Midnight Horror Story

Midnight sculpts
moonlight shadows of horror
to drink your dreams
and suck your screams,
sealing your lips
with monstrous kisses.

Too terrified
to open your eyes,
you’re paralysed.

Your thrash metal heart
beats out of time
with the night creatures’ call,
a chilling signal
for the living dead to rise.

Cloaked in the foulest funk,
they dance a crazy cakewalk,
All along the sidewalk,
Up the front path to your door,
where a nightmare raven caws,
‘Nevermore’.

© Kim M. Russell, 2016

thriller

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My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Prompt #65 Michael Jackson “Thriller”

This week Sanaa is whetting our appetite for Halloween on 31st October and, on November 1st, ‘Dias de los Muertos’, The Day of the Dead, which is celebrated in central and southern Mexico.

11 thoughts on “Midnight Horror Story”

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    1. Hi Lady Lee! Thank you for nominating me. I’ll have to look at it tomorrow as I’ve been out all day and only just got back. Will get on to it first thing! Schoenes Wochenende wuensche ich Dir!

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  3. Whistles!!❤️❤️ This is deliciously dark and enticing, Kim 😀 I just love how each stanza gives me chills and goosebumps. Especially love “Your thrash metal heart beats out of time with the night creatures’ call, a chilling signal for the living dead to rise.” Beautifully executed. Thank you so much for participating at Music Prompt at MLMM ❤️❤️

    Lots of love,
    Sanaa

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    1. Thank you, Sanaa. I’m delighted my poem has had such an effect on you – job done! Thank you for reading and making me feel good about myself. Much love, Kim xxx

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