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VxPoem ID: 14831
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Posted: August 2nd. 2005 12:54:51 AM
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East of Summermay
by Dayan
Age Group: Adult
the western edges of the wood
had been quiet for a long time
no one had heard the flutter of wings
or the outcry of the carrion birds
at night there was always peace
by day the hustle and bustle
of the nearby farmfields died all sound away
not a wind stirred, either,
from the western woods.
the summer was too quiet
and the farmers were feeling
the loneliness of the wood
that haunted all their credulous minds
and when harvest season came
just before the dryness
in the onslaught of the winter-months
the forest remained as silent as before
before the snows wild stories
were told two miles up town
where the travelers brought word
back from the lakeland on the edge
of the quiet western wood.
the town of Summermay had seen
an early spring, an early summer,
the worse of winters had already come
and no one knew why all this happened
but on the eastern edges of their forest
they heard fluttering wings, croaking
birds that flew above, as if hunting
some quite valuable prey
the winter was most quiet,
as the farmers did not venture
through the heaven downed snows
but when the thaw came forth
and life erupted upon the earth
blooming leaves and flowering fields
two folk came fast from Summermay
and told a story to dismay:
the birds of leather black had come
within the last days of the winter,
croacking... poking, biting, clawing
children dismembered in gruesome ways
childbearing women's bellies torn wide open
the town of Summermay lay in extreme disarray
the travelers said, before collapsing of exhaustion
the birds had headed east...
the western woods begun to feel... alive!
Author's Notes: This is not one of my best... But I liked the fact that I had written a scary 'story'... plus "Summermay" is such a cool word!
Author's Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
More Poems: Dayan has posted 14 additional poems- View them?
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