A Poem for Halloween - Hallow's Eve: The Samhain Souls Cometh Forth
With the darkest of my thoughts transferred to written words at times I can see the light.
The Samhain Souls Cometh Forth
Ghoulish demonic
vacant masks
drawn to a burgeoning blaze
macabre silhouettes
illuminated...
flaming tongues gyrate
a dancing bloody glory
nourished with crude bones
devoid of blood and flesh.
Slaughtered
picked clean.
A mass of pallid ossein
smoulder
white-hot
a fetid inferno of decay
Morbid vapour snakes...
infestation
penetrates
a lunar abyss.
A vacuous void
commands the shrouded.
Advancing demonic blackness descends
seeping through the earth...
piercing cries of heinous pitch
engulf the rancid air.
They are here.
Monstrous beasts transverse
to covet
to plunder
the mortal being.
Scorched ambers rain...
Sanguine flames soar...
deathly creatures hunt
scavenge and devour...
The hideous wraith of the Spirit world
floods and flees
The Samhain souls
Cometh Forth...
And full bellied
They leave.
Samhain: October 31st to November 1st
Many moons ago the dead were celebrated with a festival begininng on the 31 of October ending on November 1. Bonfires were lit and candles ignited carried home from the celebratery flame to safe guard houses and families as the fine line between the dead and the living merged. Demons lurked among the searching souls and their desire to consume a living soul was paramount.
Demonic disguises were worn by all on hallows eve to hide among the monsters. While the slaughtered carcasses of animals burned and fetid flames roared to the sky, the people in their guise celebrate their harvest and the beginning of winter. Music played and the festivties carried on through the night.
© 2018 Gabriel Wilson
Comments
Gabriel Wilson (author) from Madeira, Portugal on October 11, 2018:
You know Eric if you ever come to Madeira we must meet. Thank you as always :)
Eric Dierker from Spring Valley, CA. U.S.A. on October 11, 2018:
Great stuff for us scaredicats. I shiver.