Witchs' Pyre

My Halloween offering

Fresh breath of burnings and Oak
Stoke pillars of smoke that linger
Wringing the last drops of plum
From the full red moon
And soon the pageantry of angled stars
With mangled bars of tangled light
Fighting circles through the ebon sea of light
Might be snuffed entirely

'Neath blotted sky the licks of flame
Lay claim to an unrepented shame
From the names of the witches
And their cries through stitched lips
Whipping up a frenzy in the bile-filled host
Most danced and jeered, entranced by the fear
And screams of an oak-bound gore-fest
A forest of the Wyrd which crackle and seer

Dawn's arrows narrowed and pierced the bloom
Fierce gloom ash clung among the charred columns
Scarred.golems droop, bound and bowed but unkneeling
Reeling in their squaller spent revelers begin to stir
The cleansing orgy completed, they returned to their lives and forgot
But some things cannot be burnt and rot away
Like a copse of corpses which draws nary a whisper by day

It's unwize to turn the eye from smoldering sin
Every blood moon the scent of seered flesh lingers

Reviews

[Vertigo Cat1111]

Ah, it’s only July but this brought so many nostalgic feelings of Halloween back. Each line and verse is gory and haunting and downright creepy. The imagery, the lines, all of it is great and eerie. I don’t scare easily but the writing here was disturbing and beautiful in its twisted ways. I genuinely really enjoyed it, and it reminds me of one of my favorite books with its dark imagery, ‘Stolen Tongues’. It’s genuinely one of the few pieces of horror media that really scares me! I’d recommend it. Thank you so much for sharing!

[Tricessimus]

Thank you for reading and reviewing, the words land heavy from a talented peer.

[Fran Marie]

Oh my this is so haunting in
its well crafted. verse the rhyme
and inner rhyme catch each line
with a lovely flowing rhythm
those last two lines sum it all up
nicely....

great piece of poetry

[Tricessimus]

Thank you for your read and review. I published under T.S.Ulmus previously on this site, "T" is for Tricessimus though I haven't offered much under this name.

[MoonlitWillow]

Great imagery in this piece, I enjoyed reading it. Thank you for sharing your work.

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

A very nice spooky piece of poetry for the coming Halloween day around the corner. Thank you for sharing your art.