2013 30 Day Image Prompt Contest Book

"Stygian Verses" (Poetry/Day 16)

Stygian Verses

Another night. I toss and turn.
They are just words, yet still they burn
dark images within my mind.
I can't escape, leave them behind.

The sinking sun bodes their return.
Another night. I toss and turn.
I cling to hope, yet my dark muse
leads me on in a cruel ruse.

They speak of pain, of death, and worse
each uttering a darker verse.
Another night. I toss and turn.
Their pleadings for release I spurn.

I resist. I'm able-minded;
yet, in the dark I am blinded.
I'm lost, still seeking light I yearn.
Another night. I toss and turn.


Day 16 – "Invalid Item" 
Prompt: Image 1 (Woman in mouth)
Form: Quatern. A Quatern poem consists of 4, 4 line stanzas, each having 8 syllables. No specific meter (i.e. iambic, trochee) is required. The poem may be rhymed or unrhymed. The 1st line of the first stanza is repeated as the 2nd line in the second stanza and the 3rd line in the third stanza and again the 4th line in the forth stanza.

Stygian - Gloomy and dark; infernal; hellish