faraway deserted church-bells toll
faraway deserted church-bells toll
softly fall of paws, retracted claws
softly fall of paws, retracted claws
deserted paws of church-bells fall
faraway claws retracted softly toll
from open graves their voices whisper
from open graves their voices whisper
blood-soaked words, revenge and death
blood-soaked words, revenge and death
open voices graves whisper death and
from blood-soaked words their revenge
within yourself, dread, a muted scream
within yourself, dread, a muted scream
reek of corpses and the rotten leaves
reek of corpses and the rotten leaves
dread,of rotten corpses leaves a scream,
yourself, the muted reek within and
softly voices faraway claws revenge
paws within their blood-soaked graves
reek of corpses, words of rotten leaves
from death and open graves their
muted whisper scream deserted words and
church-bells toll yourself, retracted dread
Francisco Goya
Today we do paradelle with Grace at dVerse, a parody form invented by Billy Collins we last did 10 years ago
October 31, 2024
Björn Rudbergs writings 
Amazing paradelle fitting for today’s Halloween night. Love the repetition of the 3rd stanza, and the concluding stanza which paints the blood soaked graves, reek of corpses and screams. I felt I was trapped in the graveyard with chuch bells tolling.
Ha… thank you. The form is fun, and I had totally forgotten this one.
A perfect Halloween nightmare and terror of wonderful poetic writing my friend. 🙂 visually stunning as well.
Halloween lends itself to a lot of poetic fun.
You nailed this poem good my friend. 🙂
I must say that as a haunting Halloween paradelle, it sends crazy shivers down my spine. Ask not for whom the bell tolls indeed!
Ha… tonight the bells toll wildly
A real nightmare and that image makes it all the more unnerving!
Goya knew what he was doing
Perfectly perfect for this spooky Halloween day. I love its darkness, edge, mystery.
A perfectly written spooky poem for Halloween. Quite the creepy images.
This is a very poignant poem
Thrilling poetry and photo. 🙂
Delightfully creepy. “Toll yourself” might become my new favorite curse.
Perfection! Well done, Björn! Your own words are certain not of rotten leaves!
~David
Wonderfully eerie. Interesting form, too.
A very difficult form indeed, but that did not stop this dark verse, in fact the form was used to your advantage to create the atmosphere and hammer your words home..