Dread Death Come

#TwistedNurseryRhyme mimicking "Are You Sleeping" This rhyme was further inspired by Gustav Mahler's "Bruder Martin" disconsonant dirge in the "Third Movement, of Symphony #1 in D Major". 

Secrets keeping

Dread is creeping

Hope is gone

Death has come

Hear our dirges singing

Mourning bells are ringing

Ding dong dead, dread Death come

 

Darkness streaming,

no more dreaming

Hope is gone

Death has come

Death knell is a-ringing

Mourning bells are ringing

Ding dong dead, dread Death come

Sketch artwork by D. Denise Dianaty

Reviews

[barleygirl]

This exquisitely follows the melody of the original and your msg is so strong & vivid (or my memory is so weak), I could not think of any words from the original as I was reading. I was completely taken over by your dreadfully dripping dirge! (And I loved it!) I'm really getting into a Halloween state of mind early. Thanks for the inspiration! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[MomzillaNC]

"Dreadfully dripping dirge…" I love, love, love that turn of phrase!

Have you listened to "Mary Mary, How Does Your Garden Grow," yet? That's one's über creepy too. https://www.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/1429342/

[Robert Trakofler]

Oh my god I love this sketch

[MomzillaNC]

Thanks! Didn't you notice the sketch before? LOL

[Robert Trakofler]

No I was on my phone I’m blind as a bat:)

[MomzillaNC]

Ahhh… Seems a lot of folks have that issue on their phones.

[mattavelli]

Hello, MomzillaNC! :)
I think this is lovely. Cool idea and choices for twisting this tune.

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you.

This is part of the contest prompt for Pandora's Box of Horrors FB group's annual Halloween contest. This year's prompt is twisted nursery rhymes.

You should check it out on Facebook. Entrants can submit up to five rhymes. If we get 50 or more rhymes, I plan to publish an anthology curating all the submissions. Proceeds of the anthology would go to support my administration of the Pandora group and our sister group, WE PAW Bloggers. However, poets would retain unrestricted rights to their own works.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

damn, i shouldn't have answered the door....i wondered what that scythe was for. And why the hood?
I wasn't ready to go.

j.

[MomzillaNC]

Death doesn't call ahead…

Thanks, Jacob! I want to see you turn your hand to twisted nursery rhymes. You need to enter this year's annual Halloween contest in Pandora's Box of Horrors group on Facebook.

[Robert Trakofler]

I like your nursery rhyme better it stimulates my inner poe-etic spirit:) pretty pretty pretty one... Momzilla

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you, Robert!

Be sure to hop over to Facebook and enter your own twisted nursery rhyme in "Pandora's Box of Horrors" group page. The annual contest this year is themed, #TwistedNurseryRhymes.

[Robert Trakofler]

oh goody yes... some thought food:) I hope you told barley too she would kill at this:)

[Robert Trakofler]

no pun intended

[Robert Trakofler]

just joined:)

[MomzillaNC]

Just approved you.

For this contest, you can submit up to five entries. The winner will get to include 5 additional horror poems of any format in the anthology -- presuming, of course, that we get 50 or more contest entries. Each entrant will get to add 1 additional horror-themed poem of any format of their choosing. The goal is to have at least 100 poems total in the anthology if there are enough contest submissions to publish.