Weekly Poetry Challenge four

Wild Things Lurking About Writing Com

Wild Things Lurking About

On All Hallows Eve
At o dark hundred.
Strange creatures emerge
One’s worst nightmares,

Wild things
Led by a half-centaur, half-pig monster with two heads – Putin and Trump.

Alligators, apes, aliens, banshees, bats, Bigfoot, bots, centaurs, Cerberus, cheetahs, crows, coyotes, crocodiles, Cthulhu, cyborgs, dragons, demons, dinosaurs (raptors and t -Rex), devils, drones, dwarfs, gangbusters, gangsters, gangsta rappers. Gators, goblins, ghouls, ghosts, giants, giant ants, giant wasps, giant spiders, giant lobsters, gunmen, gorillas, hellhounds, big game hunters, government bureaucrats, holocausts, imps, Imperial Stormtroopers from Star Wars, naked incubus, leprechauns, Lucifer, lions, politicians, mafia made men, ravens, monsters, orcs, reporters, bewitching beautiful yet deadly sirens, Satan, satyrs, snakes, winged monkeys, serpents, special forces soldiers, tigers, werewolves, wolves, witches, warlocks, wraiths, yeti, and zombies.

Creaking, lurking about
Haunting the living
And the dead.

Braying like escaped banshees
Led by the hellhounds
They begin chasing you
While howling at the full moon.

A candle flickering in the wind
Holding back the murderous pack.

These are the rules:

1) You must use the words I give in a poem or prose with no limits on length.

2) The words can be in any order and anywhere throughout the poem and can be any form of the word.

3) All entries must be posted in your portfolio and you must post the link in this forum, "Stormy's poetry newsletter & contest" [ASR] by 0ctober 29, 2023.

4) The winner will get 3000 gift points and the poem will be displayed in this section of the newsletter the next time it is my turn to post (November 1, 2023)

The words are:
all hallows eve.
creaking
haunting
howl
wind
flicker

o dark hundred is military/intel slang for the period about two hours before dawn when special forces operatives often get up to get ready for a raid at dawn. The exact time varies from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. depending upon location and time of year. It is also when many people have insomnia-driven nightmares.