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| image from cover of "The Ocean At the End of the Lane" |
Go the pond
At the end of the lane
Think of the girl
Remember again
Standing inside
The green fairy ring
Nothing can hurt you
Forget everything
Marble of glass
Soldier of tin
Swallow the ocean
Breath it all in
Fight with the monsters
The sheets from your
bed
Nightmares of
grown-ups
Take root in your head
Childhood demons
Tore you apart
Banished, but still
Left a hole in your
heart.
submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Words Count With MZ
(inspired by Neil Gaimon's new book, The Ocean At the End of the Lane)
19 comments:
I'm such a fan of Neil Gaiman, and what a way to promote his new book than this wonderful poem!
I've seen that cover and think it is awesome.
Oh wow this is exceptional writing, heart-breaking I have always found it devastating the way childhood traumas continue to ache and effect
I want to set this to music and sing it to Iggy to perfume his dreams. ✒Cyn
Nice! I'm (finally) reading American Gods & this is on my list.
Childhood memories are often so clear....wonderful writing.
What a wonderful piece...I am so familiar with nightmares of grownups...
Lordy! Another Gaiman I cannot live without reading now that you have walked me to it! Tremendous.
Way cool poem with all of the rhythm of a witch's incantation. (Trust me, I know these things!)
So evocative of the nightmare state. Extremely well done, Ms Mouse.
K
Neil Gaimon is almost a god in our house :). I will have to get this book. I am reading American Gods and next Anansi Boys. Your poem has a wonderful cadence
a troubling poem...sad but well written...I hope the hole is not yours but if so...I would hope that some day it becomes whole again.
This is marvelous writing! I must get that book.
I don't know the author but I know that image and I lived your writing. Well done. I didn't fall apart and I'm happy about that. Am observing my new responses. Thank you for writing this. It was like being under a spell...a very dark one.
The center of this poem is some of the creepier stuff I've read to this challenge, LM. Gaiman is a law unto himself when it comes to fantasy.
The sing-song rhythm works so well here ~~ creepy good.
I love this one! I love Neil Gaiman and you so captured the lingering nightmares! Well Done~ I want the book ;D
Yes, I agree it needs to be set to music~
Oh! Love the musicality of this :)
the dancing cadence of this make it so haunting...def evocative...painfully so...
and i so cant wait to read this book...waiting on it to come in at the library...
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