A Strange Encounter

A halloween poem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Strange Encounter

 

What was that sound I heard

Come from under my bed?

 

It was light,

Yet moving rapidly?

It almost sounded

Like it was flying.

 

It seems to be fumbling,

Because I just heard

It thump into the wall.

 

OOh! Oh my,

It keeps thumping

Into the wall,

Like it can't see.

 

MMMM,

I'm afraid to look,

My head is safely tucked 

Under the covers.

This house is really old,

No telling what the hell it could be.

Hardly anyone ever sleeps,

In this room anymore.

 

I'm going to

ignore it.

It's nothing.

I'll go back

 to sleep.

Maybe count a few sheep.

Make my to do

list for tomorrow.

 

This is silllllly!

It's probably a wasp

Or a butterfly or

A fly-something.

 

Eeeeeeeeeeek!

Hoooly Heeellll!

It hit my head!

I'm looking back,

As I run for cover in 

Safety of the bathroom,

With my blanket wrapped

Around me, like a cape!

 

Oh Lord,

Everyone is asleep,

I can't wake them up.

How could they

Sleep through that!

 

I muster up

The courage,

To run back,

And turn the

Light switch on.

Or I could be in

This bathroom forever.

 

Boohoo Shiiiit!  Holy S**t!

It's a baaaaaaaat!

 

 

I leave to go sleep,

In the safety of my car,

With my blanket covering

Me like a cape,

Free from bat dreams.

 

Author's Note

A true story about my Mom last year, sleeping in a room in my Uncle's house that's rarely slept in. If only I could have been a fly on that wall!

Reviews

[TAO]

lol... I remembered my days as batman, chasing cares on the Air Force Base my father worked at, my brother and sister trailing behind wondering why I thought everyday was halloween. Memories. I like poetry that reminds me.

This is...(forgive me)...cute. A billion thanx for the smile.

[Black Cat Fever]

This is a very fun yet spooky poem. A bat flying about the room. I had that happen to me once when I was sleeping in an upstairs room with the windows open because it was so hot. The bat came in a circled the room a bunch of times. I could feel it passing above me. I was too tired to get up and try to get it out. It eventually found its own way out, thankfully. I could see it in the shadowy dark circling the room.

[The Analog Kid]

Kind of spooky yet it did sound real, which kind of made it more plausible too:)

[Short.Nerd]

Very nice and very creepy. Great job!

[Rory CJ Frankson]

Ah yes, right in keeping with all hallowed creepy season... up to bat. I liked it and it's a playful nasty interlude, this intrusion on Mom's fitful slumber. Even if bats on the whole, have a bad rap... I would think Mom, in getting Uncle. Would have got bat rapped it on the head till dead. Better that the car proved a safe haven. Nicely told this happenstance, as if Mom, had stay in the batroom... that bat, might have morphed and that would've been the end of Mom. heh heh! (or undead beginnings)

I would have like to be the bat on the wall... for that one! (drool dribble) lol

[David W Moore III]

Bat dreams? Oh your punny! Nicely done.

[Robin]

they say to expect the unexpected .. noises in the night enliven the imagination

I was never afraid of bats even as a kid. Was only worried they'd get tangled in my hair if they dove to close. I remember my brother shooting one when I was a kid so I got to see it up close. I thought it was cute and was sad that he shot it. Not sure why he did since we knew they helped keep down the mosquito population. Now THOSE make me head for cover. It doesn't matter how much 'OFF' I spray on myself, they still have me for dinner.

[Dream Weaver]

"eerie" Marie just plain eerie!!!!

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LOL had a bat in my bedroom as a child...the cat ate it!