General Poetry posted March 29, 2024


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Werewolf

by tempeste

I used to keep
 in check my frustrations,
ignore provocations
but now I dread
any confrontation.

I'm a victim
of some diabolic
transformation,
and when it takes place
I stop being a member
of the human race.

My therapist assures me
it's my mind playing tricks;
but I know it's a curse,
something savage bursts
out from deep within me.
 
My clothes tear
and a thick coarse coat
of fur appears.
Fingers became razor sharp claws,
my mouth a massive jaw.
I have fangs n' red glowing eyes
just like a grotesque gargoyle.

When I'm the beast
my keener sense of smell helps me
track down my enemies.
I disembowel them alive
like a hyena feasting on its prize.

My therapist thinks
these are mere hallucinations,
an hormone imbalance
caused by the menopause
but she's wrong, what afflicts me
defies Nature's natural laws.

When I attacked,
her face was a mixed mask
of disbelief and horror,
much like the look the hideous
Medusa displayed when slayed.
 
From my jaws,
like slippery serpants,
the therapist's intestines dangled
then with my clawed hand
I ripped her head off.
 


 

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Writing Prompt
Similes and metaphors welcome! But make it unique! Stay away from cliched comparisons and think outside the box. (Opps. That was a cliche wasn't it?) Let's hear your most thought provoking observations and parallels. Make our minds work, but make the relationship clear. Refrain from drawing unusual comparisons and leaving them unexplained.
(A poetic format is preferred, but if you feel your particular metaphor would be better suited to prose that is perfectly okay as well.)
Happy imagining!


A beautiful mortal, Medusa was the exception in the family, until she incurred the wrath of Athena because of an ill-fated love affair with Poseidon. Transformed into a vicious monster with snakes for hair, she was killed by Perseus, who afterward used her still potent head as a weapon, before gifting it to Athena.

Hyenas do not kill their pray , they eat them alive.



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