Dinner Date
by P.J.Reed
Silently he stalked,
Where the nameless walked
Patrolling midnights beat
With heavy, dragging feet.
Creature of shadowland
Lawman, with gun in hand.
Fog smothers everywhere
Shrouding the killing lair.
Evil prowls the dead street;
Echoes of muffled feet,
Silently, people past,
Dripping hearts, racing fast.
Poster on shop window peers,
As photo fit face leers.
Front pages scream in fear.
Midnight ripper, comes here.
Beware this savage beast,
Beware his human feast.
Woman caught, out alone.
Whispers to her cell phone.
Grey form on poster glares,
Transfixed, she stops and stares.
Shadow flits across her face,
Warm heart begins to race….
Scents of fear, fill the street,
Sweat trickles in the heat,
A scream, a trip, fall…
Bold lawman, answers call,
Gently, he takes her arm,
“I’ll keep you safe from harm.”
She flicks strawberry hair,
Relieved to be in his care.
Lawman guides her through town,
Tense face looks up and down,
“You look tasty, my dear…”
Blue eyes widen with fear.
He smiled.
She froze.
Copyright ©: P.J.Reed
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Our Father’s Works by William Barnes
- Омар Хайям – Не порочь лозы-невесты
- Little Clock by T. Wignesan
- Огюст Барбье – Котел
- Passer-By, These Are Words by Yves Bonnefoy
- Владимир Маяковский – Номер 17
- Answering Vice-Prefect Zhang by Wang Wei
- By The Side Of The Grave Some Years After by William Wordsworth
- The Surgeon At 2 A.M. by Sylvia Plath
- Zunsheen In The Winter by William Barnes
- Athens Stone Of Sapphire Of Ground The Ring
- My Garden by Thomas Edward Brown
- An Old Man’s Thought of School. by Walt Whitman
- An Incantation by Thomas Moore
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Она была добра
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
