REVULSION

Phil Roberts 1957 (Melbourne)



A fever grips your mind
Your dreams are truly vile:

A severed hand, still alive
A changeling:
Wolfman by full moon;
The creature from
The black lagoon.
Blue beard sporting
A gleaming knife;
To slaughter yet another wife.
Vampires changing INto bats
Then crawl around the floor as rats.
The headless horseman
And his fiery black steed;
Are riding out
Across the reeds.

A gargoyle
Yes, and Captain Gore;
The talons of the giant claw;
Swooping down then
Eating humans raw.

THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

About this poem

A very early poem, c.1973.

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Written on 1973

Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on September 06, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 518
Words 91
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 14, 5, 3

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