CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

This week’s verse moves from a poem inspired by the global unity that grew out of the Je Suis Charlie terror attack of 2015, to a fantasy poem about an encounter with underground monsters. It is taken from 366 Days of Poetry , a collection of mixed-genre poetry released in 2016. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   The Creepers in the Tunnels Knew The creepers in the tunnels knew from whence would come the travellers’ doom. They grew along the walls and watched, as the intruders set a fire and cooked what would be their final meal in the dark, where night concealed creatures of more subtlety than the creeper growing free along the arching walls that they had so carefully avoided, when they set up camp. The creepers in the tunnels knew the subtlety’s wherein they grew, and watched with plant’s delight as, from behind each stalactite, the weavers on their ...