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The warlock*s revenge
Tatty Bogle by Terry Reilly
Pantoum Poem Contest writing prompt entry
Artwork by helvi2 at FanArtReview.com

Warning: The author has noted that this contains the highest level of violence.
Warning: The author has noted that this contains the highest level of sexual content.

They think I can’t sense them, how wrong can they be?

This tattered straw bogle’s my physical home.

My body is gone but my spirit is free,

when darkness descends through their village I roam.

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This tattered straw bogle’s my physical home.

It shelters my essence from their hostile will.

When darkness descends through their village I roam,

taking my chances their offspring to kill.

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It shelters my essence from their hostile will,

which never relents, though they burned me alive.

Taking my chances their offspring to kill,

makes it worthwhile that my soul does survive.

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Which never relents, though they burned me alive,

blaming my witchcraft for spoiling their crops.

Makes it worthwhile that my soul does survive,

ensuring my quest for revenge never stops.

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Blaming my witchcraft for spoiling their crops,

when all that I did was to rut with their wives.

Ensuring my quest for revenge never stops,

means that their children must fear for their lives.

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When all that I did was to rut with their wives,

giving such pleasure that they’d never known.

Means that their children must fear for their lives,

some of them produce of seeds I have sown.

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Giving such pleasure that they’d never known,

though one died in childbirth, they said she was cursed.

Some of them produce of seeds I have sown,

but they’ll all rot in Hell when I’ve done my worst.



Writing Prompt
The topic for this poetry contest is: HAUNTED SCARECROW

*This contest is brought to you by "The Little Workshop of Horrors" club*
Write a Pantoum poem with a minimum of four stanzas. No maximum. Your topic is a haunted scarecrow.
A pantoum is a poem that is made up of quatrains. In a pantoum the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza are repeated as the first and third lines of the next stanza. No required meter. Rhyme scheme is ABAB

EXAMPLE:
The Stranger

Who is that stranger looking back at me
with head atilt and wonder in her eyes?
She mimics all my movements perfectly,
she's hard to recognize in her disguise.

With head atilt and wonder in her eyes, Repeated
she seems familiar in a strange, weird way.
She's hard to recognize in her disguise, Repeated
is she a friend I knew well yesterday?

She seems familiar in a strange, weird way. Repeated
She's older far than me, or so it seems.
Is she a friend I knew well yesterday? Repeated
Perhaps I met her somewhere in my dreams.

She's older far than me, or so it seems. Repeated
She mimics all my movements perfectly.
Perhaps I met her somewhere in my dreams, Repeated
who is that stranger looking back at me?
- written by whizpurr ^-^

Author Notes
Tatty Bogle: scarecrow (Scottish).

     

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