Mystery by Top Critiquers Poems

a Christmas detective story

Lord Sixtus Runcorn had been murdered with an axe, by Santa Claus. Lady Runcorn had seen it through the window of the library while she was walking the primrose path about the house and promptly screamed the estate to a standstill. A doctor was on hand to administer a sedative and she was now sleeping in her chambers, attended by a close friend.

Inspector Frodsham gathered everyone in the drawing room. It was a tradition among the Runcorns of Arrowfield to retire early on Christmas Eve, so the suspects were dressed in pyjamas and robes,...

Your afflictive aura retains a mystery,
inflicting on me aches of misery.
Your words are blistery,
and you smile back as if you have had some victory!

I find myself tangled in your enigma
like a moth in the spider’s web.
To me you’re a stigma!
Every reason I’ve given you was a misstep!

I am an intuitive empath
Sometimes, I know things
But I don't know how I know them
 unexplainable knowledge
Of things that are going to happen
Events that have already occurred
Several times I witnessed events
Happening elsewhere at the
Exact time that they are happening
Of which I certainly
Have not seen with my own eyes
It's always been that way
I find it nothing short of a gift
That I am most grateful for

The things she keeps secret
Are more telling than her reveals
For in every silent moment
Bleed the spills that she conceals

Deep auburn stains betray her passions scent
Drifting through the night air while she qietly slept
Holding tight to her pale bedroom glow
That smolders 'neath her evaporating flow

She feels in dark shadows she cannot show to me
So long their tentacles will never set her free
Cast from her distant rising red sun
Encasing a bright future in a lonely dunn

I wonder if she will expose to my starved...

Elizabeth was
taking a shower before
she heard someone step
into the bathroom which made
her say "Hello? Who's out there?"

Russ came home from work
and saw that the front door was
forced open. He went
into the bathroom and found
his roommate slashed with a blade.