Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Not So Safe a Haven

       Birth of a Vampire

A quiet sound awakens me—
It comes, and then is lost again,
Wrapped in the soft folds of the night,
Moved away by the silent wind.

I rise and push aside the drape
To try to see what I cannot hear.
A shadow flickers through the trees,
A silhouette both dark and sere.

It hesitates and turns to peer
At my frozen form behind the cloth,
And slowly, softly stalks me there,
With kitten teeth and bloody mouth.

Lying down, I know I’ve died,
To rise again to night and wood.
And now I know the quiet sound—
It was the drip of my soul’s blood.

copyright Angela Parson Myers 2011

12 comments:

  1. Usually, I hear the word 'vampire' and I immediately lose interest, but not this time. Wow, this was really, really good.

    Have you published this one?

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  2. Thank you, Jo.

    Thank you, too, Elizabeth. No, it hasn't been published yet. But I have sent it in to be included in a Halloween anthology along with a couple more poems, a flash fic and a short story.

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  3. Thank God they aren't real! Oooooh, spooky.

    Joyce
    http://joycelansky.blogspot.com

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  4. I almost skipped this for 2 reasons... I don't usually care about poetry and I have no interest in vampires. But...I am glad I read after all. I enjoyed your poem very much.

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  5. Quite eerie--and yet so awesomely written. I really enjoyed this!

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  6. This was a mysteriously creepy, halloweenish poem! Nice work!

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  7. ewwwwww kitten TEETH...dang... :0) so glad you woke up!!!!! hehe you know..it kinda reminded me of how i felt when i saw oh crap..forgot the movie name; you know..the flesh eating guy!!

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  8. ooooooooH GREAT STORY AT THIS TIME OF YEAR.....

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  9. Brenda--The Silence of the Lambs? Have to admit I haven't seen it. Too scary for me. ; - )

    Thank you everyone for the kind comments. As I mentioned above, this poem was included in my Halloween collection, "Night Speaks." Have to admit that the other two poems are probably just as creepy, but the short stories are--well, one is really almost humor and the other I find kind of comforting.

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  10. Oooooo! That was creepy and scary and deliciously brilliant! Well done!

    Kathy
    http://gigglingtruckerswife.blogspot.com/

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