Horror Poetry Contest : Free Verse
Sponsored by: Seth Pina
Date: 14-03-2026
The Majestic Banyan Standing alone in the village outskirts With branches protruding to the other end Always makes me feel from two discrete lenses The exhausted cattle rest under it ruminating and shooing The shouts of merry boys while playing with marbles, Climbing, swinging and running around How nice the day is! But nothing finds close at hand when dark diffuses gradually The mighty banyan appears as a dilapidated fort And frightens me on a full moon night Its silhouette comes off as A strutting demon with hair torn off on a no moon night The hanging roots like serpents swinging upside down The sprawling and intertwined roots like matted hair of a yogi When there is a gale, it sways forward And it resembles a python with stretched jaws to swallow the village Scary silence pervades around at times A busy den for the nocturnal world! The spying owl with its locked eyes The thrumming camp of flying foxes Pecks of a distressed bird Chirps of crickets and beetles Croaks and hoarse voices as macabre music Unsettling leaves as elephant’s ears producing susurration sounds The swarming fireflies around like lights of spirits The hiss of a snake And the crackling when it crawls on the dried leaves Some mysterious chants And the glowing blood red fire in its enclosed space Perhaps, the diabolic acts of a sorcerer For evoking spirits and ghosts hidden in the tree The raising smoke out from it as a subtle body Registered as a gruesome tree in my childhood cognitive domain
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