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
- The rainy Pleiads wester poem – A. E. Housman
- Helen all Alone by Rudyard Kipling
- Canto XLIX poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Life Brings Me to this Journey. by Stephen Sweitzer
- Shallow Valley by Vaishnavi Prakash
- When The Two Sisters Go To Fetch Water by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Passing Of The Century poem – Alfred Austin
- The Garden By The Bridge
- Омар Хайям – Если любишь, то стойко разлуку терпи
- He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge by William Butler Yeats
- My Country Place by Thomas J Camp
- O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art by William Wordsworth
- Book Ends by Tony Harrison
- Владимир Маяковский – Чтоб голод нас не передушил к лету… (Главполитпросвет №160)
- Ольга Высотская – Детский сад
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).
