Black Dog Night

It was Black Dog Night at the station,

With a Black Dog caught in my hair,

There were too many owls, there were shrieks and howls

There was too much intolerance there.

There were tales floating out and forgotten,

There were stories that claimed to be hype,

There were nightmare things with handfuls of rings

There were things too awful to type.

There were nasties a-float in the darkness,

There were Gorgons, that looked for a fight,

There were these and more, and Griffins of yore

That gave any sentence respite.

In the dark, I could hear the farmer scream

He’d just cut the throat of his wife,

But the low of the cattle had masked her death rattle

And the slash-slash-slash of his knife.

There were monsters that sat on my keyboard,

They were growling, and screamed ‘Let me in!’

But I pushed them away, and I cried ‘Not today,'

They were creeping right under my skin.

Then a voice echoed up from the valley

Where the darkest of dreams lay at rest,

‘You may type in the grail at the end of my tale

If you’re sure that Milady is dressed.’

The night came and flew in the window,

To block all the plots I had kept,

It’s the Black Dog way, no story today

For the rest of the night, barely slept.

It was Black Dog Night at the station

With the rails outside rusted through,

But the Ghost Train came in the mist and the rain

With a story, at last, that was true!

David Lewis Paget

Reviews

[A Soap Mess Stories]

Another good story! Loved the read!

[Tomás Ó C..]

Haven't been by here in a while. Great read as always.

[Coyote Poetry]

A amazing tale in the poem David.
"Then a voice echoed up from the valley
Where the darkest of dreams lay at rest,
‘You may type in the grail at the end of my tale
If you’re sure that Milady is dressed.’"
The above lines were my favorite. A lot of tale written the short poem. I wanted to know and read more. Thank you for sharing the outstanding tale.
Coyote

[guy drori]

Youv'e creates quite a mysterious set there. Liked it, and the end was not as I expected it to be. I actually thought of a darker ending :)
Had a great read!

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

I have to conclude, that your mind is at odds with the world around you, escapisim is a talent we all have access to and you yield it well, well done, good read.

[Valentine]

What I get from this is a writer trying to come up with something new and scrambled thoughts keep filling the brain. Happens to most of us. Valentine