Late one night, I wrote berserkly;
Perky for my work was quirky,
Slightly smirky... jerky!
As I lay down and I read…
But in the murky darkness lurked ‘he’,
CHICKEN, as I read.
Lighting set to see my writing,
Righting wrongs I’d wrote, reciting.
THEN a sighting left me biting
Nails until I bled…
Fear igniting bird delighting
Cruelly, as I bled.
“CHICKEN, with your spiteful staring,
Glaring is that beak you’re wearing!
Damn, you’re daring! Sat preparing
Darkness in your head!
Foulness flaring; subtly sharing
Darkness, from your head”.
- ‘Surely dreams will halt despairing…
I shall rest my head’. -
Then he turned, that CHICKEN dancing,
Prancing, up my bed advancing…
Grimly glancing… dancing!
Was that CHICKEN on my bed…
Timely trancing, sheet romancing
CHICKEN, on my bed!
“No!” It seemed he’d spied me peeking,
Freaking at my mattress creaking!
Slyly sneaking… seeking
Something?! CHICKEN, bird of dread…
Bed sheet beaking, EVIL reeking
CHICKEN, bird of dread!
- How I wished that bird was Peking.
Here is what I said: -
“YOU from murky darkness lurking,
Watching, as my work I read, yes
YOU the fear igniting bird delighting
Cruelly, as I bled, yes
YOU uncaring, MONSTER sharing
Darkness that’s inside your head!
You timely trancing, sheet romancing
CHICKEN
GET FROM OFF MY BED!
You bed sheet beaking, EVIL reeking
CHICKEN,
SPITEFUL BIRD OF DREAD!”
The CHICKEN seemed to like me crying;
Lying there… and started FLYING!
Terrifying CHICKEN flying
Down towards my head!
HORRIFYING, sense defying
CHICKEN on my head!
- How I wished that bird was FRYING…
SPITEFUL BIRD OF DREAD! –
“GO, be gone and leave me snoozing!”
Oozing darkness, CHICKEN… fusing?
So CONFUSING! Saneness losing!
CHICKEN in my head?
Brain abusing, muse infusing
CHICKEN in my head!
Peck-peck-pecking,
Peck-peck-pecking.
Peck.
Peck.
Peck.
© David J Martin (2009)
Gold trophy winner
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