Welcome back my poetic horror writers ❤
First up from our featured poet of the month, Nano Horror, is not a haiku, but a horror quatrain. A quatrain is defined as “a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.”
Imagination
While other kid’s imaginations
Were happily confined,
My own private recreations
Were of a darker kind.
-Nano Horror (@tweetsthecreeps)
Next up, a haiku paired with a delightfully disturbing image from David Tulley, I love the unexpected twist on who’s speaking:
It’s too dark in here,
Can’t see a thing. Don’t worry,
Though, I’ll reach you soon.#HorrorHaikuesdaypic.twitter.com/CxZnks7Kbe
— David Tully (@CynicalEyebrow) May 10, 2016
Next, a poem from Brainmist, which, if you subscribe to my email list you can get a free download of the printer friendly coloring page version:
One small step to take:
Exhilaration, wind-rush!
And, at last, silence.#HorrorHaikuesday— b rainmist (@brainmist) May 10, 2016
And a from Haiku of Horror a clever turn of phrase based on a fascinating looking movie:
The serpent transforms
Scales fold back and fall away
Slithers from its skin#horrorhaikuesday #poetry #haiku pic.twitter.com/EnXqv6S7n1— Haiku of Horror (@haikuofhorror) May 10, 2016
Last, but certainly not least, a little existential horror to round out your afternoon with a haiku from David Bradley Bailey:
Room spins and voices
wail from a pure, dark silence
no God’s mercy there. #horrorhaikuesday#haiku— David Bradley Bailey (@Dbfuturist42) May 10, 2016
Thank you all so much for stopping by and if you’d like to join in and potentially have your poem featured here next week use #horrorhaikuesday on Twitter or Instagram and I’ll find it 🙂
Horror Made 