The Oubliette

Oooh dungeons, darkness, and dankness and French. J'adore! The sad thing is I really don't want to rescue her, I have other stimulating things in mind ...

Hey you,colonel NASTY, do I need to bust out the cat-o-ninetails, some chains shackles, maybe even a rack? hmm???ohh oh the mega feather!  some torture!

hahahah Thanks Mark
Red

I’ve read some modern day accounts of solitary imprisonments viz Terry Waite & John McCarthy. Your write of medieval practice, holes so deep and dark, so dank and damp, so vermin infested, bring with a vivid horror such things to life. For a writer to involve a reader so is a fine art. My applause for a write well done.    

Thank you good sir, so glad you enjoyed my work, I wrote this to put into a comp. "Paint me a picture" by druid, but it seems they eliminated the thread.
so posted it here.

Red

An excellent portrayal of such a sinister act Gypsy.  Great write.

Thank you Magda, I just love medieval anything and this was right up may alley.

Red  

Being serious for a moment ... what you said above gave me pause to think. What is it about medieval times that produced such sadistic implements. Were we really that more dark and wicked back then?

Greetings Sir Colonel, the history of all mankind commingles good and evil.  Evil thrives where some collective acceptance and abidance of humanitarian ways has not evolved and power or want of power has no active leash upon it. For many places in the world the darker ages have evolved into a better place and yet for many others it rides its rueful ways and still remains. Yes some were wicked then and some are wicked now    

No, I do not think we were more wicked then; we evolve with time and change tactics but wickedness and sadistic behaviors are still alive and well.In our modern era we have moved from torturing the body to torturing the mind, which is much more heinous and damaging.This subject I know all too well.

Red

no, we are still the same only the methods have updated...

Nasty place...a bit like Devil's Island...untold horrors!

Weel written, Red...
Strider :)

Thanks strider had a bit of fun with this one its and old piece I revived.

Thanks for reading
Red

Another striking piece for competition. You bring the topic to lif.e...even when it's morbid

The dark recesses of my mind have much fodder to fuel the writing of such a piece.Thanks Ken for reading my piece, I hope it is as good as you guys say it is.

Red

Rest assured it is.

Thanks wanderer, you are very kind.

A dungeon is a room or cell in which prisoners are held, especially underground. Dungeons are generally associated with medieval castles, though their association with torture probably belongs more to the Renaissance period. An oubliette is a form of dungeon which is accessible only from a hatch in a high ceiling.

Another stunning and educational poem
You are a brilliant poet whose work just keeps getting better

Thank you so much Kitty part of this was an old poem I wrote in Spanish and I revived it for a comp.The oubliette is double entendre, a prison of the mind or the heart not just the body.The place of forgetting...

Thanks for the comment.
Red