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crimson deep

   
   
the sea is viscous    
pulsating phosphorescence    
ripples amongst the calm wreck    
of night    
   
   
mort is    
metallic brine    
churning fear inside his guts    
   
   
intermittent terror    
reveals what follows the moonlight    
when it tears through the clouds    
drowning boys who cry    
for being eaten alive    
   
   
the old man imagines the monster
lurking twenty fathoms below
waiting for its prey
to gambol on a crimson moon  

   
   
   
This poem was written for the "Monsters of the Deep" comp and was inspired by "The Old Man and the Sea" written by Earnest Hemingway
Written by case28 (Alexander Case)
Published | Edited 27th Aug 2015
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