The Sickle Moon

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November 25, 2023

Contest : Poe In The Style Of Plath

Sponsored by : Tom Woody

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One mystic blue night dead still, 
I’ll steal the silver full moon,
break it into sharp shards,
and stow them in the backyard 
under the shadow of the creepy cloud.

The dark devils will enter with fiend
my anguished heart beating vengeance,
hit hard by the moonless dreary darkness,
and make my boiling enraged blood 
turn into lacerating incisive lancet.

The sinister scarlet elixir in my veins 
the night will drink like wine,
the shining sequined full moon lost, 
it’ll make a black one hollow,
darker than the dread of doomsday. 

When the impious wolves will slash
the neck of the frozen stillness,
their ominous bark in the chilled air 
will shred the nocturnal chastity, it's time 	
for moon plucking from sordid shadow.

They cunningly ensnare in an instant
the naive malleable minds unaware,
skillfully wrap with mute trance
the innocent hearts trapped 
in the travesty tangle of love.

I’ll slit open their deceitful throats,
slice the reveling saccharine lips
with the harvested sickle moon.

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Date: 12/4/2023 2:40:00 PM
This was definitely scary, more Nightmare on Elm St than Poe, but well written. Thx for supporting the contest
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Date: 12/7/2023 9:26:00 PM
Thank you, Tom for your comment.
Date: 11/25/2023 8:17:00 AM
Congratulations dear friend on your inclusion of your awesome poetry in Poetry Soups third Anthology - Reflections on the Important Things. Blessings, Jennifer.
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Subimal Sinha-Roy
Date: 12/7/2023 9:25:00 PM
Thank you, Jennifer.
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