July 1 - Cornfields
Antietam giants
Clasp shoulders, bow heavy heads,
Stand in blood-mud rows
I love this image! So chilling! I only know Antietam from the Civil War, any other reference I’m missing?
No, it was just that Antietam was fought (at least in part) in a cornfield and the description of the blood in the mud there got me.
My alternative was:
This uncivil war
Plants us beneath cob and husk
Never to ripen
Ah ok! I really like the alternative version, too. There is a lot of tragedy packed into such a small package.
Ooh, look! A corn maze!
Huh. Nobody else is here.
Where'd the exit go?
So scary! I’ve been wandering in cornfields as a kid and it really can seem like you’ll never get out😱
In tall rows it grows
Yellow columns beckon you
Come in and get lost
OR
Something died out here
I can smell it on the wind
Watch where you're steppin'
I love them both! The second one is such a disturbing image🖤
Headpiece stuffed with straw
He glowers over ragged stalks
Fodder of the crows
Ooo very creepy! Love that he’s got volition to glower, but also getting eaten by crows🖤
We are the hollow men alas!
😁 I love quoting snippets of poets and song lyrics in everything I write!
I do it quite a lot myself. Almost nobody spots the snippets though
Same here…😂
Remembering “Children of the Corn”
Eyes glowing with dread
Whispers of the lost children
Screams echo at dusk
Very eerie! Such a great movie, too!
A girl met her beau one day
In the tall stalks, and so it was
that flesh and straw became as one
[Shoutout to Pearl]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHed_tTvyhI
Ohh that’s good! 🖤
I’ll listen later, I’m at work rn😭
Really a NSFW video unless your work is very cool about girl-on-strawman action
Eh, I work with a bunch of dudes in a warehouse, they’d probably be into it😂
Corn amazing grace
Stalks tall and thick
The grimace face lost within
Found lost in the din-sin time
Fallen among rotting blades
Popping corn a blaze
Oh man that’s a creepy one, someone lurking… setting the field on fire🖤
Between the stem rows
Stalks obscure sight. Whispers come
From stalkers unseen.
Stalkers unseen! Well done🖤
They say don't go in,
Evil lurks between the rows,
And won't let you out... 😎
And endless maze, very terrifying thought🖤
An endless maze of endless maize... 😎👍
Some folks call it “maize”
While others claim that it’s “corn”
I say: “toothpick bait.”
😂 I love that!!
"Let's Burn Down The Cornfield" wrote Randy Newman, and sang Etta James and Long John Baldry, among others.
Only smart thing to do with a cornfield…
Omg. Fond memories of doing the great Vermont corn maze several times. Now I've got to think of a scary version 🤔
We have haunted corn mazes here in the fall, they’re so much fun!
zigzagging stalks dance
in moonlit cornfields (giggle)
stars wink back at earth
.
tiny green whispers
hush hush the scarecrow grins wide
frogs play hide and seek
cornfield's tickle fight
with summer breezes whoosh whee!
happiness unmasked
This is awesome! The one scarecrow line in the middle gives all three poems such a great underlying creepiness. But they can all still be read as totally innocent and fun.
Thank you! What an unexpected topic.
Assembled gold rows
Swaying with the rhythmic gust
Swarming dread surrounds
Straight rows all ahead
A stench permeates the wind
When will I be found?
Oh man, I love these both so much! The first one is just scary as hell and the second so tragic. Really well done🖤
Yellow maize in bloom
Calls the crows closer; leading
People to escape
Ah nice, a little corvid deliverance. I like it🖤
I realize this is a bit late, but I thought I’d give it a go anyway.
Lost in fields of corn
Mazes and games in the fall
Dead dreams of past lives
We definitely live by the “better late than never” maxim around here, so no worries!
I love the tragic sense of nostalgia, really well done🖤
Antietam giants
Clasp shoulders, bow heavy heads,
Stand in blood-mud rows
I love this image! So chilling! I only know Antietam from the Civil War, any other reference I’m missing?
No, it was just that Antietam was fought (at least in part) in a cornfield and the description of the blood in the mud there got me.
My alternative was:
This uncivil war
Plants us beneath cob and husk
Never to ripen
Ah ok! I really like the alternative version, too. There is a lot of tragedy packed into such a small package.
Ooh, look! A corn maze!
Huh. Nobody else is here.
Where'd the exit go?
So scary! I’ve been wandering in cornfields as a kid and it really can seem like you’ll never get out😱
In tall rows it grows
Yellow columns beckon you
Come in and get lost
OR
Something died out here
I can smell it on the wind
Watch where you're steppin'
I love them both! The second one is such a disturbing image🖤
Headpiece stuffed with straw
He glowers over ragged stalks
Fodder of the crows
Ooo very creepy! Love that he’s got volition to glower, but also getting eaten by crows🖤
We are the hollow men alas!
😁 I love quoting snippets of poets and song lyrics in everything I write!
I do it quite a lot myself. Almost nobody spots the snippets though
Same here…😂
Remembering “Children of the Corn”
Eyes glowing with dread
Whispers of the lost children
Screams echo at dusk
Very eerie! Such a great movie, too!
A girl met her beau one day
In the tall stalks, and so it was
that flesh and straw became as one
[Shoutout to Pearl]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHed_tTvyhI
Ohh that’s good! 🖤
I’ll listen later, I’m at work rn😭
Really a NSFW video unless your work is very cool about girl-on-strawman action
Eh, I work with a bunch of dudes in a warehouse, they’d probably be into it😂
Corn amazing grace
Stalks tall and thick
The grimace face lost within
Found lost in the din-sin time
Fallen among rotting blades
Popping corn a blaze
Oh man that’s a creepy one, someone lurking… setting the field on fire🖤
Between the stem rows
Stalks obscure sight. Whispers come
From stalkers unseen.
Stalkers unseen! Well done🖤
They say don't go in,
Evil lurks between the rows,
And won't let you out... 😎
And endless maze, very terrifying thought🖤
An endless maze of endless maize... 😎👍
Some folks call it “maize”
While others claim that it’s “corn”
I say: “toothpick bait.”
😂 I love that!!
"Let's Burn Down The Cornfield" wrote Randy Newman, and sang Etta James and Long John Baldry, among others.
Only smart thing to do with a cornfield…
Omg. Fond memories of doing the great Vermont corn maze several times. Now I've got to think of a scary version 🤔
We have haunted corn mazes here in the fall, they’re so much fun!
zigzagging stalks dance
in moonlit cornfields (giggle)
stars wink back at earth
.
tiny green whispers
hush hush the scarecrow grins wide
frogs play hide and seek
.
cornfield's tickle fight
with summer breezes whoosh whee!
happiness unmasked
This is awesome! The one scarecrow line in the middle gives all three poems such a great underlying creepiness. But they can all still be read as totally innocent and fun.
Thank you! What an unexpected topic.
Assembled gold rows
Swaying with the rhythmic gust
Swarming dread surrounds
OR
Straight rows all ahead
A stench permeates the wind
When will I be found?
Oh man, I love these both so much! The first one is just scary as hell and the second so tragic. Really well done🖤
Yellow maize in bloom
Calls the crows closer; leading
People to escape
Ah nice, a little corvid deliverance. I like it🖤
I realize this is a bit late, but I thought I’d give it a go anyway.
Lost in fields of corn
Mazes and games in the fall
Dead dreams of past lives
We definitely live by the “better late than never” maxim around here, so no worries!
I love the tragic sense of nostalgia, really well done🖤