THE NIGHT INVASION
Black shadows quickening
Across the barren lawn,
Dark shadows thickening
The night terror was born.
Dark figures creeping
Toward an unlit terrace,
Horror slowly seeping
Across a victim’s face.
Night visions calling
In a nightmare sound,
All hope is falling
As the sun goes surely down.
Strange creatures loping
Toward their sleeping prey,
Frightened victims hoping
Just to live till the light of day.
Night beasts are howling
Shrieking dire cries of lust,
Dreadful nightmare yowling
Beginning with the dusk.
Footsteps are slinking
Around a room at night,
Victims are blinking
Like rabbits in headlights.
Awful creatures peer
Out from nightmare places,
Evil things bring icy fear
With coarse primordial faces.
Out of the murky reaches
Of a dark and musty room,
Slink fearful shadowy creatures
Bringing only doom.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About this poem
Horror poem about dreadful creatures that invade people's houses at night.
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Written on July 20, 2011
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 05, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 851 |
Words | 139 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
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