An Extract from This Month's Release: Beware the Shifting Dark (Another 365 Days of Poetry)

To celebrate this month's release of Another 365 Days of Poetry which released on the 4th. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a.

 

Beware the Shifting Dark

  

Written on January 9, 2019, for the May 4 entry of Another 365 Days of Poetry, this ottava rima is about things that stalk the dark.

 

When shifting shades upon the wall do flee,

and figures through the moonlight move like flame,

dancing silvered betwixt the forest trees.

When unknown voices softly call your name,

then stay within your walls if you’d stay free,

and keep your windows closed, locked tight to frame.

Ignore the shadows gathered in the lee

of moonstruck walls, and leave them to their game.

 

Do not go out into the curtained night.

Do not venture from the shelter of your home.

Do not crack the curtain to peer outside in fright,

or try to see the forms of those who roam,

for the night spawn hate all the children of the light,

and for the sons of men they through the darkness comb

in hopes of snatching one from all that’s right

to entrap them in eternal pain and gloam.

 

 

Cover art is by Jake at JCaleb Design, and links to 366 Days of Poetry can be found on Books2Read at: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a.