More Promptly Poetry PPC 5

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)" 

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