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Count Draculas Vampire Brides Have Sucked Me Dry
By Peter Christopher Raymond
Copyright 2013
There just aren't enough covers to cloak this eerie chill
Fires blaze and oil has been filled yet it's cold ever still
And nourished as I am by the Count's old world cuisine
It sits unsteadily on my stomach as my host remains unseen
Do I imagine shadows stretching long across the wall
Voices brimming with bravado or a sweet seductive call
No strength to lift my head as all feeling ebbs away
I cannot see a soul reflected in my dinner tray
Now they gather, bold with swagger, cold cadavers
Hissing like adders with unholy chatter
The odor of mold and an ungodly stench
A savage thirst demanding to be quenched
Each inhuman life macabrely sustained
As they fed on each fool whose blood they had drained
Cradling him cruelly she carried him to her crypt
A muffled moan in a terrified tone as she held him in her grip
With her victim concealed and a defiant strut
His fate was sealed as she slammed the door shut
This stranger to the day who cheats decay
Who prowls amongst owls as wolves bay
She surrended her soul centuries ago
In a soiled nightgown she'll menace the town
Drive men to madness 'til they willfully drown
Or jump to the jagged stones below
With dreadful deeds done she'll reappear
Wipe her lips with her fist as blood is smeared
Spiders slay their prey and rodents run across the floor
A night has passed away and her youth has been restored
Reading my poem. This was my
Reading my poem. This was my second or third try. I eased up on the Dracula impersonation as it was overwhelming the poem it self.
Found this just browsing
. . . and mighty glad that I did. You seemed to have distilled the best of Stoker and LeFanu, with a bit of the more modern Aickman's style thrown in to synchronize it, and you have created a mghty fnd addition to vampiric literature.
Starward
Wow!! Thank you very very much!!
I've been fascinated with vampires and Dracula specifically all my life. I really wanted to try and tap into what it means [ to me ] to be 'undead' living through the centuries with no soul or conscience and only a need and thirst for blood driving you. There are so many possible ways to depict vampires, but that's the one deciption I tried to focus on. Thank you very much! :D
Encore!!!!!! Magnifico! I
Encore!!!!!! Magnifico! I absolutely loved this!! Thanks for sharing!!
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...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."
"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "
Thank you very very much. I
Thank you very very much. I was worried that it may have written it a little too darkly, but you've made me feel like I made it just right. Thank you so much. :)
I love it!
I love it! I just fininshed Stephen King's new book, and your poem was the perfect digestif!
Thank you so much! I worked
Thank you so much! I worked at Tower Records in Boston, MA for many years and one day Mr. King came up to my register with a big stack of books. He made some small talk, but I guess had had a bad day and I wasn't in a great mood and wasn't paying great attention. My co-worker later told me who it was and I felt badly. Granted it was a very sunny day in June or July and he was wearing sunglasses and summer clothes. I confess I've seen quite a few of the movies based up on his books such as "Carrie," "Cujo," "Children Of The Corn," "It," "The Shining," "The Stand" and the original "Salem's Lot [ Of course. ]," but I haven't read the actual books. That's something I've definitely got to do. I should start with "Salem's Lot" I think. ;)
King is the best.
King is the best.
Long days and pleasant nights
Diamond
;-)
Indeed! Gotta love King! (And of the one's where I've seen the movie & read the book, there's no contest - the books are MUCH better!
I just love a good vampire
I just love a good vampire poem that don't suck lol. Great stuff!
Ha! Thank you very very much.
Ha! Thank you very very much. I was aiming to make my vampires as genuinely spooky and sinister as I could.
That was a horrific and gory description MR PCRaymond
That was a horrific and gory description MR PCRaymond.Even a hardened ole sailor was having some sweat.Ah ! those cadavers within and luscious outside.. the modern witches.Interesting angle
©bishu
Thank you very very much. I
Thank you very very much. I tried to make them the kind of vampires who would genuinely spook me.
I Am A Vampire
in another life :D Loved the Stephanie Myers and Rice books becuz that was what we had until I read 16 Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Slayer books. Crack Circus of the Damned or Lunatic Cafe and you will be drawn into a world of vampires and wolves, and other pack creatures. Her first five books were fabulous, the balance was publishers paying for pagination, but pissed off, I kept hoping. (Rice's) LeStat sequel: Tale of the Body Thief was a surprise as well. Gotta love those misunderstood vampires. :D
Awesome! I wasn't much of a
Awesome! I wasn't much of a reader as a kid much to my mum's chagrin, but I have read Stoker's Dracula which has a wonderfully eerie build-up. In fact after Jonathan Harker escapes from the castle early on in the novel Dracula himself makes only two actual appearances. Yet a feeling of dread fills the whole novel.