like gloom
From the window's hollowed eyes
A blood red ghastly sun did loom
The silver crucifix I glimpsed in cloistered hall,
Hung upside down now, with a gasp I espied
I couldn't breathe, frozen in awful fear
For I saw...
There were no lines outside!
The rolling hills, the silent shimmering brook
The gloating green of gluttonous woods
Were cobwebbed with unholy drifting mist
"There's no lines" I cried, "oh! how is this?"
In despair I ran back to my door
Upon the steps a big red box it bore!
By dint of effort and strength of mind
I won the silver key to it, for 'twas hard to find.
And by the turning of pale silver crucifix
Which had hung upside down, the lock did click
Stunned by my vision I closed my eyes
For deep inside the box, a sight fearsome lies.
Inside was...
A moss overgrown grave of a demoness queen
Her eyes would madden your mind, and oh! slay your dreams
As she arose bifurcating the ancient ravaged ground
Baring yellowish teeth of bloodthirsty hound
Then,
An approaching mail made its last appointment
As with a long lasting screech it pierced this witch's veil
And tore time apart like a frail spinning top
Ricocheted negotiating its final spiralling drop.
The demoness queen howled once, twice,
Full three times thrice!
It opened its tunneling mouth, in a horrific trice,
in the clutch of moment's unwary breath
Hurtled entire train and tracks, into gaping maws of
Most nauseous wraith
Swallowed by enormous ogress who towered
like certain death
Her skeletal form encompassing all four walls of space
East to West, from North to South
For one moment was both sun and sky blocked out
In the murderous darkness of unnatural night
In a red box, like blood shone her eerie eyes
Like coiled serpents pulsating, with slithering hiss
They spoke strangest tongue of hypnosis.
She was gone when I came to
My eyes had cleared and my head was light
The sun shone mild, its tints of yellow gold
The hills the woods and the chortling rill looked
Just as of old...
I weary and driven by an unpleasant care
Looked down to survey the heath below
And up loomed an engine with a piercing whistle
Setting silver tracks whirring it came in all aglow
Bright red barrelling in it came so big and strong
The shrieking tracks buzzed and hummed
A most gruesome song
Twin posts of mighty cedar, in burnished silver fell down in a lurid cross
The train derailed towards the left, and from the tracks, veered off
I saw the grave it hit in serrated flash of lights
Alas! Once again, against the cowering skies
I witnessed the ogress of darkness open her door
Ten times blacker than ever human vision bore
And every light and every sight
Was wiped off my ken by her demonic eyes
I saw only in replay endless waking dreams
A long line of coaches forever going in
To the maws of darkness entailed to death
And erased away all tracks of it, upon the heath
To this day, the evil that laid bare the hills
Robbed the merry gurgle of wayward rill
Hung the mist of care on silenced woods
Never returned the lines...
On which crashed most ominous rood.
Never returned an engine of pillbox red
Perhaps it trundles on through the pathways
Of the dead
Upon stolen tracks throbbing screaming silver
For that entire branch line did disappear.
And green and swollen with its sickly knowledge
Trees in the woods whisper
As stories rustle and murder courage
A hideous murmer amidst brooding foliage
The tale of vanishing tracks and the train of
Crimson carnage
The sun flares, and glares singular eyewitness to
Long suppressed sin
And dull ghostly tracks and charnel train reflect only in
The copious funeral notes of a chuckling chilly stream.
© Amrita Valan 2015
