The Wood

enter the wood, end of the day
  deep deep reverb, everywhere
  eerie sound from between the trees
  from bowels of earth, around the sky

  then chilling stillness, flee or stay?
  thump thump! disturb the very air
  flurried dance, the following breeze
  as yowls of mirth personify

  monsters lurk and skulk, hide away
  blink blink, acerbic scary stare
  belly scales grow knobbly knees
  fat jowls of girth, the fleshy eye

  children scamper, fierce games they play
  beat beat, why curb their merry dare ?
  carefree clamber through ill-at-ease
  with howls of worth they yelp and cry

  fungi feast while dank leaves decay
  sleep sleep superb in fairy lair
  life poking head, no guarantees
  where scowls give birth, when dreams do die

  look up beyond where branches sway
  squeak squeak perturb the glary glare
  past hazy stars, the " Pleiades "
  night ghouls of dearth by radar fly

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