Quietness
Settled over the valley
As thick as early morning
Cemetery fog…
They were all dead.
The bodies were laid
Toe to head
Head to toe
To create a long winding path
From the sea
Through the town square
And out into the wilderness.
He danced lightly
Sure-footedly
Down the path of corpses
Humming a happy tune
Stopping on occasion
To kiss the blue lips
Of an irresistible beauty
Before crushing her skull
With the weight of his heel.
The town square was alive
With the buzzing of flies
In the midday heat
Bodies became bloated
And accompanied his hum
With a tune of their own
Under the weight of each step.
He sang
Oh how he sang as he danced
Tipping his top hat
To the open eyes of gents
Stopping just momentarily
To curtsey
And shoo
Greedy insects.
The day grew long
His step grew tired
The sun begged to set
Upon his entry into wilderness.
He greeted the darkness
With his unyielding grace
He embraced the cold night air
With the deepest of breaths
As his eyes grew heavy.
He laid down
Toe to head
Head to toe
Upon the plumpest of gents
The softest bed he could find
The wind hung back
To watch in silence
For tomorrow would bring with it
The sunrise
And the path lay before him.
The trail of the dead
Is endless.
©Jen2010 8–24
I am generally not the kind of person to write my opinion on other’s blogs, but for your write up I just had to do it. I’ve been cruising around your blog a lot nowadays and I am super impressed, I think you might potentially emerge as the main opinions for your niche. Not sure what your schedule is like in life, but if you started commiting more effort to writing on this site, I’d bet you would start getting a bunch of visitors soon. With ads, it might emerge as a nice reserve revenue stream. Just an idea to ponder. Good luck!
Thanks Lonny. I wish more ppl would respond so that we knew they were reading! I wish I had more time to write, but then again, it might push me over the edge!
Anywho, thank you again and I hope you continue reading the Oddpoet and me!
Wow kid this is great! Got a short story written all over it! Kudos!
Thanks Quas
I think your storytelling genes are starting to rub off on me… stop rubbin your genes on me, Quas… just sayin,.. 
You are always so mean you never let me have any fun.
lol…
now why can’t you do the smileys like these on the horror site? you always gotta make things so complicated…
Prick
By the way nothing on the new site look?
The comments that have the white background… you can’t see the words unless you highlight them cuz they’re white too.
You have no idea what I had to do to get a black background. I had to get Hex color charts and find out what the frig was #ccc, #fff, #000 and #0d0d0d. Then I had to find where in the code it decided to act retarded. And Yes, I am a badass!
That’s why I love ya.
Sure ya do.
By the way I started organizing your writes as simply “Para Poetry” instead of Poetry and Para. The old way had your same writes showing up under Poetry and Para in other words listed twice in the Table of Contents. This way your writes will be organized by date posted under Para Poetry in the heading. Check out the front page and you’ll see.
Later
Sweet! Thanks Quas..
And I do too love ya!
You should know by now I’ll feel any dang way I wanna feel! Don’t make me come over there.…