Black Buttons

The origin of The rag doll series

Black Buttons

He sits there smiling as he stitches each seam
creating a monster worse than in any dream
A face of innocence hiding such dread
All details perfected apart from the head

White and red polka dot, perfect little dress 
Small brown shoes and red hair to impress
But the face is the masterpiece
this shamans quite proud
His own created daughter
Only evil is vowed

Laced black mouth an emotionless grin
Darkened magic spoken, evil within
Face starts to move eyebrows show stress
Blind without the eyes
whilst arms touching her dress
The final pieces in hand the black buttons to add
Casting his magic becoming this Casey dolls dad

Shining and shimmering evil within
Laced mouth smiling as the doll commits sin
Grabbing scissors from her own creators hand
Stabbed in the throat the reaction unplanned
Blood gushing out the shaman does crawl
Little Casey jumps on his back from a stool
Removing the scissors and severing his heel
This creators nightmare is only too real

Just wanting a daughter but black magic his gift
Vision now blurring his hand he can’t lift
Loss of blood his downfall his daughter in glee
This little doll having a taste for blood and now is free

Climbing the work bench a box does stand
Looking very much like a closed wooden hand
The doll moves in darkness wonders the street
Avoiding all people
until a toy shop entrance at her feet

The black buttoned eyes swirl with intent
Sleeping beads in the box for this dolls lament
Until she is opened Casey will sleep
Do this for a while if your life you wish to keep

Author's Note

The origin of my new series of poems About a Rag doll hope you all like

please review honestly as always

Reviews

[Poeticadia]

A fine dark start to your narrative... some excellent pace and rhyme here too.

[Stef Outsiders]

AWESOME! I REALLY love it! the imaginary is superb... i'm jealous! Lol

[Quinn Blackburn]

wicked! dolls, like evil kids, can be uber creepy. Great flow here. 4th stanza is my favorite :o) Minor editing note- 2nd to last stanza "wonder" instead of "wander". Not sure if the phrasing "do this for awhile" really works either as the wicked dolly is doing the sleeping and we are just observers. Perhaps something like "keep her there awhile..." might fit a little better? Just a suggestion. The title becomes more menacing after reading the poem, by the way, loved that :o) Excellent imagery too. I guess now we know how she got that blood stain on her dress! love this tale of naughty Casey. great writing!

[Rose Masen]

Dark and menacing. I loved it.

[Midday_Mystery]

This was kinda creepy and rather had a Chil'd Play feel to it Nice....

[Short.Nerd]

Nice!

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

loved it the rhyme was great perfect flow scary story dark and deep makes me feel better about ripping the arms head and legs off of every doll I ever got I liked boys toys dump trucks race cars army men lol

[Kat24]

hi,
this is really good. Kat24

[Laranda]

I really like this! detail build up is definitely nice. I really like how you organized this too.

[HopelesslyDevoted]

even better than the last!