
#vss365 #poetry #BookSky #WritingCommunity
turn your head,
we're passing through the land of the dead
make no #sound,
keep your eyes to the sky
let the dead roll by,
remember, as they pass,
raising a skeletal hand
to the skeleton inside you
the dead are waving hello, not goodbye
Branches reach down to the sound of the earth, but pause just above the hungering soil — a super-attraction turned. The interval of nothingness balances between curtains sliding in shyness to interweave nearness and avoidance, like musical fingers hardly brushing the tip of an ice asparagus. #vss365
#vss365 In the small hours, Rossmore House woke to a woman shrieking and sobbing beneath the windows.
“Rossmore! Rossmore!”
Servants ran to their master’s room and found him dead in bed. For years they said the #sound had foretold his death. Nobody asked why the banshee came. #Edvane #DarkFantasy
What is the #sound
of a heart breaking?
A soul shaking
with tremors
of terrible finality?
The most radical
changing
is usually the one
that is never heard.
#WritingCommunity #vss365
#FromOneLine 432 #horrorprompt #poetry
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A Tree's Musings On Shut Doors
"My grandfather's walking stick
Was made of the fallen branch
Proffered by an old sloe tree
Standing on a nearby pasture"
They tell everybody in the village
Six inches
Of...
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