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Evil Tree

Amid the dark and gloomy glen
you tower where you've always been
a spectral shape, foreboding, fierce
with witchy wands to prod and pierce

Evil, evil locust tree
how you haunt and worry me

Waving pointy arms around
casting scary shadows down
poker-fingers stoke my fear
striking poses quite austere

Evil, evil locust tree
raining down your thorn debris

If a scratch, skin barely breaking
starts my poor weak flesh to aching
it will hurt for days and days
from your vicious, vengeful ways

Evil, evil locust tree
please have mercy- hear my plea

Wicked, wearing crown of thorns
ripping, shredding, blood adorned
cruelly cutting to the bone
never leaving me alone

Evil, evil locust tree
won't you ever let me be?

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M. L. Kiser

Date: 12/7/2018 6:07:00 AM

I have neighbors who have at least 8 of these in their yard; they constantly drop seed into my fence row and I'm constantly wrestling with them to get them out. Locust trees seem more fertile than rabbits. They are also of the Mimosa family, of which I'm allergic. They are, "evil evil Locust trees". Well done.

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 12/7/2018 6:48:00 AM

Thank you! I feel your pain... they are awful (and even worse when you're allergic, too)!!

Eve Roper

Date: 12/2/2018 8:37:00 PM

Rhona, I enjoyed reading this well descriptive and well written poem that arouses strong emotions because of its beauty. Google the tree and it has 2 inch long thorns Wow.... and very poisons .. I learned something tonight.

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 12/3/2018 4:31:00 AM

Thank you, Eve- so glad you enjoyed it! ;)

Michelle Faulkner

Date: 12/1/2018 7:26:00 PM

This is both creepy and captivating - it cast a spell on me!

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 12/2/2018 12:37:00 PM

What an awesome comment & compliment!! Thank you, my friend! ;)

Arturo Michael

Date: 12/1/2018 10:13:00 AM

(No Way... I'm the soul you see)... responding to your last line... Nice work...All the best Rhona

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 12/1/2018 10:37:00 AM

;D Thank you so much!!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 12/1/2018 9:31:00 AM

Methinks this is a metaphor for something more than a tree. A very dramatic verse with awesome meter, my friend!

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 12/1/2018 10:45:00 AM

On second thought, I should've kept my mouth shut, and pretended to be all brilliant: "Oh yes, I intended that deeper meaning!" (like a person who accidentally makes a fantastic-looking shot playing pool, and just coolly leans back and smiles)... ;D Hahahahahaa!

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 12/1/2018 10:42:00 AM

Thank you! ;) No, I was actually writing about a locust tree that scared the crap out of me as a child! ;D I'd never seen a tree with thorns that huge before- and I really felt that it was evil, somehow. This poem would make an awesome metaphor for a very toxic person or relationship, though!!