Haunted Highschool

[MystyrMystyry]

Beneath forked bolts and the thunder so frightening
A sight to give sore eyes (and sore arse I remember)
Stands illumined by those flashes of lightning
My horrible old highschool - reborn from the embers

Top of the hill where long ago I'd struck the match
Through the mist my theatre of pain emerges anew
All of those bad memories I'd endeavored to scratch
Perhaps I should have waited till the term was through

But as the hate within stewed until burning
I sought to exact my revenge in similar kind
And splashed the accelerant throughout the building
The premeditated act of a distressed mind

Winding my way up the path I can hear their screaming
Not joyful but from clothes and hair on fire
Ghostly children running hither and thither - not dreaming
Trapped in my nightmare which is something dire

It's so clear now as it all comes back to me
I'm a mere servant of Satan - it's His disaster
No choice have I but to do his bidding - now he
Reinstalled me in my position as Headmaster




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[Jack of Hearts]

This might be a poem about, as the kids say, 'burning that mother down.'

Kind of horrific, though.








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[MystyrMystyry]

Thanks Jacko

It's just an experiment in 'rhyming couplets' is it? (I don't know what you call the rhyme scheme if not)

Made up the narrative as I went along and gave it a alliterative title - okay, I thought, for a first draft quickie (at the moment haven't the time to totally devote all my energy into something earth shattering)

Again, thanks for commenting - it was looking a little lonely there

[Hawkman]

Since you did me the courtesy of commenting on my latest effort I feel obliged to respond in kind. I have to congratulate you on your inventiveness. You have created a new form - metreless, rhyming, prose-poetry. :D Well done! I'm sure it will catch on. ;)

BTW, I did enjoy the joke.

Live and be well - H

[MystyrMystyry]

Thanks Hawk

Hey - the party's growing!

[Bar22do]

As I read it, I thought of my own (horrible) time in the high school. And I thought you managed it masterfully, oh new Headmaster! :) !!

[MystyrMystyry]

Thankyou very much Bar22do - and I'm afraid again I needs must apologise for missing your comment :)

[aliengirl]

I must admit I could not see the joke in the first stanza but as I read along it grew interesting. The end was a little unexpected and horribly funny. A different flavor for me. :)

[MystyrMystyry]

Thankyou Aliengirl :)