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Rated: 13+ · Book · Emotional · #2225590
More poems for Promptly Poetry, stuffed into this book because I have reached my limit.
#1076771 added September 14, 2024 at 7:13am
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No Tresspassing - Week 5
Trekking in a dense boreal forest
surrounded by majestic shadows,
enveloped in the perfume of pine
yet isolated in the shadowy damp,
I came upon them.
The call of morning was a lilting whistle
it drove away the hauntings of the night
those booming howls one to another
of community or warning?
I could not say.
Enough though,
to make me ponder my discovery.
Upon a bed of fallen leaves
royal in their red and golden hues
a pair of ghost pumpkins sat.
Were they an elaborate interior design
by some reclusive, naturalist master
or set as watchmen in the bewitched wood
by some Fortean denizens?
No matter, I understood.
I was unwelcome here.



Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. The terms "Fortean" and "Forteana" are sometimes used to characterize various such phenomena.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort

Written for "Promptly Poetry Challenge (2024-2025)Open in new Window.

Prompt - an image of white pumpkins on a bed of colorful foliage in a forest setting
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