She sat down, eyes dead and silent
To write her Book of Shadows
And the Shadows spake with heartless words
And laughed with empty laughter
Quill in hand the Wiccan Priestess
Heart torn and broken and empty
And pearls tossed to the swine
Came Halloween, she raised the curtains
To see the children having fun
The fun was false in the electric lights
Their happiness in painted smiles
She looked to her mirror pale and silent
The reflection once seemed to be alive
Now dark and deathly it stared back
With nothing in those darkened eyes
Even blood could not satisfy her soul
So none was drawn though the mirror waited
And seemed to ask for that sacrifice
It would not get it this time
The book lay open and pages written
In lifeless symbols that meant nothing
Nothing in the wilderness
Book of Shadows, written by her hand
Spake only of her bitter death
And rebirth into a dead and dark world
The only light that shone
Was the reflection in her eyes
Of golden candles to light the way
In the dark night of the soul
And so she stood at the edge of the abyss
And dared herself to look into its darkness
So that she may see more than she had ever seen
Something true and not painted and false
Like those children on Halloween night
And slowly but surely as the Book of Shadows opened
Something ... stared right back...
A contest entry
- Halloween Spooktacular ( for free verse only - plain background) by grannyeri.
1000 points, ended November 1, 2008, 4 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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wow!
good poem, maybe your fears are staring back?
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This is a great poem you have penned here, but the rules say just 25 lines. Hope you get to enter this in another contest another time. Liked your thoughts and ending expressed in this poem.
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Ah, but what is staring back...hope? Or bleak emptiness.
For some reason it is easy to feel like this these days, not sure why yet.
This is very richly written, good flow, great emotion without coming right out and saying it.
Good write.
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Thanx
Thank you Daemon Glasyalabolas..
I am not quite sure what it is staring back.. could be truth?
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