Still More Express It Eight Poems

Wild Things Come Out at O Dark Hundred

Wild Things Come Out at O Dark Hundred

At 0 dark hundred, the bewitching hour
As insomnia takes over
Is when the wild things come out to play
nightmarishly real creatures,
banshees, demons, hellhounds,
goblins, monsters, orcs, zombies,
Coming from hell to life, torturing the sleeper
Until dawn drives them back


WRITE A POEM ABOUT SOMETHING WILD.


O dark hundred is military/intel jargon for the time two hours before dawn when special forces and spies get up to conduct dawn operations. Depending on location and time of year it is between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. for me, I often have nightmares as I wake up with insomnia at O dark hundred.