My darling, why did you go
to a place so dark?
I truly need to know.
Empty clangs, doves moan,
heels click, soul marked.
My darling, why did you go?
Night screams, blood flows
yet no answer, my sanity infarct.
I fervently need to know
incantation to transpose
from ghoul back to art.
My darling, why did you go?
Numbers terrify, a village vow
to kill a monster forever parched.
Time gone, I need to know
now as ending flames at my toes,
to death’s repose from grinding march.
He asks, “My darling, why did you go?”
”To be with you, as you already know.”
Today’s offering is in villanelle form. This one is a little dark and murky, a poem of love and madness as those often haunting things tend to be.
Carrie is today’s host for The Sunday Muse. Thank you, Carrie, for this most evocative image!
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Very effective!
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Thank you, Sadje!
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You’re welcome
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Very Shocktober-ish!
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🙂 Thank you, Shay!
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”To be with you, as you already know.” – Ah, yes. that ancient, dark pull.
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Q, thank you for understanding.
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This is chilling and oh so lovely dark Lisa. I like what Shay said, it is Shocktober-ish!!! That ending is perfection!
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Carrie, the poem wouldn’t exist without your wonderful choice of prompt image. Thank you for it and for your kind words.
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Careful with that sanity infarct! A great fun read.
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Haha! If I felt sane, I’d start to wonder what was going on. Thank you and glad you enjoyed the read.
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The Villanelle! I love writing forms… when time permits. Yours is dark and lovely (love and madness; magnetic poles that flip over, and over). Great one, Jade!
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Charley, thank you! I like your way of describing love and madness.
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The repetition of “I need to know” is like its own incantation. I can hear that unhinged voice. (K)
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Thank you, Kerfe!
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Love can be a source of madness at times. So well written.
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Sherry, thank you.
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kaykuala
a poem of love and madness
Love this villanelle Jade! It has that typical repetition making dance to a tune.
Hank
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Hank, thank you 🙂
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…..making it dance to a….
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A black&white horror/love story! Very, very cool.
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Many thanks, Wyndolynne.
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I love the mood here, ominous and full of dark October nights and their accompanying nightmares. The echo lines are perfect, and that last stanza totally chilling.You leave us feeling All Hallows is certainly coming soon.
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Hedgewitch, so glad you enjoyed the poem. Thank you for the feedback.
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nicely done Lisa in time for Halloween💖
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Cindy, thank you! As the weather gets cooler I begin to turn into a jack o’lantern (or is that jill o’lantern?)
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The use of repetition adds to the haunting question…where did you go?
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Truedessa thank you. It’s a messed up situation 😦
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Delightful, dark fun…A perfect poem for October
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Thank you, Susie 🙂
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I needed all the lights on to read this – deliciously dark and spine-tingling.
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Marion thank you!
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A deep, dark villanelle! Wonderful writing, Lisa.
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Sara, thank you.
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The dark, murky villanelle … quite the recipe for a delicious write!
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So glad you enjoyed the entree, Helen 🙂
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I don’t know why…you know I don’t have much knowledge but Poe came to mind.
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lol you know that’s not true, Max. You have plenty of knowledge. There is definitely a very dark vein running through this one. Poe probably wrote a lot of his darkest work coming off of cocaine binges. I wasn’t coming off of a bender but I wasn’t feeling bright and shiny when I wrote this one.
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Well I’m learning more…
I think I figured it out…it was the way you repeated that line emphasizing it and driving it home.
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