Zomboid Creatures

This is a poetry eerily populated with ghosts and mummies and zomboid creatures who go on living though dead from love. — Patrick McGarth* ZOMBOID CREATURES no way out of the well…ceaseless pulley. forlorn, deep is the grave. for the dead, love is a bully no one can save. doped up, tears dry in somnambulant night. bones rave toward the cliff. a blind man’s bluff, i’ve lost my sight - this zomboid stiff. love dropped out; i’m eaten up with her scent - bouquet of floral bath. i pursue - a ghostlike lament, off beaten path. she sat upon the mound, of fresh dug soil, wrapped up in her own grief, a mummy terrified - a foil… aperitif. 1/7/2023 Writing Challenge - Zip, Zig, Zag, Zing Sponsor: Constance La France Theme Z word: Zomboid Used Howmanysyllables and rhymezone *Obtained from Merriam-Webster