Maree Long

SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCHINGS....

Wednesday, 14. January 2009, 22:44:44

SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCHINGS....

scratch scratch scratchings
talons clawing on the lid
begging to be heard

Nothing good comes from waking ghosts
better ye let them lie in the grave
then let them awaken by memories
from thy dusty oaken coffins

that have long been sealed in the
recesses of darkened caverns of mazes
and catacoombs of the mind

so yes let the dead be dead
do not bring them to light
for they bear go good news
and will tell no new tales

let them have their songs
and sing of decaying dead
let them rot till they be no more
let them dissolve to dust
and be nought but silen ghostly
and distant wails

scratch scratch scratchings
scratch...
scratch.......
scrat...
scr....
s....

Maree Long
(c) Maree Long 2009

LOVE IN A BOXI HELD ON

Comments

Cois # 15. January 2009, 18:48

Unsettling

Maree Long # 15. January 2009, 19:09

lol morning Cois about as unsettling as that cujo of yours....lol funny I was sitting out on the lawn in the front garden in the morning with my wabbit having a lovely relaxing morning witht he cool breeze and mroning sunshine and I still manage to come up with a piece like this....perhaps I have a dark mind or dark personality lurking lol

I think I shall be using this piece at a poetry night to be held early this year....and do it all slow dramatic like and use sounds of scratching on a shoe box which has a grainy lid...just for effect...

hmmm raw and bleeding talons?? perhaps more adjectives are needed?

Cois # 16. January 2009, 06:53

I was thinking of someone scratching at the inside of their own coffin and it being a fear of mine to be buried alive it kinda unsettled me

not a feat easily accomplished..
Dark mind or not ,it's this kind of poetry me likes

Maree Long # 17. January 2009, 05:57

yep that would unsettle me as well considering it is documentated fact that many a person thought dead was in fact alive - given that when the coffins exhumed scratch marks on the litds....

woo hoo cois - i have just finished the flyers and have booked guest artists for our first "Cafe Soiree" by Body Craft presenting An evening by Candle light....imagine this piece done by candle light....lol

Cois # 17. January 2009, 12:09