Wanda is wafting
Waffling in the wasteland
Whirling with wonder
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
old photographs
lifetime
thrift store
creepy thieves in dark (Haiku)
in late rainy nights
thieves break into banks while dark
they set alarms off.
Dr Ko Ko Thein (U.S.A)
Salt Lake City
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