4. A Macabre Dance

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. Edgar Allan Poe

Barbed wire and tangled words

are pinning down my reflections

between the dream and reality

 

they have edged the borders

in the black earth with the blunt end,

the spade has cut the worms to smithereens,

 

I see the pieces just like demented fingers

crawling and groping around in exploration

for the stability of the abyss

along my rickety house of cards,

 

the blood from my opened veins

is shooting as a red flare through my pen,

slamming roses and thorns out of my head,

 

I still know the dawn behind the horizon,

shall I be able to see the sun rising

before I've bled to death?

© Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

23/11/2015

Author's Note

Reviews

[TheRaven]

Woo! That's more of what I'm talking about right here. What an opening stanza! There's an element of war imagery within that and a tonal sense of chaos. Well done. Second stanza might even be better, perhaps the best amongst this work right here. Spade cutting the worms to smithereens. Beautiful (and disgusting) way to capture that horrific deathly imagery. The Poe inspiration is very much alive here. And I love that sense of the writer being explored with the concept of his blood... his life force flaring up through the pen. There's true pain there, and as he writes he wonders if he will live to the next day as his life his drained away by the words he puts down. Exhausting, the process of writing can certainly be.

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you so much, I try to be humble but I'm secretly a bit proud when I read this comment. :) Rudi

[Coyote Poetry]

Amazing poetry my friend.
"I still know the dawn behind the horizon,
shall I be able to see the sun rising
before I've bled to death?"
The above lines were my favorite. You made the artwork come alive with strong description. Thank you for sharing the amazing poetry.
Coyote

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you, my friend. Opening my mail I saw you've read a lot of my writings. Thanks again, it's always nice to read you comments, means a great deal to me. :) Rudi

[Coyote Poetry]

I enjoyed these poems. Made my day.

[Nisreen]

I miss your work Rudi
This reads like a gruesome massacre
whether its an internal one

or a mass murder

you bring the image to life

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you, Nisreen, for reading and reviewing, I'm in my Poe'ish phase of poetry. My last poems are a bit macabre, dark, but I'm not. It's just another muse that is whispering in my ear. :) Rudi

[emmajoy]

Good grief, this is like walking into a nightmare.. everything moving and slithering, blood read and vicious... I want to wake up, want to escape...

(but now have to return another time.. need to know how it finishes.. )

[Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere]

Thank you so much, Emma, for reading all these poems. They are all written on different times, but there's some connection between them that I have collected them together in chapters. It's not finished yet so there are still to come. Have a good day. :) Rudi