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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

Antietam giants

Clasp shoulders, bow heavy heads,

Stand in blood-mud rows

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love this image! So chilling! I only know Antietam from the Civil War, any other reference I’m missing?

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

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

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ah ok! I really like the alternative version, too. There is a lot of tragedy packed into such a small package.

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Leigh Parrish's avatar

Ooh, look! A corn maze!

Huh. Nobody else is here.

Where'd the exit go?

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Honeygloom's avatar

So scary! I’ve been wandering in cornfields as a kid and it really can seem like you’ll never get out😱

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

Yikes! A real nightmare!

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Jon T's avatar

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'

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Honeygloom's avatar

I love them both! The second one is such a disturbing image🖤

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erniet's avatar

Headpiece stuffed with straw

He glowers over ragged stalks

Fodder of the crows

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ooo very creepy! Love that he’s got volition to glower, but also getting eaten by crows🖤

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

We are the hollow men alas!

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erniet's avatar

😁 I love quoting snippets of poets and song lyrics in everything I write!

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

I do it quite a lot myself. Almost nobody spots the snippets though

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erniet's avatar

Same here…😂

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Caro Henry's avatar

Remembering “Children of the Corn”

Eyes glowing with dread

Whispers of the lost children

Screams echo at dusk

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Honeygloom's avatar

Very eerie! Such a great movie, too!

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

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

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ohh that’s good! 🖤

I’ll listen later, I’m at work rn😭

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Really a NSFW video unless your work is very cool about girl-on-strawman action

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Honeygloom's avatar

Eh, I work with a bunch of dudes in a warehouse, they’d probably be into it😂

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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

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

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh man that’s a creepy one, someone lurking… setting the field on fire🖤

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erniet's avatar

Between the stem rows

Stalks obscure sight. Whispers come

From stalkers unseen.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Stalkers unseen! Well done🖤

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

They say don't go in,

Evil lurks between the rows,

And won't let you out... 😎

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Honeygloom's avatar

And endless maze, very terrifying thought🖤

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

An endless maze of endless maize... 😎👍

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ClownWorld Shakespeare's avatar

Some folks call it “maize”

While others claim that it’s “corn”

I say: “toothpick bait.”

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Honeygloom's avatar

😂 I love that!!

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David Perlmutter's avatar

"Let's Burn Down The Cornfield" wrote Randy Newman, and sang Etta James and Long John Baldry, among others.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Only smart thing to do with a cornfield…

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Hanna Delaney's avatar

Omg. Fond memories of doing the great Vermont corn maze several times. Now I've got to think of a scary version 🤔

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Honeygloom's avatar

We have haunted corn mazes here in the fall, they’re so much fun!

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

zigzagging stalks dance

in moonlit cornfields (giggle)

stars wink back at earth

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tiny green whispers

hush hush the scarecrow grins wide

frogs play hide and seek

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cornfield's tickle fight

with summer breezes whoosh whee!

happiness unmasked

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Honeygloom's avatar

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.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

Thank you! What an unexpected topic.

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

Ah! Cornfields are indeed mysterious. I have walked in them and viewed them from a car window, the rows fanning by in a procession. My book "Wind Down the Chimney and Other Eerie Tales" has a story featuring a cornfield--one intent on surviving the ravages of the harvest.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh that’s a really cool concept! Sounds like a great read!

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A.C. Cargill, Author's avatar

It’s one of those ideas that I had jotted down years ago and then about a year ago revisited, thanks to things like Macabre Monday.

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Rebecca Collins's avatar

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?

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh man, I love these both so much! The first one is just scary as hell and the second so tragic. Really well done🖤

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Dylan Delgado's avatar

Yellow maize in bloom

Calls the crows closer; leading

People to escape

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ah nice, a little corvid deliverance. I like it🖤

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