Vampiric

She savours the salty iron tang
of liquid frothing from a newly-punctured vein,
revels in claret tributaries flowing,
returning again and again.
It caresses her vampire lips,
down her throat it slips,
spooking addicts in the graveyard gloom
and lovers entwined by her tomb.

Kim M. Russell, 16th September 2024

Image of Geraldine Dvorak, bride of Dracula, from the 1931 film Dracula – found on Facebook

This Monday’s Quadrille at the dVerse Poets Pub is courtesy of Dora, who is back after more than a month-long absence. Welcome back!

Today we are writing 44-word poems original to dVerse whose only requirement other than word count is that we must include the word provided, which today is ‘vampire’.

Dora tells us that this word was prompted by her daughter’s first book release, a vampire-infested mystery novel. She has also given us examples of poems about or featuring vampires from Lord Byron, Coleridge, Henry Thomas Liddell, Conrad Aiken and Rudyard Kipling.

48 thoughts on “Vampiric”

    1. Thank you, Ain. I can’t comment on yours, but I’ll do it here.
      I love that you’ve written your quadrille from the Count’s point of view. I smiled when I read the line: ‘I should like to talk about vitamin D’, and the sardonic tone.

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