The Baron white #vampirediary

Prosery: Rainer Maria Rilke

hi #dversepub regulars tonight’s choice of poetics has me thinking of a character from my novel. whether it makes it into the actual novel is another thing.

The Baron white. #vampirediary.

In the collection of books left hidden in my mother’s home were many poets, works. Including the many printed anthologies of the Dverse poetry pub and some by a German poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Their words pulling me into the written beauty and sheer terror invoked by the written word here.

The sheer joy Rainer’s poetry brought died “for beauty is nothing, but the beginning of terror.” Making me realise how much I loved my mother and that bitch who turned my thinking around from weak minded human to full blown vampire leader.

My mother may have hidden these on purpose when paper books became taboo. Knowing I would need the works of such poets, storytellers, fable and legend sellers. Spreading fear of my kind to the human populace and cluing them up on how to deal with us. God bless Rainer Maria Rilke!

Written for a prompt on #dversepoetpub paying tribute to Rainer Maria Rilke and his poem “the first elegy.” Duions elegies.

Hasta La Vista

hi all at #dversepoetpub sorry about not making the live online meet ups they keep clashing with work and in person poetry groups i am a part off.

Hasta la vista,
 (see you later).

Here’s to classy farewells,
More see you later,
Auf wiedersehen,
Hasta la vista,
Ciao (chow).

New beginnings call,
Keeping fond memories alive,
Memories of fun,
Memories of frolicking,
Hasta la vista childhood.

© 11/12/2022 rog leach

Twelve #acrostic.

Happy dVerse Twelfth Anniversary!

Twelve.
#acrostic, #quadrille.

Twelve dozen hours lost in thought, trying,
Without any idea of why the fecking this,
Effort is, me pounding these words of misdirection,
Labouring over forty-four words,
Velvety defiantly not this time,
 Effervescent all I was after.

Twelve Without Effort, Labouring Velvet Effervescent.
 

© 10/07/2023 rog leach

confessions


Confused Charlie chasses cherished confessions,
Othello orchestrates occasional obtuse obstructions,
Neither necessarily needed nearby nowadays,
Favoured fraudsters flaunting Froggatt’s forgeries,
Every evening eternally eating eggs,
Spy’s spoiling sultans spontaneous sacrifice,
Sultan Steve standing singing sacrifice songs,
Indifferent indigenous inhabitants inhale inserection, 
Othello obliterates Olives obvious observations, oooh olive,
Not now, not never, nausea negotiating notions,
Spy’s spewing soiled slurry sacrificing societies sense.

© 04/07/2023 rog leach

merlin #limerick

OLN #341 – Two Opportunities to join us LIVE

hello all you lovelies at #dversepoetspub.

There once was a lad from bath,
He never once owned a staff,
He really wanted to be a wizard,
until he got lost in a blizzard,
Now he acts the sociopath.
(c) 18/06/2023 rog leach