Dark Haiku
Listen to the sounds--
Eerie, spectral, strange, haunting:
These are cursèd grounds.
Reeking, nauseous smell
Reaching to your very soul--
From the pit of hell.
Darkness and shadows
Fly on the cavernous walls
Like a million crows.
Teeth as black as coal,
Bloodshot eyes and twisted horns--
Satan’s crafty troll.
Flames that leap up high
Damned souls scream in piercing cries:
No respite is nigh.
Serpents intertwine
Around Satan’s very throne
Where demons recline.
Pitch black and blood red
Dominate the ghastly scene:
Where the Devil led.
March 26, 2023
3rd Place
Hell Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
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