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!
