With the recent release of my YA novel, RATGIRL: Song of the Viper,
Dark Fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy, which combines fantasy with elements of horror. The term can be used broadly to refer to
fantastical works that have a dark, gloomy atmosphere or a sense of horror and
dread.
I am now working
on a Dark Fantasy Poetry Collection titled The Dark Mirror. My fellow rhymer at
The Poets’ Garage, Renee Tulippe, is hosting Poetry Friday today. http://www.nowaterriver.com/ To support her efforts I have posted one of
my dark fantasy poems.
Beware the Wild Rose is a cleave poem. For those of you who
have never heard of that poetry form it is three poems in one. Read the left
column vertically as poem #1, the right column as poem #2 and the entire poem
horizontally as poem #3.
Enjoy!
Beware the Wild Rose
By Gayle C. Krause
The Green Lady
sent
Dark Forest Minions
gathering
Thorny
vines—
Wild Roses
With poisonous
barbs
Dripping Blood.
Up through
Deadly,
Pine-covered
moss,
Sharp
spikes
Pricking an unsuspecting
child,
Piercing the soul,
To cast the victim
Into
oblivion,
In a deep
sleep
Without memory.
Forevermore.
Forgotten!
I'd never heard of cleave poems before -- what a challenging form! Seems like something Marilyn Singer would write. You do a great job!
ReplyDeleteHi Gail! I love your cleave poem! So clever!
ReplyDeleteVery cool! I hadn't heard of cleave poems before, but really enjoyed yours...and now I need to go work on writing one of my own!
ReplyDeleteWow! This is great, Gail. I really enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this one. Every time I read your cleave poems, it boggles my mind. I don't know how you do it!
ReplyDelete-Carrie
Very cool! Chilling, actually.
ReplyDeleteThanks guys.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how my brain works itself around it either. It's sort of like a puzzle and I always love a challenge! :)
The cleave poem is new to me as well. This works amazingly well. Such crafting. Did it take you a while to get it just right? The form is effective for the dark fantasy genre.
ReplyDeleteMargaret:
ReplyDeleteI had a poet friend who sold one of these to Highlights about six years ago, and she told me it was fun to write. I tried to write one and I thought she was crazy. I was sure it was impossible, but as I said above, once you figure out the puzzle-like formation, they are awesome to write. So far I've written six. One, "The Hail Mary Pass," is in "And the Crowd Goes Wild," an international sports poem anthology for children that came out last year.
I've never heard of the cleave poetry form before, but your example is amazing. I'll have to give it a go some time. Thanks for sharing. =)
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome! Cleave poem is new to me too.
ReplyDeleteHi Gail! Nice to see you back at Poetry Friday-- you're one of the first bloggers I met on this circuit. :) Congratulations on your book release! Love your cleave poem-- it sets the perfect chilling mood (okay, the lights just dimmed when I wrote that... NOT KIDDING). In the event that someone sneaks up and cleaves me any moment now, I must publish this comment now, as you are my witness!
ReplyDeleteBoogildy-Boogildy-Boo!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI love dark, scary stories and it was just a natural step to write some dark, scary poems.
Glad you liked it. :)
Oh it's dreadfully wonderful! Or maybe it's wickedly lovely. Either way it's good!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lauri. :)
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tabatha -- this seems like a form Marilyn Singer would invent! I love your poem in THE CROWD GOES WILD. That book was a favorite with my boys last year.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mary Lee. Glad your boys enjoyed the book.
ReplyDeleteThanks for introducing this new form! I love word puzzles -- maybe I'll give this cleave business a try someday! How did it get its name, "cleave"? A haunting poem, too!
ReplyDeleteWow! Such a dark and clever poem. Very interesting form, new to me.
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